Movies & TV

Lorraine Hansberry's A Raisin in the Sun

The gloriously grotesque second feature directed by John Waters (Hairspray) is replete with all manner of depravity, from robbery to murder to one of cinema's most memorably blasphemous moments. Made on a shoestring budget in Waters native Baltimore,...

On the eve of WWII, a young American reporter tries to expose enemy agents in London. Director: Alfred Hitchcock; stars Joel McCrea, Laraine Day, Herbert Marshall.

Director Jim Jarmusch followed up his brilliant breakout STRANGER THAN PARADISE with another, equally beloved portrait of loners and misfits in America. When fate lands three hapless menan unemployed disc jockey (SHORT CUTS' Tom Waits), a small-time pimp...

Stray Dog DVD

When Max Renn goes looking for edgy new shows for his sleazy cable TV station, he stumbles across the pirate broadcast of a hyperviolent torture show called Videodrome. Direction: David Cronenberg Actors: Deborah Harry, Jack Creley, James Woods, Leslie...

IF, directed by Lindsay Anderson (THIS SPORTING LIFE), is a daringly chaotic vision of British society, set in a boarding school in late-sixties England. Before Kubrick made his mischief iconic in a CLOCKWORK ORANGE, Malcolm McDowell made a hell of an...

A shocking, surreal and poignant drama about a trio of lower-class British youths who rebel against their boarding school in a metaphorical statement about English class distinctions. Director Lindsay Anderson Star Malcolm McDowell, Christine Noonan,...

With this poignant second feature, David Lynch brought his atmospheric visual and sonic palette to a notorious true story set in Victorian England. When the London surgeon Frederick Treves (Anthony Hopkins) meets the freak-show performer John Merrick...

Of the hallowed group of Cahiers du cinima critics turned filmmakers who would transform French film history, Claude Chabrol (LES BONNES FEMMES) was the first to direct his own feature. His stark and absorbing landmark debut, LE BEAU SERGE, follows a...

Guillermo del Toro made an auspicious, audacious feature debut with CRONOS, a highly unorthodox tale about the seductiveness of the idea of immortality. Kindly antiques dealer Jesz's Gris happens upon an ancient golden device in the shape of a scarab,...

John Cassavetes's a WOMAN UNDER THE INFLUENCE is an emotionally devastating drama that charts the mental disintegration of a California housewife. Mabel Longhetti (Gena Rowlands) has no emotional or creative outlets. Instead, she pours all her energy...