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Richard Combs

Film as Art: Daydreaming with Stanley Kubrick

By Richard Combs
August 17, 2016
We'll meet again: an extensive U.K. exhibition of multimedia work plays with the notion of the Kubrickian

Matters of Life and Death: Mike Nichols

By Richard Combs
January 29, 2016
How the director charted the state of things and imagined other possibilities

Review: Taxi

By Richard Combs
September 3, 2015
(Jafar Panahi, Iran, 2015)

It’s Bound to End in Tears

By Richard Combs
June 30, 2015
In the films of Richard Lester, romance may fail but doomsday holds out some hope

Women in War: Revisiting Zero Dark Thirty

By Richard Combs
April 22, 2013
How the battle lines of modern warfare are drawn in Kathryn Bigelow’s Zero Dark Thirty

Hitchcock Olympiad

By Richard Combs
November 5, 2012
The summer games have also been a late summer for the director reclaimed for Britain and acclaimed for the greatest film ever made

François Truffaut: Day Into Night

By Richard Combs
November 3, 2011
How the fairy tales of the Prince Charming of the New Wave led to darkness and death

First Person Singular

By Richard Combs
June 2, 2011
Roman Polanski returns to his roots for the ultimate survivor's tale

The Poetics of Resistance

By Richard Combs
June 1, 2011
Richard Combs considers the Ozu behind “Our Ozu” on the occasion of the Japanese director’s centennial

Double Play: Joseph Losey

By Richard Combs
June 1, 2011
Continually reinventing his career and eluding all categorization, Joseph Losey defied the axiom that there are no second acts

A River Runs Through It

By Richard Combs
June 1, 2011
Richard Combs surveys the cinematic terrain of Michael Powell and draws up a new map