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The trajectories traversed by the careers of certain directors can be strange and unfathomable things. Take Blake Edwards, for example. Throughout the 1960s and 1970s, Edwards was an A-list filmmaker with a string of impressive titles on his ...
U.S. Release Date: -
MPAA Rating: "NR" (Adult Themes, Mild Profanity)
Genre: Romance/Comedy
Director: Blake Edwards
Cast: Audrey Hepburn, George Peppard, Patricia Neal, ...
Warning: This review contains spoilers.The word “epic” is thrown around carelessly when discussing motion pictures. With its sprawling tapestry and mini-series length, Edward Yang’s obscure (at least in the West) 1991 gangster drama, A Br...
U.S. Release Date: 2011-11-25
MPAA Rating: "NR" (Violence, Profanity)
Genre: Drama
Director: Edward Yang
Cast: Chen Chang, Lisa Yang, Kuo-Chu Chang, ...
To the degree that "sophistication" would become one of the characteristics defining Academy Award Best Picture winners, that criterion was not yet in place when The Broadway Melody received its citation in 1930. One part air and one part cheese, ...
U.S. Release Date: -
MPAA Rating: "NR"
Genre: MUSICAL
Director: Harry Beaumont
Cast: Charles King, Anita Page, Bessie Love, ...
Columbine has never been a mystery to me. A tragedy, yes, but not mystery. The most surprising thing about Columbine is that it took so long for something like that to happen. Anyone who has been bullied probably understands this, and there's litt...
U.S. Release Date: 2012-03-30
MPAA Rating: "NR" (Profanity)
Genre: DOCUMENTARY
Director: Lee Hirsch
Cast: Alex Libby, Kelby Johnson, Ja'Meya Jackson, ...
Bushwick is Night of the Living Dead without the zombies. It’s about survival in an urban war-zone, a post-apocalyptic nightmare where the familiar has become unreal and life is cheap. Or at least that’s what the creative team – director...
U.S. Release Date: 2017-08-25
MPAA Rating: "NR" (Violence, Profanity)
Genre: Action/Thriller
Director: Cary Murnion, Jonathan Milott
Cast: Dave Bautista, Brittany Snow, Angelic Zambrana
Spoilers! (Is that relevant for a film that’s 100 years old??)In no way does any aspect of The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari resemble what we today would identify as “film.” With its bizarre set design, over-the-top acting, and operatic style, ...
U.S. Release Date: -
MPAA Rating: "NR"
Genre: Horror/Thriller
Director: Robert Wiene
Cast: Werner Krauss, Conrad Veidt, Friedrich Feher, ...
Call Camera Buff a case of art imitating life. Although director Krzysztof Kieslowski admitted that this film doesn't tell his own story ("I made films because that was my profession, and I was too lazy or too stupid or both to change..."), it wi...
U.S. Release Date: 1979-11-16
MPAA Rating: "NR" (Adult Themes, Sexual Content)
Genre: Drama
Director: Krzysztof Kieslowski
Cast: Jerzy Stuhr, Malgorzata Zabkowska, Ewa Pokas, ...
There are times when the reputation of a film outstrips the movie itself. Cannibal Holocaust is an example. To some, this is the most disgusting, offensive motion picture ever given an international release. To others, it is a brilliant example of...
U.S. Release Date: 1985-06-19
MPAA Rating: "NR" (Graphic violence, Sexual Content, Nudity, Profanity)
Genre: HORROR
Director: Ruggero Deodato
Cast: Robert Kerman, Francesca Ciardi, Gabriel Yorke, ...
The Canyons opens with still photographs of crumbling, disused movie theaters - multiplexes that, as recently as a decade ago, might have been bustling sites of human congress on weekends and holidays. These images have little to do with the story ...
U.S. Release Date: 2013-08-02
MPAA Rating: "NR" (Sexual Content, Nudity, Profanity, Violence)
Genre: DRAMA/THRILLER
Director: Paul Schrader
Cast: Lindsay Lohan, James Deen, Nolan Funk, ...
Various articles have labeled Capturing the Friedmans as a narrative documentary, a crime investigation, a meditation upon the nature of truth, and an expose of the failings of the United States judicial system. First and foremost, however, it is ...
U.S. Release Date: 2003-06-07
MPAA Rating: "NR" (Profanity, Sexual Content)
Genre: DOCUMENTARY
Director: Andrew Jarecki
Cast: David Friedman, Arnold Friedman, Jesse Friedman, ...