Film Search
- Aug 5, 2004
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F for Fake (NR)
Orson Welles's underrated 1973 essay film—made from discarded documentary footage by Francois Reichenbach and new material from Welles—forms a kind of dialectic with Welles's never-completed It's All True. more...
- Oct 26, 1985
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Faces
John Cassavetes's galvanic 1968 drama about one long night in the lives of an estranged well-to-do married couple (John Marley and Lynn Carlin) and their temporary lovers (Gena Rowlands and Seymour Cassel) was the first of his independent features to become a hit, and it's not hard to see why. more...
- Jul 20, 2004
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Facing Windows
An attractive young woman (Giovanna Mezzogiorno) trapped in a dead-end marriage to a feckless laborer (Filippo Nigro) is shaken from her unhappy complacence when her husband insists on taking in an amnesiac old man they find on the street (Massimo Girotti). more...
- Oct 26, 1985
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Fallen Angels
A personal assistant pines for the professional killer whose room she cleans while he's away—when she isn't getting herself off there. more...
- Sep 13, 2012
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Family Portrait in Black and White
At first this Canadian-produced documentary suggests a blandly uplifting human-interest story, introducing a Ukrainian woman who raises almost two dozen foster children of various races, but it soon expands to consider a number of tough issues, including pandemic racism in eastern Europe and the challenge of living strictly by one's moral convictions. more...
- Nov 11, 2002
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Far From Heaven
Todd Haynes's best feature to date—a provocative companion piece to his underrated Safe (1995), which also starred Julianne Moore as a lost suburban housewife but is otherwise quite different. more...
- Oct 18, 2002
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Faust
The great F.W. Murnau directed only one real blockbuster in Germany, just before coming to America to make his masterpiece, Sunrise; extravagant in every sense, Faust (1926) is laden with references to Dutch, German, and Italian painting and was rivaled only by Fritz Lang's Metropolis in driving the UFA studio toward bankruptcy. more...
- Oct 11, 1999
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Fight Club (R)
This exercise in mainstream masochism, macho posturing, and designer-grunge fascism (1999) is borderline ridiculous. more...
- Jun 9, 2011
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Film Socialisme (NR)
Challenging but unfailingly gorgeous, this 2010 feature achieves one of Jean-Luc Godard's greatest ambitions: to reclaim political agitprop as the stuff of symbolist poetry. more...
- Aug 15, 2012
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Finding Nemo 3D (G)
This aquatic joyride from Pixar Animation Studios follows the adventures of a young clownfish who swims beyond his coral-reef colony and gets captured by divers; trapped in an aquarium inside a dentist's office in Sydney, he and his tank mates plot their escape, while his cowardly father (the voice of Albert Brooks) tries to find him with the help of a neurotic and forgetful regal blue tang (Ellen DeGeneres in her best role to date). more...
- Aug 20, 2009
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Flame & Citron
"Flame" and "Citron"—aka Bent Faurschou-Hviid and Jorgen Haagen Schmith—were the most celebrated members of the Holger Danske resistance group, which carried out numerous sabotage and assassination plots during the Nazi occupation of Denmark. more...
- Jan 7, 1985
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Forbidden Planet
An engaging 1956 science fiction gloss of Shakespeare's Tempest, with a ship full of American astronauts landing on a mysterious planet where Walter Pidgeon and his miniskirted daughter, Anne Francis, guard the remains of a lost civilization. more...
- Apr 17, 2008
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Forgetting Sarah Marshall (R)
In the comedy empire of producer Judd Apatow (The 40-Year-Old Virgin, Knocked Up), many of the breaks have gone to people who toughed it out on his unsuccessful TV series Undeclared and Freaks and Geeks: Seth Rogen, who played one of the stoners on the latter show, has become Apatow's lieutenant and most interesting find, and now Jason Segel, who played another of them, scripted and stars in this solidly funny romantic comedy. more...
- Oct 26, 1985
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The Fountainhead (NR)
King Vidor turned Ayn Rand's preposterous “philosophical” novel into one of his finest and most personal films (1949), mainly by pushing the phallic imagery so hard that it surpasses Rand's rightist diatribes and even camp (“I wish I'd never seen your skyscraper!”), entering some uncharted dimension where melodrama and metaphysics exist side by side. more...