Chuck Mitsui's debut feature is the dreary, predictable story of a 19-year-old Hawaiian skateboarder (bland newcomer Ryan Greer) whose 15-year-old girlfriend is pregnant with his child.
more...
Michael Webber's documentary The Elephant in the Living Room (2010) makes such a powerful case against private ownership of exotic wild animals that this portrait of circus owner David Balding and his beloved elephant Flora seems sentimental by comparison.
more...
Raquel Welch in a strategically upholstered bikini gets to fight the dinosaurs and other anachronistic beasties in this anthropologically dubious reworking of the 1940 Hal Roach/D.W. Griffith prehistoric potboiler (alas, no Victor Mature in this one).
more...
Ida Lupino stars in this 1936 screwball comedy from an unlikely auteur, the arch-pictorialist Rowland V. Lee (Zoo in Budapest, Son of Frankenstein).
more...
Marlon Brando's only directorial effort was this eccentric 1961 western about an outlaw (Brando) who revenges himself on a former partner (Karl Malden) by seducing his daughter.
more...
A creepy, interesting, and visually striking 1964 feature by Kaneto Shindo, set in the 16th century in the midst of a civil war, about two poor women who live in the marshes and support themselves by luring wounded samurai to their deaths and then selling their possessions.
more...
This colorful documentary joins the recent Dancing Across Borders and Mao's Last Dancer in a trend of films about struggling artists in faraway lands who find opportunity in American ballet companies.
more...
Roberto Rossellini's 1946 story of a group of workers and a priest in 1943-'44 Rome, declared an “open city” by the Nazis, was begun only two months after the liberation.
more...
This 2009 documentary by Tammy Nguyen Lee features Vietnamese-Americans who came to the U.S. as part of Operation Babylift, a mass evacuation of children near the end of the Vietnam war.
more...
A young soldier in 1950, working as personal secretary to a military judge of the Franco regime, is shaken when his boss orders the political execution of a young man who cared for the soldier's sick mother.
more...