S.F.W.

A young rebel (Stephen Dorff) becomes a national celebrity after being held hostage in a convenience store for 36 days. more...

S.O.B.

Blake Edwards's 1981 anti-Hollywood satire, apparently inspired by his own experiences with the big-budget disaster Darling Lili: when his expensive family musical looks like a flop, director Richard Mulligan tries to rescue it by prevailing upon his wholesome actress wife (Julie Andrews) to do a nude scene. more...

• by Dave Kehr

Sa-kwa

First-time director Kang Yi-kwan and lead actress Moon So-ri do a fine job of conveying her character's shifting emotions in this 2005 Korean drama. more...

• by Fred Camper

Saawan: The Love Season

Bollywood romance written and directed by Sawan Kumar. more...

Saawariya

This Bollywood romance is based on Dostoyevsky's short story “White Nights.” Sanjay Leela Bhansali directed; with Salman Kahn and Ranbir Kapoor. more...

Sabbia

Sabbia is Italian for sand, which makes it a suitable title for this trippy meditation on the beauties of southern California's Coachella Valley. more...

• by Andrea Gronvall

Sabotage!

The real original among these six videos is Abel Klainbaum's half-hour The History of Choking (With Erick Estrada), a purported documentary on the Heimlich maneuver that intersperses instructional films and goofy reenactments. more...

• by Fred Camper

Sabotage

Ripe for reevaluation as the masterpiece of Alfred Hitchcock's British period. more...

• by Dave Kehr

Saboteur

Alfred Hitchcock's 1942 thriller (often confused with his 1936 Sabotage) follows the usual structure of his comedies: an innocent man, mistaken for a spy, is chased across the country. more...

• by Dave Kehr

Sabrina

This remake of Billy Wilder's weak 50s romantic comedy minimizes the jaded, dirty-old-man aspect of the sub-Lubitsch original (a flaw it shares with Wilder's Love in the Afternoon) with better casting. more...

• by Jonathan Rosenbaum

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Sabrina (NR)

Billy Wilder's 1954 version of the Samuel Taylor staple was a perfect vehicle for Audrey Hepburn, though the cut is too tight for her costars, Humphrey Bogart and William Holden. more...

• by Dave Kehr
• Tags: Comedy

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Sacco and Vanzetti

Peter Miller's concise and thoughtful 2005 documentary reexamines the notorious Sacco and Vanzetti case from the perspective of a post-9/11 world, where concern over public safety has once again empowered xenophobes and reactionaries to trample on the rights of immigrants. more...

• by J.R. Jones

Sacco and Vanzetti

The notorious 1920 trial of two Italian immigrants accused of murder and robbery, though most likely guilty of no more than radical political sentiments. more...

• by Dave Kehr

Films by Lynne Sachs

These two poetic essays by Lynne Sachs offer the perfect antidote to PBS: there's no omniscient narrator talking down to the viewer, reciting facts and explaining what to think, yet the story of each is perfectly clear. more...

• by Fred Camper

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Films by Lynne Sachs

Family, history, and oblivion pervade these two short works. more...

• by Andrea Gronvall
• Tags: Documentary, Experimental, Program