Notes on the Popular Arts
An exploration of American escapism through dream sequences. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2012.
- Year: 1978
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- Keyword: preserved film
- Director: Elaine Bass, Saul Bass
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1 1983 HD
A documentary about four African-American comediennes set in 1984. Restored in 2021 by the Academy Film Archive.
5.50 1918 HD
Jerry Martin quits his dull job as a bank clerk and falls in with a band of hobos. He takes on the guise of Bachelor, the "king of the market," and...
7.10 1955 HD
When illegal card dealer and recovering heroin addict Frankie Machine gets out of prison, he decides to straighten up. Armed with nothing but an old...
8.07 1950 HD
Brimming with action while incisively examining the nature of truth, "Rashomon" is perhaps the finest film ever to investigate the philosophy of...
7.50 1964 HD
An uptight English writer traveling to Crete on a matter of business finds his life changed forever when he meets the gregarious Alexis Zorba.
1 1965 HD
Recurrent themes of violence, sex and TV commercials. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2004.
1 1986 HD
Once crowned "The Princess of Black Poetry," the prolific and political Nikki Giovanni has become one of America's most popular poets. The film...
6.60 1959 HD
A Los Angeles detective and his Japanese partner woo an artist while solving a stripper's murder.
6.50 1971 HD
Satyajit Ray's poetic documentary was commissioned by the Chogyal (King) of Sikkim at a time when he felt the sovereignty of Sikkim was under threat...
7.00 1982 HD
"Marlborough" and "The Arab", lounging on the pool terrace, are alienated characters in some future time, living in a world where art work comes to...
6.71 2021 HD
In a modern America where witches are real and witchcraft is illegal, a sheltered teenager must face her own demons and prejudices as she helps two...
7.00 2023 HD
Fearless alpine climbers Ueli Steck and Dani Arnold enter into a death-defying rivalry to set speed records on the Swiss Alps' great north faces.
6.60 1983 HD
This comedy has everyone's favorite 6 Swedish gals enjoying their stay in the alps. When the girls aren't enjoying the pleasure of their own company...
5.10 2016 HD
Four friends break into an abandoned insane asylum in search of a death certificate which will grant one of them a large inheritance. However,...
6.95 2023 HD
A flight attendant and her boyfriend must steal a cache of diamonds to clear an old debt — but the plan spins into a mayhem when the plane gets...
6.80 2023 HD
When her good tenants go bad, a landlord finds herself terrorized by a cult that seemingly has her husband enthralled — and her daughter in its...
6.50 1998 HD
Roughly chronological, from 3/96 to 11/96, with a coda in spring of 1997: inside compounds of Aum Shinrikyo, a Buddhist sect led by Shoko Asahara....
6.55 2020 HD
Stanley manages his boxer brother Lion but when a devastating loss in the ring leaves the pair in debt, an opportunity to recoup the cash leads to a...
7.40 2009 HD
After the events of the first movie, Yagami Light faces two new adversaries as he is trying to create a perfect world without crime or criminals....
6.39 2022 HD
To fulfill his mother’s dying wish and avoid being removed from her will, an inflexible bachelor hires an actress to play his fiancée.