Film Search
- Oct 26, 1985
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Play Dirty
This 1968 desert caper, the last film directed by veteran Andre de Toth, ranks among his best work. more...
- May 6, 2010
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Please Give (R)
The witty and perceptive writer-director Nicole Holofcener (Walking and Talking, Lovely & Amazing, Friends With Money) delivers her best feature yet, a sharp-elbowed philosophical comedy that ponders why people find it so hard to be generous with one another. more...
- Jan 15, 2009
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Pleasures of the Flesh
In its handling of lust, obsession, and the annihilating power of sex, this 1965 Japanese drama by Nagisa Oshima prefigures his notorious In the Realm of the Senses (1976) without getting nearly as close to oblivion. more...
- Oct 11, 2007
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The Plow That Broke the Plains and The River
Two classic documentary shorts of the Great Depression, directed by Pare Lorentz for the federal government's Resettlement Administration. more...
- Apr 8, 2004
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Point Blank
John Boorman's modernist, noirish thriller (1967) is still his best and funniest effort (despite the well-phrased demurrals of filmmaker Thom Andersen regarding its cavalier treatment of Los Angeles). more...
- Oct 26, 1985
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Poison (R)
This 1991 avant-garde shocker by Todd Haynes (Far From Heaven) freely cuts between three supposedly separate stories, each in a different style and set in a different period: a 40s tale of homoerotic passion in a prison that's loosely derived from Jean Genet, a black-and-white 50s SF-horror melodrama about a leprous sex criminal, and an 80s TV exposé about a victimized seven-year-old boy who murders his father. more...
- May 25, 2007
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Poison Friends
Emmanuel Bourdieu, who cowrote Arnaud Desplechin's Esther Kahn and My Sex Life . . . more...
- Nov 5, 2004
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The Polar Express
Director Robert Zemeckis (Who Framed Roger Rabbit, Forrest Gump) once again harnesses a new technology to an engaging fable in this digitally animated adaptation of Chris Van Allsburg's holiday tale. more...
