Film Search
- Jul 2, 2004
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A nous la liberte
Rene Clair's 1931 satire on industrialization was overshadowed for many years by Chaplin's Modern Times and then forgotten, though its recent release on DVD has given it a second—and well-deserved—lease on life. more...
- May 23, 2013
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About Sunny
The terror of living from paycheck to paycheck pervades this 2011 indie drama about the working-poor of Las Vegas. more...
- Oct 26, 1985
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Abraham Lincoln
Both of D.W. Griffith's sound films—Abraham Lincoln (1930) and The Struggle (1931)—were scorned as archaic when they came out, which helps explain why he wasn't allowed to direct again for the 17 remaining years of his life. more...
- Dec 1, 2006
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Absolute Wilson
Katharina Otto-Bernstein's documentary provides an excellent introduction to the singular vision of avant-garde stage director Robert Wilson. more...
- Oct 26, 1985
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The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle
This 2000 live-action feature beautifully regenerates the Jay Ward TV show, whose capacity to bore children and excite adults was a direct result of its shimmering sophistication. more...
- Feb 1, 1987
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An Affair to Remember (PG)
Leo McCarey's 1957 remake of his 1939 masterpiece Love Affair, coscripted with Delmer Daves and shot in color and 'Scope, is his last great film—a tearjerker with comic interludes and cosmic undertones that fully earns both its tears and its laughs, despite some kitschy notions about art and a couple of truly dreadful sequences. more...
- Aug 1, 2012
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The African Queen (PG)
John Huston's odyssey theme reprised as comedy (1951), as Humphrey Bogart cavorts like a monkey and Katharine Hepburn exploits a latent strain of Eleanor Roosevelt. more...
- May 30, 1985
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After the Thin Man (NR)
The most elegant title for a sequel in film history belongs, happily, to one of the most elegant sequels (1934). more...
- Mar 23, 2007
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After the Wedding
Director Susanne Bier and screenwriter Anders Thomas Jensen, who collaborated on the superior Danish dramas Open Hearts (2002) and Brothers (2004), continue their winning streak with this 2006 feature, though the writerly quality of Jensen's work is more pronounced here. more...
- Oct 26, 1985
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L'Age d'Or
Luis Buñuel's first and most radical feature (1930) was banned for decades, and it continues to pack a jolt. more...
- Sep 18, 2012
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Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry (R)
Near the end of this engrossing documentary, when dissident Chinese artist Ai Weiwei is asked what makes him so fearless in challenging the state, he turns the question on its head, insisting that he acts only because he's unusually fearful. more...
- Jan 23, 2004
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Aileen: Life and Death of a Serial Killer
Nick Broomfield's gripping sequel to his 1992 Aileen Wuornos: The Selling of a Serial Killer picks up the story just a few weeks before Wuornos's execution in Florida for the murder of seven men. more...
