In one of his undisputed comic masterpieces, Buster Keaton is Willie McKay, the last survivor of his wealthy family, returning home to claim his inheritance. But the woman of his dreams, Virginia Canfield (Natalie Talmadge, the real-life Mrs. Keaton), comes from the family…[read more]

Scorsese’s mob epic and masterpiece is a tour de force of brutality, dark comedy, and great Italian cooking that charts the rise and fall of small-time mobster Henry Hill (Ray Liotta) and his cohorts Jimmy the Gent (Robert DeNiro) and Shoeshine Tommy (Joe Pesci in an Oscar…[read more]

Legendary leading lady Joan Fontaine stars in a pair of films noir opposite two of the genre’s great male stars. In Kiss the Blood, Fontaine is a lonely nurse and war widow who shelters murderer-on-the-lam Burt Lancaster in fog-enshrouded London. Noir fixture…[read more]

Overweight supermarket security guard Jara (the oddly compelling Horacio Camandule) falls in love with Julia (Leonor Svarcas), the late-shift janitor he watches over a closed-circuit monitor. Too shy to actually approach the object of his affections, Jara anonymously begins a…[read more]

Lean’s sprawling romantic epic from Boris Pasternak’s acclaimed novel stars Omar Sharif as Zhivago, a Russian doctor and poet whose personal life is ripped apart by the upheaval of the Bolshevik revolution. The director’s master touch is apparent in every frame of this multi…[read more]

The irresistible Barbara Stanwyck is a quick-witted and resourceful confidence operator determined to snag a serious and somewhat sappy son of a beer tycoon, played by Henry Fonda. Stanwyck’s streetwise toughness and capacity for intense suffering add depth to her… [read more]

One of Italy’s most elaborate film productions during the 1920s was this elegant hand-colored and tinted version of Edmond Rostand’s romantic play. Pierre Magnier is Cyrano and Linda Moglia is Roxanne in this sincere and affecting adaptation, notable for its meticulous…
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Florida lawyer Sam Bowden (Nick Nolte) is assailed by a fearsome figure from the past, Bible-quoting rapist Max Cady (a heavily tattooed Robert DeNiro). Cady blames Bowden, his former attorney, for his 14-year prison stint, and he means to take out his revenge on the…[read more]

In a nightmarish noir scenario, Dana Andrews plays a brutal New York cop who accidentally kills someone while investigating a murder and then proceeds to cover his tracks. This was the last picture Preminger made under his original contract at 20th Century Fox, and it shares the…[read more]

In 1997, prior to a visit from the Pope in Rio de Janeiro, a top-flight police squad is assembled to root out the violent drug dealers in the slum where His Holiness will be lodging. This riveting, kinetically charged action epic becomes a sort-of flipside to…[read more]

In an ingenious updating of classic film noir, private detective John Rosow (Michael Shannon) is hired to tail a mysterious middle-aged man traveling with a Mexican boy from Chicago to Los Angeles. In a complex plot laden with multiple characters, surprise turns, and…[read more]

One of the most wonderful oddities in all Depression-era cinema is this Lewis Carroll adaptation that served to unite a plethora of top stars and comic talents under contract at Paramount Pictures. The cast includes Cary Grant (The Mock Turtle), W.C. Fields (Humpty…[read more]

Only a fragment remains of I Graduated, But…, the first of these two silent films from renowned Japanese filmmaker Yasujiro Ozu. The title tells it all: a college graduate refuses a job that’s beneath him, but hides his unemployment from his family. I Flunked, But . . . is a…[read more]

Five years after Goodfellas, director Scorsese reteamed with that film’s co-screenwriter (Nicholas Pileggi) and two stars (Robert DeNiro, Joe Pesci) for another gangster epic, this time set in the devil’s paradise of Las Vegas. Casino recounts the true story of Ace…[read more]

After taking a job at a diner, drifter Frank Chambers (John Garfield) finds that his handyman duties are significantly less interesting than the boss’s wife—a lipstick blonde (Lana Turner) whose plans for the adulterous pair lead to murder, betrayal, and death. The second…[read more]

This thoroughly delightful stop-motion animated fantasy tells of an eccentric provincial village and its beguiling inhabitants. The impetuous Cowboy and Indian, eager to buy a birthday gift for their more mature roommate, Horse, accidentally set off a chain of events that…[read more]

This thoroughly delightful stop-motion animated fantasy tells of an eccentric provincial village and its beguiling inhabitants. The impetuous Cowboy and Indian, eager to buy a birthday gift for their more mature roommate, Horse, accidentally set off a chain of events that…[read more]

This thoroughly delightful stop-motion animated fantasy tells of an eccentric provincial village and its beguiling inhabitants. The impetuous Cowboy and Indian, eager to buy a birthday gift for their more mature roommate, Horse, accidentally set off a chain of events that…[read more]

This thoroughly delightful stop-motion animated fantasy tells of an eccentric provincial village and its beguiling inhabitants. The impetuous Cowboy and Indian, eager to buy a birthday gift for their more mature roommate, Horse, accidentally set off a chain of events that…[read more]

Young corporate flunky C.C. Baxter (Jack Lemmon, in perhaps his greatest role) quickly climbs the ladder of success when he begins lending his apartment key to his superiors, who are looking for a clandestine place for their afternoon trysts. The situation is complicated when…[read more]

This thoroughly delightful stop-motion animated fantasy tells of an eccentric provincial village and its beguiling inhabitants. The impetuous Cowboy and Indian, eager to buy a birthday gift for their more mature roommate, Horse, accidentally set off a chain of events that…[read more]

This thoroughly delightful stop-motion animated fantasy tells of an eccentric provincial village and its beguiling inhabitants. The impetuous Cowboy and Indian, eager to buy a birthday gift for their more mature roommate, Horse, accidentally set off a chain of events that…[read more]

Young corporate flunky C.C. Baxter (Jack Lemmon, in perhaps his greatest role) quickly climbs the ladder of success when he begins lending his apartment key to his superiors, who are looking for a clandestine place for their afternoon trysts. The situation is complicated when…[read more]