The Catch (Shinji Somai, 1983, 140 mins)
The legendary Ken Ogata stars as a father and fisherman whose daughter's boyfriend wants to learn the perilous trade. Their brutal cross-generational struggle—leading to destruction on land and sea—shows how "for fishermen, there's only paradise or hell." In...
Sunset Blvd. (Billy Wilder, 1950, 110 mins)
New print! A hack screenwriter hides out at a fading film star's decaying compound in a black comedy that Andrew Sarris called "the best Hollywood movie ever made about Hollywood." Stellar performances by Gloria Swanson, William Holden, and Erich von...
Crooklyn (Spike Lee, 1994, 115 mins)
Alfre Woodard and Delroy Lindo lead the cast in a semi-autobiographical family tale written by siblings Spike, Joie, and Cinqué Lee. Set 50 years ago in Bed-Stuy, this "warmly nostalgic coming-of-age drama" is "at once street smart and sweetly sentimental" (Joe...
