The Count of Monte Cristo
The kind of movie that Hollywood studios used to make in its sleep, an old-fashioned, grand-scale costume epic.
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Bona
Filipino filmmaker Lino Brocka’s restored 1980 drama is a blunt study of the effects of abuse.
Ernest Cole: Lost and Found
About one of the most important photographers many have never heard of.
Christmas Eve in Miller’s Point
The boisterous Italian-American Balsano family gathers for what may be their final Christmas Eve dinner in the suburban ancestral home.
Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat
When, during the Cold War, the U.S. State Department recruited jazz luminaries as de facto ambassadors for democracy.
My Name Is Alfred Hitchcock
Filmmaker Mark Cousins provides a master class in focusing on thematic strands in Hitchcock’s imposing body of work.
Daytime Revolution
Erik Nelson’s engaging new documentary recounts when John Lennon and Yoko Ono cohosted The Mike Douglas Show.
The Goldman Case
A methodical and engrossing courtroom drama based on the real-life 1976 trial of the mercurial far-left militant Pierre Goldman.
The Memory of Justice
Marcel Ophuls's intelligent and riveting 1976 film, newly restored, might be the most expansive canvas he ever worked on.