Cinema & DVD Archives

French director Luc Besson's American debut is at face value what you might expect from an action film: The Professional, titled...

After completing his 1934 masterpiece L'Atalante, French director Jean Vigo died of tuberculosis at 29, leaving only three shorts and one...

The title of Cédric Klapisch's bright, infectious comedy L'Auberge Espagnole means "the Spanish inn," but as a slang term, it means...

In this urgent social drama from the Dardennes Brothers (Rosetta, The Son), a young hustler responds to his son's birth by tapping into an ill-conceived source of income.

There's very little comedy in L'Ennui, a relentless and uncompromising look at sexual obsession, but its one funny moment pretty well...

When a restaurant manager gets trapped in a freezer overnight, she develops a taste for the cold.

Although it has been compared to legendary noir films, as well as crime classics like Chinatown, L.A. Confidential is a considerable...

One of the great things about films with cryptic, cumbersome titles is that viewers can usually look forward to at least one scene in which a...

Steve Martin's attempt to do for the City Of Angels what Woody Allen did for Manhattan falls a little short of the mark.

A giant artery feeding one of the largest middle-class suburban sprawls in the country, the Long Island Expressway snarls like a monster in...