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On any film buff’s short list of great Russian directors you’re bound to see the name of Andrei Tarkovsky, who directed seven brilliant and challen...
- Added: May 19, 2020
- Length: 03:05
Dodsworth, a 1936 film directed by the great Hollywood filmmaker William Wyler, is an adaptation of the Sinclair Lewis novel of the same name. It’s...
- Added: May 19, 2020
- Length: 03:00
Since 9/11, the invasion of our privacy by the government’s national security apparatus, as well as by corporations, has become so alarming and per...
- Added: May 19, 2020
- Length: 03:31
Vittorio De Sica’s groundbreaking 1946 film about the tribulations of two Italian street kids was one of the founding documents of the film movemen...
- Added: May 19, 2020
- Length: 03:03
Francesco Rosi’s 1962 film uses the life of the titular Mafia bandit as a stepping-off point for an examination of postwar Sicilian history.
A man...
- Added: May 19, 2020
- Length: 03:27
Saint Frances, the debut feature film by Alex Thompson, written by and starring Kelly O’Sullivan, is not about the famous saint of Assisi. In this ...
- Added: May 17, 2020
- Length: 04:15
I’m a devotee of silent films, which I love and collect, yet even I have to admit that, in many cases, one must make certain allowances in terms of...
- Added: Mar 11, 2020
- Length: 03:58
A woman painter in an age (the 18th century) when such women were rare, is hired to paint a portrait of a countess’s daughter, who is living on a w...
- Added: Mar 04, 2020
- Length: 04:17
Mycology has been a relatively neglected subject over the years. It’s the study of mycelium, which is a term for the vegetative part of a fungus, c...
- Added: Feb 27, 2020
- Length: 04:00
The central dramatic figure of our time is the migrant, whose shifting, uncertain, and perilous fate reflects that of our world. Atlantics, the fir...
- Added: Feb 20, 2020
- Length: 04:43
Dark Waters tells the story of Robert Bilott, a corporate lawyer with a Cincinnati firm that specialized in defending big chemical corporations aga...
- Added: Feb 12, 2020
- Length: 04:56
In 1935, Hitler had been in power in Germany for two years. The rest of Europe desperately hoped that the disaster that was the Great War of 1914 t...
- Added: Feb 09, 2020
- Length: 04:31
Thinking back on 2019, preparing to put together a list of my favorite films from last year, I was struck more than ever by how my movie experience...
- Added: Feb 03, 2020
- Length: 04:52
Bryan Stevenson is a lawyer, an African American, who founded the Equal Justice Initiative in 1989. The EJI provides legal assistance to prisoners ...
- Added: Jan 28, 2020
- Length: 04:50
I became a fan of the Safdie brothers, Josh and Benny, after I saw their previous film from a couple years ago, Good Time, which I reviewed on this...
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- Added: Jan 23, 2020
- Length: 04:27
- Purchases: 1
Louisa May Alcott’s classic novel Little Women has been adapted into movies quite a few times before now. The book has usually been relegated to th...
- Added: Jan 16, 2020
- Length: 04:46
Over the long career of director Terrence Malick, he’s developed a unique style all his own, featuring extensive voice-over narration accompanied b...
- Added: Jan 14, 2020
- Length: 04:57
This time of year I’m often asked about what films I recommend to watch for the holiday and I have to say, “Sorry, I’m not really a fan of Christma...
- Added: Jan 02, 2020
- Length: 04:41
I just saw a film that touched me deeply, a movie playing at the multiplex for which I had not seen any ads or trailers. It’s about a fairly afflue...
- Added: Jan 02, 2020
- Length: 03:39
Noah Baumbach’s new film is called Marriage Story. As you might expect from a writer and director with a humorous and ironic view of life, the titl...
- Added: Dec 18, 2019
- Length: 04:38
Bong Joon Ho’s fiendishly clever new film takes aim at the issue of class, reflected in a tale of a family of criminals invading the home of a weal...
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- Added: Dec 11, 2019
- Length: 03:26
- Purchases: 1
In early 2003, when the George W. Bush administration was pushing for an invasion of Iraq, with the support of Britain’s government, headed by Tony...
- Added: Nov 19, 2019
- Length: 04:48
The end of the world! Or, in what amounts to the same thing, at least for us, the end of the human race! Prior to the creation of the atomic bomb, ...
- Added: Nov 12, 2019
- Length: 04:44
Vince Gilligan is a producer, writer and director, working primarily in television. He’s the creator of Breaking Bad, a series that ran for five se...
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- Added: Oct 31, 2019
- Length: 04:57
- Purchases: 1
Werner Herzog’s 1972 masterwork attacks the colonial mindset through the story of an insane Spanish conquistador searching for a lost city of gold ...
- Added: Oct 31, 2019
- Length: 03:24
