Flicks w/ The Film Snob

The true story of a Texas mortician's entanglement with a rich widow is given the comic treatment by Jack Black and director Richard Linklater.

Alain Resnais' dream-like puzzle of a film questions the nature of time, memory, and desire.

James Lapine's 1991 film celebrates the famous romantic pairing of author George Sand and composer Frederic Chopin, with a terrific performance by Judy Davis as Sand.

Rachel Weisz shines as a woman who has left her husband for a younger man, but still struggles with her inner demons, in this sumptuously beautiful film by English director Terence Davies.

A kindly but mysterious Algerian steps into the shoes of a teacher who has died of suicide, in this sensitive Canadian nominee for the foreign film Oscar.

The love-hate relationship between two scholars, father and son, is tested when the father is accidentally awarded a prestigious prize intended for the more famous son, in this witty comedy from Israel.

Gambling as flirtation, belief in luck as a form of despair--Jacques Demy's cool 1963 film about a young gambler and a woman he meets at the tables, is a story of fatalism that finds a way out.

The Dardenne brothers' humanist filmmaking produces another beautiful work, this time exploring the indomitable attachment of a boy to a father, and the tragedy of being unwanted.

Wim Wenders' strange and beautiful tribute to the German choreographer Pina Bausch challenges our conceptions of dance.

One of Alfred Hitchcock's lesser known efforts, Shadow of a Doubt highlights his obsession with evil against a background of sunny Americana.

This gorgeous film from Mexican's golden age of cinema hides a progressive social conscience under its melodramatic surface.

The discovery that their baby has a brain tumor causes a young couple to mobilize all their time and energy, in this affecting French drama.

David Cronenberg's latest film explores the early days of psychoanalysis, in the story of Sabina Spielrein, a brilliant patient of Carl Jung who helped cause a rift between him and his mentor Sigmund Freud.

Francis Ford Coppola's classic of paranoia stars Gene Hackman as an eavesdropping expert who becomes spooked by a recording he has made.

Iran's first Oscar-winner is a compelling story of two families and the repressive social realities that threaten to tear them apart.