Le charme discret de la bourgeoisie (The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie)
Buñel's parody of middle class hunger and vanity is a ruthlessly comic ride.
La notte di San Lorenzo (Night of the Shooting Stars)
The Taviani Brothers' tale of a wartime Tuscan village is steeped in Italian myths.
À nos amours (To Our Loves)
Maurice Pialat's 1980s classic delves intelligently into teenage female sexuality.
Avatar
The biggest grossing film of all time is little more than scrambled National Geographic.
The Social Network
The strength of David Fincher's Facebook movie is how it "gets" elitism.
Somewhere
Sophia Coppola uses Coppola's sleeping pill style to get at the contours of celebrity.
The Fall
Tarsem's self-indulgent adventure is the best and most gorgeous of failures.
L’albero degli zoccoli (The Tree of the Wooden Clogs)
Olmi's rural masterpiece has the makings of a 19th-century Italian documentary.
Kiss the Girls
The Soviet-less 1990s gave wide berth to serial killer flicks, with mixed results.
The importance of clubbing
Why a college film club? For "Eraserhead," "Persona," "Alice" and, of course, supermasochism.
The Mouse That Roared
Peter Sellers got a "Strangelove" tune-up in this wacky but forgotten charmer.