Feast your eyes on a buffet of some of cinema’s most sumptuous banquets, a smorgasbord of lip-smacking delicacies that delight in the sensual pleasures and social rituals of eating. Start with a bowl of lusciously slurpable ramen in the freewheeling Japanese satire TAMPOPO, then tuck into couscou...

You’ve read—or at least meant to read—the book. Now see the movie. Just in time for the start of school, we’ve collected some of the all-time great page-to-screen adaptations, encompassing English 101 classics like “Great Expectations” and “Lord Of The Flies,” world-literature masterpieces like “...

Love sure is grand—except when it leads you to lie, steal, cheat, or even commit murder.

When the 1968 edition of the Cannes Film Festival opened amid widespread civil unrest, filmmakers began pulling their movies from the schedule in solidarity with the workers and students protesting across France. This series gathers select titles from the year’s official lineup, alongside a scene...

These seductive, deviant adult fairy tales may not make great bedtime stories, but they are guaranteed to produce fever dreams.

Just as postwar disillusionment infiltrated American pop culture and found its way to Hollywood in the form of film noir, so it did in Japan, where a wave of edgy, existential crime dramas spread like a shadow across the Land of the Rising Sun. With STRAY DOG, Akira Kurosawa applied the chiaroscu...

Courtesans and hustlers, gangsters’ molls and pimps. Enter the murky, salacious world of the sex trade as seen through the eyes of nine master filmmakers.

These master filmmakers distort conventional chronology and manipulate our perception of time—and of truth.

In 1994, Marlon Riggs died from AIDS at the tragically young age of thirty-seven. Riggs’s untimely passing robbed the world of an artist of uncommon vision and empathy, but not of his work’s ability to galvanize and inspire future generations. This program comprises a selection of stylistically a...

Get a load of that ’stache! Whether you’re swearing off shaving for Movember, rock a bushy upper lip year round, or are just an appreciator of fine facial hair, you’re invited to bask in the glory of some of the biggest, glossiest, and most impressive mustaches ever to grace the screen. From the ...

Classic films for the entire family, full of dashing deeds and courageous capers.

It came from a land down under . . . From the early seventies through the mideighties, a resurgence of government funding for national film production gave birth to a generation of brave, unconventional new voices who made Australia the home to a brief but bright-burning cinematic renaissance. Am...

With time, the rationales for war give way to the reality it leaves behind. In some countries, it took over a decade for filmmakers to be able to look back after World War II.

Shake yourself up a martini and enjoy these alternative takes on espionage.

The journeys of immigrants and refugees are ever-urgent stories of hope, courage, struggle, and survival that dramatize the search for a better life in an often hostile new land. Including richly evocative stories about coming to America such as Charlie Chaplin’s THE IMMIGRANT, groundbreaking loo...