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[ATTACH] Loosely adapted from William Faulkner’s controversial novel Sanctuary, this notorious pre-Code melodrama stars Miriam Hopkins as Temple...

[ATTACH] In Ronald Neame’s Tunes of Glory, the incomparable Alec Guinness plays Jock Sinclair—a whiskey-drinking, up-by-the-bootstraps...

[ATTACH] Conceived as the ultimate road movie, this decades-in-the-making science-fiction epic from Wim Wenders follows the restless Claire...

[ATTACH] Two old friends reunite for a quietly revelatory overnight camping trip in Kelly Reichardt’s breakout feature, a microbudget study of...

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[ATTACH] With its droll humor and bittersweet emotional heft, the feature debut of writer-director Greg Mottola announced the arrival of an...

[ATTACH] This sweeping, delirious romance begins in the Polish countryside, where Wiktor (Tomasz Kot), a musician on a state-sponsored mission...

[ATTACH] When the easygoing would-be novelist Zorg (Jean-Hugues Anglade) meets the tempestuous Betty (Béatrice Dalle in a magnetic breakout...

[ATTACH] Nervous spinster Charlotte Vale (Bette Davis) is stunted from growing up under the heel of her puritanical Boston Brahmin mother...

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[ATTACH] Vienna-born, New York–raised Josef von Sternberg directed some of the most influential and stylish dramas ever to come out of...

[ATTACH] Grave robbing, torture, possessed nuns, and a satanic Sabbath: Benjamin Christensen’s legendary silent film uses a series of dramatic...

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[ATTACH] Written and directed by John Sayles, this wrenching historical drama recounts the true story of a West Virginia coal town where the...

I saw Klute on its opening day and was crazy about it and went back about six times during the run. The style of it, the direction, photography,...

[ATTACH] Tormented by twisted desires, a young man takes drastic measures to rid his grotesquely dysfunctional family of its various...

[ATTACH] Directed by the visionary Bengali filmmaker Ritwik Ghatak, The Cloud-Capped Star tells the story of a family that has been uprooted by...

[ATTACH] The final film completed by Ernst Lubitsch, this zany, zippy comedy of manners, set in England on the cusp of World War II, is one of...

[ATTACH] For his first studio picture, filth maestro John Waters took advantage of his biggest budget yet to allow his muse Divine to sink his...

[ATTACH] 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...

[ATTACH] Bill Forsyth put Scottish cinema on the map with this delightfully eccentric culture-clash comedy. Riffing on popular representations...

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Some Criterion for sale: On Blu, OOP The Confession Blu - $50 Last Year at Marienbad Blu - $80 Chungking Express Blu - $100 On DVD, OOP Port of...

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[ATTACH] With An Angel at My Table, Academy Award–winning filmmaker Jane Campion brought to the screen the harrowing autobiography of Janet...

[ATTACH] In 1971, author and film scholar Donald Richie published a poetic travelogue about his explorations of the islands of Japan’s Inland...

[ATTACH] Reckless playboy Bob Merrick (Rock Hudson, in his breakthrough role) crashes his speedboat, requiring emergency attention from the...

[ATTACH] Abbas Kiarostami first came to international attention for this wondrous, slyly self-referential series of films set in the rural...