A romantic comedy about an ad executive who dies in a car collision and finds himself in Judgement City, defending his life before a celestial court. When he falls in love with a fellow candidate, his interest in staying in heaven changes.
Three stories of undying love from acclaimed Japanese filmmaker Takeshi Kitano. Bound by a long red cord, a young couple wanders in search of something they have forgotten. An aging yakuza returns to the park where he used to meet his long-lost girlfriend. A disfigured pop star confronts the phenomenal devotion of her biggest fan ... Three stories delicately intertwined ...
Set in 1984 in Sandusky, Ohio, this popular comedy follows the coming-out of a naive 17-year-old teenager at exactly the moment when gender-bending pop stars like Boy George of Culture Club and the Annie Lennox of Eurythmics were flaunting androgynous images. As the youth goes through his first rites of gay passage, after being callously used by the slightly older ...
From acclaimed writer Charlie Kaufman and visionary director Michel Gondry comes Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. An all-star ensemble cast shines in this comical and poignant look at breakups, breakdowns and breakthroughs. Joel (Jim Carrey) is stunned to discover that his girlfriend, Clementine (Kate Winslet), has had their tumultuous relationship erased from her mind. Out of desperation, he contacts ...
Our Take: Every time you watch this film, you will discover something new. Carrey and Winslet give incredibly natural performances, and the witty but emotional script shows that Charlie Kaufman does indeed have a heart.
As Ann reflects on one beautiful and life-changing weekend with the one true love of her life, her daughters come to their own understanding about the power of the past and the unbreakable bonds between mothers and daughters, family, and the loves of their lives.
Our Take: Meryl Streep, Vanessa Redgrave, Claire Danes, and Glenn Close all put in good work in this classy weepie about a blue-blood family, sensitively adapted from Susan Minot’s novel by Michael Cunningham (The Hours). As Redgrave’s deathbed memories gently remind us, some of life’s mistakes aren’t worth regretting.
Cathy (Julianne Moore) is the perfect 50s housewife, living the perfect 50s life: healthy kids, successful husband, social prominence. Then one night she surprises her husband Frank (Dennis Quaid) kissing another man, and her tidy world starts spinning out of control. In her confusion and grief, she finds consolation in the friendship of their African-American gardener, Raymond (Dennis Haysbert) - ...
Our Take: Todd Haynes' contemporary vision of Douglas Sirk's world is full of humor, pathos and beauty.
Set in Imperial China, Stephen Chiau plays Fat, a guard in the Forbidden City. But unlike his colleagues he doesn't know anything about Kung Fu or other martial-arts, because he uses his time to make futuristic inventions. So when the emperor is kidnapped and the world most beautiful geisha comes to town Fat has to use his brain to get ...
A classic cult film that features one of the screen's most unlikely pairs. It will defy everything you've ever seen or known about screen lovers. Bud Cort is Harold, a young man bored with wealth but interested in death. And Ruth Gordon is Maude, a wonderful old rascal who can see nothing but good intention in the world. Hal Ashby ...
A spirited young mother juggles grief and love in the aftermath of a dramatic terrorist attack in London.
A wealthy but dysfunctional family teeters on the brink of collapse in this emotional drama leavened with a strong dose of dark comedy. Federica (Valeria Bruni-Tedeschi) is the daughter of a wealthy Italian business magnate (Roberto Herlitzka) who relocated himself and his family to France in the 1970s, after a wave of kidnappings among the rich and prominent led him ...
Our Take: In this age of heiresses becoming celebrities here is a movie that paints an honest and unvarnished portrait of growing up rich.
With his hair in a pompadour and sporting his trademark suede shoes, Johnny Suede dreams of becoming a pop star like his idol Ricky Nelson.
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Wan Tin Sau (Chow) is an aspiring actor who visits the local film set every day in the hope that he will one day be noticed by the executives. Sadly, when that moment finally arrives in the form of a few roles as an extra he makes such calamitous mistakes that he is banished by all known directors.
Fed up with her fruitless search for "Mr. Right" and tired of blind dates from hell, attractive journalist Jessica Stein whimsically responds to a classified ad - from Helen! Making and breaking new rules of dating as they go, the two women muddle through an earnest but hilarious courtship that blurs the lines between friendship and romantic love in this ...
Our Take: Jessica is a "nice Jewish girl" who never expected to be gay... or did she? This is a wonderful, touching family dramedy.
They say that opposites attract. Well, for slacker Ben (Seth Rogen) and career girl Alison (Katherine Heigl), that's certainly the case—at least for one intoxicated evening.
Our Take: Lewd but true to life, tasteless yet sincerely tenderhearted: Apatow has rewritten the rules for modern-day romantic comedies, and this clever take on slacker-stoner lifestyle is his flagship entry. We can definitely relate.
Lars and the Real Girl is a heartfelt comedy starring Academy-Award nominated Ryan Gosling as Lars Lindstrom a loveable introvert whose emotional baggage has kept him from fully embracing life. After years of what is almost solitude, he invites Bianca, a friend he met on the internet to visit him.
From Olivier Assayas, the director of Irma Vep and L'eu Froide, comes Les Destinees, a tender and sophisticated period piece starring Emmanuelle Béart and Charles Berling. Based on the novel by Jacques Chardonne, this epic film takes place in France from 1900 to the '30s. Focusing on the life of Jean Barnery, the ...
Lolita (Marilou Berry) is the 20-year-old daughter of Étienne Cassard (Jean-Pierre Bacri), a wealthy and well-known editor and writer, and most of the people she meets seem to be more interested in her dad than in her; her zaftig figure doesn't help her self-esteem much, either. Lolita is a gifted singer and has been studying with a voice coach, Sylvia ...
Our Take: Director Agnes Jaoui and star Jean-Pierre Bacri (real-life husband and wife) are the most popular and sucessful comic duo in France. Look At Me proves why: it's smart, funny, moving and unflinchingly honest in its depiction of love of all kinds. It was a smash at the Cannes Film Festival and it's one of the most satisfying movies we've seen in a long time.
Bob Harris (Bill Murray) and Charlotte (Scarlett Johansson) are two Americans in Tokyo. Bob is a movie star in town to shoot a whiskey commercial, while Charlotte is a young woman tagging along with her workaholic photographer husband (Giovanni Ribisi). Unable to sleep, Bob and Charlotte cross paths one night in the luxury hotel bar. This chance meeting soon begins ...
Our Take: Sofia Coppola has captured the essence of disorientation and isolation which can plague us all in this visually arresting, beautifully acted drama.
Though happily married to his adoring wife Helene, with whom he is expecting a second child, the thoroughly bourgeois business executive Frederic cannot banish from his mind the multitude of attractive Parisian women who pass him by every day. His flirtations and fantasies remain harmless until Chloe (played by the mesmerizing Zouzou), an audacious, unencumbered old flame, shows up at ...
Florentino (Javier Bardem), rejected by the beautiful Fermina (Giovanna Mezzogiorno) at a young age, devotes much of his adult life to carnal affairs as a desperate attempt to heal his broken heart.
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