Robert Bresson’s penultimate film captures the post-’68 generation of Parisian youth on the comedown. Antoinne Monier’s protagonist is past thinking that revolution is at hand, the environment can be saved, or anything much matters. The director’s trademark use of a deliberately inert nonprofessional cast i more »
“Wrestling is such a brutal business… But why did it attract an artist [like Raven]?” asks Billy Corgan of the Smashing Pumpkins. That’s the mystery at the heart of Nevermore: The Raven Effect — a hard-hitting, wild ride through one of wrestling’s most chaotic eras. Raven wasn’t just another wrestler. He was a grunge prophet in more »
Cracking the Code, narrated by Mark Ruffalo, is an inspiring story of vision, perseverance, and the power of science to change the world. Phil Sharp’s journey from a Kentucky farm boy to Nobel laureate embodies the American Dream and the triumph of entrepreneurial spirit. His 1977 groundbreaking discovery of RNA splicing rewrote more »
Nicolas Cage’s outré acting style first fully flowered in his portrayal of an effete New York literary agent who, when not chasing one-night-stands or terrorizing a demure coworker (Maria Conchita Alonso), comes to believe he’s a vampire. The film is a fairly standard ‘80s indie, but Cage does something coc more »
Bruce Springsteen's journey crafting his 1982 album Nebraska, which emerged as he recorded Born in the USA with the E Street Band. more »
Satanism rears its horned head in Hollywood for the first time in this vintage spooky story starring Bela Lugosi and Boris Karloff. The “ordinary” honeymooners that set the story in motion are duds throughout, but the two stars bring the first-class creeps and scenery gnawing as they spar over deadly old gr more »
Freddy Krueger creator Wes Craven rejoined the franchise as a screenwriter for the second sequel, and the quality jumps. Patricia Arquette and her top-drawer scream make their screen debuts among a group of troubled teens in a mental hospital who are being run through the wringer of the horror series’ oneiric logic and spectacul more »
With her life crashing down around her, Linda (Rose Byrne) attempts to navigate her child's mysterious illness, her absent husband, a missing person, and an increasingly hostile relationship with her therapist. more »
Stanley Kubrick’s masterpiece isn’t just a film—it’s a device that resets your internal sense of time, its deliberate pace bringing you back to 18th-century Europe more effectively than any periwig. Ryan O’Neal’s character offers a lesson for us all as he grasps and elbows his way up the ladder of society only to hit most of the more »
After 500 years Bosch’s paintings still shock and fascinate us. Delve into the vivid imagination of this true visionary. Who was Hieronymus Bosch? Why do his strange and fantastical paintings resonate with people now more than ever? How does he bridge the medieval and Renaissance worlds? Where did his unconventional and timele more »
A small mishap triggers a chain reaction of ever-growing problems. more »
Fleeing both the cops and the crooks, James Fox’s cocky Cockney gangster stumbles into a den of hippies, who dose him, ball him, and mess with his mind. Not all of the far-out ‘60s editing tricks have aged well, but watching Fox’s character’s psyche dissolve around Swinging London royalty Mick Jagger and Anita Pallenberg (playin more »
From the dawn of talkies comes one of the greatest crime films ever made. Paul Muni’s performance as the scuffling street guy who shoots and schemes his way to the top of the rackets lacks contemporary subtlety, shall we say, but Howard Hawks’ direction dazzles with its skill and vision, and the whole thing moves like a scalded more »
Screenwriter Oliver Stone and director Brian De Palma faithfully transposed Howard Hawks’ gangster classic 50 years forward to the ‘80s coke boom, inspiring a generation of rap tropes and kindling the conflagration of Al Pacino’s “Big Al” late acting style in the process. Pacino is still arguably great here, but the secret sauce more »
This is the end—or so it was understood at the time, before original IP became a value proposition for shareholders. Pros: George Lucas upped the ante on set pieces and the three leads remain magnetic. Con: The first recurring use of blowing up the doomsday thingy as a stock climax and, of course, Ewoks. more »
Andrei Tarkovsky’s unconventional account of the life of a 15th-century Russian painter is likely to live on as long as its subject’s icons. Tarkovsky muse Anatoly Solonitsyn never paints a stroke as Andrei. The film instead shadows his episodic struggles with making art in light of the cruelty and venality of the muddy world. A more »
Smart move on Terry Gilliam’s part adopting a cockeyed steampunk aesthetic here. It places the film slightly outside the typical pop-culture timescale and keeps a fable-like veneer slapped on top of what is, at root, a dystopian tale of repression, stupidity, and cruelty. Jonathan Pryce stars as the most everyman Everyman ever. more »
Elphaba, the future Wicked Witch of the West and her relationship with Glinda, the Good Witch of the North. The second of a two-part feature film adaptation of the Broadway musical. more »
An intimate exploration of family, memories, and the reconciliatory power of art. more »
One of the great ‘70s paranoid thrillers rests on the narrow shoulders of Dustin Hoffman. Working his annoying-kid vibe to his advantage, Hoffman’s everydork seems suitably overwhelmed when he’s dragged into an international conspiracy involving shadowy government agents and Nazi war criminals (e.g. a delicious Laurence Olivier) more »
Peer around Robbie Robertson’s ego to locate a top-five greatest concert film. Not only does the Band tear through a heap of their Americana-ground-zero hits like it was the last time, but the murderer’s row of special guests can’t be topped: Muddy Waters, Bob Dylan, Neil Young, Joni Mitchell, Van Morrison, and more. Boomer heav more »
Toshiro Mifune in a crisp white suit and cap presents one of the underrated iconic looks in cinema. His rookie detective loses his pistol to a pickpocket in a heat wave and leads the audience on a tour of postwar Japan’s sweaty mean streets as he tries to get it back before it’s used in more crimes. This is where Akira Kurosawa’ more »
Mystery, intrigue, beauty, passion, murder – shine a new light on Caravaggio in this dramatic biography… Five years in production, this is the most extensive film ever made about one of the greatest artists of all time – Caravaggio. Featuring masterpiece after masterpiece and with first-hand testimony from the artist himself on more »
Naked space vampires! If that logline doesn’t sell you, please note that Tobe Hooper (The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Poltergeist) directs and duly manages to squeeze considerable mileage out of some cool production design, coulda-been-worse practical effects, and C-list actors like Steve Railsback and Peter Firth. Not to mention n more »
Barbara Stanwyck’s nightclub-singer moll lams it from the cops and hides out amid a clutch of milquetoast encyclopedia researchers led by hunky grammarian Gary Cooper. Cooper’s character finds her slangy argot fascinating, then falls for the rest of the package. With Howard Hawks directing and Billy Wilder co-writing the script, more »
Random people keep turning up gruesomely murdered, their placid killers unaware of having done the deed. The unrelated victims sport an “x” carved deep into their throats. From that premise, Japanese dread master Kiyoshi Kurosawa weaves one of the great modern psychological thrillers and perhaps his deepest meditation on the lon more »
Lightning and Thunder, a Milwaukee husband and wife Neil Diamond tribute act, experience soaring success and devastating heartbreak in their musical journey together. more »
Hailed as the most successful exhibition in Tate Modern’s history, and equally popular at MoMA New York, audiences are invited to enjoy an intimate, behind-the-scenes documentary about this once-in-a-lifetime blockbuster exhibition with expert contributions from those that knew Matisse as well as curators, historians, Tate direc more »
From the Director: I think it’s fair to say that the group of artists working in late 19th-century Paris and that we call ‘the Impressionists’ are the most popular group in art history. Monet, Degas, Renoir, Cezanne, Cassatt, Manet, Morisot, Pissarro, Caillebotte and others. Yet in their own lifetimes they knew poverty and reje more »
Without Camille Pissarro, there is no Impressionist movement. He is rightfully known as the father of Impressionism. It was a dramatic path that Pissarro followed, and throughout it all he wrote extensively to his family. It is through these intimate and revealing letters that this gripping film reveals Pissarro’s life and work. more »
Celebrating the 250th anniversary of their births, this unmissable new documentary explores Turner and Constable’s intertwined lives and legacies alongside the groundbreaking Tate exhibition. Two of Britain’s greatest painters, J.M.W. Turner and John Constable were also the greatest of rivals. Born within a year of each other, 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 »
In 1970, Mooney and two cohorts wander into a museum in broad daylight and steal four paintings. When holding onto the art proves more difficult than stealing them, Mooney is relegated to a life on the run. more »
