Marina de Van's In My Skin was a brilliant, unsettling, utterly unique psychological horror film, a study of a woman's disassociatio...
Nana
Jean Renoir's second silent feature, Nana, is a tragic, melodramatic satire based on an Emile Zola novel about a failed actress who beco...
Napoléon
Abel Gance's Napoléon is an epic biography of the famed military leader and Emperor of France, a film as grand and ambitious as its subj...
The Finances of the Grand Duke
Though The Finances of the Grand Duke was F.W. Murnau's second straight literary adaptation in collaboration with screenwriter Thea von ...
Demoniacs
Jean Rollin walks a very fine line in his trashy B-movie exploitation flicks. So much is "bad" and amateurish in his movies, from ...
The Iron Horse
John Ford's epic silent Western The Iron Horse was the director's first major statement in the genre that, more than any other, woul...
Four Agnès Varda shorts, 1957-1968
In Ô Saisons, Ô Châteaux, Agnès Varda sets out to document and discourse upon the architecture of various Renaissance-era castles, but her p...
Romance
"Love between men and women is not possible." So says Marie (Caroline Ducey) towards the end of Catherine Breillat's ironicall...
Intolerance
Boldly ambitious, staggeringly epic, and, for its time, remarkably experimental in its approach to narrative and themes, D.W. Griffith's...
Small Change
With Small Change, François Truffaut returns again to the topic of childhood, one of the recurring thematic focuses of his films ever since ...
Madame Bovary
Claude Chabrol is so thoroughly associated with the genre of the thriller that it's always a surprise when he ventures outside its confi...
Die Puppe
Ernst Lubitsch's Die Puppe is a delightfully kinky and absurd silent fantasia, a charming artifact of the master director's tenure i...