“Araya” comes preapproved. It shared the critics’ prize at Cannes in 1959 with “Hiroshima Mon Amour,” and the release of a restored version comes with endorsements by the high-toned likes of Steven ...

A few times a year, the movie calendar offers an older film that’s been restored, even in some minor way, and re-released. Usually these are mid-level classics, and always good (sometimes glorious) to ...

Shown at Cannes in 1959, the year after Venezuelas last dictator Marcos Perez-Jimenez was overthrown, the documentary inadvertently highlights the kind of exploitation of the poor that can lead to ...