Otto Preminger’s sprawling World War II drama opens with the attack on Pearl Harbor and follows its characters as the Navy rebuilds its fleet and launches its campaign to take back the Pacific.
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.
Pierre Morel’s twist on ‘Escape From New York’ set in a near-future Paris is a lean, clean, B-movie action machine fueled by adrenaline and indignation.
Annette Bening stars as a single mother who reaches out to a few friends to help giver her teenage son good life lessons in filmmaker Mike Mills’ tribute to his own mother.
Ryan O’Neal stars opposite his real-life daughter Tatum O’Neal (in her film debut) in Peter Bogdanovich’s touching comic drama of small-time grifters working the American Midwest in the mid-1930s.
Iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi plays himself in this road movie into rural Iran to find a young woman who posted a video pleading with filmmaker for help.
Michael Mann’s coolly attenuated thriller is a smart, tense film pitting a coldly efficient assassin against the cabbie who inadvertently becomes his wheelman.
This comedy-drama about the reporters and staff of an independent weekly newspaper on the verge of selling out is one of the essential films of American independent cinema.
