Genre: Comedy
The Straight Story
Directed by David Lynch
“Walt Disney presents...a film by David Lynch.” Stranger words have perhaps never opened an American film, but the belief in …
Camera Shy
Directed by Mark Sawers
Larry (Nicolas Wright) is an unprincipled city councilman who doesn’t mind a little fraud and infidelity if it advances his …
42nd Street
Directed by Lloyd Bacon, Busby Berkeley
During the early 1930s, Warner Bros. churned out a series of “backstage musicals” featuring complex choreography by the legendary Busby …
Teiichi: Battle of Supreme High
Directed by Akira Nagai
Teiichi Akaba (Masaki Suda) enters a boys-only high school with an aim to triumph over every one of his classmates …
Scarred Hearts
Directed by Radu Jude
Based loosely on the writings of the Romanian dissident Max Blecher (1909-1938), Scarred Hearts follows the young Emmanuel (Lucian Teodor Rus), a …
It’s a Gift
Directed by Norman McLeod
By 1934, W.C. Fields was at the top of his game, enormously popular in the US after a long string …
Junk
Directed by Kevin Hamedani
Kaveh and Raul are two B-movie co-writers who have suffered a bitter falling out. Kaveh has lost his girlfriend and …
Gold Diggers of 1933
Directed by Mervyn LeRoy, Busby Berkeley
Busby Berkeley’s second of three “backstage musicals” for Warner Bros. in 1933 was the fabled Gold Diggers of 1933, which …
All You Can Eat Buddha
Directed by Ian Lagarde
Cinematographer Ian Lagarde (Vic + Flo Saw a Bear) makes his directorial debut with this surreal fable centering on a …
Punishment Park
Directed by Peter Watkins
Highly controversial and chilling upon its initial release, Watkins’s brutal mockumentary follows two sets of anti-war protesters in an alternate …
La traversée de Paris
Directed by Claude Autant-Lara
One of the first films to criticize, albeit humorously, the less than patriotic behavior of some French citizens during World …
The Golden Coach
Directed by Jean Renoir
Renoir's 18th-century comic fantasy is a valentine to the theater and the music of Vivaldi, starring the larger-than-life Anna Magnani. …