At its peak in the 1980s and early ’90s, the Hong Kong film industry was unmatched when it came to action spectacle, offering up dazzlingly choreographed, operatically stylized thrill rides that electrified genre fans around the world. From the bullet-riddled underworld odysseys of John Woo (A BE...

The first decade of the early 2000s saw a chilling resurgence of horror cinema, with a wave of low-budget films proving that atmosphere, imagination, and thematic intelligence could produce profound dread with the most minimal of resources. Featuring unsettling new takes on the classic haunted-ho...

Transformation, infection, contagion, and mutation run rampant in these fleshy nightmares that render the human form unstable, uncanny, and sublimely grotesque. While David Cronenberg established himself as the reigning king of body horror with gloriously gooey, thematically provocative cult favo...

A master at turning B-movie premises into dazzlingly artful nightmares, horror legend John Carpenter mixes pulse-pounding thrills and subversive social commentary into some of the smartest, most stylish, and electrifying genre films of all time. From the atmospheric terror of THE FOG and CHRISTIN...

A true trailblazer of independent cinema, Charles Burnett has brought images of Black American life to the screen with authenticity, empathy, and stirring poetry. Bringing together landmarks like KILLER OF SHEEP and TO SLEEP WITH ANGER, lesser-known gems such as THE GLASS SHIELD and THE ANNIHILAT...

With their intricately choreographed bullet play, supercharged emotion, and hard-hitting themes of loyalty and honor in the criminal underworld, the films of John Woo jolted Hong Kong action cinema to new life. With his breakthrough, A BETTER TOMORROW, Woo set the standard for what would become k...

Few filmmakers have forged a voice as singular and uncategorizable as that of Ukrainian iconoclast Kira Muratova. Working on the margins of Soviet and post-Soviet cinema, she withstood decades of censorship to realize her uncompromising vision in fascinatingly fragmented, expressionistically heig...

Delve into shadowy cloisters with an unholy congregation of films that scramble the sacred and the profane through lurid tales of nuns gone wild. From the fevered blasphemy of Ken Russell’s THE DEVILS and the delirious hysteria of ALUCARDA to the surrealist sacrilege of Pedro Almodóvar’s DARK HAB...

Celebrate the release of the latest much-anticipated opus by Paul Thomas Anderson, ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER, by revisiting two of the touchstone works that established him as one of contemporary American cinema’s most revered auteurs. With a virtuoso ensemble cast that includes Tom Cruise, Philip...