Life as a House (500) Directed by: Irwin Winkler Starring: Kevin Kline, Hayden Christensen A respectable tearjerker, Life as a House is a welcome throwback to angst-ridden family dramas like Ordinary People and Terms of Endearment . It falls short of those modern classics, but ... read more
Little Buddha (982) Directed by: Bernardo Bertolucci Starring: Keanu Reeves, Bridget Fonda In many ways Little Buddha is a companion piece to Bernardo Bertolucci's The Last Emperor . A beautiful travelogue and history lesson unfolds in the two parts of this film: a historical ... read more
Meet Joe Black (400) Directed by: Martin Brest Starring: Brad Pitt, Anthony Hopkins Meet Joe Black seemed almost fated to fail when it was released in 1998, but this romantic fantasy--a remake of 1934's Death Takes a Holiday --deserves a chance at life after box-office ... read more
Mindwalk (400) Directed by: Bernt Amadeus Capra Starring: Liv Ullmann, Sam Waterston, John Heard This strange experiment in filmed conversation finds three people--a physicist, a poet, a politician--yammering about the environment, science, art, government, and much else, all in an ... read more
