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Dir. Max Ophuls (1950).
Few movies are more “Viennese” than Ophuls’s ultra-civilized sex comedy. Following a particular erotic daisy chain across the social...
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Dir. Robert Bresson (1966).
Bringing together all Bresson’s ideas about acting, sound, and editing, as well as grace, redemption, and human nature, his heartbreaking and...
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Dir. Travis Wilkerson (2002).
Recalling the great strikes of the World War I period and explicates the death of an IWW organizer in Butte, Montana Travis Wilkerson’s...
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Dir. Yasujiro Ozu (1932).
Class relations enter the family: Ozu called this silent comedy—one of the best movies about children ever made—a “Picture Book for...
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Dir. Nicholas Winding Refn (2011).
As stripped-down and propulsive as its robotic title, Drive is the most “American” movie yet by Danish genre director...
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Dir. Peter Whitehead (1969).
A British documentarian comes to New York and finds himself joining the Columbia students barricaded in Low Library. Peter Whitehead’s most...
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Dir. F.W. Murnau (1927).
Silent cinema reaches its acme with movement of Murnau’s camera through the vaporous fields of an invented America. Superimpositions and...
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Dir. Raj Kapoor (1951).
Kapoor became India’s greatest star (as well as a Soviet icon) directing himself as Chaplinesque protagonist in this musical epic, filled with...
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Dir. Victor Sjostrom (1927).
America’s greatest silent actress Lillian Gish is Hester Prynne in this surprisingly faithful, silent adaptation of the Hawthorne classic;...
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Dir. Robert Bresson (1945).
Bresson began to find his style in this fierce, strategically stilted tale of sexual revenge—a transposition of Diderot to the swells of...
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Dir. Lars von Trier (2011).
Melancholia's first five minutes are like a formal invitation to the end of the world; the next two hours allow you to live through the run-up. We...
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Dir. Gerardo Naranjo (2011).
An aspiring beauty queen becomes an unwitting pawn in the international drug trade, as well as a metaphor for her nation. Gerardo Naranjo’s...
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Dir. J.C. Chandor (2011).
Relive the financial collapse of ’08 from the perspective of a Lehman Brothers-type investment bank. The action confined largely to the upper...
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Dir. John Ford (1950).
Ford took a break from cavalry westerns to direct this lively wild west show pageant in which good-natured roughnecks Ben Johnson and Harry Carey Jr....
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Dir. Mario Monicelli (1960).
Also known as The Passionate Thief, this one-night mel0drama stars volcanic diva Anna Magnani, the young Ben Gazzara, and the great Totò as...
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Dir. Joe Dante (1985).
It’s junk food Jung from the great Spielberg satirist of the ‘80s. Dante’s “mother ship” is less cathedral of light than...
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Dir. Georges Méliès (1902).
A beautifully restored print of the great pioneer’s blockbuster—the Star Wars of 1902—is screening with Kingdom of...
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Dir. Stanley Kubrick (1975).
The loveliest of Kubrick films—indeed, the lone Kubrick movie to invite that adjective—visualizes the late 18th century as a...
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Dir. Eric von Stroheim (1924).
Reedited by Irving Thalberg, Stroheim’s singular exercise in American naturalism is Hollywood’s quintessential lost masterpiece....
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Dir. Otto Preminger (1944).
Beloved by second-generation surrealists as a time-liquidating dream narrative of l’amour fou, Preminger’s career-maker is best...
