Film Search
- Oct 26, 1985
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Odds Against Tomorrow
This ambitious but mainly unsuccessful 1959 black-and-white heist thriller—a loose adaptation of a John P. McGivern novel, credited to John O. Killens and Nelson Gidding but written by the blacklisted Abraham Polonsky—founders on allegorical positioning, although the location photography of Manhattan and upstate New York has its moments. more...
- Nov 1, 1985
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The Official Story
A middle-class Argentinean woman (Norma Aleandro) discovers that her beloved adopted daughter may actually be the child of desaparecidos—political activists spirited away by Argentina's military dictatorship. more...
- Feb 24, 2011
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On the Bowery (NR)
Inspired by The Bicycle Thief, New York filmmaker Lionel Rogosin set out to make a neo-realist drama on the city's skid row, and his 1957 film is a priceless time capsule, though its images of addiction and despair have barely aged. more...
- Feb 17, 2007
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On the Waterfront
Not as good as its reputation would suggest, this Elia Kazan-directed 1954 melodrama about union corruption on the New York docks gets pretty pretentious in spots—and Leonard Bernstein's tortured score doesn't help. more...
- Oct 26, 1985
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One, Two, Three
James Cagney is the whole dynamic show in this hilarious Billy Wilder satire (1961) on Coca-Cola diplomacy in divided Berlin. more...
- Apr 9, 2004
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Only Angels Have Wings
Howard Hawks's 1939 film represents the equilibrium point of his career: the themes he was developing throughout the 30s here reach a perfect clarity and confidence of expression, without yet confronting the darker intimations that would haunt his films of the 40s and 50s. more...
- Feb 11, 2010
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Orgasm Inc.
Filmmaker Liz Canner was hired by the California drug company Vivus to edit erotic videos for clinical trials of a new cream that would treat Female Sexual Dysfunction. more...
- Oct 26, 1985
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Orphans of the Storm (NR)
D.W. Griffith takes on the French Revolution, including “pussyfooting Robespierre” (his epithet), many other famous historical figures, and the sisters Lillian and Dorothy Gish in one of the best of the director's late silent epics (1922). more...
- Jun 10, 2010
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OSS 117: Lost in Rio (NR)
The French spy spoof OSS 117: Cairo, Nest of Spies (2006) managed to revive one of the stalest movie genres through sheer comic ingenuity, and this sequel is every bit as sly and inventive. more...
- Oct 26, 1985
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Our Daily Bread
A marvelously clearheaded bit of Depression-era agitprop, King Vidor's independently financed and produced 1934 fable, about an ordinary young couple who establish a communal society and lick the problems of social strife, hunger, and unemployment, is saved from excessive sentimentality by the straightforward presentation of Vidor's utopian notions and by the stylishness of his mise-en-scene. more...
- Mar 29, 1985
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Our Hospitality
Buster Keaton's 1923 film, based on the Hatfield-McCoy feud. more...
- Oct 26, 1985
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The Outlaw
One of the weirdest westerns of all time, reflecting the eccentricities of its producer and credited director, Howard Hughes, who completed it only after firing Howard Hawks. more...