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0 votes and 0 Reviews PG-13 | Drama Agnes of God is an opened up adaptation of the minimalist stage play by John Pielmeier. Meg Tilly plays a young nun who secretly gives birth to a baby; the child’s body is later found strangled to death. Court-appointed psychiatrist Jane Fonda is sent to the convent to investigate, a task made difficult by the weathervane behavior of mother superior Anne Bancroft. To draw out Tilly, who remembers nothing of the birth, Fonda suggests that hypnosis is called for....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Fantasy, Drama, Sci-Fi Four different Alices wander through mazes constructed from 40 years of Spanish history in this post-Franco meditation. Loosely related to the Alice of Alice in Wonderland, in one episode of this film, Alice (who is clearly a metaphor for the Spanish people) is raped by some multinational corporations. Told in a somewhat confusing manner, especially for those unfamiliar with the nuances of Spain’s history in the period between 1936 and 1975, this is director Jorge Feliu’s first feature film....

70 votes and 9 Reviews | Write a Review Rotten Tomatoes® Score 66% 66% In Theaters: July 22, 2011 (limited) PG-13 | 1h 32m | Drama Watch Trailer Rhoda Williams (Brit Marling), a bright young woman accepted into MIT’s astrophysics program, aspires to explore the cosmos. A brilliant composer, John Burroughs (William Mapother), has just reached the pinnacle of his profession and is about to have a second child with his loving wife....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Drama Veteran Swedish director Jan Troell returned to fiction features after several years directing documentaries with this drama, based on a true story about a pioneering female aviator. Elsa Andersson (Amanda Ooms) was born near the dawn of the 20th century and raised by her father Sven (Bjorn Granath), a successful farmer, after her mother passed on at an early age. Elsa is brought up to believe it is her lot in life to marry another local farmer and raise a family, but as a teenager she becomes fascinated with airplanes, and at 21 she defies her family and enrolls in a school for pilots....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Rotten Tomatoes® Score 82% 62% In Theaters: January 1, 1971 (limited) 1h 57m | Comedy, Drama This film by wunderkind Rainer Werner Fassbinder, his 10th, is one of the rare films about filmmaking which was said by the critics to have succeeded both technically and as drama. In it, a German film crew sits in their Italian hotel, waiting for the arrival of their director (Lou Castel), their star (Eddie Constantine) and more money....

4 votes and 1 Reviews | Write a Review Rotten Tomatoes® Score 86% 78% In Theaters: February 15, 1961 (limited) R | 1h 23m | Action, Adventure, Drama Movie Times Generally considered to be the foremost example of Italian Gothic horror, this darkly atmospheric black-and-white chiller put director Mario Bava on the international map and made the bewitching Barbara Steele a star. Steele plays Princess Asa, a high priestess of Satan who is gruesomely executed in 1600s Moldavia by having a spiked mask hammered into her face....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Drama Coup Pour Coup is a film about a worker’s strike at a textile plant, and is written and enacted by the actual striking workers. This film was a collaborative and collective effort. Videotapes of upcoming scenes were discussed by the workers, and camera angles as well as dramatic refinements were agreed on before any film was exposed. Given that the film presents the worker’s point of view and is a largely amateur effort, reviewers found it surprisingly effective as a dramatic piece....

2 votes and 0 Reviews Rotten Tomatoes® Score 89% 75% 1h 41m | Comedy War hero Dennis Morgan becomes the object of a publicity stunt staged by magazine publisher Sidney Greenstreet. The corpulent print mogul announces that Morgan has won a Christmas dinner, to be prepared by the magazine’s housekeeping expert Barbara Stanwyck in her own Connecticut home. The catch: Not only does Stanwyck not have a home in Connecticut, but she’s never been in a kitchen in her life!...

2 votes and 1 Reviews | Write a Review Rotten Tomatoes® Score 32% 23% 2h 1m | Drama After years of living in Buenos Aires, Augustin (Viggo Mortensen) is desperate to abandon his unfulfilled life and change the man he has become. Following the death of his twin brother Pedro, Agustin takes on his brother’s identity and leaving his past behind, he sets out for Tigre Delta, the area where he spent his childhood....

0 votes and 0 Reviews In Theaters: September 5, 1939 (limited) Drama Director Rouben Mamoulian often claimed that he’d been inspired to make Golden Boy after reading a newspaper clipping about a recently deceased boxer. While Mamoulian may have genuinely believed that he was the true auteur of Golden Boy, he probably wouldn’t have made the picture at all had not Clifford Odets started the ball rolling by writing the property for the stage in 1936....

0 votes and 0 Reviews In Theaters: September 24, 2004 (limited) October 22, 2004 (limited) R | Documentary Peter Davis’ 30-year-old, landmark documentary unflinchingly confronts the United States’ involvement in Vietnam. Using a wealth of sources – from interviews to newsreels to documentary footage of the conflict at home and abroad – Davis constructs a powerfully affecting portrait of the disastrous effects of war. ‘Hearts and Minds’ is an overwhelming emotional experience and the controversial winner of the 1974 Academy Award for best documentary....

370 votes and 101 Reviews | Write a Review Rotten Tomatoes® Score 93% 78% In Theaters: November 23, 2011 PG | 2h 7m | Fantasy, Family, Sci-Fi Watch Trailer Hugo Cabret (Asa Butterfield), an orphan boy living in the walls of a Paris train station, meets a girl (Chloë Moretz) who possesses the key to a machine left behind by the father he recently lost. With her help, he searches for the answer to a mystery linking a bitter old toy shop owner, a hidden message from his dead father and a mechanical man....

0 votes and 0 Reviews How did they make a movie out of Lolita? teased the print ads of this Stanley Kubrick production. The answer: by adding three years to the title character’s age. The original Vladimir Nabokov novel caused no end of scandal by detailing the romance between a middle-aged intellectual and a 12-year-old nymphet. The affair is cleansed ever so slightly in the film by making Lolita a 15-year-old (portrayed by 16-year-old Sue Lyon)....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Other Two weeks of Israeli feature films, television dramas and documentaries. The fest kicks off with Avi Nesher’s drama ‘Turn Left at the End of the World’, a sixties period piece about neighboring families in Israel from Morocco and India, and it concludes with the Stateside premiere of ‘The Syrian Bride’, Eran Riklis’s film about an Israeli woman who leaves the Golan Heights to marry a Syrian television star....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Rotten Tomatoes® Score 89% 82% 42m | Documentary This film takes audiences on an inspiring and eye-opening tour of one of the world’s oldest and most enigmatic cities. Destroyed and rebuilt countless times over 5,000 years, Jerusalem’s enduring appeal remains a mystery. What made it so important to so many different cultures? How did it become the center of the world for three major religions? Why does it still matter to us?...

0 votes and 0 Reviews Drama, Romance In 1951, French writer Jean Genet presented a screenplay called Les Rêves Interdits/L’Autre Versant du Rêve to actress Anouk Aimée as a wedding gift. He then proceeded to sell the rights three times without telling her. Eventually the script was reworked by Marguerite Duras and filmed by British director Tony Richardson as Mademoiselle, with Jeanne Moreau in the title role. In its final form, Mademoiselle tells the story of a repressed schoolteacher who visits a veritable plague of deliberate accidents on the people of her rural French village....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Comedy Janaradhan Wishvanbhar, a widower, has spent his life bringing up his two children Chirag and Gaurav. Janaradhan has done everything to bring them up in the best possible manner. Now they have grown up and have to take on the responsibility of their father. Gaurav being the younger son treats his father like his son. He shouts, threatens, and fights–even locks up his father occasionally so that his prankster best friend Madhav Mathur who is a divorcee, desperate to get married, does not spoil him....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Rotten Tomatoes® Score 95% 84% 2h 14m | Drama A British family struggles to cope with the changes in their lives caused by World War II. Vin Miniver falls in love with Carol, the daughter of the crotchety village matriarch. As romance grows, German bombs begin to decimate the countryside and a downed German aviator seeks refuge with the Minivers. Their home is bombed and the village church reduced to rubble, but Mrs....

0 votes and 0 Reviews R | Drama Jennifer Jason Leigh offers an acclaimed performance as humorist Dorothy Parker, who together with such 1920s luminaries as Robert Benchley, Alexander Woollcott and George S. Kaufman, was a charter member of the legendary Algonquin Round Table. The story is related in flashback form, as Mrs. Parker, in Hollywood to cowrite the 1937 feature A Star is Born with her second husband Alan Campbell (Peter Gallagher), recalls her glory days as an Algonquinite....

2 votes and 1 Reviews | Write a Review In Theaters: February 11, 2011 (limited) 2h 19m | Drama Mija (Yun Jung-hee), 66, lives with her teenage grandson in a small Korean town. Elegant with a dash of eccentric, she goes about life in a brimmed hat, a tidy scarf and floral prints that reflect the flowers she loves. She works as a housekeeper/caregiver for an elderly man (Kim Hi-ra). She also looks after her teenage grandson (Lee David)....