Directors Werner Herzog and Errol Morris make a bet which results in Herzog living up to his promise that he would eat his shoe if Errol Morris ever completed the film Gates of Heaven.

Scandal Sheet

1952

English

7.4

♡ 7

100%

Phil Karlson Director

Pierre Watkin as Baxter

Rosemary DeCamp as Charlotte Grant

Frank Hagney as Onlooker at Murder Scene

Don Beddoe as Pete

A tabloid editor assigns a young reporter to solve a murder the editor committed himself.

Slam

1998

English

7.0

♡ 5

60%

Marc Levin Director

Beau Sia as Jimmy Huang

Sonja Sohn as Lauren Bell

Joseph A. Wilson as Poetry Class

Saul Williams as Ray Joshua

Raymond Joshua, a young black performance poet, is arrested and imprisoned for a petty marijuana charge in a Washington, D.C. jail. Although the confining prison walls do little to shield him from danger, it is within those walls that Raymond establishes his identity, strength, and voice and meets a prison gang leader and a prison writing teacher, Lauren Bell. Bell inspires Raymond to use the power of creative expression to free himself from the struggles and demise of the Black male as another victim of the judicial system.

The Tune

1992

English

6.9

♡ 17

100%

Bill Plympton Director

Jeffrey Knight as Bellhop

Daniel Neiden as Del

Emily Bindiger as Dot

Chris Hoffman as Wiseone / Surfer / Tango Dancer / Note

Del is a song writer for the obnoxious Mr. Mega, and in love with Didi, Mega's secretary. His quest to write a hit tune brings him to the wacky world of Flooby Nooby, where he just might learn to write songs from the heart. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2016.

The Elephant God

1979

Bangla

7.9

♡ 10

Satyajit Ray Director

Subhadra Devi as

Abani Mukherjee as (as Abani Kumar Mukherjee)

Utpal Dutt as Maganlal Meghraj

Soumitra Chatterjee as Prodosh Mitra

Set in the holy city of Benares, this is the second film about the detective Feluda, who goes on a holiday with his cousin, Topshe, and his friend, Lalmohan Ganguly. But the theft of a priceless deity of Lord Ganesh (the Elephant God) from a local household forces him to investigate.

Four Sons

1928

English

7.2

♡ 3

80%

John Ford Director

Francis X. Bushman Jr. as Franz - Her Son

John Wayne as Officer

Hans Fuerberg as Officer

Harry Cording as (uncredited)

A family saga in which three of a Bavarian widow's sons go to war for Germany and the fourth goes to America, Germany's eventual opponent. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with L'Imaginne Ritrovato and Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation in 1999.