Film Search
- Oct 26, 1985
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I Live in Fear (NR)
A 1955 feature by Akira Kurosawa and one of his most underrated, starring Toshiro Mifune as an aging patriarch who, frightened by the prospect of a nuclear war, decides to sell his family business and move to a farm in Brazil. more...
- Aug 21, 2012
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The Imposter (R)
A fine New Yorker article by David Grann told the story of Frederic Bourdin, an emotionally arrested French-Algerian man who passed himself off as a teenager over and over again, bouncing around Europe and staying in youth homes well into his 20s. more...
- Jun 25, 2009
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In a Dream (NR)
As a boy Isaiah Zagar was sexually molested by an older man who took him fishing, and as an emerging artist in Philadelphia he was institutionalized after a suicide attempt. more...
- Jul 9, 2009
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In Search of Beethoven (NR)
Phil Grabsky follows his excellent documentary In Search of Mozart (2006) with another in-depth study of a musical genius, once again using standard materials—talking-head interviews, performance footage, urban landscapes—to fashion an engrossing personal portrait. more...
- Jul 23, 2009
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In the Loop
Adapted from the BBC series The Thick of It, this enormously witty satire follows a British diplomatic staff as they fly to Washington to confer with their U.S. counterparts, who are secretly ginning up an invasion of the Middle East. more...
- Oct 4, 2002
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Interview With the Assassin
I was the perfect sucker for this DV feature about the JFK assassination: writer-director Neil Burger, making his feature debut, presents his video as a docudrama about the late Walter Ohlinger, an elderly ex-marine who came forward in the late 90s claiming to have been the second gunman in Dealey Plaza, and while I was busy congratulating myself for not believing Ohlinger I swallowed Burger's fiction hook, line, and sinker. more...
- Mar 9, 2007
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Into Great Silence
German filmmaker Philip Gröning spent six months filming inside the Grande Chartreuse monastery in the French Alps, and at 162 minutes his pictorial study of the Carthusian monks' still, quiet, deeply spiritual existence gradually enveloped me. Shot in natural light, the meditative images range from endless stone corridors cloaked in shadow to glittering snow-covered mountains, and the sequences of anonymous monks going silently about their work are dramatically punctuated by prolonged close-ups of the men, their faces shaded by the wisdom of their years and the power of their devotion. more...
- Mar 22, 1985
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Intolerance
Made in 1916 and still ahead of the times, D.W. Griffith's magnificent epic intercuts four stories set in four different historical periods—an experiment with cinematic time and space that even the avant-garde has only recently begun to absorb. more...
- Apr 25, 1985
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Invasion of the Body Snatchers (NR)
This genuine SF classic (1956) says a good deal more about the McCarthyist hysteria of the early 50s than about the danger of invasion from outer space by soul-stealing "pods." more...
- Oct 26, 1985
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The Invisible Man
James Whale's 1933 film plays more like a British folk comedy than a horror movie; it's full of the same deft character twists that made his Bride of Frankenstein a classic. more...
- Oct 18, 2007
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Ira and Abby
Screwball comedy has always contained a thick streak of romance: screwy people have more trouble finding love, and when they do meet their opposite number, what usually reels them in is the other person's screwiness. more...
- Feb 21, 1985
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It Happened One Night
Reporter Clark Gable chases spoiled heiress Claudette Colbert across most of the eastern seaboard, pausing long enough between wisecracks to set the definitive tone of 30s screwball comedy. more...
- Jun 9, 2006
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I've Always Loved You (NR)
A romantic who argued that love is a surrender of pride, long-neglected director Frank Borzage was never more passionate than in this 1946 color melodrama. more...