Bursting with mordant wit and alive with urgent real-life dramatic energy, Rashid Masharawi's Laila's birthday is a "fleet, dark urban comedy," (New York Times) that "moves at a brisk clip, ticking incidents like a meter on overtime" (Time Out New York).

Seven comedies, including four restored from turn of the century Italy and France, a recently-discovered nitrate negative of Charlie Chaplin's first appearance in his tramp attire, a frenetic Mack Sennett gag fest replete with tin lizzies, and The pest (1922), starring a pre-Hardy Stan Laurel.

Consistently ranked among the greatest films ever made, Buster Keaton's The general is so brilliantly conceived and executed that it continues to inspire awe and laughter with every viewing.

The buzz is back in Barbershop 2. Calvin (Ice Cube) is struggling to keep his father's shop alive, this time against urban developers looking to replace "mom & pop" establishments with name-brand chains. The world changes, but some things never go out of style -- you can still say anything you want at the barbershop! Queen Latifah, Eve, Michael Ealy, Troy Garity and Cedric the Entertainer co-star.

David Warwik (Wyatt Cenac) is a struggling writer who has been toiling away at the same novel for years. His wife Jennifer (Greta Lee) is a hot young literary figure, who has just released a new masterpiece. When her publisher invites the couple to an artists' salon at his home in Connecticut, the pair embark on a twisted journey, and David must face his demons and try to "not be weird" among the waspy salon guests and competitive artists in attendance....

An idealistic scientist goes to India to sell genetically modified rice, but things change when she falls in love a local farmer and the locale, in this musical romantic comedy.

his record-breaking comedy smashed the box office in France, where it was nominated for Best Original Screenplay at the Cesar Awards. Although living a comfortable life in a charming town in the South of France, Julie has been feeling depressed for a while. To please her, her husband Philippe tries to obtain a transfer to a seaside town on the French Riviera, at any cost. When Philippe is caught red-handed while trying to scam an inspector he is immediately...

Nominated for an Academy Award for Best Screenplay, Casanova '70 is a raucously funny sex romp starring Marcello Mastroianni at his charismatic peak. Packed with bed-hopping hijinks, a parade of gorgeous actresses, and Mastroianni's hilariously dry wit, Casanova '70 is a colorfully ribald gem from the Golden Age of Italian comedy.

In 1948, an American named Charlie is unjustly imprisoned upon his return to Soviet Armenia. He discovers he can see into a lively apartment from his cell window. Filled with warmth and humor, AMERIKATSI celebrates the human spirit.

Follows the mercurial Katherine who is turned down for an attractive redundancy package and reluctantly bound for a new home in Northampton. Here she meets a disparate yet similarly disillusioned group of workmates. Together they must readjust to their new life, their new surroundings and an inescapable new surrogate family of colleagues.