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Kitano Takeshi Sets ‘Neck’ as Final Directorial Effort with Ken Watanabe

Kitano Takeshi Sets Samurai Movie ‘Neck’ As Final Directorial Effort With Ken Watanabe

February 9, 2021 12:24 pm

Variety is picking up on a story circulating in Japan that originated from local magazine Josei Jishin that says actor/director Kitano Takeshi will be making a samurai film, titled "Neck," for his next filmmak...

The Essentials: The Best Gene Hackman Villains [Podcast]

Chance Solem-Pfeifer

January 30, 2019 1:10 pm

News, Podcasts

Gene Hackman is one of the best actors of the 20th century — full stop. And his seemingly abrupt retirement in 2004 has allowed him to be canonized differently and earlier than fellow New Hollywood icons (read:...

The 25 Best Westerns Of All Time

Jessica Kiang

August 9, 2017 1:56 pm

Features, News

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It feels like we've been silhouetted in a doorway with our hand hovering over the low-slung six-shooter on our hip for an age now, waiting for the opportunity to run through our favorite films in one of our ver...

22 Of The Best Revenge Films

Oliver Lyttelton and Kyle Kohner

June 22, 2017 2:01 pm

Features, News

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Fresh off becoming only the second woman ever to capture the Best Director award at the Cannes Film Festival last month, Sofia Coppola’s artistry lands in theaters everywhere for the first time in four years (“...

Re-Release Trailer For Clint Eastwood’s Newly Restored ‘Unforgiven’

Kevin Jagernauth

June 2, 2017 9:17 am

News, Trailers

It's a bit of a shame that most of the press attention at the Cannes Film Festival tends to go to the buzzy new films, while the Cannes Classics programming gets neglected. We get it, everyone wants to know abo...

The 10 Best Films Of 1992

Jessica Kiang

March 22, 2017 12:34 pm

Features, News

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Continuing our year-by-year series of the Best Films of the 1990s (here's 1990, and 1991), we come to 1992. This was the year in which the Maastricht Treaty was signed, bringing the currently Brexit-hounded Eur...

The Best & The Rest: Ranking Every Clint Eastwood Directed Movie

The Playlist Staff

August 30, 2016 1:15 pm

Features

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There have been few careers in film history like Clint Eastwood's. Strike that: there have been no careers like Clint Eastwood's. After breaking through in the Western TV series “Rawhide,” the actor stepped int...