In post–Civil War Tennessee, a young boy escapes abuse at home only to encounter Americana gone berserk in this eerily faithful rendering of Eustis’s novel. Anthony Perkins costars.
Longtime Almodóvar icon Carmen Maura is but one of many women on the verge in Almodóvar’s international breakthrough, a riotous blend of screwball comedy and fifties melodramas that’s “as crowd-pleasing as it is color-coordinated” (J. Hoberman).
Marilyn Monroe and Richard Widmark make an unstable pair in this psychological thriller involving a suicidal young woman and the jaded pilot who hopes to use her as a quick fling.
Konchalovsky’s first feature, set in a Kirghiz village shortly after the Revolution. “Expressed with a deft simplicity of style and a rare quality of emotion” (Michel Ciment).
Sharks and Jets sing, dance, and rumble their way through the streets and back alleys of late-fifties NYC in a dizzying rush of youth that knows no bounds.
Duvivier’s long-unseen Simenon adaptation, starring Michel Simon and Viviane Romance, is an “allegory of wartime collaborationism and the cruel madness of rumor, fear and spite” (Village Voice).