Film Search
- May 18, 2007
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Sacco and Vanzetti
Peter Miller's concise and thoughtful 2005 documentary reexamines the notorious Sacco and Vanzetti case from the perspective of a post-9/11 world, where concern over public safety has once again empowered xenophobes and reactionaries to trample on the rights of immigrants. more...
- Oct 26, 1985
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Sadie Thompson (NR)
Raoul Walsh's notorious silent feature (1928) was the first screen adaptation of Somerset Maugham's Rain and barely survived Hays Office scissoring, though audiences got past some of the bowdlerization by lip-reading the racy dialogue. more...
- Dec 13, 1985
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Safety Last
The most famous image of silent comedy—Harold Lloyd hanging from the hands of a clock, 12 stories above the streets of Los Angeles—represents only one of the great moments in what could be the most brilliantly sustained comic climax in film history (1923). more...
- Jun 19, 2008
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Sangre de Mi Sangre
Christopher Zalla, a graduate of the film program at Columbia University, makes an impressive debut with this suspense feature about illegal immigrants and stolen identity. more...
- Oct 26, 1985
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Sans Soleil
Chris Marker's 1982 masterpiece is one of the key nonfiction films of our time—a personal philosophical essay that concentrates mainly on contemporary Tokyo but also includes footage shot in Iceland, Guinea-Bissau, and San Francisco (where the filmmaker tracks down all the locations from Hitchcock's Vertigo). more...
- Jul 5, 2012
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The Savages (R)
Disappointment, delusion, dementia, death—did I mention this is a comedy? more...
- Jul 15, 2005
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Save the Green Planet!
This genre-busting 2003 debut feature by writer-director Jang Jun-hwan flopped in his native South Korea, where it was misleadingly pitched as a date movie. more...
- Oct 4, 1985
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Scarlet Street
Fritz Lang's most harrowing study of guilt and damnation, this 1945 feature is a remake of Jean Renoir's La Chienne, with Edward G. Robinson as a quietly suffering bookkeeper who encounters fate in the form of a calculating prostitute (Joan Bennett) and her pimp (Dan Duryea). more...
- Jul 2, 2007
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The Scent of Green Papaya
A beautiful first feature (1993) by Vietnamese filmmaker Tran Anh Hung, shot on a French soundstage and set in two bourgeois Saigon households in 1951 and '61. more...
- Jul 19, 2013
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Scheherazad, Tell Me a Story
Yousry Nasrallah, a former screenwriter for Youssef Chahine and a successful director in his own right, achieves something rare with this Egyptian comedy-drama (2009): an urgent political statement that's also a funny, sexy entertainment. more...
- Mar 20, 2012
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The School of Rock (PG-13)
Broadly speaking, this 2003 comedy is Richard Linklater's French Cancan—that is to say, a humanist's joyful exploration of the musical in which the actors' personalities resonate as much as the characters they play. more...
- Feb 9, 2010
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The Searchers (NR)
We may still be waiting for the Great American Novel, but John Ford gave us the Great American Film in 1956. more...
- Jun 23, 2006
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The Secret Garden (G)
Screenwriter Caroline Thompson and director Agnieszka Holland have turned Frances Hodgson Burnett's rather gothic 1911 children's book into an evocative, beautifully realized picture (1993). more...
- Mar 25, 2010
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The Secret of Kells
The conventional wisdom in the movie business holds that 2-D animation is headed for the junkyard of history. more...