Comedies

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...

A sleeper hit of the early 1980s, EATING RAOUL is a bawdy, gleefully amoral tale of conspicuous consumption. Warhol superstar Mary Woronov and cult legend Paul Bartel (who also directed) portray a prudish married couple feeling put upon by the swingers...

Dorothy Arzner, the sole woman to work as a director in the Hollywood studio system of the 1930s and early '40s, brings a subversive feminist sensibility to this juicily entertaining backstage melodrama. A behind-the-footlights look at friendship,...

In this fantastic voyage through time and space from Terry Gilliam, a boy named Kevin (Craig Warnock) escapes his gadget-obsessed parents to join a band of time-traveling dwarfs. Armed with a map stolen from the Supreme Being (Ralph Richardson), they...

Bill Forsyth put Scottish cinema on the map with this delightfully eccentric culture-clash comedy. Riffing on popular representations of Scottish life and folklore, Local Hero follows the Texas oil executive Mac (Peter Riegert), who is dispatched by his...

This wild tale of wacky wedlock from Preston Sturges (THE LADY EVE) takes off like a rocket and never let's up. Joel McCrea (SULLIVAN'S TRAVELS) and Claudette Colbert (IT HAPPENED ONE NIGHT) play Tom and Gerry, a married New York couple on the skids,...

THE LAST DAYS OF DISCO is a cleverly comic return to an early 1980s Manhattan party scene from director Whit Stillman (METROPOLITAN). at the center of the film's roundelay of revelers are the icy Charlotte (UNDERWORLD's Kate Beckinsale) and the demure...

The ultimate Italian road comedy, IL SORPASSO stars the unlikely pair of Vittorio Gassman (BIG DEAL ON MADONNA STREET) and Jean-Louis Trintignant (Z) as, respectively, a waggish, free-wheeling bachelor and the bookish law student he takes on a madcap...

The geographical dead center of North America and the beloved birthplace of Guy Maddin (BRAND UPON THE BRAIN), Winnipeg is the frosty and mysterious star of Maddin's docu-fantasia. A work of memory and imagination, Maddin's film burrows into what the...