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An Intamate Epic: Satantango

Let’s get the scary part over with right away: Satantango, which makes its belated debut on home video this week, is a downbeat, black-and-white Hungarian film that is, notoriously, a full seven hours long.



Step Brothers

Step Brothers stars Will Ferrell and John C. Reilly as men forced to live together when the former’s mother (Mary Steenburgen) and the latter’s father (Richard Jenkins) get married. Why do they have to live together? Because, even though one is 39 and the other 40, they have never moved out of their respective parent’s house.

Beauty in Trouble

One of my favorite foreign films of the past decade is Divided We Fall, the 2000 Czech film about a childless couple whose efforts to hide a Jewish neighbor form the Nazis lead them into an increasingly absurd series of ruses.

X-Files: I Want to Believe

There’s been a lot of secrecy concerning this, the second film derived from the popular television series about a pair of FBI agents who specialize in paranormal investigations (though if I had to tell you that, you’re probably not exactly champing at the bit to see this).



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