Considering Spike Lee's career-long examination of various American attitudes about race and culture, it's not surprising that at so...
Steamboat Bill, Jr.
Steamboat Bill, Jr. is another of Buster Keaton's absolute best films, a brilliant masterpiece of physical comedy with a premise perfect...
I Know Where I'm Going!
Moving, romantic, and utterly magical, I Know Where I'm Going! is one of the great collaborations of the Archers, writer-directors Micha...
The Story of Adèle H.
François Truffaut's The Story of Adèle H. is a study of romantic obsession and madness, an intensely focused character study about the d...
The Great Dictator
Charles Chaplin resisted the coming of sound more successfully than any other filmmaker of the silent era, making a pair of mostly silent ma...
Greed
Erich von Stroheim's Greed is one of the cinema's most legendary lost films, another in a long line of compromised, butchered, hacke...
Tartuffe
F.W. Murnau followed the daring, innovative masterpiece The Last Laugh with a much more modest, smaller-scale, but still interesting feature...
La vie est un roman
Alain Resnais' La vie est un roman is another curious experiment from the restlessly inventive director, whose work has always been conc...
Day For Night
François Truffaut's Day For Night is a love letter to the movies, a celebration of everything that happens on a film set, from the momen...
Requiem for a Vampire
Jean Rollin's fourth film, Requiem for a Vampire, was the director's most abstract and bizarre vision yet. Rollin's surreal, alt...
Story of Women
Claude Chabrol's Story of Women is an excellent satirical drama that explores life under the German occupation of France and the Vichy g...
Black Girl
As the first feature film ever made by a black director in sub-Saharan Africa, Ousmane Sembene's 1966 debut Black Girl was a historical ...
College
Buster Keaton's penultimate independent film before signing with MGM, College is not one of the silent comic's better efforts. Credi...