Romero’s ultra-low-budget Night of the Living Dead was released in October 1968, just months after the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr., which was shortly followed by that of Robert F. Kennedy.
Liv Ullman and Gunnar Bjornstrand in Shame. Liv Ullman and Gunnar Bjornstrand in Shame.Courtesy Criterion Collection The fictional civil war at the heart of Ingmar Bergman’s beautiful, somber ...