This engrossing and sobering tale about the precarious and poisonous nature of fame in our mass-media age seems even more timely today. Budd Schulberg's script literally sizzles, and Neal is superb. As to Andy, this ...

This engrossing military-legal thriller from director Rob Reiner soars thanks to Aaron Sorkin's gripping, expertly paced script (based on his hit Broadway play) and a brawny, high-wattage cast: Cruise and Moore make a ...

There are few authentic film visionaries like Ingmar Bergman, and his “Trilogy” offers a unique opportunity to watch the master at a key turning point in his career. He’d already created masterpieces like "The Seventh ...

Just when you thought you’d seen and heard it all about the Holocaust, along comes this shocking and disturbing film, one that basically rewrites history. It’s fascinating for what it shows—few authentic documents of ...

Penned by Monty Python alum Cleese, Crichton's hilarious caper comedy is a riotous mix of hysterical pratfalls, over-the-top sight gags, and devious double-crosses. Curtis smolders as the alluring, manipulative ...

Filmed in Spain and loosely modeled after Kurosawa’s “Yojimbo,” Leone’s “Dollars” was the first classic of the so-called spaghetti westerns, introducing Clint Eastwood in his iconic role as the Man With No Name. ...

Beautifully shot with a single camera, this haunting Golden Globe-winning tragedy from Cacoyannis helped usher in the golden age of Greek cinema. Lambeti, whose film career would be short-lived, delivers a heartrending ...

If a picture paints a thousand words, then a photo (at least this one) carries a thousand unforgettable tunes. And stories! Jean Bach cobbles humorous anecdotes from then-clueless shutterbug Art Kane and many of the ...

Marker’s video essay is both cinematic art and historical documentary. Originally finished in 1977, the director reworked the material in 1993 to include the demise of the Soviet Union. It’s a paean to intelligent, ...

This priceless comedy is admittedly dated and politically incorrect in the extreme, but this only makes it funnier today. Director Gene Kelly (yes-that Gene Kelly) deserves kudos for taking the most delicate of subject ...

Director Lester’s documentary-style shooting makes all the proceedings feel breathtakingly real. In fact, you could be forgiven for assuming everyone is improvising, though this was not the case. (Only John had the ...

Warmly nostalgic, heartwarming and hilarious, Penny Marshall’s underrated gem (based on fact) features one of Tom Hanks’s most memorable comic performances as a former baseball star turned alcoholic manager, who feels ...

The legendary Joe Mankiewcz received direction and screenplay Oscars for this sharp little gem, too often eclipsed by his admittedly masterful follow-up, "All About Eve". "Wives" uses a clever narrative device to ...

A highly popular date movie in the mid sixties, Claude Lelouch's Oscar-winning "A Man and a Woman" may owe its innovative visual style to the French New Wave, but at its heart is a very simple love story, as the title ...

Director Bresson's unadorned yet breathless film mesmerizes with a gripping sense of immediacy. Based on Andre Devigny's own harrowing story, the prisoner's dogged efforts serve as a powerful testament to man's ...

An outstanding adaptation of Robert Bolt's play by "High Noon" director Fred Zinnemann, this new edition of "Seasons" revisits the ill-fated conflict between Henry VIII and More, building upon the film's central ethical ...

Bernard Rapp's "A Matter of Taste" is one of those deliciously twisted suspense films the French are so adept at concocting. Giraudeau gives a nuanced, unnerving performance as the neurotic employer, while Lorit also ...

Makhmalbaf blends documentary and fiction in this unusually personal film, which carries echoes of Kurosawa’s “Rashomon” in its perspective-shifting structure, yet manages to convey a hopeful vision of anti-violence ...

Loosely based on the life of his elder brother, Eugene O’Neill’s lyrical head-butt of a drama was a flop when it was first produced in the late ’40s. But Jose Quintero’s Emmy-winning production vindicated the playwright ...

You could predict right upfront that grand opera would never be the same once the Marx Brothers got though with it. "Night", the first and best of the team's MGM releases, features more focus on plot, musical numbers ...