Film Search
- Oct 26, 1985
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Naked
Brilliant, problematic, and hyperbolic, Mike Leigh's postapocalyptic look at post-Thatcher England may look like allegory, but only because the picaresque story line, this time involving lone individuals rather than families, seems to sprawl more randomly than usual (which, incidentally, makes the customary clash of acting styles all the more glaring). more...
- Oct 26, 1985
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The Naked City
A first-rate police thriller (1948) directed by Jules Dassin when he was still in his prime and before he was blacklisted, shot memorably in New York locations. more...
- Oct 26, 1985
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The Navigator
Buster Keaton's 1924 film is about a rich young couple, who have never needed to look out for themselves, cast adrift on a deserted ocean liner. more...
- Oct 15, 2009
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New York, I Love You (R)
French producer Emmanuel Benbihy refines the concept of his anthology film Paris, Je T'Aime (2006) with this valentine to New York, using recurring characters and interstitial scenes to unify ten segments by different directors, most of them internationally renowned. more...
- Oct 26, 1985
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The Night of the Hunter
Charles Laughton's first and only film as a director (1955) is an enduring masterpiece—dark, deep, beautiful, aglow. more...
- Oct 26, 1985
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Night of the Living Dead (R)
George Romero scripted and served as executive producer on this 1990 color remake of his own low-budget scare classic, although he left the directorial duties to makeup specialist Tom Savini, making his feature debut here. more...
- Nov 24, 2009
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The Nightmare Before Christmas 3-D
Tim Burton, working as a producer at Disney, employed stop-motion animation to flesh out a story he'd first dreamed up while working at the same studio a dozen years before—a tale about the havoc that ensues when Jack Skellington, the pipe-cleaner hero of Halloween Town, decides to take over the duties of Santa Claus at Christmastime. more...
- Oct 28, 2005
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Nine Lives
This excellent ensemble drama by writer-director Rodrigo Garcia (Things You Can Tell Just by Looking at Her) has the elliptical magic of a short-story collection: each of its nine vignettes, named for a female protagonist, transpires in a single, uninterrupted take, but the scenes are so dramatically cogent the characters' lives seem to stretch far beyond the concluding blackouts. more...
- Aug 10, 2007
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No End in Sight
Charles Ferguson, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, makes his documentary filmmaking debut with a damning history of the Iraq war's mismanagement. more...
- Oct 8, 2004
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Nobody Knows
Four young siblings, abandoned by their mother, live on their own for months in a tiny Tokyo apartment, their presence unknown to the outside world. more...
- Jan 14, 2010
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Nobody's Perfect (NR)
German director and thalidomide victim Niko von Glasow recruits 11 middle-aged fellow sufferers to exhibit their deformed—in some cases limbless—bodies for a nude calendar. more...
- Apr 23, 2009
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North by Northwest (NR)
Cary Grant, a martini-sodden advertising director, awakes from a middle-class daydream into an underworld nightmare when he's mistaken for a secret agent (1959). more...
- Feb 14, 2013
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North Sea Texas
This debut feature by noted short-film director Bavo Defurne emphasizes ambiance over storytelling, but that ambiance is so flavorsome you might not mind. more...