Tender Mercies
Dir. Bruce Beresford
Tender Mercies is mostly a musical drama. There’s no score at all, only performances of guitar-strung songs, mostly original, which…
Gods and Monsters
Dir. Bill Condon
While many homophobic people like to think otherwise, there have been gay people all throughout history, some that have survived…
Atlantic City
Dir. Louis Malle
At first glance, Atlantic City is indistinguishable from most other crime films. It’s led by a charming gangster (Burt Lancaster)…
Paterson
Dir. Jim Jarmusch
An instant essential film in the Jim Jarmusch catalog. In his traditional directing fashion, Paterson disregards plot and instead finds…
Kiss of the Spider Woman
Dir. Héctor Babenco
Sometimes, all you need to make a good movie is to get two vastly different characters and force them to…
Reversal of Fortune
Dir. Barbet Schroeder
This gripping legal drama is based on a case we still don’t know the truth of — which might make…
Wonder Boys
Dir. Curtis Hanson
Michael Douglas plays Grady Tripp, a craggy, lovable English professor struggling to finish the follow-up to a very successful first…
Taxi Driver
Dir. Kang Bo-seung & Lee Dan
A former special forces soldier delivers revenge for victims of injustice while working for a secret organization that fronts as…
Coming Home
Dir. Zhang Yimou
When adapting a novel, sometimes the book is too long to fit into a whole feature, so filmmakers would create…
My Left Foot: The Story of Christy Brown
Dir. Jim Sheridan
No one expects much from Christy Brown, a boy with cerebral palsy born into a working-class Irish family. Though Christy…
Raging Bull
Dir. Martin Scorsese
The life of boxer Jake LaMotta, whose violence and temper that led him to the top in the ring destroyed…
The Insider
Dir. Michael Mann
A research chemist comes under personal and professional attack when he decides to appear in a 60 Minutes exposé on…
Call Me by Your Name
Dir. Luca Guadagnino
In the summer of 1983, a 17-year-old Elio spends his days in his family’s villa in Italy. One day Oliver,…
The Goodbye Girl
Dir. Herbert Ross
The Goodbye Girl is a charming romantic comedy following single mom Paula and her 10-year-old daughter Lucy (Quinn Cummings) as…
Training Day
Dir. Antoine Fuqua
On his first day on the job as a narcotics officer, a rookie cop works with a rogue detective who…
Lost in Translation
Dir. Sofia Coppola
Two lost souls visiting Tokyo — the young, neglected wife of a photographer and a washed-up movie star shooting a…
About Schmidt
Dir. Alexander Payne
A true character study on an aging man who feels like he has nothing to offer the world, About Schmidt…
The King’s Speech
Dir. Tom Hooper
The King’s Speech tells the story of the man who became King George VI, the father of Queen Elizabeth II.…