Movies & TV

Filmmaker Jean-Pierre Gorin, widely known for his early-seventies collaborations (including TOUT VA BIEN) with Jean-Luc Godard in the Dziga Vertov Group, established his singular voice with this trio of accomplished, fascinating, and nontraditional...

Set includes Leningrad Cowboys Go America, Leningrad Cowboys meet Moses and total Balalaika show.

Director Yasujiro Ozu is often revered for his poignant observations of family life. These early silent films showcase all the themes of familial struggle that would show up in his later work, along with a comic touch that some may find surprising. This...

Though little known outside of France, Jean Grimillon is a consummate filmmaker from his country's golden age. A classically trained violinist who discovered cinema as a young man when his orchestra was hired to accompany silent movies, he went on to...

The primitive style, pulp-inspired writing, and heavy-handed dialogue make these three quintessential Fuller flicks! I Shot Jesse James (John Ireland. 1949/81 min.) and the Baron of Arizona (Vincent Price. 1950/97 min.) make two very effective low-budget...

Aki Kaurismaki'S Proletariat DVD

In the thirties and forties, the Indian actor known as Sabu (born Selar Shaik) captured the hearts of moviegoers in Britain and the United States as a completely new kind of big-screen icon. Sabu was a maharajas elephant driver when he was discovered by...

The legendary French filmmaker Agnes Varda (Cleo from 5 to 7), whose remarkable career began in the 1950s and has continued into the twenty-first century, produced some of her most provocative works while living on the West Coast of the United States...

Mikio Naruse (FLOATING CLOUDS, WHEN A WOMAN ASCENDS THE STAIRS) was one of the most popular directors in Japan, a crafter of exquisite melodramas, mostly about women confined by their social and domestic circumstances. Though often compared with Yasujiro...

The hugely influential Nobel Prize-winning critic and playwright George Bernard Shaw was notoriously reluctant to allow his writing to be adapted for the cinema. Yet thanks to the persistence of Hungarian producer Gabriel Pascal, Shaw finally agreed to...

William Klein's explosive, challenging New York street photography made him one of the most heralded visual artists of the fifties. In his three fiction features - Who Are You, Polly Maggoo?, Mr. Freedom, and the Model Couple - he skewers the fashion...

There's never been another filmmaker quite like Dusan Makavejev. Even in the 1960s, when all of cinema's steadfast rules seemed to be breaking down and artists such as Godard, Cassavetes, and Marker were dissolving the boundaries between fiction and...