Laurent Cantet (The Class) crosses the Atlantic for his account of a girl gang in 1950s America. Re-appropriating a traditionally male genre, the films female perspective highlights the inequality between the sexes during the period, whilst also showing the…
THE MYSTERY OF HAPPINESS, a joyful story about love, friendship and the pursuit of happiness. Santiago and Eugenio are best friends and business partners who run a thriving electronics store together. One day, Eugenio doesnt come to work and…
Stunning in scope, visually magnificent, and filled with compelling performances, David Leans epic masterpiece is one of the great achievements in cinematic history. Peter OToole stars as T.E. Lawrence, a British officer who is sent to Arabia in 1917,…
FAITH CONNECTIONS explores such diverse and deeply moving stories as a young runaway kid, a Sadhu, a mother desperately looking for her lost son, a yogi who is raising an abandoned baby, and an ascetic who keeps his calm…
Romanian director Cristian Nemescus comedy California Dreamin (AKA Nesfarsit, 2007) unfolds against the backdrop of the Kosovo War, circa 1999. A NATO train rolls through a Romanian hamlet, transporting a plethora of weapons across the country – without official…
Director Mike Nichols and writer-actor Buck Henry followed their enormous hit The Graduate (1967) with this timely adaptation of Joseph Hellers satiric antiwar novel. Haunted by the death of a young gunner, all-too-sane Capt. Yossarian (Alan Arkin) wants out…
