When it comes to fending off big oil, try a mermaid and a comet-selling beachcomber.

Peter Weir's early mystery puts incipient sexuality and dreamtime in a bottle.

Altman's Western is all about hues and shadings, and no one winning.

For once, a Hollywood movie about real events that conquers through understatement.

Isabelle Adjani and François Truffaut perfectly mix love and madness.

Philip Glass gives Godfrey Reggio's spooky documentary a sound for the ages.

Sex scenes can age, so can dialogue, but rawness has uranium's half-life.

Philippe de Broca's spy spoof had two aces: Incipient Brasilia and Jean-Paul Belmondo.

Before irony took over the buddy movie, there was war and cameradie.