Season 1 (1998)

Against the Grain
8.0

June 23, 1998 • 2h 18m

The most basic form of American heroism — the individual in lonely, dangerous situations, inspiring opposition to the oppressive, ...Read more

Beyond the Law
8.0

June 30, 1998 • 2h 18m

Crime may be the subject closest to the melodramatic heart of the movies. Filmmakers have always loved to show us how organized cr...Read more

Family Portraits
8.0

July 7, 1998 • 2h 18m

The family is our most treasured institution and our most vulnerable one. It is constantly threatened internally by generational f...Read more

In Search Of...
8.0

July 14, 1998 • 2h 18m

Buried treasure, of course. But, more importantly, of states of grace — spiritual, secular, sexual. Quests are another essential m...Read more

Love Crazy
8.0

July 21, 1998 • 2h 18m

It's sweetly sentimental sometimes. But it is also snappy, scrappy, and sappy. Occasionally it's gender-bending; often it is touch...Read more

War and Peace
8.0

July 28, 1998 • 2h 18m

Movies, we like to say, are the great art form of our time. But that ignores the claims of weaponry. In the age of mass destructio...Read more

The Wilder Shores of Love
8.0

August 4, 1998 • 2h 18m

Exotic times and places. Unlikely lovers swept up, swept away by the tidal force of grand, desperate, sometimes tragic, sometimes ...Read more

The Antiheroes
8.0

August 11, 1998 • 2h 18m

They are the outcasts. They make their own rules, they live outside the law, they have no need for our love, anybody's love. But w...Read more

Out of Control
8.0

August 18, 1998 • 2h 18m

This is our monster rally — sports of nature and mistakes of science in jostling juxtaposition with self-made ogres. But whether t...Read more

Fantastic Flights
8.0

August 25, 1998 • 2h 18m

Some are surreal — Chaplin trapped in the toils of a modern factory, the Marx Brothers in Freedonia. Some are completely unreal — ...Read more