'70S THRILLERS • Coming to the Criterion Channel on September! https://bit.ly/3URYaTW This collection brings together some of the era’s most incisive works by leading directors like Sidney Lumet, Robert Altman, Alan J. Pakula, and Arthur Penn, films in which surveillance is omnipresent, authority is suspect, and truth is a moving target. Updating classic Hollywood models—including film noir and Hitchcockian mystery—for their anxious time, these thrillers remain just as urgently unsettling in our

SNAKE EYES 1998, Nicolas Cage, Gary Sinise by Brian De Palma. | Gentleman Style of Life

This film’s visual style has influenced many directors, including Stanley Kubrick, Martin Scorsese, Denis Villeneuve, George Lucas, Ridley Scott, Brian De Palma, Oliver Stone, Sam Peckinpah, and Steven Spielberg. Spielberg has often called it his favourite film of all time and the one that inspired him to become a filmmaker. He saw it four times in four consecutive weeks upon its release and later said, “It was the first time seeing a movie, I realized there are themes that aren’t narrative stor