Steven Mears

Not strictly method: on the actor's effortlessly dark turns in Four Daughters and The Postman Always Rings Twice

Old hand: on the actor's notable and nuanced performances pre–Popeye Doyle

Castaway: Carol Reed's adaptation of the prequel to Almayer’s Folly is as unsparing as the equatorial sun

A handful of dust: on John Ford’s The Lost Patrol and Zoltán Korda’s The Four Feathers

Long riders: on the '70s revisionism of Joseph L. Mankiewicz, Blake Edwards, and John Huston

In honor of the actor's 100th birthday, a look back at her complex interpretations of vulnerable women

One man alone: exploring the actor's embattled strength in God’s Little Acre, About Mrs. Leslie, and more

Band of gold: as part of our new collaboration with Turner Classic Movies, an appreciation of Frank Sinatra's comedy of marriage

Stage to screen: Sidney Lumet's adaptation of Eugene O’Neill’s bruising family drama gives Katharine Hepburn one of her richest roles

(Avishai Sivan, Israel, 2015)

(Atom Egoyan, Canada/Germany, 2015)

As part of our series of actor appreciations, a look at an undersung role by the award-winning trailblazer

Second sight: Debbi Morgan upstages Samuel L. Jackson in Kasi Lemmons’s 1997 Southern Gothic, part of our Black History Month appreciation of outstanding performances

Time makes the heart grow nastier: from Jeanne Eagels to Bette Davis, what happened to the classic antiheroine of the W. Somerset Maugham play

(Quentin Tarantino, U.S., 2015)

The varied stylings of an innovator in realism, one of New Hollywood's key cinematographers, and a robust voice for liberal causes

Common ground: the director of Hitchcock/Truffaut examines the legendary interview with and the varied influence of "The Master of Suspense"

(Jay Roach, U.S., 2015)

(Edward Zwick, U.S., 2014)

Beyond the cool cat: a look at the performer’s stirring roles in a screen career still too often lost in the music