A retooling by Miramax (new beginning, new ending, new title) of a 1993 French movie called Fausto—a first feature by Remy Duchemin about a 17-year-old orphan whose life changes when he becomes the apprentice of an eccentric Jewish tailor (Jean Yanne).
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Too slick and sound-bitey for its own good, this documentary about U.S. lawyers aims for the smart-aleck tone of its title while throwing out punchy statistics as if it were a PowerPoint presentation.
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Rene Clair's 1931 satire on industrialization was overshadowed for many years by Chaplin's Modern Times and then forgotten, though its recent release on DVD has given it a second—and well-deserved—lease on life.
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In Benoit Jacquot's excellent Sade (2000), lissome French ingenue Isild Le Besco gave a seductive performance as a teenage girl corrupted by the legendary marquis.
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Benoit Delepine and Gustave de Kervern's 2004 Belgian comedy in black-and-white 'Scope follows a couple of feuding farmers paralyzed in a tractor accident who travel together to confront the company that built the machine.
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A 1995 animated musical based on stories by Isaac Bashevis Singer, this tale takes place in a village where the wise men make bad puns, the craftsmen rationalize shoddy work in repetitive solos, and a golem conjured by an evil sorcerer threatens the bumblingly righteous populace with mindless destruction.
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An old Iranian man disappears while searching for a friend who's been dead ten years, so his agitated daughter enlists her estranged husband to look for him; the husband puts his foot down at first but soon finds himself cruising the streets of Tehran with his best friend, searching for the old rascal and cursing all the way.
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