Film Search
- May 18, 2007
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Evenings on a Farm Near Dikanka
Nikolai Gogol's 1832 folktale “Christmas Eve” inspired this sparkling 1961 Soviet fantasy in Technicolor, in which a Ukrainian blacksmith bargains with the devil to win the hand of a beautiful young woman. more...
- Oct 16, 2008
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Everlasting Moments
In the films of Swedish director Jan Troell (The Emigrants, The New Land), ordinary lives assume epic dimensions, and this drama, based on the experiences of his wife's protofeminist grandmother, doesn't sugarcoat the hardships of the early 1900s. more...
- Oct 7, 2005
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Everlasting Regret
Stanley Kwan makes Hong Kong's smartest “women's pictures” and most provocative nostalgia films, so the release of his latest, an adaptation of Wang Anyi's novel tracing the life of a Shanghai beauty queen from the 1940s to the '80s, is automatically a major event. more...
- May 14, 2009
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Every Little Step
When A Chorus Line opened on Broadway in 1975, it turned heads with its pseudo-documentary format, fictionalizing personal stories that director Michael Bennett had collected in taped conversations with veteran dancers. more...
- Oct 26, 1985
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Every Man for Himself (NR)
Jean-Luc Godard calls this 1980 production, Sauve Qui Peut (La Vie), his “second first film”—which means both a return to narrative after his brilliant documentary-theoretical work in the 70s and a complete clearing of the decks. more...
- Feb 28, 2013
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Everybody in Our Family
Radu Jude's first feature, The Happiest Girl in the World (2009), was so astute in its comedy of family dysfunction that it was almost too uncomfortable to be funny; in this third effort the Romanian writer-director pushes things even further, walking a tightrope between domestic farce and psychodrama. more...
- Jul 29, 2010
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Everyone Else (NR)
A mopey German architect (Lars Eidinger) and his irksome live-wire girlfriend (Birgit Minichmayr) spend a solitary vacation at a Sardinian villa, where their relationship gradually disintegrates. more...
- Sep 15, 2006
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Everyone's Hero
This computer-animated baseball adventure espouses a shopworn moral about persevering against long odds, but there's still plenty to recommend it, including memorable characters, solid storytelling, and accurate period detail. more...
- Apr 22, 2010
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Everything Strange and New (NR)
Indie writer-director Frazer Bradshaw makes an impressive feature debut with this small but knowing drama about a decent, well-meaning young lumpen (Jerry McDaniel) who's begun to bump up against the limits of adult life. more...
- May 22, 2008
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Everything's Cool
Americans have been slow to respond to climate change, and this trenchant advocacy documentary (2007) lays much of the blame on Washington bureaucrats, lobbyists, and TV news programmers, all of whom spent two decades framing the dangers of global warming as debatable despite mounting scientific evidence. more...
- Oct 26, 1985
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Eve's Bayou
Unlike most stories that allude to incest, this intriguingly fractured 1997 narrative acknowledges the complexity of the faddish topic. more...
- Apr 27, 2010
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The Evil Dead (NC-17)
Sam Raimi directed this 1981 horror feature fresh out of film school, and his anything-for-an-effect enthusiasm pays off in lots of formally inventive bits. more...
- Sep 15, 2006
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Excellent Cadavers
Adapting and updating a book by American journalist Alexander Stille, this gripping Italian documentary (2005) recounts the decadelong campaign by magistrates Giovanni Falcone and Paolo Borsellino to break the back of the Sicilian Mafia. more...
