Michael Sragow

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  • Crueler, bloodier, deadlier

    A scorching new HBO documentary relives the horror of the 1972 Munich Olympic massacre.
  • "Six Degrees of Separation"

    Will Smith's first starring role is still his best.
  • When life was no "Cabaret"

    "Paragraph 175" filmmakers Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman testify about the Nazi persecution of gay men.
  • "The Usual Suspects"

    Pulp fiction you can sink your teeth into, and fall in love with.
  • "Diabolique"

    Did a Frenchman scare Hitchcock into making "Psycho"?
  • "The Complete Superman Collection"

    Up in the sky! Look! It's a dynamic collection of classic animated shorts in gleaming Technicolor!
  • Jules Dassin: The early years

    This summer's hottest noir director talks about the road to "Rififi."
  • "White Men Can't Jump"

    Ron Shelton's comedy about wisecracking, tough-talking basketball rivals opens up more racial dialogue than any message movie.
  • "Sabotage" and "Secret Agent"

    Was 1936 Hitchcock's very best year? Two thrillers, including the director's weirdest movie ever, make the case.
  • Our only hope

    With unlimited range, Alec Guinness gave the movies grace and hubris, brains and laughs, Obi-Wan Kenobi and literature's most indelible poseur.
  • "Gimme Shelter": The true story

    By Michael Sragow
  • "Gimme Shelter": The true story

    How a free Rolling Stones concert turned into a colossal mass bad trip -- and spawned the most harrowing rock 'n' roll movie ever made.
  • "The Big Sleep"

    Humphrey Bogart and Howard Hawks get Raymond Chandler so right, who cares if the plot doesn't square?
  • "The End of the Affair"

    The nakedness of Neil Jordan's moody, oddly magical love story goes beyond the skin.
  • Eddie: What happened?

    On the set of his first movie, he was young, gifted, black and beautiful. In his new one, it's just a Murphy, Murphy, Murphy, Murphy, Murphy World.
  • "D.O.A."

    A murdered man tracks his own killer in this ahead-of-its-time 1950 noir thriller.
  • The return of the Marquis de Sade

    Philip Kaufman's new "Quills" pits the Marquis de Sade against Kenneth Starr in Napoleonic drag.
  • "Apocalypse Now"

    This may not be the ultimate package, but at least Coppola sheds some light on the picture's spectacular and eerie nighttime blaze.
  • Who cares "What Lies Beneath"?

    Skip Hollywood's latest scary movie and try one of these haunted-house classics.
  • Building the perfect catastrophe

    A special-effects wizard for "The Perfect Storm" talks about crafting virtual victims (and heroes) and the evolution of computer graphics, from morphing to "The Matrix."
  • Woody Harrelson gets back in the ring

    The unpredictable star talks about his overlooked boxing flick, "Play It to the Bone" -- and tries to avoid preaching.
  • This dame was a lady

    Janet Leigh rebuffed Howard Hughes, made movies with Orson Welles and collaborated with Alfred Hitchcock. But don't call her an actor.
  • Great escapists

    "Chicken Run" creators Nick Park and Peter Lord talk about animating with emotion, Mel Gibson's patriotic rooster and finding an idea with legs, er, drumsticks.
  • The things he did on "Grass"

    Comic-book artist Paul Mavrides talks about propaganda, America's futile drug war and the splashy graphics that spiff up Ron Mann's dope documentary.
  • Margaret Cho: All-American slut

    The stand-up comedian's one-woman movie proves that Cho business is not all show business.
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