LA NOTTE, 1961

Perhaps not a typical overlooked movie, but we won't be getting more of these meandering films of callous disconnect as Antonioni died yesterday.

Directed by Michelangelo Antonioni.

THE SEVENTH SEAL, 1957

A Crusader looking to stave off death challenges the grim reaper to a board game.

Directed by Ingmar Bergman.

Gone Free Range

I'm headed to the best film festival this side of the St. Louis River. Back in a few days.

BROKEN BLOSSOMS, 1919

One part poetic performance, one part heart-breaking story, one part casual racism.

Directed by D.W. Griffith.

INCIDENT AT LOCH NESS, 2004

A film crew follows documentarian Werner Herzog as he sets out on Loch Ness in search of the famous monster. Tension mounts as his Hollywood-minded producer tries to make the documentary sexier and action-packed.

Directed by Zak Penn.

NOTORIOUS, 1946

Sebastian is the ringleader of a nefarious group of Nazis, but he doesn't notice his wife is a spy for the Yanks. Maybe Mommy will figure it out.

Directed by Alfred Hitchcock.

GOOD MORNING, 1957

It's not often you find a bona fide classic film with fart jokes.

Directed by Yasujiro Ozu.

THE SPANISH PRISONER, 1997

How many cons in this movie? Are you sure? Really?

Directed by David Mamet.

ONCE UPON A TIME IN THE WEST, 1968

Henry Fonda is as good as the bad guy as Charles Bronson is bad as the good guy.

Directed by Sergio Leone.

M, 1931

I don't know which is scarier, the child killer or the folks who go after him.

Directed by Fritz Lang.

MILLER'S CROSSING, 1990

Johnny's sick of the high hat. So he makes a play at a rival gangster, whose henchman ain't no schnook.

Directed by Joel Coen.

TROUBLESOME CREEK: A MIDWESTERN, 1995

What could be more fun than a film about how the 1980s farm crisis forced this elderly couple to auction off all their belongings in the snow just so they could try to keep the bank from foreclosing on their land?

Directed by Steven Ascher and Jeanne Jordan.

THE ILLUSIONIST, 2006

The second best magic-themed movie from last year. And Rufas Sewell is terribly mustachioed.

Directed by Neil Burger.

DARK CITY, 1998

Waaaaaay better than the Matrix, Mr. Book. And Rufus Sewell is NOT terribly mustachioed.

Directed by Alex Proyas.

BOB LE FLAMBEUR, 1956

Have you ever been so involved in what your doing that you lose track of time? Have you ever done that in the middle of a heist that you so very carefully planned?

Directed by Jean-Pierre Melville.

TROUBLE IN PARADISE, 1932

This is what happens when your mark is a bit of a flirt and your partner-in-crime is a bit jealous.

Directed by Ernst Lubitsch.

WALKABOUT, 1971

Two stranded kids' trek through the wilderness is interrupted by an Aborigine boy and Jenny Agutter's nude swim.

Directed by Nick Roeg.

PETULIA, 1968

Petulia is married to Richard Chamberlain. So why's it so hard to have an affair with George C. Scott?

Directed by Richard Lester.

THE IMPOSTORS, 1998

Two out-of-work actors accidentally stow away aboard a ship full of kooks. They must avert several disasters and save the ship by, yes, acting as they have never acted before.

Directed by Stanley Tucci.

THE CIRCUS, 1928

If you can't laugh at Charlie Chaplin on a tightrope with monkeys scurrying up and down his little body, you, good sir, can't laugh.

Directed by Charlie Chaplin.

LE SAMOURAI, 1967

Alain Delon plays a hit man, who's just poured into that suit. And hat. And trench coat. And those gloves.

Directed by Jean-Pierre Melville.

CHUNGKING EXPRESS, 1994

Apparently, stalking is cute. Just like Tony Leung.

Directed by Wong Kar-Wai.

MURDER ON A SUNDAY MORNING, 2001

If you want to get mad, like, really mad, watch how police go about solving the shooting death of a white woman in Florida.

Directed by Jean-Xavier de Lestrade.