From the Film Vault
Program Notes: A Little Princess (1995)
A Little Princess overflows with cliché and coincidence but creates such a marvelous, magical world that our intellectual objections simply give up and slink away.
New on DVD: The Way (2010)
Emilio Estevez’s The Way is old fashioned filmmaking. By which I mean that it takes its time, lets its story and its characters breathe, and slowly gets under your skin until it becomes a part of you.
Program Notes: Mary Poppins (1964)
Mary Poppins leaves you amazed and amused by the film’s ability to blend a childlike sense of awe with some very sophisticated humor and storytelling. And everyone walks away humming.
New on DVD: Eames: The Architect & the Painter (2011)
Charles Eames will forever be associated with the chair that bears his name. But as Eames: The Architect & the Painter makes abundantly clear, that was only the tip of the man’s iceberg.
Program Notes: One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (1975)
For One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, Milos Forman won his first Oscar. In fact, it picked up more important Oscars than any movie since It Happened One Night four decades earlier.
