Comedies

With this compassionate, startling comedy that could have come from no other artistic sensibility, the brilliant Miranda July reveals a world both familiar and strange an original vision of creativity, sexuality, childhood, and loneliness through a...

In George Cukor's sophisticated screwball gem, adapted from Philip Barry's play set in Philadelphia's tony Main Line suburbs, Katharine Hepburn re-creates her stage role as society girl Tracy Lord, whose upcoming second marriage is imperiled by the...

Wes Anderson brings his dry wit and visual inventiveness to this exquisite caper set amid the old-world splendor of Europe between the World Wars. At the opulent Grand Budapest Hotel, the concierge M. Gustave (Ralph Fiennes) and his young protege Zero...

For his first studio picture, filth maestro John Waters took advantage of his biggest budget yet to allow his muse Divine to sink his teeth into a role unlike any he had played before: Baltimore housewife Francine Fishpaw, a heroine worthy of a Douglas...

Engaging and surreal, this feminist farce from Czech New Wave director Vera Chytilov? details the adventures of two young women-both named Marie (Jitka Cerhov?, Ivana Karbanov?)-who thumb their noses at an indifferent and patriarchal world as they tease...

In the last film he made during the silent era, Charlie Chaplin revels in the art of the circus, paying tribute to the acrobats and pantomimists who inspired his virtuoso pratfalls. After being mistaken for a pickpocket, Chaplin's Little Tramp flees into...

SLACKER, directed by Richard Linklater (DAZED AND CONFUSED), presents a day in the life of a loose-knit Austin, Texas, subculture populated by eccentric and overeducated young people. Shooting on 16 mm for a mere $3,000, writer-producer-director...

In Frank Capra's filming of the popular Broadway black comedy, Cary Grant plays Mortimer Brewster, a writer and former confirmed bachelor who takes his new bride (Priscilla Lane) to visit the Brooklyn home of the two sweet old aunts (Josephine Hull, Jean...

Criterion Bluy-Ray. An island off the New England coast, summer of 1965. Two twelve-year-olds, Sam and Suzy, fall in love, make a secret pact, and run away together into the wilderness. As local authorities try to hunt them down, a violent storm is...

The Doctor is in the house!!! Oh blessed angels in heaven director Terry Gilliams fantastic film based on the novel by the immortal Hunter S. Thompson. If anyone could interpret the wild ferocious rantings of a gifted journalist completed twisted on mind...

From director Terry Gilliam comes a fantastic saga about the world's most famous liar. Join 18th-century German nobleman Baron Munchausen (John Neville) on his incredible voyages around the world and beyond, as he encounters a sea monster, Roman deities...

The release of Lucrecia Martel's LA CIENAGA HERALDED the arrival of an astonishingly vital and original voice in Argentine cinema. With a radical take on narrative, disturbing yet beautiful cinematography, and a highly sophisticated use of on and...