Flicks w/ The Film Snob

Without a lot of fuss, the picture combines two or three dramatic premises, and with the help of a couple of talented actresses, creates an intriguing brew of psychological suspense

The great French director Robert Bresson directed his last film in 1983. It's called L'Argent, which translates as the gold or the money

The feature debut of director Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck, cleverly satirizes the authoritarian mindset which sees all independent thought as a threat to security

My number one pick is The New World, Terrence Malick's sublime meditation on the unhappy encounter of Europe with native America, symbolized through the myth of Pocahontas

Army of Shadows deals with heroism, treachery, and the experience of being always poised on the edge of death, and yet the style is deliberately impersonal and direct

Letters from Iwo Jima is a remarkable look at the famous World War II battle - from the losing side

The evil that men do finds its reflection in the dark fables of childhood. Such is the premise of Mexican director Guillermo del Toro's most accomplished film to date

With the continued success of nonfiction film in recent years, there have been quite a few movies about the Iraq War, now, with James Longley's award-winning film Iraq in Fragments, we can view the crisis from the point of view of the Iraqis themselves

With the advent of portable video cameras, the personal documentary, has entered a kind of golden age.

In less than ninety minutes, Distant Voices, Still Lives embodies the memories of a lifetime in snatches of song, glimpses of light

One of the truisms of science fiction is that stories about the future almost always act as a critique of the present.

A girl and a dog - that's the simple story of the new film from Mongolian director Byambasuren Davaa called The Cave of the Yellow Dog - and sometimes it's the simplest stories that are the most beautiful.

The Tony-award winning play The History Boys by Alan Bennett, is now a film directed by Nicholas Hytner.

Borat, for those few who don't know yet, is an amateur filmmaker from Kazakhstan, a fictional character created by English comedian Sacha Baron Cohen

Meet Me in St. Louis, a 1944 musical by Vincente Minnelli was the first movie Minnelli did with Judy Garland, whom he later married