Movies & TV

Rod Steiger is ferocious as a scheming land developer in Francesco Rosi's Hands over the City, a blistering work of social realism and the winner of the 1963 Venice Film Festival Golden Lion. This expose of the politically driven real-estate speculation...

Dazed & Confused DVD

Renowned photographer Gordon Parks wrote and directed this semi-autobiographical drama based on his novel. Newt Winger (Kyle Johnson), a black teen growing up in a racially divided town in 1920s rural Kansas, witnesses a murder for which an innocent man...

H.G. Wells' timeless tale of a Martian invasion of Earth is vividly brought to the screen in this classic film from producer George Pal. Armed with highly advanced technology that includes flying war machines, force fields, and death rays, the Martians...

One of the ineffably lovely domestic sagas made by Yasujiro Ozu at the height of his mastery, The Flavor of Green Tea over Rice is a subtly piercing portrait of a marriage coming quietly undone. Secrets and deceptions strain the already tenuous...

Ingmar Bergman presents the battle of the sexes as a ramshackle, grotesque carnival of humiliation in Sawdust and Tinsel, one of the master's most vivid early works and his first of many collaborations with the great cinematographer Sven Nykvist. The...

Academy Award winning Austrian director Michael Haneke shifted his focus from the social to the psychological for this riveting study of female sexuality and the dynamics of control, an adaptation of a controversial 1983 novel by Elfriede Jelinek. Haneke...

A profoundly stirring evocation of elemental humanity and universal heartbreak, Tokyo Story is the crowning achievement of the unparalleled Yasujiro Ozu (Late Spring). The film, which follows an aging couple as they leave their rural village to visit...

Drama which features both Vittorio de Sica's original, full-length cut of the film Terminal Station (Stazione Termini) and producer David O. Selznick's edited American version, Indiscretion of An American Wife. Jennifer Jones stars as an American...

In this adaptation of William S. Burroughs's hallucinatory, once-thought unfilmable novel NAKED LUNCH, directed by David Cronenberg (VIDEODROME), a part-time exterminator and full-time drug addict named Bill Lee (ROBOCOP's Peter Weller) plunges into the...

One of the great American independent films of the 1990s, the surprise hit METROPOLITAN by writer-director Whit Stillman (DAMSELS IN DISTRESS) is a sparkling comedic chronicle of a middle-class young man's romantic misadventures in New York City's...

Winner of four CTsar awards, including best picture and director, Abdellatif Kechiche's the Secret of the Grain is a stirring drama about the daily joys and struggles of a bustling French-Arab family. It has the texture of a documentary but a classic,...