7.4/10

Director: Bertrand Tavernier

Starring: Francois Cluzet, Dexter Gordon, Sandra Reaves-Phillips, Lonette McKee, Herbie Ha...

Bertrand Tavernier's exquisite homage to jazz - the moving story of a black jazz musician (sax great Dexter Gordon) in 1959 Paris, struggling to creat... Read more

7.5/10

Director: Oliver Stone

Starring: James Woods, James Belushi, John Savage, Michael Murphy, Elpidia Carrillo

Starring James Woods as a photojournalist sent to El Salvador in 1980 to expose that government's use of death squads. Gritty realism throughout with... Read more

Director: Claude Lanzmann

Claude Lanzmann's landmark, monumental epic of the Holocaust. With an assemblage of witnesses, death camp survivors and Nazi functionaries whose combi... Read more

7.1/10

Director: Alex Cox

Starring: Gary Oldman, Debby Bishop, David Hayman, Chloe Webb

A lacerating love story, "Sid & Nancy" chronicles the brief, intense attachment of two of punk's most notorious poster children, Sex Pistols bassist S... Read more

6.6/10

Director: Volker Schlondorff

Starring: Jeremy Irons, Ornella Muti, Alain Delon

Jeremy Irons, Ornella Muti and Alain Delon star in Volker Schlondorff's ("The Tin Drum") engrossing, visually stunning, sexy film based on Marcel Prou... Read more

7.4/10

Director: Juzo Itami

Starring: Ken Watanabe, Tsutomu Yamakazi, Nobuko Miyamoto

One of the funniest, most enjoyable, satirical comedies is this treasure of a movie, the plot of which, loosely concerns the quest for the perfect Jap... Read more

7.3/10

Director: Denys Arcand

Starring: Dominque Michel, Dorothee Berryman, Louise Portal

An acclaimed French-Canadian comedy that wittily explores the sexual mores (or lack thereof) of eight Quebec intellectuals brought together for a Sund... Read more

8.6/10

Director: Chris Hegedus, D A Pennebaker

Starring: Jimi Hendrix, Noel Redding, Mitch Mitchell

More than 40 years after Jimi Hendrix, Mitch Mitchell, and Noel Redding wowed the audience at the Monterey Pop Festival, it remains one of the greates... Read more

7.5/10

Director: Sergei Paradjanov

Starring: Levan Outchanechvili, Zourab Kipchidze, Yuri Goyan, Veronika Metonidze, Levan Na...

THE LEGEND OF SURAM FORTRESS (1985) - Based on an ancient legend, this dazzling film follows repeated efforts by the Georgian people to construct a de... Read more

7.6/10

Director: Peter Masterson

Starring: Carlin Glynn, John Heard, Geraldine Page, Rebecca De Mornay

Geraldine Page won the Oscar for Best Actress in this story of an old woman returning to her childhood home in order to embrace memories. But she is t... Read more