A young girl (Claudia Ohana, who has a beneficial resemblance to Barbara Steele) is forced into prostitution to repay a million-peso debt to her grandmother (Irene Papas, not so much matriarchal as monarchical, wearing imperial robes, sitting in thronelike postures, brandishing a scepter). The script is by Gabriel García Márquez, …
Theatrical presentation compiling the best footage from Eric Clapton's legendary 1990 and 1991 Royal Albert Hall performances.
Experience the iconic 1992 edition of MTV Unplugged in this new remixed and remastered special, featuring never-before-seen performances and footage.
Janice is struggling in the aftermath of a shocking crime at the hands of her son. She and her husband seek solace in rival religious congregations. Directed by Michael Shannon, starring Alexander Skarsgård, Alison Pill, and Judy Greer.
Pythonization of Norse legend, not unlike the similar "-ization" of Anglo-Saxon legend in "Jabberwocky". Seasickness jokes and the like. Gray, grubby, and dull. With Tim Robbins, Mickey Rooney, John Cleese, Eartha Kitt, and Terry Jones; directed by Jones.
Ostensibly this has to do with a factual water-contamination case not unlike that of A Civil Action. But more centrally and essentially, it has to do with Julia Roberts's hitherto unnoticed boobs, which are pushed up, pressed together, and popped out -- where did these come from? -- in an …
Zhou Xiao Wen's tawdry human comedy about keeping up with, and preferably ahead of, the Joneses (or their Chinese counterparts). The hard-driving, humorless heroine, a roadside vendor of homemade twisty noodles (who refuses to negotiate with customers: "Fair price!"), is determined to obtain a bigger television set -- twenty-nine-inch screen …
A bear and mouse are the unlikeliest of friends. Ernest the bear is an ursine troubadour dedicated to a life of music and art, and his constant grouchiness is softened by the creative whims of his mouse friend Celestine. When she accidentally breaks his beloved violin, they must take a …
You know what's bad? Prejudice. You know what's good? Artists, especially those who reject the square-peg jobs that society wants them to perform and who then go on to live in ways that defy pointless societal conventions, man. You know who needs to/can stand to hear this message? Cartoon-loving kiddies, …
Documentary chronicling the life and work of Ernest Cole, one of the first Black freelance photographers in South Africa, whose early pictures, shocking at the time of their first publication, revealed to the world Black life under apartheid. Cole fled South Africa in 1966 and lived in exile in the …
Sure, characters from TV series have been able to make the leap to the big screen: the crew of the Enterprise, the men from U.N.C.L.E., the Muppets. But characters from TV commercials are another matter. And Ernest P. ("Know-What-I-Mean?") Worrell, the geeky handyman with the large mouth and a lot …
Three-part anthology film, with individual pieces by Wong Kar-wai, Steven Soderbergh, and the nonagenarian Michelangelo Antonioni: "The Hand," "Equilibrium," and "The Dangerous Thread of Things," in order. Only one of the pieces is a keeper. The first one. The one that provides a full and satisfying moviegoing experience and leaves …
A women-in-control sex film. In control of the film, that is: a three-parter directed by (in order) Lizzie Borden of the U.S.A., Monika Treut of Germany, Clara Law of Hong Kong. Bold in both talk and action, but shallowly showoffy more than purposeful. And so, embarrassing more than liberating. The …
Martin Scorsese's long-awaited sequel to Raging Bull.