
Touch of Evil (2011)
Some of 2011’s stand-out film actors appear in “a video gallery of cinematic villainy” for New York Times Magazine.
Director: Alex Prager
Actors: Brad Pitt, Gary Oldman, George Clooney, Jessica Chastain, Kirsten Dunst, Mia Wasikowska, Michael Shannon, Rooney Mara, Ryan Gosling, Viola Davis
Cosmos (2015)
Two young men seek the solitude of the country; their peace is disturbed when a set of random occurrences suggest to their susceptible minds a pattern with sinister meanings.
The Ultimate Life (2013)
Despite his best intentions, billionaire Jason Stevens can’t find enough time to keep his beloved Alexia a priority. But when he discovers his late grandfather’s journal, he is transported back…
Hara-Kiri: Death of a Samurai (2011)
A tale of revenge, honor and disgrace, centering on a poverty-stricken samurai who discovers the fate of his ronin son-in-law, setting in motion a tense showdown of vengeance against the…
The Stars Fell on Henrietta (1995)
The setting is early America during the oil boom. An elderly, down on his luck ‘oil man’, Mr. Cox finds himself in the town of Henrietta. Using unconventional methods, he…
Maestro (2023)
A towering and fearless love story chronicling the lifelong relationship between Leonard Bernstein and Felicia Montealegre Cohn Bernstein. A love letter to life and art, Maestro at its core is…
Beau Travail (2000)
Foreign Legion officer, Galoup, recalls his once glorious life, leading troops in the Gulf of Djibouti. His existence there was happy, strict and regimented, but the arrival of a promising…
The Impossible Spy (1987)
This is the true story of an Israeli civilian who was recruited into Israel’s Secret Intelligence Agency to become a spy in Damascus, where he spent years infiltrating the Syrian…
Dirty Like an Angel (1991)
Georges Deblache is a police inspector who is past middle age and who is so despondent about his life that he refuses to have a medical check-up, even though he…
Goodbye Paradise (1983)
The plot centres on Queensland’s Gold Coast in the early 1980s, when a disgraced former cop, Michael Stacey (Ray Barrett) writes a book exposing police corruption, does an investigation resulting…