Swashbuckling adventure at its best

The Renaissance according to Roberto Rossellini

Visconti’s controversial take on Nazism

American Pop at its worst

Hollywood at its most experimental

Osama bin Laden meets Hollywood formula

Luchino Visconti’s surprisingly entertaining penultimate film

A not-terribly-convincing drama about the creation of the Sistine Ceiling

Busby Berkeley and other fun.

Hollywood at its most wretched

Michael Cimino bankrupts United Artists

The appeal of Hammer horror

Stanley Kubrick’s take on nuclear conflict

Lindsay Anderson’s revenge on the British public school

Large-scale spectacle as an end in itself

Pessimistic or prescient political thriller?

An unusual kind of "classic"

Antonioni’s notorious failure has a lot going for it

Early, relatively accessible Godard

The 1970s try to be the 1940s

Clunky Greta Garbo vehicle

When too much money works against a movie

Peter Weir’s alternately powerful and batty mix of dreams and meteorology.

A more accurate title might be “Francis Coppola’s Dracula"