Movies & TV

NIGHT ON EARTH presents a variety of delightful vignettes that take place one night in different taxis all over the world. The cities -Los Angeles, New York, Paris, Rome, and Helsinki-are filled with interesting characters who are at turns funny, sad,...

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Adapted from Cameron Crowe's book, this funny and insightful comedy provides a glimpse into Southern California teen life from high school to the mall as seen through the eyes of several very different students. Highlighted by Sean Penn's performance as...

A 27-year-old black London optometrist decides to seek out the woman who gave her up for adoption after she was born. The search leads to a surprising discovery: her mother is a white factory worker living in the city's grimy East End. Their emotional...

Romanian filmmaker Cristian Mungiu shot to international prominence with this rigorously realistic Palme d'Or-winning second feature. In 1987, during the dictatorship of Nicolae Ceausescu, college roommates Otilia (Anamaria Marinca) and Gabita (Laura...

Blu-ray. After more than a decade of sober political dramas and social-minded period pieces, the great Japanese director Masaki Kobayashi (The Human Condition) shifted gears dramatically for this rapturously stylized quartet of ghost stories. Featuring...

Tired of churning out lightweight comedies, Hollywood director John L. Sullivan (The Palm Beach Story's Joel McCrea) decides to make O Brother, Where Art Thou? a serious, socially responsible film about human suffering. After his producers point out that...

THE LONG DAY CLOSES is the most gloriously cinematic expression of the unique sensibility of Terence Davies (DISTANT VOICES, STILL LIVES; THE DEEP BLUE SEA), widely celebrated as Britain's greatest living filmmaker. Bursting with both enchantment and...

Named by the British Film Institute as one of the ten best British films of the century, KES, from Ken Loach (HIDDEN AGENDA, THE WIND THAT SHAKES THE BARLEY), is cinemas quintessential portrait of working-class Northern England. Billy (an astonishingly...

Martha Graham. This in-depth look at one of the 20th century's most notable dancers and choreographers features the biographical film, a Dancer's World (1957) narrated by Graham herself and featuring her methods and movements; and two complete ballets,...

One of the essential films of the 1990s, Mike Leigh's brilliant and controversial Naked stars David Thewlis as a Johnny, a charming, eloquent, and relentlessly vicious drifter in London. Direction: Mike Leigh Actors: Claire Skinner, David Thewlis, Greg...

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