Adapted by Robert Anderson from his own stage play, this poignant study of a father and son and the void between them is heartbreaking in its power and truth. Douglas and Hackman were both nominated for Academy Awards; ...

This fizzy period comedy was adapted from the hugely popular play of the same name which ran for years on Broadway, and which originally sprang from Clarence Day, Jr.’s own memoir. Director Curtiz (“Casablanca”, ...

This gleefully deranged four hour epic is a fantastical feat of style and storytelling, with director Sono drawing on 1970s martial arts films as the visual kick-off point for his tale of Original Sin, guilt, and above ...

Filmmaker Marsh, who reached Academy Award heights with “Man on Wire” (2008), doesn’t disappoint with his follow-up slice of cinema verite. This “Project” is an engrossing, ultimately tragic portrait of an intelligent ...

Long overdue on DVD, this opulent version of the classic Alexandre Dumas novel of 1844 owes much to the central performance of British actor Donat, who in effect assumes two roles: that of wronged seaman Edmond Dantes, ...

Director Rosi’s fascinating, affecting tragedy stands both as a masterpiece of neo-realism and an eye-catching visual feast. With long photo lenses capturing all the pomp and peril of real bullfights (and with real-life ...

This first film from renowned filmmaker Hideo Gosha is a paragon of genre functionality and form. As the lone outsider, central character Shiba recalls the renegade samurai of Kurosawa and foreshadows the “man with no ...

The first Iranian film to win an Oscar or Golden Globe (Best Foreign Language Film for both), “Separation” is a spellbinding, richly layered drama about class, family, faith, and justice in modern-day Tehran. The ...

This subtle, smart black comedy melds serious issues of depression and loss with elements of classic farce, as neighbors, family members and funeral officials pop in and out of the apartment where Nora lived. Since ...

Spencer Tracy commands attention from us-and his men- with his burly performance as the pragmatic real-life ranger in this rousing tale of determination and courage. The Hays Code kept most of the depictions of massacre ...

Full of philosophical musings from the director himself, this haunting, profound documentary delivers a poetic meditation on time and memory, positing that all history needs to be investigated- however distant or close. ...

Belgian director Belvaux combines the rigor of a police procedural with a timely social commentary in this taut, well-scripted thriller based on an actual 1978 kidnapping. Attal, who was nominated for an acting Cesar in ...

This second retelling of “To Have and Have Not” comes six years after the infamous Bogart/Bacall iteration and offers none of that classic’s Hollywood gloss on Hemingway’s prose. Instead, Garfield as a gruff, ...

The brilliant French director Renoir received his only Academy Award nomination for this- a moving, woefully underexposed portrayal of a year-in-the-life of a poor migrant family striving for the American Dream. The ...

Even by today’s standards, this landmark concert movie delivers as “The Greatest, Grooviest, Wildest, Most Exciting Beat Blast Ever to Pound the Screen!” While not all the acts hold up uniformly well (we could live ...

Lu’s stunning, often harrowing historical epic unfolds with documentary-like realism. Gradually the black and white, handheld immediacy of the camerawork draws us in to certain individuals and the enormity of war ...