Film Search
- Feb 7, 2019
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The 5 Browns: Digging Through Darkness
Ben Niles (Note by Note: The Making of Steinway L1037) directed this unsettling and powerful documentary about the Brown siblings, five piano prodigies (three female, two male) who became famous in the classical music world when they were still in their teens. more...
- Jul 19, 2005
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A.I. Artificial Intelligence (PG-13)
A collaboration between the living Steven Spielberg and the late Stanley Kubrick seems appropriate to a project that reflects profoundly on the differences between life and nonlife. more...
- Jul 2, 2004
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A nous la liberte
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. more...
- Oct 13, 2016
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Abacus: Small Enough to Jail
Abacus Federal Savings Bank holds the distinction of being the only financial institution prosecuted as a result of the 2008 subprime mortgage crisis, though as this engrossing documentary by Steve James suggests, it may have been a sacrificial lamb. more...
- Jan 26, 2007
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Abduction: The Megumi Yokota Story
Some time ago I read an interview with the late South Korean filmmaker Shin Sang-ok, who had been abducted by North Korean agents and held captive for eight years so that dictator Kim Jong-il could play movie producer. more...
- Aug 11, 2016
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Abortion: Stories Women Tell (NR)
Produced for HBO, this engrossing documentary by Tracy Droz Tragos comes down hard on the state of Missouri, where women who seek abortions have a choice of exactly one provider and are further constrained by a 72-hour waiting period. more...
- Jun 25, 2004
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Abouna (Our Father)
This understated but affecting 2002 drama, which director Mahamat-Saleh Haroun says is one of just three features ever made in Chad, should be required viewing for American kids who think they've got troubles. more...
- Nov 12, 2004
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About Baghdad
Shot in July 2003, this collectively made video documentary is by far the most comprehensive account I've seen of how Iraqis view the U.S. war and occupation. more...
- May 5, 2015
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About Elly
Just prior to the Oscar-winning A Separation, Asghar Farhadi directed this 2009 drama, and though not as tightly constructed as its successor, it's another suspenseful domestic intrigue deeply rooted in traditional Iranian mores and social codes. more...
- May 23, 2013
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About Sunny
The terror of living from paycheck to paycheck pervades this 2011 indie drama about the working-poor of Las Vegas. more...
- Apr 16, 2004
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About the Living
After a young Mexican girl is killed by a car, her brother, mother, and father each cope with her death differently, but 11 years later all three are still haunted by the tragedy: the brother has become fascinated with the notion of death by drowning, the mother is obsessed with her job hosting a tabloid talk show, and the disconsolate father wanders the city, filming girls he imagines could be his daughter. more...
- Oct 26, 1985
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Abraham Lincoln
Both of D.W. Griffith's sound films—Abraham Lincoln (1930) and The Struggle (1931)—were scorned as archaic when they came out, which helps explain why he wasn't allowed to direct again for the 17 remaining years of his life. more...
- Jul 22, 2016
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The Absent One
The Dept. Q Trilogy, based on three best-selling crime novels by Danish writer Jussi Adler-Olsen, draws comparisons with Stieg Larsson's The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo franchise: set in Scandinavia and featuring a sullen male protagonist, it's violent, hard-boiled, and psychologically disturbing. more...
- Dec 1, 2006
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Absolute Wilson
Katharina Otto-Bernstein's documentary provides an excellent introduction to the singular vision of avant-garde stage director Robert Wilson. more...
- Sep 11, 2014
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Abuse of Weakness
French director Catherine Breillat, adapting her own memoir, revisits her 2004 stroke, her grueling rehabilitation, and the subsequent turn of events in which she began collaborating on a film project with the notorious confidence man Christophe Rocancourt and got bilked out of 700,000 Euros. more...