Altered States. A modern Dr. Jekyll unleashes the primal beast within himself. The meeting of Paddy Chayefsky and Ken Russell set off a daft, cagey combustion of ideas and styles, producing a fantasy of delirium and delight.
The Big Red One. Veteran Action Director Samuel Fuller's elegy to a genre he loves (war movies) and a life he lived (as a young soldier in a famous World War II division). Tough, sentimental, definitive.
The Elephant Man. David Lynch transforms the story of John MerrickĀthe noble ogre of Victorian EnglandĀinto a grim, lovely fairy tale. John...