Marc Savlov

A pig finds his destiny – and it’s not as Christmas dinner.

I Am Cuba was actually shot as an elaborate pro-Castro piece of Soviet propaganda, but instead it’s as if everyone in question just went gaga, drunk on the sheer beauty of Cuba and making up new film techniques as they went along. The film is a stylistically brilliant quartet of vignettes set during the waning years of the Batista regime. The interconnecting stories that propel the film along were written by Russian poet laureate Yevgeny Yevtushenko.

Heckerling updates Jane Austen’s Emma to Beverly Hills

Howard’s take on the ill-fated 1970 moon shot is filled with the almost unassailable heroics of the U.S. space program and the genuine urgency of history.