Buñel's parody of middle class hunger and vanity is a ruthlessly comic ride.

The Taviani Brothers' tale of a wartime Tuscan village is steeped in Italian myths.

Maurice Pialat's 1980s classic delves intelligently into teenage female sexuality.

The biggest grossing film of all time is little more than scrambled National Geographic.

The strength of David Fincher's Facebook movie is how it "gets" elitism.

Sophia Coppola uses Coppola's sleeping pill style to get at the contours of celebrity.

Tarsem's self-indulgent adventure is the best and most gorgeous of failures.

Olmi's rural masterpiece has the makings of a 19th-century Italian documentary.

The Soviet-less 1990s gave wide berth to serial killer flicks, with mixed results.

Peter Sellers got a "Strangelove" tune-up in this wacky but forgotten charmer.