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'A Little Life': An Unforgettable Novel About The Grace Of Friendship
Michael Kitchen stars as Foyle, a widowed police superintendent in the coastal city of Hastings in England. His sidekick is his driver, Samantha Stewart, a vicar's daughter played by Honeysuckle Weeks. Acorn TV/ITV hide caption
Fair Warning: Watch One 'Foyle's War' Episode, And You'll Want To Watch Them All
Bradley Cooper (right) plays Chris Kyle in American Sniper. The film has become a cultural phenomenon and has spawned knee-jerk squabbling. Courtesy of Warner Bros. Pictures hide caption
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Full Of Complexity And Ambivalence, 'American Sniper' Shows The Cost Of War
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Full Of Complexity And Ambivalence, 'American Sniper' Shows The Cost Of War
'Leviathan' And 'Red Army' Deliver A Peek Inside Russia, Now And Then
Werner Herzog's 1972 film Aguirre, the Wrath of God was shot along the Amazon in Peru. It probes one of the filmmaker's themes: an unsentimental look at humankind's relationship to landscape and nature. Courtesy of The Shout! Factory hide caption
Werner Herzog's Audacious Early Films Showcased In New Boxed Collection
Compared with The Trip, in The Trip to Italy Coogan (right) is gloomier and Brydon is more ambitious. Courtesy of IFC Films hide caption
British Comedians Take A 'Trip To Italy' And Make Fun Of Each Other
The Beatles perform one of their songs while filming A Hard Day's Night in 1964. Evening Standard/Getty Images hide caption
'A Hard Day's Night': A Pop Artifact That Still Crackles With Energy
In the new French film Violette, Emmanuelle Devos plays a fictionalized character based on Violette Leduc, the trailblazing French novelist. Courtesy of Adopt Films hide caption
Critic John Powers writes, "There's an amoral pleasure to be had in watching Godzilla reduce Tokyo to fiery rubble." Toho/The Kobal Collection hide caption
Crime writer Giorgio Scerbanenco was born in Kiev in 1911, grew up in Rome and worked for decades as a journalist in Milan. Olycom/Melville House hide caption
Exploring Life's Incurable Soiledness With The Father Of Italian Noir
In 1975, Shoah director Claude Lanzmann (left) interviewed Benjmain Murmelstein, the last surviving Elder of the Jews of the Czech Theresienstadt ghetto, at his home in Rome. The resulting film is The Last of the Unjust. Cohen Media Group hide caption