Movies & TV

Director Teshigahara creates a kind of visual documentary-there is little narration-about Antonio Gaudi, the brilliant and bizarre Catalan architect. The camera simply explores the Casa Vicens, Park Guell, Casa Batllo, Casa Mila, Templo de La Sagrada...

This spectacular Technicolor epic, directed by Zoltan Korda (JUNGLE BOOK), is considered the finest of the many adaptations of A.E.W. Masons classic 1902 adventure novel about the British Empires exploits in Africa, and a crowning achievement of...

Taking copious archival footage from Bob Dylan's smaller-venue, career-reenergizing 1975 tour accompanied by Joan Baez, Joni Mitchell, Allen Ginsberg, and others, and framing it with sly mockumentary sequences featuring the recollections of many who...

One of the most exciting adventure tales ever told, this action epic recounts the planning, execution, and aftermath of a daring true-life escape from a German prisoner-of-war camp during World War II, in which 250 men attempted to tunnel their way to...

Directed by the visionary Bengali filmmaker Ritwik Ghatak, The Cloud-Capped Star tells the story of a family that has been uprooted by the Partition of India and come to depend on it's eldest daughter, the self-sacrificing Neeta (Supriya Choudhury). She...

Ingmar Bergman's Shame is at once an examination of the violent legacy of World War II and a scathing response to the escalation of the conflict in Vietnam. Max von Sydow and LIV Ullmann star as musicians living in quiet retreat on a remote island farm,...

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This unorthodox dream western by Robert Altman (Nashville) may be the most radically beautiful film to come out of the New American Cinema that transformed Hollywood in the early 1970s. It stars Warren Beatty (Bonnie and Clyde) and Julie Christie (Don't...

Seamlessly interweaving archival war footage and a fictional narrative, this immersive account by Stuart Cooper of one twenty-year-old's journey from basic training to the front lines of D-day brings to life all the terrors and isolation of war with...

The ultimate Italian road comedy, IL SORPASSO stars the unlikely pair of Vittorio Gassman (BIG DEAL ON MADONNA STREET) and Jean-Louis Trintignant (Z) as, respectively, a waggish, free-wheeling bachelor and the bookish law student he takes on a madcap...

Director Roman Polanski's first feature film is a subtly chilling tale about a married couple who pick up a young hitchhiker and invite him to join them on a boating trip that culminates in violence. In Polish with English subtitles. 2 DVDs. 1962/b&w/94...

Roving with his dazzlingly mobile camera around the decadent ballrooms, bucolic countryside retreats, urban bordellos, and painter's studios of late nineteenth-century Parisian society, Max Ophuls brings his astonishing visual dexterity and storytelling...