Film Search
- Aug 11, 2009
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The Lady Vanishes (NR)
Alfred Hitchcock's masterful 1938 spy thriller, with Margaret Lockwood and Michael Redgrave searching for kidnapped agent Dame May Whitty aboard a trans-European express train, pursued all the while by sinister Nazi agents. more...
- Mar 15, 1985
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The Last Laugh
The 1924 film in which F.W. Murnau freed his camera from its stationary tripod and took it on a flight of imagination and expression that changed the way movies were made. more...
- Jan 10, 2003
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Lost in La Mancha
Filmmakers Keith Fulton and Louis Pepe traveled http://admin.chicagoreader.com/tools/object-editor?oid=1059177;close=yesto Madrid in summer 2000 to shoot a documentary about the making of Terry Gilliam's The Man Who Killed Don Quixote, but instead of an ordinary promotional puff they came away with a memorable portrait of an artist watching his projected masterwork come crashing down around his ears. more...
- May 12, 2011
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Meek's Cutoff (PG)
Imagine a collaboration between John Ford and Wallace Stevens and you might get a sense of what Kelly Reichardt (Wendy and Lucy) pulls off here: a sincere re-creation of the pioneer experience, brought to life through careful, often unexpected detail. more...
- Oct 26, 1985
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One, Two, Three
James Cagney is the whole dynamic show in this hilarious Billy Wilder satire (1961) on Coca-Cola diplomacy in divided Berlin. more...
- Jun 10, 2010
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OSS 117: Lost in Rio (NR)
The French spy spoof OSS 117: Cairo, Nest of Spies (2006) managed to revive one of the stalest movie genres through sheer comic ingenuity, and this sequel is every bit as sly and inventive. more...
- Dec 23, 2009
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Police, Adjective
Romania's boom in sardonic, minimalist social drama (The Death of Mr. Lazarescu, 4 Months, 3 Weeks & 2 Days) continues with this low-boiling but addictive story about a young police detective who's begun to question the justice of the drug laws he's enforcing. more...
- May 30, 1985
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Queen Kelly (NR)
Erich von Stroheim's 1928 film was the last that he would be allowed to sign, yet it, too, survives only in a fragmentary version. more...
- Oct 26, 1985
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Reservoir Dogs (R)
A stunning debut (1992) from writer-director Quentin Tarantino, though a far cry from Stanley Kubrick's 1956 The Killing, to which it clearly owes a debt. more...
- May 18, 2007
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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...
- Jun 19, 2008
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Sangre de Mi Sangre
Christopher Zalla, a graduate of the film program at Columbia University, makes an impressive debut with this suspense feature about illegal immigrants and stolen identity. more...
- Jan 6, 2011
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Secret Sunshine (NR)
A recently widowed woman (Jeon Do-yeon) leaves Seoul to start over in the provincial town where her husband was born. more...
- Sep 10, 2004
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Sex Is Comedy
This 2002 provocation from director-writer Catherine Breillat is so perversely enjoyable it gives the lie to her image as a serious, politically incorrect purveyor of pornographic instincts. more...
- Apr 23, 2004
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Shaolin Soccer
This wacky Hong Kong comedy (2001) ran 111 minutes in its initial Asian release, but Miramax Films deleted 24 of them and rewrote the subtitles for its domestic rollout. more...
