A Summer Trip through Europe(an Cinema) Víctor Erice’s spellbinding The Spirit of the Beehive is widely regarded as the greatest Spanish film of the 1970s. In a small Castilian village in 1940, in the wake of the country’s devastating civil war, six-year-old Ana attends a traveling movie show of Frankenstein and becomes possessed by the memory of it.

The Art of Music in the Movies With almost no dialogue for its first forty minutes, and only 862 total words of dialogue in the film, Wall-E depends nearly entirely on its score and soundscape. Thomas Newman’s score helps to develop the relationship between Wall-E, a trash-compacting droid abandoned on a desolate Earth, and EVE, an advanced probe droid sent to the planet to scan for signs of life.

The Art of Music in the Movies As his follow-up to the Best Picture-nominated The Towering Inferno, John Guillermin tackles this re-make of the Great Ape, forty years after the original. Conforming to the style of the time, this version is a disaster spectacle, with large sets, complicated rigs, and a mixture of miniatures, inserts, suits, and makeup to achieve its effects.

The Art of Music in the Movies Florida lawyer Sam Bowden (Gregory Peck) is assailed by a fearsome voice from his past, Max Cady, a man he'd once put away. Mitchum plays Cady as a creature completely molded of evil, death in a Hawaiian shirt.

Adventures of Lassie The ultimate boy-and-his-dog movie—and the first in the warmest, fuzziest film franchise of all time—stars young Roddy McDowall as Joe Carraclough, an impoverished Yorkshire lad who must sell off his best friend, a Rough Collie named Lassie (beautifully played by legendary canine star Pal), when his family falls upon hard times.

Adventures of Lassie Gorgeously shot in Technicolor, the second in MGM’s massively successful seven-film series follows the adventures of grown-up Joe Carraclough (Peter Lawford), now an RAF pilot who is shot down over Nazi-occupied Norway along with a stowaway: Laddie, the son of Joe’s beloved Rough Collie Lassie (in a remarkable dual performance, the great canine star Pal plays both mother and son).

A Summer Trip through Europe(an Cinema) Between 2013 and 2023, the Slovenian Cinematheque preserved and digitized 179 short films created on a tiny stretch of land between the Alps and the Adriatic Sea in the period of socialism (1945-1991), but mostly outside the prevailing state production.

A Summer Trip through Europe(an Cinema) “Usually, it began like this…” Jacques Rivette’s recursive, surreal, haunted house film plays with narrative in ways never before seen on-screen, and in the process influenced dozens of filmmakers, from David Lynch to Richard Linklater and Olivier Assayas.

Training Camp Oliver Stone’s high-octane cinema is brought to bear on America’s most violent sport at the cusp of the high-definition television revolution. In Stone’s eyes, football is no longer a sport but a business, with human warriors as the casualties and cost of commerce.

Paul and Phil The feature debut of acclaimed young writer/director Anderson (Boogie Nights, Magnolia) is a brilliantly acted character study about the relationship between a professional gambler and his younger protege.

A Summer Trip through Europe(an Cinema) “Now that we’re strangers we can start all over again at the beginning.” Estranged couple Alex and Katherine (George Sanders and Ingrid Bergman) are investigating an Italian property they inherited from Alex’s uncle.

Paul and Phil In a bold career move, Adam Sandler ditches his funny-guy persona to play Barry Egan, a lonely, repressed owner of a plunger and novelty-item wholesale company. Prone to fits of rage and social awkwardness, Barry’s life begins to turn around upon meeting Lena (Emily Watson), a friend of his sister’s.

Training Camp Football is everything to the town of Dillon, Texas. At the center of this is the high school football team and its coach, Gary Gaines (Billy Bob Thornton). The entire town shows up for games on Friday nights, with expectations that the team will make it to the state championship, providing pride for the town and long-lasting memories for the players.

Paul and Phil Paul Thomas Anderson’s mesmerizing survey of America’s bruised post-World War II psyche stands as one of the finest films of 2012 for many reasons: the dreamy cinematography; the exquisite production design; and Joaquin Phoenix’s startling, Oscar-nominated turn as Freddie Quell, a psychologically damaged vet who falls under the sway of charismatic cult leader Lancaster Dodd (Philip Seymour Hoffman).

Adventures of Lassie Elizabeth Taylor returns to the franchise as a different character taking care of a descendant of the original Lassie (although still played by Pal). After growing up alone in the Scottish forest, a young collie survives danger and meets up with young Kathie Merrick (Taylor) before promptly stealing her clothes.

Paul and Phil Penetrating the mood of the disco era, P. T. Anderson’s breakout film follows Dirk Diggler (Mark Wahlberg) from his days as a petulant young dishwasher to an intrepid porn superstar in California’s San Fernando Valley in the 1970s, to his fall to rock bottom in the 1980s.

Training Camp Inspired by actual events, Denzel Washington takes the lead in this historical biographical sports tale. As Williams High School in Alexandria, Virginia is consolidated, and integrated, head football coach Bill Yoast (Will Patton) is asked to step aside for Herman Boone (Washington), a coach from North Carolina.

Paul and Phil Paul Thomas Anderson’s third feature concerns twenty-four hours in the lives of a varied lot of Los Angelenos. Two dying fathers work to mend broken ties with their estranged children, while two whiz kids, one grown and one young, struggle with the pressures of their intellects.

A Summer Trip Through Europe(an Cinema) Largely considered Antonioni’s breakthrough masterpiece, L’Avventura marked the director’s transition into his trademark deliberate pacing and careful composition. Based on a story written by Antonioni, the film chronicles the search for a woman whose disappearance leads to an illicit romance between her lover and her best friend.