“La Belle Noiseuse” (Jacques Rivette, 1991) Jacques Rivette’s four-hour masterpiece about the act of artistic generation turns the male gaze back on itself. True, it’s hard to think of the actress who’s needed to be naked onscreen to get a longer period of time in a single movie than Emmanuelle Bear

Dreyer’s “Gertrud,” like the various installments of “The Bachelor” franchise, found much of its drama just from characters sitting on elegant sofas and talking about their relationships. “Flowers of Shanghai” achieves a similar impact: it’s a film about sexual intercourse work that features no inte