Part concert film, part interview film. The titular singer-songwriter takes no part in the tributary concert, called "Came So Far for Beauty" and staged at the Sydney Opera House in January of 2005, but he dominates the interviews, along with Bono and The Edge of the rock group U2, who …
Two first generation Ukrainian-American brothers each on their own path towards their individual vision of the American Dream. Dirested by Josh Caras and Jon Valde, who also star.
A sort of Italian Gone with the Wind, albeit with an appeal somewhat higher-brow, adapted from the Lampedusa novel about the aristocratic way of life imperilled by Garibaldi and his Red Shirts. Twenty minutes have been restored to the 165-minute version released in America in 1963, along with some fine-tuning …
An escaped show cat, on the prowl in a New Mexico smalltown, unjustly gets the blame for a series of grisly murders. The most sensational of these takes place just out of sight, on the far side of a door, to the accompaniment of horrible noises, and concludes with a …
Action thriller written and directed by Lokesh Kanagara, starring Thalapathy Vijay, Sanjay Dutt, Trisha, Arjun, Priya Anand, and Mansoor Ali Khan. Released simultaneously in Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, and Hindi languages.
Action thriller written and directed by Lokesh Kanagara, starring Thalapathy Vijay, Sanjay Dutt, Trisha, Arjun, Priya Anand, and Mansoor Ali Khan. Released simultaneously in Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, and Hindi languages.
Action thriller written and directed by Lokesh Kanagara, starring Thalapathy Vijay, Sanjay Dutt, Trisha, Arjun, Priya Anand, and Mansoor Ali Khan. Released simultaneously in Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, and Hindi languages.
A quiet, beautiful, persistently visionary film about life in the large sense of Life (but not The Tree of Life). Using hills and a village in Southern Italy — also a herdsman, goats, bells, a dog, a giant tree, a kiln, a potion, a Catholic (but almost pagan) ritual, and …
A worried mother enlists two old boyfriends, not seen in seventeen years, to search for her runaway son, telling each of them that he is the father. The two bump into each other on the trail and join forces, at first not realizing they are looking for the same boy. …
Three-hour French costume piece covering decades in the life -- early 20th Century -- of a disillusioned reverend turned industrialist. Painfully slow in spite of (or partly on account of) a hectic visual style: haphazard cutting, a groping, staggering camera. An appetite for antique costumes will be satisfied in any …
An early effort by Jean-Pierre Melville, famous later for gangster films, adapted from an immoral tale by Jean Cocteau having to do with the destructive relationship of a bratty brother and sister, too close to one another, and too closed off from everyone else. It's more Cocteau than Melville (notably …
Roger Vadim's modern-dress treatment of the eighteenth-century de Laclos novel, with a jazz score featuring Thelonius Monk and Art Blakey, proves convincingly that things like soullessness and moral rot are timeless. The director's ogling, fondling style helps not only to make the point, but to enlarge it. Jeanne Moreau could …
Sincere story of answered prayers, mostly those of one Jean Valjean (Hugh Jackman), an ex-con who tastes mercy and tries to break free from his criminal past (he stole a loaf of bread). But the reformed man is pursued by Javert (Russell Crowe), a lawman who does not believe reform …
Less than three years after Claude Lelouch dodged the obvious expectations and delivered a clever and original update -- neither a Classics Illustrated nor the Broadway musical -- comes this unclever and unoriginal treatment under the same trusted name. Bille August, giving a gray Nordic chill to the proceedings, and …