Pauline Kael, the New Yorker film critic for 25 years until the early 1990s, was a lightning rod of American culture. Read More »
The Gates of Paris / Porte des Lilas (1957) René Clair, Pierre Brasseur, Georges Brassens, Henri Vidal
Juju, a drunken oaf who feels the need of being important to someone—anyone—and his friend, an artist Read More »
Avere vent’anni / To Be Twenty (1978) Fernando Di Leo, Gloria Guida, Lilli Carati, Ray Lovelock
Lia and Tina are two beautiful girls who meet and realize that they have a lot in common. Read More »
Happy as Lazzaro / Lazzaro felice (2018) Alice Rohrwacher, Adriano Tardiolo, Agnese Graziani
This is the tale of a meeting between Lazzaro, a young peasant so good that he is often mistaken for simple-minded Read More »
The Slap / La gifle (1974) Claude Pinoteau, Lino Ventura, Annie Girardot, Isabelle Adjani
Geography professor Jean has divorced his wife. His mistress has also left him. Read More »
Coast to Coast (1980) Joseph Sargent, Dyan Cannon, Robert Blake, Quinn K. Redeker
A wealthy neurotic woman escapes from a New York mental asylum Read More »
Casanegra (2008) Nour Eddine Lakhmari, Anas El Baz, Omar Lotfi, Mohamed Benbrahim
Two childhood friends, Karim and Adil, prowl the streets of Casablanca, their native city. Read More »
The Strain Andromeda (1992) Anne McGuire
Experimental movie in which the director takes the 1971 movie The Andromeda Strain and runs it backwards, shot by shot. Read More »
Safety Last (1923) Fred C. Newmeyer, Sam Taylor, Harold Lloyd, Mildred Davis, Bill Strother
In 1922, the country boy Harold says goodbye to his mother and his girlfriend Mildred Read More »
My Sassy Girl (2001) Jae-young Kwak, Tae-hyun Cha, Ji-hyun Jun, In-mun Kim
Based on a series of true stories posted by Ho-sik Kim on the Internet describing his relationship with his girlfriend. Read More »