Flicks w/ The Film Snob

1969 film by Soviet filmmaker Sergi Paradjanov

Two friends go on a trip to find a hot springs in Oregon's Cascade Mountains in Old Joy, a new film by Kelly Reichardt

The Science of Sleep, a new film by Michel Gondry, mixes a childlike fascination with dreams and fantasies with the more grown-up concerns of romantic love and obsession

The film takes the complete uncertainty of real life and puts it right in your face, with the black-and-white photography, absence of soundtrack music, and the defiantly unemphatic talk

One of the more underappreciated French filmmakers was Jacques Becker, who brought a great deal of style and intelligence to the cinema in the 1940s and 1950s

A movie about the current Queen of England, Queen Elizabeth II, and the curious behavior that she and her family manifested after Princess Diana died in a car accident in 1997

Captures the subtlest and most insidious fear of all — the fear of our own shadow

The film follows a group of children, averaging 9 to 12 years old, attending the "Kids on Fire Bible Camp" in North Dakota

In 1946, Italian director Vittorio De Sica made a marvelous film about two street kids in Rome who make their living by shining shoes

This documentary makes a good case for scrapping the MPAA rating system as a dishonest, incoherent curb on freedom of expression

A vision of the dilemma facing people who want to do something about the suffering in the world around them, but are plagued with feelings of powerlessness

The Hanging Garden, directed by Thom Fitzgerald, is about being gay, about grief and forgiveness and putting the past to rest

One of the foremost figures in the Austin, Texas, indie film scene, Kyle Henry has written and directed his first fiction film

This movie by Neil Burger is an oasis in the desert of summer blockbusters... a studio film with a healthy respect for old-fashioned cinematic virtues

Before Akira Kurosawa became a world-famous director, there was a period right after World War II when he made his reputation in Japan with a series of inventive, socially conscious films