America’s film editor reviews “The Godfather,” a film he thought too long but otherwise a remarkable movie by a 33-year-old Francis Ford Coppola.

From 1977: How Catholic journals covered the perilous journey of Jack and Jill up that treacherous hill in 1977.

Yes, Peter O’Toole did have a life after “Lawrence of Arabia.”

"In short, it is the story of a media manipulator who strove to turn his celebrity into elective office. Draw what parallels you may."

'Groucho Marx,' by Lee Siegel

"Star Wars" is original and surprising. It is witty, not only in its comic dialogue, but in its ability to spoof itself and the science-fiction genre without going for the cheap laugh.

This year marks the centennial of D. W. Griffith’s masterpiece, “The Birth of a Nation.” Who cares? Or who should? After all, it’s really only an embarrassing antique. Film historians have long extolled its artistic innovation as the foundation of the modern motion picture. S

A selection of reviews of Woody Allen's films from former America film critic and Allen biographer, Richard A. Blake, S.J.

In search of the real Thornton Wilder

The outlandish, out-sized life of Sarah Bernhardt