Sweet Movie (1974)

A daring expose of the excesses of the confection industry, in the spirit of Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (1971). Stanley Cavell has rightly said of director Dusan Makavejev, "If you can think like this, nothing is beyond mattering to you."

Scarface (1932)

Why is that coin-flipping gesture so repugnant? The coin-flipper takes pleasure in touching money.

The Gay Divorcee (1934)

This Astaire-Rogers outing suffers from the fact that Ginger is never a divorcee, and only briefly gay. Be that as it may, it features a classic nutty waiter turn from the inimitable Eric Blore, and a use of revolving doors that Matthew Barney has yet to top.

Heaven Can Wait (1943)

Lubitsch's version of the Faust myth - the inability of a man to damn himself. Charles Coburn and Eugene Pallette delightfully reprise (in reverse) their senex roles from "The Lady Eve".