Directed by Terrence Malick • 1978 • United States
Starring Richard Gere, Brooke Adams, Sam Shepard
One-of-a-kind filmmaker-philosopher Terrence Malick has created some of the most visually arresting films of the twentieth century, and his glorious period tragedy DAYS OF HEAVEN, featuring Oscar-winning cinematography by Nestor Almendros, stands out among them. In 1910, a Chicago steelworker (Richard Gere) accidentally kills his supervisor, and he, his girlfriend (Brooke Adams), and his little sister (Linda Manz) flee to the Texas panhandle, where they find work harvesting wheat in the fields of a stoic farmer (Sam Shepard). A love triangle, a swarm of locusts, a hellish fire—Malick captures it all with dreamlike authenticity, creating a timeless American idyll that is also a gritty evocation of turn-of-the-century labor.
Directed by Georges Lautner • 1981 • France
Starring Jean-Paul Belmondo, Jean Desailly, Robert Hossein
Jean-Paul Belmondo channels James Bond as Josselin Beaumont, a French secret-service agent who has been dispatched to the fictional African country of Malagawi with instructions to assassinate ...
Directed by Roland Joffé • 1986 • United Kingdom, France
Starring Robert De Niro, Jeremy Irons, Ray McAnally
This visually resplendent Academy Award winner for best cinematography is a powerful epic about a man of the sword and a man of the cloth who unite to shield a South American Guaraní comm...
Directed by Pedro Almodóvar • 1990 • Spain
Starring Antonio Banderas, Victoria Abril
Pedro Almodóvar’s colorful and controversial tribute to the pleasures and perils of Stockholm syndrome, TIE ME UP! TIE ME DOWN! is a rambunctious dark comedy starring Antonio Banderas as an unbalanced but alluri...
