THE TASTE OF THINGS (2023, PG-13, 2H 15M):Director: Anh Hung Tran |Stars: Juliette Binoche, Benot Magimel, Emmanuel Salinger |Set in France in 1889, the film follows the life of Dodin Bouffant as a... more
Massimo Troisi, Philippe Noiret, Maria Grazia Cucionotta. A beautiful woman won't give the local mailman a second glance until a famous poet helps him woo her with words. Troisi's last film. Directed... more
Two-disc set includes: Bim (1951)The first family-friendly offering from "The Red Balloon" filmmaker Albert Lamorisse concerns the impoverished Tunisian boy Abdullah and his love for his donkey Bim.... more
Hedy Lamarr, Aribert Mog, Zvonimir Rogoz. Lamarr bares all in a story about a child bride's unquenchable sexual appetite that erupts when she leaves a loveless marriage to have a fufilling and... more
An investigative thriller set in the world of nuclear power and politics, La Syndicaliste follows the true story of Maureen Kearney (Isabelle Huppert, The Piano Teacher), the influential head union... more
In the early '80s twilight of Argentine autocracy, privileged Buenos Aries school teacher Alicia Marnet de Ibáñez (Norma Aleandro) began to question the evasive half-explanations of her functionary... more
Twelve-year-old Cyril (Thomas Doret), all coiled anger and furious motion, is living in a group home but refuses to believe he has been rejected by his single father (SUMMER HOURS' Jeremie Renier).... more
Touching on many of the themes that would define the rest of his legendary career-isolation, performance, the inescapability of the past- the tenth film by Ingmar Bergman (THE SEVENTH SEAL) was a... more
In this Academy Award Nominee for Best Foreign Film (1994), little things mean a lot in the world of 10-year-old Mui, a girl who's trained to be a house servant in 1950s Vietnam. As Mui grows up in... more
Gunnar Bjornstrand, Max von Sydow. Ingmar Bergman's fascinating story of a medieval knight who enters into a chess game with Death. Directed by Ingmar Bergman. In Swedish with English subtitles.... more
Jeanne Moreau, Umberto Orsini, Ettore Manni. A shocking and unforgettable story of one woman's passion, repression and fury set loose among her fellow villagers in a remote rustic French town.... more
Irene Papas, Manos Katrakis, Yannis Fertis. The original epic retelling of Euripides' classic play about siblings who band together to seek revenge on their their mother whom they believe killed... more
Stephane Audran, Jean-Phillipe Lafont. A delicious Isak Dinesen tale about two pious Danish sisters who take a mysterious Parisian woman into their home to be a maid. Winner of the Best Foreign Film... more
In turn-of-the-twentieth-century Turin, an accident in a textile factory incites workers to stage a walkout. But it's not until they receive unexpected aid from a traveling professor (8 1/2's... more
Officially produced to commemorate the 10-year anniversary of the Russian Revolution, October quickly became another of Sergei Eisenstein's experiments in film form. As in his masterpiece, Battleship... more
A haunting exploration of love, loss and grief, director François Ozon's acclaimed drama features Charlotte Rampling as English-born teacher Marie Drillon, whose French husband vanishes while... more
Akira Terao, Mitsuko Baisho, Toshie Negishi. Eight mythical, dreamlike vignettes thematically united by their concern with man's relationship to nature tell stories of animal weddings, ghosts of... more
Sophia Loren, Marcello Mastroianni. Two lonely residents of an apartment building in Italy form a friendship on the day Hitler arrives to meet Mussollini. Includes digital transfer, 2014 short film... more
One of the most influential political films in history, THE BATTLE OF ALGIERS, by Gillo Pontecorvo, vividly re-creates a key year in the tumultuous Algerian struggle for independence from the... more
Claudio Brook, Silvia Pinal. Surrealistic director Luis Buñuel's unusual story of St. Simon, who spends 30 years in the desert seeking enlightenment and is finally transported by the devil to... more
Pascal Lamorisse, Sabine Lamorisse. Uniquely told with music and no dialogue, this renowned children's film tells the story of a lonely French boy who befriends a wondrous red balloon which seems to... more
Toshiro Mifune, Yuzo Kayama. The patients at a poor medical clinic and a sharp but overbearing doctor teach an enthusiastic young intern hard lessons about the true meaning of practicing medicine. In... more
Three-disc set includes: Emitaï (1971)During World War II, Vichy France wasn't shy about conscripting soldiers from it's colonies, or levying oppressive taxes upon them. As the residents of a Jola... more
Béla Tarr's gravely haunting, challenging existential meditation is set in a bleak and wintry Hungarian village which is visited by a distinctly odd traveling circus. With it's strange exhibits of... more
Acclaimed musical drama from Mexico follows the touching and exotic story of Violeta (Ninón Sevilla), a cabaret dancer who discovers an abandoned infant in a trash can. Deciding to raise the child as... more