The emphasis this week is on two great Swedish films: "My Life as a Dog" and "I Am Curious." Also, some fine French and American releases.
Before Lasse Hallström came to Hollywood to direct feel-good fare such as "Chocolat" and "The Cider House Rules," he made this outstanding coming-of-age film that is both more touching and more honest than his later work.More »
This Oscar winning 1979 classic hits all the right notes. A Bloomington local has dreams of Italian bicyling glory. He shaves his legs, listen to opera, learns Italian, and sets out to prove himself against elitist college students in the big race.More »The second Criterion release this week, this early Robert Bresson melodrama about a spurned society woman features dialog by Jean Cocteau.More »Henry Jaglom directs Karen Black and Michael Emil in this New York romance from 1983.More »A double-DVD set from Criterion combines Vilgot Sjöman's twin versions of "I Am Curious:" one yellow, one blue, both explicit and experimental landmark documents of Swedish society during the sexual revolution. "I Am Curious Yellow" was banned in the U.S. in 1967.More »A thriller by Andre Techine. Isabelle Adjani is a woman whose boxer boyfriend is killed after lying for her, and Gerard Depardieu is both the boxer and the killer, who takes his victim's identity on her suggestion.More »Jon Voight is the patriarch of a self destructing family in 1950s Las Vegas, admist the backdrop of a-bomb tests and mushroom clouds in the nearby desert. JoBeth Williams, Ellen Barkin and Annabeth Gish co-star.More »A mad cap comedy by Francis Veber ("The Dinner Game"). Gerard Depardieu and Pierre Richardare former lovers of a now married woman who convinces them both that they are the father of her runaway son, and sending the two of them off together on an odd couple mission to find the boy.More »
