December’s Selection – Joyeux Noel
“Joyeux Noel” has its share of bloodshed, especially in a deadly early charge, but the movie is about a respite from carnage, and it lacks the brutal details of films …
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November’s Selection – The General
“The General’s” greatness lies in the sheer awe of the spectacle and daring of it. Keaton’s really performing all of those death-defying stunts on a moving locomotive, like jumping one car to …
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October’s Selection – Nothing but a Man (1964)
“Nothing But a Man” is a film more famous than familiar. Since its release in 1964, it has been cited as one of the first and best of a new …
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April selection: The Damned United
Two things that the British know that most Americans don’t: Michael Sheen is the best actor in the English-speaking world; and soccer is the only football that matters. -Joe …
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March Selection: Black Orpheus
Winner of both the Academy Award for best foreign-language film and the Cannes Film Festival’s Palme d’Or, Marcel Camus’ Black Orpheus (Orfeu negro) brings the ancient Greek myth of Orpheus and …
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February’s selection – Bringing Up Baby
Katharine Hepburn and Cary Grant star in this inspired comedy about a madcap heiress with a pet leopard who meets an absent-minded paleontologist and unwittingly makes a fiasco of both …
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