Fresh Starts

Fresh Starts

8 Episodes

With the start of a new year comes the restless, romantic wish to be reborn. In these portraits of dreamers, outsiders, and risk-takers, characters yearning for renewal seek reinvention through everything from the promise of new love (SLEEPLESS IN SEATTLE) to taboo-breaking social and sexual exploration (BOB & CAROL & TED & ALICE) to the freedom and adventure of life on the road (LOST IN AMERICA). Capturing both the exhilaration of starting again and the messy realities that come with the process, these films are a testament to the all-too-human impulse to begin again.

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Fresh Starts

8 Episodes

  • Fresh Starts Teaser
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    Fresh Starts Teaser
    Episode 1

    Fresh Starts Teaser

    Episode 1

  • Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice
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    Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice
    Episode 2

    Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice

    Episode 2

    Directed by Paul Mazursky • 1969 • United States
    Starring Natalie Wood, Elliott Gould, Robert Culp

    At the height of the sexual revolution, upwardly mobile married couple Bob (Robert Culp) and Carol (Natalie Wood) return from a freethinking group-encounter session with an elevated sense of hon...

  • Cane River
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    Cane River
    Episode 3

    Cane River

    Episode 3

    Directed by Horace Jenkins • 1982 • United States
    Starring Richard Romain, Tommye Myrick, Carol Sutton

    Written, produced, and directed by the late, trailblazing director Horace B. Jenkins and crafted by an entirely African American cast and crew, this luminous, recently rediscovered landmark of ...

  • Sliding Doors
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    Sliding Doors
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    Sliding Doors

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    Directed by Peter Howitt • 1998 • United States, United Kingdom
    Starring Gwyneth Paltrow, John Hannah, John Lynch

    The split-second moments that can take a life down one path instead of another form the crux of this wonderfully fresh, existential twist on the romantic comedy. Gwyneth Paltrow deli...

  • The Young Girls of Rochefort
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    The Young Girls of Rochefort
    Episode 5

    The Young Girls of Rochefort

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    Directed by Jacques Demy • 1967 • France
    Starring Catherine Deneuve, Françoise Dorléac

    Jacques Demy followed up THE UMBRELLAS OF CHERBOURG with another musical about missed connections and second chances, this one a more effervescent confection. Twins Delphine and Solange, a dance instructor and...

  • The Green Ray
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    The Green Ray
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    The Green Ray

    Episode 6

    Directed by Eric Rohmer • 1986 • France
    Starring Marie Rivière, María Luisa García, Vincent Gauthier

    Eric Rohmer captures the ache of summertime sadness with exquisite poignancy in this luminous tale of self-exploration. The Jules Verne novel of the same name provides the loose inspiration for t...

  • The Big City
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    The Big City
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    The Big City

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    Directed by Satyajit Ray • 1963 • India
    Starring Madhabi Mukherjee, Anil Chatterjee, Jaya Bhaduri

    THE BIG CITY, the great Satyajit Ray’s first portrayal of contemporary life in his native Kolkata, follows the personal triumphs and frustrations of Arati (Madhabi Mukherjee), who decides, despite t...

  • Walk Cheerfully
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    Walk Cheerfully
    Episode 8

    Walk Cheerfully

    Episode 8

    Directed by Yasujiro Ozu • 1930 • Japan

    In Yasujiro Ozu's WALK CHEERFULLY, which gracefully combines elements of the relationship drama and the gangster story, small-time hood Kenji, a.k.a. Ken the Knife, wants to go straight for good girl Yasue but finds that starting over isn't as simple as ...

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