Comedies

The work of two great American artists merges in Short Cuts, a kaleidoscopic adaptation of the stories of renowned author Raymond Carver by maverick director Robert Altman (McCabe & Mrs. Miller, Nashville). Epic in scale yet meticulously observed, the...

Criterion Blu-ray. A decade after he broke through with Breaker Morant, Australian director Bruce Beresford made another acclaimed film about the effects of colonialism on the individual. In a performance that earned him the Berlin Film Festival's Silver...

Perky, overachieving Tracy Flick gets on the nerves of history teacher Jim McAllister to begin with, but afer she launches her campaign for high school president and his personal life starts to fall apart, things spiral out of control. In Alexander...

College degree in hand and clueless as to his next move, suburban kid Benjamin Braddock (Dustin Hoffman) finds himself drawn into an illicit affair by older, glamorous family friend Mrs. Robinson (Anne Bancroft). Their brief liaison might have dire...

Charlie Chaplin plays shockingly against type in his most controversial film, a brilliant and bleak black comedy about money, marriage, and murder. Chaplin is a twentieth-century Bluebeard, an enigmatic family man who goes to extreme lengths to support...

Charlie Chaplin was already an international star when he decided to break out of the short-film format and make his first full-length feature. The Kid doesn't merely show Chaplin at a turning point, when he proved that he was a serious film director-it...

Cary Grant, Audrey Hepburn. With the help of a handsome rogue, a widow searches for the fortune left behind by her late husband. New edition includes interview with director Stanley Donen and much more. 1963/color/113 min/NR.

Aloof teenage Japanese tourists, a frazzled Italian widow, and a disgruntled British immigrant all converge in the city of dreams-which, in Mystery Train, from Jim Jarmusch (Stranger Than Paradise, Night on Earth), is Memphis. Made with it's director's...

Criterion Collection. A Hollywood studio executive with a shaky moral compass (Tim Robbins) finds himself caught up in a criminal situation that would be right at home in one of his movie projects, in this biting industry satire from Robert Altman...

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...

In this warm, witty comedy, writer/director/star Albert Brooks is killed in an auto accident and arrives at a most unusual afterlife: Judgment City, an ethereal resort with great food. There he's put on trial for his life on Earth. If he wins, he moves...

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...