Movies & TV

Nothing else has ever looked or felt like director Rene Laloux' animated marvel Fantastic Planet, a politically minded and visually inventive work of science fiction. The film is set on a distant planet called Ygam, where enslaved humans (Oms) are the...

This intensely personal film from Louis Malle (THE LOVERS, MY DINNER WITH ANDRI) tells a heartbreaking story of friendship and devastating loss concerning two boys living in Nazi-occupied France. At a provincial Catholic boarding school, the precocious...

The lyrical, profoundly moving STILL WALKING is the most personal work to date from contemporary Japanese master Hirokazu Kore-eda (MABOROSI, AFTER LIFE, NOBODY KNOWS). Fashioned as a tribute to his parents, the film depicts one day in the life of the...

In Arnaud Desplechin's beguiling a Christmas Tale (Un conte de No?l), Catherine Deneuve brings her legendary poise to the role of Junon, matriarch of the troubled Vuillard family, who come together at Christmas after she learns she needs a bone marrow...

The warmth and wit of celebrated playwright turned cinema auteur Marcel Pagnol shine in this enchanting slice-of-life comedy. Returning to the Provencal countryside he knew intimately, Pagnol draws a vivid portrait of a close-knit village where the...

It's 1964... and The Beatles are about to make their first appearance on "The Ed Sullivan Show." Six teenagers from New Jersey-with motivations ranging from obsessed fandom to all-out sabotage-embark on a hilarious, trouble-filled pilgrimage to New York...

In 19th-century West Africa, the head of a small ivory safari made the mistake of tormenting the indigenous people... and paid for it when the party was ambushed, captured, and tortured. The tribesmen dictated a special fate for one lone hunter (Cornel...

Classic baseball comedy stars Kevin Costner as "Crash" Davis, a veteran minor league player who is hired by a class-A North Carolina team to catch and mentor a cocky young pitching phenom (Tim Robbins). As Crash tutors the rookie about the game and life,...

Director Stanley Kramer assembled a veritable "Who's Who" of film comedy for this slapstick extravaganza about a group of strangers who learn about $350,000 in hidden loot from a dying gangster and set off on a madcap cross-country race to find it...

The inimitable comic team of Walter Matthau and Glenda Jackson star in this nimble tale of international intrigue from master British filmmaker Ronald Neame. Based on Brian Garfield's best-selling novel, the blithe thriller centers on Miles Kending...

This genuinely frightening, exquisitely made supernatural gothic stars Deborah Kerr (BLACK NARCISSUS) as an emotionally fragile governess who comes to suspect that there is something very, very wrong with her precocious new charges. A psychosexually...

WORLD ON a WIRE is a gloriously paranoid, boundlessly inventive take on the future from German wunderkind Rainer Werner Fassbinder (THE MARRIAGE OF MARIA BRAUN). with dashes of Stanley Kubrick, Kurt Vonnegut, and Philip K. Dick, as well as a flavor...