Determined to collect an inheritance from a dying relative, a bourgeois couple travel across the French countryside while civilization crashes and burns around them. Featuring a justly famous centerpiece sequence in which the camera tracks along a seemingly endless traffic jam, and rich with historical and literary references, is a surreally funny and disturbing call for revolution, a depiction of society retreating to savagery, and, according to...

When the tyrannical ruler Stalin dies, his hapless inner circle scrambles to come up with the next evolution of the revolution, but it's clear everyone is really out for themselves. Proof that comedy, like politics, is all in the execution.

"In one of his most finely tuned performances, Peter Sellers plays the pure-hearted, childlike Chance, a gardener who is forced into the wilds of Washington, D.C., when his wealthy guardian dies. Shocked to discover that the real world doesn't respond to the click of a remote, Chance stumbles into celebrity after being taken under the wing of a tycoon (Melvyn Douglas, in an Oscar-winning performance), who mistakes his protégé's horticultural mumblings...

The biographical film depicts Errol Flynn's life before he was an internationally known celebrity. In is early life Flynn was a street fighter, gambler, gold prospector, womanizer, opium smuggler, and adventurer.

This film concerns a Palestinian named E.S. (played in utter silence with Keatonesque melancholy by director Suleiman) who observes the petty, hilariously repetitive neighbor-to-neighbor grievances of a community of middle-class Nazarenes. His father drives through the mostly Arab Israeli city, smiling and waving to his neighbors as he curses them under his breath. The Jerusalem dwelling son meets his Ramallah-based lover in an empty lot near an Israeli...

"In 1970, Twentieth Century-Fox, impressed by the visual zing 'King of the Nudies' Russ Meyer had been bringing to bargain-basement exploitation fare, handed the director a studio budget and the title to one of its biggest hits, Valley of the Dolls. With a satirical screenplay by Roger Ebert, Beyond the Valley of the Dolls follows three young female rockers going Hollywood, in hell-bent sixties style, under the spell of a flamboyant producer--whose...