Film Search
- Oct 26, 1985
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Les Dames du Bois de Boulogne (NR)
Robert Bresson's ravishing second feature (1945) relocates a self-contained anecdote from Diderot's 18th-century Jacques le Fataliste in a modern setting, with dialogue by Cocteau, about a jealous woman (Maria Casares), ditched by her lover (Paul Bernard), who takes her revenge by tricking the man into marrying a prostitute (Elina Labourdette). more...
- Jul 10, 2012
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The Dark Knight (PG-13)
Christopher Nolan's second Batman adventure is the rare blockbuster that left me engaged and thoughtful instead of bored and bummed out. more...
- Oct 13, 2006
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Day Night Day Night
Given the stale conventions of most films that take on the issue of terrorism, Julia Loktev's feature is notable for its efforts to avoid melodrama and sloganeering. more...
- Oct 26, 1985
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Days of Being Wild
Wong Kar-wai's idiosyncratic style first became apparent in this gorgeously moody second feature (1991), whose romantic vision of 1960 Hong Kong as a network of unfulfilled longings would later echo through In the Mood for Love. more...
- Mar 29, 2012
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The Deep Blue Sea (R)
Rachel Weisz delivers a wrenching performance as a young Londoner driven to suicide by her sexless marriage to an aging judge and her doomed affair with a dashing former RAF pilot. more...
- Sep 7, 2007
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Deep Water
Louise Osmond and Jerry Rothwell's bleakly gripping documentary uses audio recordings, archival 16-millimeter film, and assorted interviews to chart the ill-fated voyage of Donald Crowhurst, a 36-year-old father of four and owner of a failing marine-electronics business, who in 1968 competed in the first around-the-world solo yachting race. more...
- Sep 19, 2003
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Demonlover (R)
This 2002 drama by Olivier Assayas suggests a continuation of his Irma Vep (1996) in its narrative ambiguity and its feeling for contemporary conspiracy. more...
- Oct 26, 1985
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Diamond Men
In old-fashioned industry terms, this 2001 indie feature qualifies as a “sleeper”—a low-budget effort that's much better than it has any right to be. more...
- Jun 13, 2013
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Dirty Wars (NR)
The flood of theatrical documentaries about the War on Terror—Fahrenheit 9/11 (2004), Why We Fight (2005), The Ground Truth (2006), No End in Sight (2007), Taxi to the Dark Side (2007), Standard Operating Procedure (2008)—has slowed to a trickle since President Obama took office, which makes this uncompromising exposé from reporter Jeremy Scahill even more important. more...
- Oct 26, 1985
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The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie
Luis Buñuel's 1972 comic masterpiece, about three well-to-do couples who try and fail to have a meal together, is perhaps the most perfectly achieved and executed of all his late French films. more...
- Feb 22, 2012
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Do the Right Thing (R)
With the possible exception of his cable miniseries When the Levees Broke, this 1989 feature is still Spike Lee's best work, chronicling a very hot day on a single block of Brooklyn's Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood, when a series of minor encounters and incidents lead to an explosion of racial violence at an Italian-owned pizzeria. more...
