Movies & TV

L'Argent/Bd Blu-Ray

After a chance meeting on a train platform, a married doctor (Trevor Howard) and a suburban housewife (Celia Johnson) begin a muted but passionate, and ultimately doomed, love affair. With it's evocatively fog-enshrouded setting, swooning Rachmaninoff...

With his trademark mixture of empathy and scrutiny, Errol Morris (The Thin Blue Line) has changed the face of documentary filmmaking in the United States, and his career began with two remarkable tales of American eccentricity: Gates of Heaven and...

In the Darjeeling Limited, from director Wes Anderson (Rushmore, Fantastic Mr. Fox), three estranged American brothers reunite for a meticulously planned, soul-searching train voyage across India, one year after the death of their father. For reasons...

A gripping thriller and a tragic drama of nearly Greek proportions, Revanche is the stunning, Oscar-nominated international breakthrough of Austrian filmmaker G?tz Spielmann. In a ragged section of Vienna, hardened ex-con Alex (the mesmerizing Johannes...

This striking drama from Lynne Ramsey is set in a tough section of Glasgow during a 1973 garbage strike. The focus is on a 12-year-old boy who accidentally drowns his best friend, but decides to keep quiet because he can't relate to family members. He...

A graceful drawing-room drama and piercing character study riven by emotional uncertainty and lacerating cruelty, William Wyler's The Heiress, starring Montgomery Clift and Olivia de Havilland (in an Oscar-winning turn), is classic Hollywood filmmaking...

Mounted for Swedish television broadcast, (an uncredited) Ingmar Bergman's take on Mozart's classic fantasy-rendered as an 18th-century stage production before an audience-became perhaps the most acclaimed and successful filmed opera ever produced. The...

Playing like "Romeo and Juliet" on heroin, the bizarre love story of punk rock pioneer Sid Vicious and American groupie Nancy Spungen is graphically brought to the screen by Alex Cox. Gary Oldman plays the Sex Pistols bassist, and Chloe Webb is his...

Les Blank (Burden of Dreams) considered this free-form feature documentary about beloved singer-songwriter Leon Russell, filmed between 1972 and 1974, to be one of his greatest accomplishments. Yet it has not been released until now. Hired by Russell to...

Element Of Crime DVD

Meet Big and Little Edie Beale: Mother and Daughter, High-Society Dropouts, and Reclusive Cousins of Jackie Onassis. The Two Manage to Thrive Together Amid the Decay and Disorder of Their East Hampton, New York, Mansion, Making for An Eerily Ramshackle...