Minor Hitchcock once best known for having been shot as a series of long oners, Rope now fascinates more for gay subtext that is just barely "sub." John Dall and Farley Granger play adult roommates who murder a pal to see if they can get away with it, then serve a light supper on the chest containing the corpse. Jimmy Stewart pl more »
Frida Kahlo is a phenomenon. She is arguably the world’s favorite female artist – beloved by young and old. Exhibition On Screen’s award-winning film – first released during covid to a restricted audience - is back by popular demand with an exciting new addition from the blockbuster transatlantic exhibition from Tate Britain and more »
Yorgos Lanthimos enjoys the awards and the stars and the big budgets now, but nothing he's done lately is as original, shrewd, outrageous, or deadpan hilarious as his second feature. A Greek family man and his wife have decided to protect their children from isolating them from it. That's already telling you too much. Just see i more »
Follows a group of shoplifters who take aim at a cutthroat fashion maven. more »
The first of Yasujiro Ozu's classic collaborations with Setsuko Hara amply demonstrates why he cast her five more times. She plays the adult daughter of fellow Ozu stalwart Chishu Ryu. They have become comfortable with her tending him, but as they both age, he knows she must start her own life. Ozu and Ryu work their usual minim more »
The film that made Pam Grier a star. Nurse by day, badass by night, she's out for revenge against the pusher who hooked her sister. But as she kicks ass up the ladder toward Mr. Big, she runs into more than she bargained for. Grier easily handles the sex and violence inherent in classic Blaxploitation, but it's the vulnerability more »
Every year hundreds of women flock to temporary harvesting jobs in the rice paddies of Northern Italy, a perfect setting for working-class drama and romance. Doris Dowling is soaking in it - on the lam from the law, torn between a crook boyfriend and an upright soldier, trying to get on with her fellow workers. Giuseppe De Santi more »
On May 30, the Metropolitan Opera’s 2025–26 Live in HD season comes to a close with a live transmission of American composer Gabriela Lena Frank’s first opera, a magical-realist portrait of Mexico’s painterly power couple Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera, with libretto by Pulitzer Prize–winning playwright Nilo Cruz. Fashioned as a r more »
John Woo was just another struggling Hong Kong filmmaker before this story of brotherhood, sacrifice, and many, many round of 9mm ammunition rebooted his career. Ti Lung and the uber-charismatic Chow Yun-fat star as down-and-out gangsters dragged back into the life. Woo himself plays a small role as well as choreographing the pi more »
Rick, a washed-up wedding singer, and Danny, a fading boy band star, bond over music and a late-night jam session. When Danny turns Rick's song into a hit, Rick sets out to reclaim the recognition he believes he deserves. more »
Marcello Mastroianni stands in for director Federico Fellini as a celebrated cinema auteur besieged by the demands of his life and career and blocked over the creation of his next film (which you are currently watching). But no capsule logline captures the mindmeld effect of Fellini's mix of reality, memory, dreams, and fantasy, more »
Amy Heckerling transposes Jane Austen's Emma to Southern California mall culture with Alicia Silverstone as the contemporary stand-in for Austen's title busybody, matchmaking and Pygmalioning it up even as her own life gets a bit random. Even laden with 30-year speech and standards, the director's script sparkles. A perfect film more »
If you found out we weren't alone, if someone showed you, proved it to you, would that frighten you? more »
Is Close-Up a documentary? An Iranian man who pretended to be a famous Iranian director appears as himself, as does the family he hoaxed and the journalist who broke the story. Filmmaker Abbas Kiarostami secured permission to film the man's trial, and asks questions of the defendant on camera during the proceedings. Issues of pe more »
Complications arise when Coley, the new girl in town, falls for Sonya, a teen who has a boyfriend. more »
Thank god for Val Kilmer. Even Kurt Russell and his vigorous mustache can't quite save this epic Western saga from its self-seriousness and open-range sprawl. But Kilmer's Doc Holiday - a consumptive dandy and cardsharp quick with a pistol and a withering quip - makes every scene he's in a hoot and sticking around well worth it. more »
