Michael Feingold

Were all the artists involved under the influence of some hallucinogen? This is the least rational movie ever produced by the American studio system.

The legendary Little Tramp spins a fantastical comedy about a serial killer

Eyebrow-raising passages of pre-Code impropriety are balanced with pure genuine hilarity, with W.C. Fields leading the players in a cohesive comic work.

The unclassifiable supernatural omnibus classic includes a neurotically unforgettable performance by Michael Redgrave, father of Vanessa and Lynn

Feingold continues his close examination of the 1936 motion picture version of Kern and Hammerstein’s “Show Boat”

(This is the first part of a two-part column. The second part will appear next month.) Warning to my fellow voyagers: This boat ride may take our rickety vessel through some deep and turbulent waters. If the situation makes you queasy, please bear in mind that I am only your guide: I neither built the…

Producer Val Lewton’s two “Cat People” movies, from World War II, are like nothing you’ve ever seen.

Manic and hectic, New York is full of stories that can drive people to, and sometimes over, the edge. William Wyler’s ‘Counsellor-at-Law’ captures that excess in all its glory.

If you care about the theater and you’ve never seen ‘Children of Paradise,’ you don’t really know yet what it is you care about.

Death, marital infidelity, egomaniacal actors, and inept totalitarian armies all conspire to produce a glorious absurd comedy.