When it’s okay to stray from the source: No Way Out resets The Big Clock

Hello, Dolly! is still looking swell on the big screen

The “tragedy of desire” in An American Tragedy and A Place in the Sun

Jean-Luc Godard, Anna Karina, and the romance of crime in Band of Outsiders

Reflections in a Golden Eye: a “hothouse tale” of desire and simmering violence

All-American loneliness and “a universe of yearnings” in The Member of the Wedding

L.A. story: A dark, seductive tale of lust and murder in Double Indemnity

The Wings of the Dove: Classic Henry James as film noir

A “completely modern” comedy of façades and human frailty, Dinner at Eight still surprises

Terror, suspense, and the power of suggestion in The Haunting

Improvisation on a noir theme: The jazz of François Truffaut’s Shoot the Piano Player

Classic Hollywood Little Women captures the story’s appeal for all time

The Innocents: a great ghost story and an inspired rendering of Henry James’s “The Turn of the Screw”

Haunting, powerful, passionate: Martin Scorsese’s The Age of Innocence

On its 75th anniversary, John Huston’s The Maltese Falcon is still a marvel of tough, sardonic suspense

Michael Mann’s The Last of the Mohicans