The Last Picture Show (1971) – Review by Pauline Kael
21/01/2021
The Last Picture Show arrives just when it seemed time to announce that movies as pop culture were dead.
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The Sorrow and the Pity (1969) – Review by Andrew Sarris
20/01/2021
Marcel Ophüls’s The Sorrow and the Pity runs about four and a half hours . . . but, in terms of moral, intellectual, and emotional absorption, it is one of the shortest movies of the year.
The Sorrow and the Pity (1969) – Review by Stanley Kauffmann
20/01/2021
The Sorrow and the Pity is, first, a record. Second, it is a reminder. Third, most important from any view, The Sorrow and the Pity is a fine film.
The Sorrow and the Pity (1969) – Review by Pauline Kael
20/01/2021
A magnificent epic on the themes of collaboration and resistance.
The Dissident (2020) – Transcript
18/01/2021
When Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi disappears in Istanbul, his fiancée and dissidents around the world piece together the clues to a murder and expose a global cover up.
One Night in Miami (2020) – Transcript
17/01/2021
“One Night in Miami” is a fictional account of one incredible night where icons Muhammad Ali, Malcolm X, Sam Cooke, and Jim Brown gathered discussing their roles in the civil rights movement and cultural upheaval of the 60s.
Don’t Tell a Soul (2020) – Transcript
16/01/2021
Two thieving teenage brothers, stealing money to help their sick mom, match wits with a troubled security guard stuck at the bottom of a forgotten well.
Locked Down (2021) – Transcript
16/01/2021
Locked Down follows a couple who plan to execute a heist of a jewelry store. It was entirely written, financed, and filmed amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
News of the World (2020) – Transcript
14/01/2021
A Civil War veteran agrees to deliver a girl, taken by the Kiowa people years ago, to her aunt and uncle, against her will. They travel hundreds of miles and face grave dangers as they search for a place that either can call home.
Godmothered (2020) – Transcript
13/01/2021
A young and unskilled fairy godmother ventures out on her own to prove her worth by tracking down a young girl whose request for help was ignored.
Movie Classics: Citizen Kane
12/01/2021
In which a twentieth-century King Midas destroys everything he touches
Pieces of a Woman (2020) – Transcript
11/01/2021
When a young mother’s home birth ends in unfathomable tragedy, she begins a year-long odyssey of mourning that fractures relationships with loved ones in this deeply personal story of a woman learning to live alongside her loss.
The Ascent of Money (2008) – Episode 6 – Chimerica [Transcript]
10/01/2021
Niall Ferguson investigates the globalisation of the Western economy and the uncertain balance between the important component countries of China and the US.
Fatale (2020) – Transcript
09/01/2021
After a one-night stand, a successful married man finds himself entangled in a cunning police detective’s latest investigation.
Herself (2020) – Transcript
09/01/2021
This is the story of young mother Sandra who escapes her abusive husband and fights back against a broken housing system. She sets out to build her own home and in the process rebuilds her life and re-discovers herself.
Pixie (2020) – Transcript
06/01/2021
To avenge her mother’s death, Pixie masterminds a heist but must flee across Ireland from gangsters, take on the patriarchy, and choose her own destiny.
The Ascent of Money (2008) – Episode 2 – Human Bondage [Transcript]
06/01/2021
How did finance become the realm of the masters of the universe? Through the rise of the bond market in Renaissance Italy. With the advent of bonds, war finance was transformed and spread to north-west Europe and across the Atlantic.
Trading Places (1983) – Review by Richard Schickel
06/01/2021
Trading Places is one of the most emotionally satisfying and morally gratifying comedies of recent times. Eddie Murphy demonstrates the powers of invention that signal the arrival of a major comic actor, and possibly a great star.
The Day After (1983): The Nightmare Comes Home
05/01/2021
ABC’s movie The Day After stirs a storm of nuclear debate.
The Ascent of Money (2008) – Episode 5 – Safe as Houses [Transcript]
05/01/2021
It sounded so simple: give state-owned assets to the people. After all, what better foundation for a property-owning democracy than a campaign of privatisation encompassing housing?
The Ascent of Money (2008) – Episode 4 – Risky Business [Transcript]
05/01/2021
Life is a risky business – which is why people take out insurance. But faced with an unexpected disaster, the state has to step in.