Flicks w/ The Film Snob

Mikio Naruse was the most modern and forward looking of the classic Japanese directors.

Noah Baumbach's latest film displays the acute discomfort of that most aggravating of character traits: narcissism.

A powerful drama explores the fatal legacy of Arab-Israeli hatred.

Andrei Tarkovsky's autobiographical masterwork mixes past and present, dream and reality, to evoke the state of a soul facing death.

A documentary tells the inside story of Daniel Ellsberg and his leak of the Pentagon Papers.

Michael Powell's 1948 masterpiece about a ballerina's conflicting loyalties is arguably the most beautiful color film ever made.

The theme of mother-son enmeshment underlies this darkly humorous Korean mystery film.

The law is what the people who control the language say it is, in this dry police satire from Romania.

A gripping crime film examines the dark sources of power.

Bela Tarr's radical 1994 film takes the mind to another level.

This film about a 1936 climb up the sheer north face of the Eiger will keep you on the edge of your seat.

Peter Yates' gritty crime film is a prime example of what made the 1970s a golden era of American movies.

A story of mysterious tension between children and parents in a German village paints an allegory of the dangers of authoritarianism.

Martin Scorsese's first horror movie pays tribute to Hitchcock, and the shocks come from within the mind.

The film snob's annual listing of four favorite films from the previous year.