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  • Acapulco Rock

    Like so many contemporary French filmmakers, Laurent Tuel presents marginalized characters trapped in a violent and morally bankrupt Paris. more...
  • Accatone!

    Pier Paolo Pasolini's first film is neo-neorealism, set in the slums and back alleys familiar from De Sica and Fellini but directed with a cold dispassion that belongs to Pasolini alone. more...
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  • Accattone

    Pier Paolo Pasolini's debut feature is a neo-realist examination of a pimp living in Rome. more...
  • Acceptable Levels

    John Davies's Irish feature criticizes the media's treatment of the ongoing violence in Belfast through the story of an English camera crew that arrives to do a TV documentary on a typical Catholic child (1983). more...
  • Accepted

    Sublimely stupid, this collegiate farce plays like a cross between Animal House and Ferris Bueller's Day Off, though the undercurrent of adolescent rage kept reminding me of Wild in the Streets, the 60s trash classic about teenagers taking over the U.S. government. more...
  • Access Orbit—Program 1: Identity

    This program of ten videos by young, mostly “minority” people, organized by the media activist group Paper Tiger Television, focuses on the familiar themes of personal and group identity. more...
  • Access Orbit Programs 4 & 5

    Two programs of work by young people: Justice/Police Brutality features documentaries and PSAs about tensions between police and young people, and Methods of Change examines communications media and community organizing. more...
  • Accident

    Joseph Losey's coldly funny puzzle movie, about the erotic entanglements of Oxford as superbly entangled by scenarist Harold Pinter. more...
  • Accidental Army: The Amazing True Story of the Czechoslovak Legion (NR)

    A stash of rare World War I photos preserved by a small museum in Prague inspired Chicago media execs Bruce Bendinger and John Iltis to trace the history of the "Czechoslovak Legion," a force of 70,000 Czechs and Slovaks who were instrumental in the Allied victory. more...
  • The Accidental Tourist

    Lawrence Kasdan's comedy-drama, based on Anne Tyler's novel, reunites the two stars of Body Heat, Kasdan's first feature, William Hurt and Kathleen Turner. more...
  • The Accompanist

    In Paris during the German occupation an impoverished 20-year-old pianist (Romane Bohringer) goes to work as an accompanist and all-around servant for a famous classical singer (Elena Safonova) who, along with her businessman husband (Richard Bohringer, Romane's father), is a known collaborationist. more...
  • 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...