Movies & TV

That's what they called popular '20s bandleader Paul Whiteman, and he and his orchestra take center stage in this long-demanded and lavish early Technicolor revue splicing together songs, skits, and animation from Walter Lantz. Score includes "Rhapsody...

Potent and brooding film noir from Nicholas Ray, with Humphrey Bogart as short-fused screenwriter Dixon Steele, exonerated in the murder of a hat-check girl through the alibi of intrigued new neighbor Laurel Gray (Gloria Grahame). But as the romance...

Merchant Ivory Productions, led by director James Ivory and producer Ismail Merchant, became a household name with A Room with a View, the first of their extraordinary adaptations of E. M. Forster novels. A cherubic nineteen-year-old Helena Bonham Carter...

In this classic film noir, set in postwar Japan, ToshirC4 Mifune plays Matsunaga, a tough small- time gangster who takes a bullet during a fight in the slums of Tokyo. He makes his way to the office of Sanada (Takashi Shimura), a disillusioned yet...

Threepenny Opera DVD

Jean-Paul (Alain Delon) and Marianne (Romy Schneider) had been enjoying the sun, the scenery-and one another-while vacationing at a friend's French Riviera villa. After the arrival of her record producer ex Harry (Maurice Ronet), who brought his teenage...

This legendary film from Soviet director Elem Klimov is a senses-shattering plunge into the dehumanizing horrors of war. As Nazi forces encroach on his small village in Belorussia, teenage Flyora (Alexei Kravchenko, in a searing depiction of anguish)...

Gilda, are you decent? Rita Hayworth tosses her hair back and slyly responds, "Me?" in one of the great star entrances in movie history. Gilda, directed by Charles Vidor, features a sultry Hayworth in her most iconic role, as the much-lusted-after wife...

Lola MontFs is a visually ravishing, narratively daring dramatization of the life of the notorious courtesan and showgirl, played by Martine Carol. With his customary cinematographic flourish and, for the first time, vibrant color, Max Ophuls charts...

The disintegration of a marriage is dissected in this film shot in high contrast 16mm B&W. The film follows the futile attempts of captain of industry Richard (John Marley) and his wife, Maria (Lynn Carlin), to escape the anguish of their empty marriage...

Sawdust & Tinsel DVD

From director Jim Jarmusch (GHOST DOG, DEAD MAN) comes the story of two New York City friends (John Lurie and Richard Edson) who find their lives turned upside down when the attractive 16-year-old Hungarian cousin (Eszter Balint) of one of them pays a...