Flicks w/ The Film Snob

A fascinating collection of footage shot for Swedish TV provides a look at the American black power movement of the 60s and 70s through foreign eyes.

A clever behind-the-scenes baseball movie stars Brad Pitt and Jonah Hill as a pair of mavericks trying to remake a major league team using very unconventional methods.

Steve James' stirring documentary examines a Chicago program in which ex-criminals step into potentially violent situations on the streets in order to defuse them and help people walk away.

Rene Clement's 1960 thriller achieves a perfect balance of mystery and menace.

Steven Soderbergh's disaster film charts the social disintegration that follows on the eruption of a deadly epidemic.

The Graham Greene story of a baby-faced killer in a seaside resort is updated to the 1960s.

Istvan Szabo's 1985 film, set against the background of the pre-World War I Austro-Hungarian empire,dramatizes the dangers of power through the eyes of an ambitious young officer played by Karl Maria Brandauer.

Azazel Jacobs' quiet little comedy up-ends the conventions of the teenager/high school film.

A tree comes to symbolize the challenge of grieving and letting go, in this poetic new film set in Australia.

Documentary film innovator Errol Morris returns to his eccentric roots with this look at the woman behind a celebrated 1970s sex scandal.

Eisenstein's 1925 masterpiece showed the world how editing could mesmerize an audience.

A desperate boy in a dead-end English mining town captures and trains a falcon.

The fascinating true story of a chimp that became part of an elaborate and misguided experiment in the theory of language.

The classic movie theme of the bank robber on the run is given a new twist in this Austrian film, based on an actual case.

Two British comic actors do an extended humorous riff on celebrity and its discontents.