Alfred Hitchcock’s frothiest entertainment delivers glamor and romance with Cary Grant and Grace Kelly on the French Riviera where a cat burglar is stealing the jewels of rich tourists.
The debut feature from Satyajit Ray is a touching portrait of life in a small, impoverished village in rural India with the texture and grace of a painting.
Hiroshi Inagake’s three-film adaptation of Eiji Yoshikawa’s epic novel embraces the mythic dimensions with a removed, distant style that elevates the character to tragic hero.
The three films that follow the life of a boy from his impoverished childhood in a rural village to the city and adulthood brought Indian cinema to an international audience.
Bergman’s international breakthrough came via this light, sunny, airy sex comedy, a satire of love and class and sex by way of a Shakespeare comedy of mismatched couples.