The Room Next Door

Some time after learning that an old friend of hers, Martha (Tilda Swinton), is dying from cancer, Ingrid (Julianne Moore) is asked to spend time with her before she ends…

My Oxford Year

American Anna De La Vega (Sofia Carson) goes to Oxford to study Victorian poetry, where she eventually falls for the handsome young aristocrat (Corey Mylchreest) teaching her class… but he…

Bergman Island

Two filmmakers (Vicky Krieps, Tim Roth), who are also a couple, arrive on the island where Ingmar Bergman spent a great part of his life; they are soon emotionally and…

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn: The Sky is the Limit

Ted Donaldson, Dorothy McGuire and Peggy Ann Garner. Photo: 20th Century Fox Betty Smith, or as she was known at the time of her birth, Elisabeth Lillian Wehner, was born…

Anna Karenina

In 1870s Russia, the wife (Greta Garbo) of a prominent statesman (Basil Rathbone) begins a love affair with a military officer (Fredric March). A romantic adaptation of the Leo Tolstoy…

Great Freedom

There’s a lot of research behind this stark drama about a gay man’s experiences in postwar Germany through several decades, most of the time spent in the same prison where…

The Wind: Battling the Elements

Lillian Gish. Photo: MGM One of the last masterpieces of the silent era, The Wind is set in a Texan landscape that almost looks like science fiction. But Sweetwater is…

Harakiri: A Gut-Wrenching Challenge

Photo: Shochiku After completing his epic ”Human Condition” trilogy of films in 1961, Japanese director Masaki Kobayashi turned to the samurai. His own family hailed from a samurai and he…

The Alto Knights

The seed of this project was sown back in the 1970s, but it wasn’t worth the wait. In spite of all this talent, the story of how mob bosses Frank…

Maria

In 1977, Maria Callas (Angelina Jolie) spends her last days in a Paris apartment, protected by her butler and housekeeper (Pierfrancesco Favino, Alba Rohrwacher), pondering the past and trying to…