Movies & TV

The deceptively simple story of a donkey named Balthazar and his treatment (and, often, mistreatment) at the hands of various owners over the years, writer/director Robert Bresson's touching allegorical drama is regarded as a landmark of French cinema...

One of the original critics turned filmmakers who helped jump-start the French New Wave, Jacques Rivette began shooting his debut feature in 1958, well before that cinema revolution officially kicked off with The 400 Blows and Breathless. Ultimately...

Criterion Blu-ray. At the turn of the twentieth century, three Australian army lieutenants are court-martialed for alleged war crimes committed while fighting in South Africa. With no time to prepare, an Australian major, appointed as defense attorney,...

Twelve-year-old Anaos is fat. Her sister, fifteen-year-old Elena, is a beauty. While the girls are on vacation with their parents, Anaos tags along while Elena explores the dreary seaside town. Elena meets Fernando, an Italian law student; he seduces her...

THE LAST DAYS OF DISCO brings to a close American cinema raconteur extraordinaire Whit Stillman's unofficial trilogy about the neuroses of the young and upscale. Following Metropolitan and Barcelona, this is a clever and sparkling return to the nighttime...

An Oscar-winning performance by Robert de Niro and poetic direction by Martin Scorsese highlight this riveting drama based on the life of middleweight boxing champion Jake La Motta. The superbly staged fight scenes are wonderfully complemented by a...

World-weary gangster Roy "Mad Dog" Earle (Humphrey Bogart) had his release from prison engineered by a mastermind who wanted him to spearhead a heist at a California resort. After the job goes south, however, Earle faces a fateful flight through the...

Lino Brocka broke through to international acclaim with this candid portrait of 1970s Manila, the second film in the director's turn to more serious-minded filmmaking after building a career on mainstream films he described as soaps. A young fisherman...

The third filming of Arthur Richman's 1922 Broadway play is a charm, with Cary Grant and Irene Dunne portraying Jerry and Lucy Warriner, a bickering married couple who've lost trust in each other. After agreeing to a trial divorce, Jerry and Lucy realize...

A painterly and sensual immersion in late nineteenth-century Italian farm life, Ermanno Olmi's The Tree of Wooden Clogs lovingly focuses on four families working for one landowner on an isolated estate in the province of Bergamo. Filming on an abandoned...

Seeking to invigorate the American documentary format, which he felt was rote and uninspired, Robert Drew brought the style and vibrancy he had fostered as a Life magazine correspondent to filmmaking in the late fifties. He did this by assembling an...

Hailed around the world as one of the greatest movies ever made, the Academy Award-winning Bicycle Thieves, directed by Vittorio de Sica, defined an era in cinema. In poverty-stricken postwar Rome, a man is on his first day of a new job that offers hope...