By: Joshua Glenn

A scene from THE BIG SLEEP (1946)

By: Joshua Glenn

A scene from REPO MAN (1984)

By: Joshua Glenn

A scene from HAROLD AND MAUDE (1971)

By: Joshua Glenn

A scene from MR. SMITH GOES TO WASHINGTON (1939)

By: Joshua Glenn

A scene from BREAKING AWAY (1979)

By: Joshua Glenn

A scene from ERASERHEAD (1976)

By: David Smay

He generated fields of pure unexpected looniness.

By: Joshua Glenn

A scene from IT HAPPENED ONE NIGHT (1934).

By: Joshua Glenn

A scene from CADDYSHACK (1980).

By: Joshua Glenn

A scene from THE MACK (1973).

By: Joshua Glenn

A scene from MADIGAN (1968).

By: David Smay

A lost, louche world of hair-tossing karate chops and sexy banter.

By: David Smay

Beneath the flash and fun, a slick of moral quandaries.

By: Mimi Lipson

He may be the best put-on artist since Andy Kaufman.

By: David Smay

He suffers exactly enough to make the joke.