François Truffaut's Une belle fille comme moi is a pitch-black comedy of sexual exploitation in which who's doing the exploiting and...
The Circus
Charles Chaplin's fourth feature, The Circus is also one of his funniest and liveliest, a dazzling comic showcase for the tramp's an...
Macbeth (1948)
Orson Welles' expressionist, visually stunning version of Macbeth was the director's first attempt at a cinematic adaptation of Shak...
Two English Girls
François Truffaut's Two English Girls is a moving, haunting, subtly powerful film, a drama of alternating repression and release, sexual...
Mon oncle d'Amerique
Alain Resnais' Mon oncle d'Amerique is a fascinating narrative experiment from the director who, more than any other, has always bee...
Inspector Lavardin
In 1985, Claude Chabrol's Cop au vin reinvigorated his career at a time when he'd been struggling and floundering. A darkly comic mu...
The Kid
Charlie Chaplin's first feature film, The Kid, opens with what might well be a statement of purpose for the master silent comic as he em...
The General
The General is one of the purest delights that the cinema has to offer. Its construction, and its appeal, is utterly simple, and yet there...
The Castle
The Castle was one of the novels Franz Kafka left unpublished upon his death, the unsettling story of a land surveyor who repeatedly and fru...