Looks back at the process of Korean modernization through a selection of Korean films, revealing the problems, values, and subconscious of their times.

Los Angeles has always been as much a star in film noir as any actor, be it Humphrey Bogart, Barbara Stanwyck, Burt Lancaster, Ava Gardner or Jack Nicholson. In L.A. Noir: The City as Character renowned film historians Alain Silver and James Ursini explore the world of noir cinema in the context of Los Angeles. The book features dozens of noir and neo-noir landmark films from Double Indemnity, Criss Cross, Sunset Boulevard, Gun Crazy, The Big Heat,...

A wealthy New York judge believes he is Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's famed sleuth, Sherlock Holmes. When his brother and sister-in-law attempt to get him committed, he is put under the care of analyst Dr. Mildred Watson. To her amazement, she finds there is something very real in his delusion and the two take to the streets of Manhattan to seek out the detective's arch-enemy, Professor Moriarty.

For the first time, you can put conjecture aside and read definitive proof about the roles Chaney had behind the scenes as well as in front of the camera.

"An elderly couple of Kim Hie-gab and Hwang Jeong-sun, who has six daughters and one son, commences a nationwide journey through every inch of the country to see six daughters living in every region. They visit their daughters and sons-in-law living in Cheongju, Buan, Busan, Ulsan, and Sokcho, and meet their youngest daughter and would-be son-in-law, a cyclist, while visiting their son on military service in Gangwon Province. This elderly couple witnesses...

Shanghai's past and present flow together in Jia Zhangke's poetic and poignant documentary, a portrait of this fast-changing port city. Restoring censored images and filling in forgotten facts, Jia provides an alternative version of twentieth-century China's fraught history as reflected through life in the Yangtze city. He builds his narrative through a series of eighteen interviews with people from all walks of life.

"Kim Pan-chok is assigned to work in the sales promotion department of Yumisa, a condiment subsidiary of Makgang Group. He gets hospitalized competing for the heated sales campaign with Gammisa, a rival and established vendor. During days of hospitalization, Kim comes up with a brilliant idea which passes a meeting of the board of directors, and is reassigned to the planning department. Kim taps confidential sources of the rival company with the help...