Double Take: John Ford’s ‘The Searchers’ (1956)
Double Take heads out West and into the disfigured psyche of John Wayne’s Ethan Edwards in John Ford’s The Searchers. Do we figure him?
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Double Take: The Player (1992)
Double Take would like to pitch The Player in 25 words or less, but it took us a little longer to break this one down. So hear us out -- and don't give us water in a red wine glass.
Double Take: Laura (1944)
Love is stronger than life. It reaches beyond the dark shadow of death. Otto Preminger's 1944 noir classic tests how far love goes, and Double Take breaks it down.
Double Take: The Kid (1921)
This installment of Double Take turns its gaze to Charlie Chaplin's debut full-length silent film, which is at turns funny, heartbreaking, and tender.
Double Take: Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors (1965)
In Sergei Parajanov’s bleak, fatalistic tale, Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors the window of grace provided for children to be children in post-war Russia is always too brief.
Double Take: Spike Lee’s Do the Right Thing (1989)
Double Take looks back at Spike Lee's Do the Right Thing, a film that celebrated its 25th anniversary during another summer of strikingly similar violence.
Double Take: The 400 Blows (1959)
Double Take turns its attention to François Truffaut's classic coming-of-age tale The 400 Blows, whose cinematic progeny includes the much-acclaimed Boyhood.
Double Take: The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938)
Double Take examines Errol Flynn's classic take on this vigilante archer: a bold, impudent rascal that speaks treason fluently, capturing hearts when he isn't shooting arrows into them.
Double Take: Mean Streets (1973)
Starting today at PopMatters, "Double Take" does for film what "Counterbalance" does for music. Film geeks Steve Leftridge and Steve Pick regularly examine the "500 Greatest Films Ever Made".