Movies & TV

The groundbreaking film debut of The Beatles is a fast-paced and fun-filled look at "a day in the life" of John, Paul, George, and Ringo as they travel to London for a TV appearance and try to keep Paul's "very clean" grandfather, who accompanies them,...

A visionary critique of American expansionism, HEAVEN'S GATE, directed by Oscar winner Michael Cimino (THE DEER HUNTER), is among Hollywood's most ambitious and unorthodox epics. Kris Kristofferson (LONE STAR) brings his weathered sensuality to the role...

The set pieces fly fast and furious in these inventive action comedies, two smash hits that made Jackie Chan a worldwide icon of daredevil spectacle and established the director/star/one-man stunt machine as a performer of unparalleled grace and daring,...

A masterpiece of film noir cinema from director Billy Wilder (who also co-scripted with Raymond Chandler) follows an insurance salesman (Fred MacMurray) as he's lured into a diabolical murder plot by an ice-cold femme fatale (Barbara Stanwyck). Together...

The boundless imagination and physical marvels of the work of the German modern-dance pioneer Pina Bausch leap off the screen in this exuberant tribute by Wim Wenders (WINGS OF DESIRE). a long-planned film collaboration between the director and the...

Scenes from a Marriage chronicles the many years of love and turmoil that bind Marianne and Johan, tracking their relationship through matrimony, infidelity, divorce, and subsequent partnerships. Originally conceived by director INGMAR BERGMAN (The...

Seven hundred years from now, humanity has abandoned a trash-filled, ecologically ravaged Earth, leaving a planet full of garbage to be compacted by robots like little WALL-E (voiced by Ben Burtt). When a sleek "female" robot is sent to Earth to search...

The movie that inhales is a fractured farce set on the last day of school in 1976 in which a diverse group of Austin, Texas, high school students get stoned, partake in hazing pranks, find romance, and contemplate the future. Writer/director Richard...

Tracing the life of a renowned icon painter, the second feature by Andrei Tarkovsky vividly conjures the murky world of medieval Russia. This dreamlike and remarkably tactile film follows Andrei Rublev as he passes through a series of poetically linked...

One of the most influential political films in history, THE BATTLE OF ALGIERS, by Gillo Pontecorvo (KAPO), vividly re-creates a key year in the tumultuous Algerian struggle for independence from the occupying French in the 1950s. As violence escalates on...

In the dystopian masterpiece BRAZIL, Jonathan Pryce (GLENGARRY GLEN ROSS) plays a daydreaming everyman who finds himself caught in the soul-crushing gears of a nightmarish bureaucracy. This cautionary tale by Terry Gilliam (FEAR AND LOATHING IN LAS...

One of the most thrilling movie epics of all time, Seven Samurai (Shichinin no samurai) tells the story of a sixteenth-century village whose desperate inhabitants hire the eponymous warriors to protect them from invading bandits. This three-hour ride...