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Ken Loach and Paul Laverty present another great film about working class life: a portrait of an English family having to find a way to support the...
- Added: Nov 01, 2021
- Length: 04:23
The latest film by the darkly absurdist Swedish director Roy Andersson tackles the vexing subject of religion.
- Added: Nov 01, 2021
- Length: 04:22
Werner Herzog presents a portrait of his friend, the journalist and travel writer Bruce Chatwin; while Patricio Guzmán examines the mountain range ...
- Added: Nov 01, 2021
- Length: 04:23
Getting old is the source of fear in a new horror movie by Natalie Erika James, about a woman on the edge of dementia whose daughter and granddaugh...
- Added: Nov 01, 2021
- Length: 04:21
A dying man experiences the tragic dualism of past and present, in Andrei Tarkovsky’s autobiographical masterpiece The Mirror.
- Added: Nov 01, 2021
- Length: 03:36
A film by Channing Godfrey Peoples tells of a single mother (Nicole Beharie) in an African American neighborhood in Fort Worth, Texas, who wants he...
- Added: Nov 01, 2021
- Length: 04:19
In his first western, Tom Hanks plays an itinerant news reader from Texas who tries to transport a young girl who was an Indian captive to her rela...
- Added: Nov 01, 2021
- Length: 04:33
Transposing Jack London’s autobiographical novel to Italy, Pietro Marcello highlights the conflict of socialist idealism with the individualistic d...
- Added: Nov 01, 2021
- Length: 04:05
A genius entrusted with national secrets who made no effort to conceal his own
- Added: Sep 09, 2020
- Length: 01:58:01
- Purchases: 23
The screwball comedy was a special kind of a film that flourished in Hollywood in the 1930s and 40s. It featured zany, no-holds-barred dialogue and...
- Added: Aug 21, 2020
- Length: 03:15
There are very few more poignant examples of world-historical irony in cinema than the Soviet silent film—the revolutionary hopes they expressed pr...
- Added: Aug 16, 2020
- Length: 03:43
Loulou, a 1980 film by French director Maurice Pialat, tells of an upper middle class woman named Nelly (played by Isabelle Huppert), who grows tir...
- Added: Aug 08, 2020
- Length: 03:51
I’ve spoken on this show before about the Armenian-born Soviet filmmaker Sergei Paradjanov, who directed the groundbreaking film Shadows of Forgott...
- Added: Jul 22, 2020
- Length: 03:32
Jia Zhangke is mainland China’s most cutting-edge director, challenging that country’s official story of economic triumph with poetic and elliptica...
- Added: Jul 14, 2020
- Length: 03:32
Sometimes when I revisit a good film, I start to notice a few flaws which lower my regard for the movie a little bit. But that didn’t happen on a r...
- Added: Jul 09, 2020
- Length: 03:30
The Magnificent Ambersons, the first film Orson Welles made after Citizen Kane, has suffered from its reputation as something of a “lost” film. It ...
- Added: Jun 29, 2020
- Length: 03:24
If one were asked to name great British film directors, I’m sure that Alfred Hitchcock and David Lean would spring to mind immediately, and rightly...
- Added: Jun 22, 2020
- Length: 03:21
Recently I was asked to put together a list of my all-time favorite films—not a greatest films of all time list, but a list of movies that were spe...
- Added: Jun 16, 2020
- Length: 03:09
The 1954 Army-McCarthy hearings were among the first government hearings to be televised live, providing a spectacle rivaled only by the much later...
- Added: Jun 08, 2020
- Length: 03:38
Never has a filmmaker been so influential, with such a short career, as the French director Jean Vigo. With only three films to his name, Vigo, who...
- Added: Jun 02, 2020
- Length: 03:21
Once in a while when I see the previews for a film, it gives me the wrong impression, and makes me decide to stay away. This is what happened to me...
- Added: May 25, 2020
- Length: 03:40
For a brief time in the 1930s, there was a movement in French cinema called “poetic realism.” These films combined deeply romantic themes with a ki...
- Added: May 19, 2020
- Length: 03:01
In what we now call the classic era of Hollywood film, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) had more stars than any other studio. In 1932, as if to prove that...
- Added: May 19, 2020
- Length: 03:28
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
