Tag: Essential Movie Library

When Kyle MacLachlan comes home following a family crisis, innocence collides with sex’s corruptive force and malevolence in this surrealistic David Lynch film

The film is replete with a memorable performance by Sterling Hayden as an air force general who’s lost his marbles in this satire of nuclear holocaust

Antonio supports his family with a much coveted job bicycling around the city to post flyers for American movies, and upon the bicycle's theft the man and his son journey to reclaim it.

Quentin Tarantino’s noir kaleidoscope of hit men, molls, and boxers searching for redemption evidences his best cinematic work to date

Russ Meyer's cult film portrays the über-Amazonian Asian-Cherokee Tura Satana as the leader of a trio of murderous young women in fast sportscars wreaking havoc in the desert

Michael Haneke directs this thriller story of a Parisian family who receive videotapes to their home from a mysterious source documenting their banal daily activities.

It’s easy to forget what a dubious proposition the Beatles remained for many, who watched them half a century ago this week on TV’s "Ed Sullivan Show"

John Wayne gives his greatest and most complex performance and as a result the Western had no choice but to change, submitting to the force of his stardom

In The Conformist Bertolucci struck his most successful balance between the sensual exhilaration of cinema and the discipline devoted to telling a story

"Bonnie & Clyde" was Warner's biggest hit since "My Fair Lady," and Hollywood was never the same after it came out.