Empire Features

Sunset Boulevard (1950)
Director: Billy Wilder
The writer-director tears off the hand that feeds, attacking empty-headed and -hearted Hollywood with devastating satirical savagery. A beautiful turn, too, from the forgotten man of the Golden Age, William Holden. Read Review �

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The Usual Suspects (1995)
Director: Bryan Singer
Elegantly unspooling Christopher McQuarrie�s labyrinthine script, it�s a none-more-deft deconstruction of storytelling that somehow retains emotion. Read Review �

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The Graduate (1967)
Director: Mike Nichols
Captured an age of simultaneously emerging and demolished ideals, as Dustin Hoffman�s lovelorn outsider discovers the discontent and sexual simmer in suburbia. Read Review �

Come And See (1985)
Director: Elem Klimov
Under-seen but riding high on critics� and filmmakers� lists, this is the Russian Apocalypse Now, a dizzying, terrifying portrayal of brutality and genocide during the Nazis� scorched-earth campaign through Belorussia.

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Close Encounters Of The Third Kind (1977)
Director: Steven Spielberg
The mashed-potato masterpiece, with Richard Dreyfuss� Roy Neary one of Spielberg�s most complicated creations � a family man whose selfishness is out of this world. Love it? You are not alone. Read Review �

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