Film Search
- Jun 10, 2010
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Accomplices (NR)
After the battered body of a rent boy is pulled out of the Rhone, two Lyonnaise homicide detectives (Gilbert Melki and Emmanuelle Devos) begin canvassing his teenage peers, sifting through his cell phone records, and tracing his recent online activities. more...
- May 7, 2010
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The Adventures of Prince Achmed (NR)
German silhouette animator Lotte Reiniger is best known for this enchanting 1926 film—the earliest surviving feature-length animation—that she adapted from one of the stories in 1001 Arabian Nights. more...
- May 30, 1985
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After the Thin Man (NR)
The most elegant title for a sequel in film history belongs, happily, to one of the most elegant sequels (1934). more...
- Jun 22, 2010
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All Quiet on the Western Front (NR)
Lewis Milestone's powerful 1930 adaptation of Erich Maria Remarque's antiwar novel, starring Lew Ayres and Louis Wolheim, deserves its reputation as a classic. more...
- Jan 28, 2010
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American Artifact: The Rise of American Rock Poster Art (NR)
As you might guess from the portentous title and redundant subtitle, video maker Merle Becker suffers from an inflated sense of her subject's importance, amplified in the narration by her references to "the poster movement" (for some reason, every pop-culture trend has to be consecrated as a movement). more...
- Feb 17, 2011
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And Everything Is Going Fine (NR)
Aside from Richard Pryor, no American monologuist has translated to the screen better than Spalding Gray (Swimming to Cambodia, Monster in a Box, Gray's Anatomy), who battled depression all his adult life and apparently committed suicide in 2004. more...
- Oct 26, 1985
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Antonio Gaudi (NR)
This 1984 documentary about the architect essentially lets Gaudi's work speak for itself, and it couldn't be more eloquent. more...
- Mar 17, 2011
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The Arbor (NR)
British playwright Andrea Dunbar was only 18 when The Arbor, her blunt account of life in a squalid council estate, premiered at London's Royal Court Theatre in 1980; by age 29 she was dead of a cerebral hemorrhage, leaving behind three completed works and three children by three different men. more...
- Mar 3, 2011
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The Army of Crime (NR)
Jean-Pierre Melville's French thriller Army of Shadows (1969) angered some with its frank depiction of the moral compromises sustained by French resistance fighters during the Nazi occupation; two generations later, French Armenian filmmaker Robert Guediguian delivers another epic drama of the resistance, though his 2009 film stresses the commitment and sacrifice of a real-life terror cell commanded by the Armenian poet Missak Manouchian (Simon Abkarian). more...
- Mar 11, 2010
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The Art of the Steal (NR)
Philadelphia pharmaceutical baron Albert C. Barnes saw greatness in the canvases of Matisse and Van Gogh long before the curatorial caste caught on to post-Impressionism, and before he died he took great pains to protect his world-class art collection from both the grasping Philly establishment and the eyes of the unwashed millions. more...
- May 19, 2011
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The Autobiography of Nicolae Ceausescu (NR)
Romanian expatriate Andrei Ujica spent four years combing through the national film and television archives of his homeland to assemble this epic documentary, which uses official images of communist political pageantry to revisit Nicolae Ceausescu's quarter century of misrule. more...
