Slapstick prevails again when Jacques Tati’s eccentric, old-fashioned hero, Monsieur Hulot, is set loose in Villa Arpel, the geometric, oppressively ultramodern home of his brother-in-law, and in the antiseptic plastic …
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We are now accepting subscriptions for the 2019 film season. This year, in addition to subscribing at one of our events, you can also subscribe via Paypal! Paypal Subscription Option …
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“Dark City” by Alex Proyas is a great visionary achievement, a film so original and exciting, it stirred my imagination like “Metropolis” and “2001: A Space Odyssey.” If it is …
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Although it was not quite his last film, there can be little doubt that “Limelight” was Charlie Chaplin’s farewell. It is also probably his most personal, revealing film. He plays …
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It is rare that a family film is both visually sophisticated and emotionally nuanced. MILLIONS, the fantastical tale of two British brothers and the large sack of cash literally dropped …
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Laura Nyro played the Monterey Pop Festival, but did not make the final cut.
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“The Fits,” the feature fiction debut of Anna Rose Holmer, is all of 72 minutes long. It rarely leaves the inner-city community center in which most of the action takes …
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Initially marketed as the first “ramen western,” Juzo Itami’s Tampopo is a hilarious take on food and love that also functions as a tribute to spaghetti westerns and chambara films. Cowboy-hatted truck driver Gorō (Tsutomu Yamazaki) …
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