The high-concept Hong Kong thriller starring Andy Lau and Tony Leung brought meticulous plotting to the Hong Kong crime picture and was remade by Martin Scorsese as ‘The Departed.’
Seijun Suzuki puts the candy colored art direction of an American Technicolor musical in the service of an erotically charged tale of desperation and doom in this underworld drama set in post-war Japan.
The 19 short comedies created by Keaton between 1920 and 1923 provided a workshop for the developing filmmaker and, at their best, are among the greatest cinematic achievements of the silent era.
George Franju’s perverse and poetic French classic is at once lyrical, haunting, and deviant, an elegantly horrifying classic of sadism and shadowy grace.
Douglas Sirk puts the opera back into “soap opera” in this exquisitely baroque melodrama with Rock Hudson, Lauren Bacall, Robert Stack, and Dorothy Malone.
