With "Axis of Evil" nation North Korea suffering an image problem in 2003, British filmmaker Daniel Gordon was given an unprecedented opportunity to film his two school-age subjects without chaperones or censorship. ...

1934’s “A Story of Floating Weeds” marked Ozu’s move from frivolous comedies to the more earnest, family-oriented dramas that later became the hallmarks of this world-class filmmaker’s oeuvre. With its rigorous use of ...

Brando's force-of-nature performance in Kazan's "Streetcar" - an electrifying mix of brute physicality and smoldering sexuality - made Stanley Kowalski's infamous bellow a permanent part of pop culture and Brando a ...

A subtly drawn, gentle tale about the vagaries of family and the reality of encroaching mortality. With stunning color photography romancing the lush French countryside, director Tavernier layers the film with a soft ...

Conway's rich, peerless adaptation of Charles Dickens's famous novel ("It was the best of times, it was the worst of times") succeeds on the merits of its lavish production design and exquisite, tone-perfect acting from ...

South Korean writer/director Kim Jee-Woon's psychological horror tale is a chilling, unnerving puzzler. As layer after layer of the dense, twisty story gets uncovered, we gather another small increment of insight into ...

Manoel de Oliveira (I’m Going Home) may be over one hundred years old, but he shows no signs of slowing down in this witty, urbane comedy of culture. The classical education Rosa Maria imparts to her daughter will be ...

Kiarostami's obliquely moral tale concerns a seemingly average man who, for some unknown reason, wishes to end his life - a huge taboo in Muslim society. Using a unique mix of long exterior shots showing Badii's car ...

Nominated for four Academy Awards (including Best Picture and Screenplay) and winner of a Best Supporting Actor Oscar for Balsam, who’s fabulous as Murray’s long-suffering older brother, the long unavailable “Clowns”, ...

None of the big TV networks would air Jersey’s controversial portrait of race relations in a small Midwestern town (which, amazingly, was funded by the Lutheran church), but it was eventually nominated for an Oscar and ...

Director Sullivan skillfully weaves early footage shot by iconic indie filmmaker Robert Downey Sr. with archival TV broadcasts, vintage interviews, and more recent conversations with now-grown children, parents, and ...

Pinpointing the unlikely intersection of child logic and adult humor, Panic has all the sweetness of Gumby, the high-octane absurdism of Peewee’s Playhouse, and the winking intellectual playfulness of an art film for ...

Equal parts romance, mystery and anti-war film, "Engagement" is vividly true to its tumultuous period, as Mathilde's seemingly hopeless quest is intercut with gut-wrenching scenes of battlefield carnage. The luminous ...

Scripted by Robert Rossen from a novel by Harry Brown, “Sun” follows an American troop on their march to a rustic Nazi hideaway outside Salerno (their motto: “Nobody dies”), with each of the G.I.’s (Conte, John Ireland, ...

Based on the real-life memoirs of an anonymous Nazi journalist, Farberbock’s “Woman” dramatizes a little-seen facet of World War II, in which the Red Army raped and pillaged its way through Berlin after their spring ...

A train becomes the site of clever dupes, surprise twists, and tense confrontation between rival thieves in Feng’s riveting suspense thriller, with a climactic showdown between Bo and Uncle Li as the final flourish. ...

Zanussi’s thoughtful, carefully detailed story of grief and rehabilitation in post-WWII Eastern Europe wrings humor and poignancy from its characters’ awkwardness around each other. As the shy American, Wilson delivers ...

Timeless classic blends comedy and monster movie, resulting in something spooky enough to excite kids without causing sleepless nights. The best A&C vehicle by far, its great to have Lugosi and Chaney on hand. A fast, ...

Based on a Pulitzer-winning play, but never less than cinematic thanks to James Wong Howe’s gorgeous camerawork, “Abe Lincoln” is a gripping account of the making of a great man. Reprising his stage turn, Raymond ...

Based on a theater play produced for the BBC, Leigh's dark-humored situational farce examines a group of people feebly attempting to have a good time although they are all secretly miserable. As Beverly, Steadman (wife ...