Movies & TV

There has never been another movie like Boyhood, from director Richard Linklater (Dazed and Confused). An event film of the utmost modesty, it was shot over the course of twelve years in the director's native Texas and charts the physical and emotional...

This is the definitive counterculture blockbuster. The down-and-dirty directorial debut of former clean-cut teen star Dennis Hopper, Easy Riderheralded the arrival of a new voice in film, one pitched angrily against the mainstream. After the film's...

Francois Truffaut followed up the international phenomenon Jules and Jim with this tense tale of infidelity. The unassuming Jean Desailly (Le doulos) is perfectly cast as a celebrated literary scholar, seemingly happily married, who embarks on an affair...

Considered by many to be the finest British film ever made, THE LIFE AND DEATH OF COLONEL BLIMP, by Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger (THE RED SHOES), is a stirring masterpiece like no other. Roger Livesey dynamically embodies outmoded English...

This psychologically acute, visually striking modernist work was director Michelangelo Antonioni's follow-up to the epochal L'AVVENTURA. Marcello Mastroianni (DIVORCE ITALIAN STYLE) and Jeanne Moreau (JULES AND JIM) star as a novelist and his frustrated...

One of the most influential, radical science fiction films ever made and a mind-bending free-form travelogue: LA JETEE and SANS SOLEIL couldn't seem more different but they're the twin pillars of an unparalleled and uncompromising career in cinema. A...

The sublime adaptation by Jean Cocteau (Orpheus) of MME. Leprince de Beaumonts fairy-tale masterpiece in which the true love of a beautiful girl melts the heart of a feral but gentle beast is a landmark feat of motion picture fantasy, with unforgettably...

Young Benoit learns about life very quickly from his uncle Antoine who serves as everything from notary and shopkeeper to undertaker in a depressed region of Canada's backwoods. Set in 1940s Quebec, MON ONCLE ANTOINE is an alternately tender and haunting...

Just back on the London streets, ex-con George (Bob Hoskins) grudgingly took the one job his old boss (Michael Caine) had to offer-being chauffeur and body man for high-priced call girl Simone (Cathy Tyson), as well as building a blackmail on one of her...

Genius provocateur Nagisa Oshima, an influential figure in the Japanese New Wave of the 1960s, made one of his most startling political statements with the compelling pitch-black satire Death by Hanging. In this macabre farce, a Korean man is sentenced...

Patricia Highsmith's novel "Ripley's Game" is skillfully adapted into this Hitchcock-style thriller by Wim Wenders. A modest picture-framer, who believes he's terminally ill, is dragged into the seedy criminal underworld by an amoral art dealer who...

John Ford (STAGECOACH) takes on the legend of the O.K. Corral shoot-out in this multilayered, exceptionally well-constructed western, one of the director's very best films. Henry Fonda (YOUNG MR. LINCOLN) cuts an iconic figure as Wyatt Earp, the sturdy...