Frau Blackburn, Born 1/5/1872, Is Being Filmed is a strange early short from Alexander Kluge, which blurs the line between documentary and f...
Foolish Wives
Erich von Stroheim's third film, Foolish Wives is anything but a modest effort from the always grand director. A film about excess, it t...
She's Gotta Have It
Spike Lee's debut feature, She's Gotta Have It, is a quirky, interesting view of sexuality and the double standards applied to men a...
Bleak Moments
Mike Leigh's films have always been concerned with how ordinary people live their lives. His intense, emotionally forceful dramas deal w...
The Castaways of Turtle Island
It took the criminally overlooked New Wave auteur Jacques Rozier a decade to follow up his debut Adieu Philippine with the charming Du côté ...
Four Michael Robinson shorts, 2006-2010
Probably one of the worst aspects of contemporary culture is the tendency to "ironically" appreciate the cultural relics of the pa...
The Gold Rush
There's a reason Charles Chaplin's The Gold Rush is still such an enduring comedic masterwork, almost 90 years after it was made. It...
The Man From London
The films of Béla Tarr have always been haunted by film noir to one degree or another. Tarr's downtrodden characters plod miserably thro...
Sherlock Jr.
Sherlock Jr. is one of the cinema's greatest tributes to itself, a dazzling, relentlessly inventive ode to the movies as an escape, a so...