A vacuum-cleaner salesman in steamy Cuba becomes the intelligence source for the British Secret Service in this droll spy spoof written by Graham Greene, featuring Alec Guinness and Noel Coward.
Visconti’s masterwork about a southern Italian family seeking a better life in Milan has “the emotional sweep of a Verdi opera and the narrative density of a 19th-century novel” (NY Times).
Visconti’s masterwork about a southern Italian family seeking a better life in Milan has “the emotional sweep of a Verdi opera and the narrative density of a 19th-century novel” (NY Times).
Inspired by Dostoevsky, Ibsen, and Chekhov, Ceylan’s slow-burning masterpiece of fear and self-loathing among a well-off family in breathtakingly beautiful Cappadocia won the Palme d’Or at Cannes.
Ceylan’s feature debut is a wistful look at village life and the structures that bind communities and family together, based on an autobiographical story by the director’s sister. With short Cocoon.
An ode to transportation, as well as to every possible kind of cinematic movement, Epstein’s film combines a love triangle and the theme of world travel. With short La villanelle des rubans.