Directed by Sofia Coppola • 2003 • United States, Japan
Starring Bill Murray, Scarlett Johansson, Giovanni Ribisi

Sofia Coppola’s wonderfully woozy, mood-drenched is-it-a-love-story? unfolds amidst the lavish yet lonely corridors of the Park Hyatt Hotel in Tokyo, where Charlotte (Scarlett Johans...

Directed by Quentin Tarantino, Alexandre Rockwell, Robert Rodriguez, and Allison Anders • 1995 • United States
Starring Tim Roth, Jennifer Beals, Madonna

Four directors—including Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez—contributed to this outrageous anthology comedy, which has the goofball frenet...

Directed by Abel Ferrara • 1998 • United States
Starring Christopher Walken, Willem Dafoe, Asia Argento

Abel Ferrara’s slick, sexy adaptation of a story by cyberpunk godfather William Gibson journeys deep into the world of corporate espionage, as shady businessmen Fox (Christopher Walken) and X ...

Directed by Peter Bogdanovich • 1972 • United States
Starring Barbra Streisand, Ryan O’Neal, Kenneth Mars

Peter Bogdanovich’s bubbly homage to the fast-talking screwball comedies of the 1930s and ’40s coasts by on the breezy charms of Ryan O’Neal and Barbra Streisand as, respectively, a nerdy mu...

Directed by Charlie Kaufman and Duke Johnson • 2015 • United States
Starring David Thewlis, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Tom Noonan

From the singularly brilliant, offbeat imagination of screenwriter and codirector Charlie Kaufman (BEING JOHN MALKOVICH, ETERNAL SUNSHINE OF THE SPOTLESS MIND) comes a bea...

Directed by Jerry Lewis • 1960 • United States
Starring Jerry Lewis, Alex Gerry, Bob Clayton

The slapstick genius of Jerry Lewis is at its most gleefully inventive in the comedian auteur’s gag-packed, almost free-form first outing as director (as well as writer and producer). He brings his touch...

Directed by Sofia Coppola • 2010 • France, Italy, United States
Starring Stephen Dorff, Elle Fanning, Chris Pontius

Winner of the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival and in many ways a spiritual successor to director Sofia Coppola’s art-house sensation LOST IN TRANSLATION, this majestically ...

Directed by Preston Sturges • 1942 • United States
Starring Claudette Colbert, Joel McCrea, Mary Astor

This wild tale of wacky wedlock from Preston Sturges takes off like a rocket and never lets up. Joel McCrea and Claudette Colbert play Tom and Gerry, a married New York couple on the skids, fin...

Directed by Edmund Goulding • 1932 • United States
Starring Greta Garbo, John Barrymore, Joan Crawford

In the 1930s, MGM was home, as the studio itself put it, to “more stars than there are in heaven”—and they all aligned for this pinnacle of dream-factory glitz. In a single day in Berlin’s Gran...

Directed by Wim Wenders • 2000 • Germany, United Kingdom, United States
Starring Mel Gibson, Milla Jovovich, Jeremy Davies

Based on a story by Bono and featuring a soundtrack by U2, Wim Wenders’s dreamy, surreally stylized vision of life on the margins unfolds in a rundown Los Angeles hotel popu...

Directed by Joel Coen • 1991 • United States
Starring John Turturro, John Goodman, Judy Davis

The Coen brothers’ darkly surreal journey through 1940s Hollywood casts John Turturro as the titular, Clifford Odets–esque New York playwright who moves to LA to work as a screenwriter for Capitol Pictu...

Directed by Jim Jarmusch • 1989 • United States
Starring Masatoshi Nagase, Youki Kudoh, Nicoletta Braschi

Aloof teenage Japanese tourists, a frazzled Italian widow, and a disgruntled British immigrant all converge in the city of dreams—which, in MYSTERY TRAIN, from Jim Jarmusch, is Memphis. Made...

Directed by Marcel Carné • 1938 • France

Hotel Du Nord isn't as well known as the two movies Marcel Carné made before and after, Port Of Shadows and Le Jour Se Lève. But any Carné, especially pre-war Carné (and doubly so with Arletty in the cast), is worth seeing. Annabella is the star of this d...

Directed by Chantal Akerman • 1972 • United States

Under Chantal Akerman’s watchful eye, a cheap Manhattan hotel glows with mystery and unexpected beauty, its corridors, elevators, rooms, windows, and occasional occupants framed like Edward Hopper tableaux. Filmed over the course of fifteen hour...

Directed by Federico Fellini • 1963 • Italy

Marcello Mastroianni plays Guido Anselmi, a director whose new project is collapsing around him, along with his life. One of the greatest films about film ever made, Federico Fellini's 8 1/2 (Otto e mezzo) turns one man's artistic crisis into a grand e...

Directed by Robina Rose • 1981 • United Kingdom
Starring Jordan, Anne Rees-Mogg, Mitch D

A gorgeously photographed work of surreal, somnambulant cinema, Robina Rose’s singular snapshot of London’s early 1980s art scene casts a hypnotic spell all its own. Over the course of a single nightshift, a...

Directed by Liliana Cavani • 1974 • Italy
Starring Charlotte Rampling, Dirk Bogarde

In this unsettling drama from Italian filmmaker Liliana Cavani, a concentration camp survivor (Charlotte Rampling) discovers her former torturer and lover (Dirk Bogarde) working as a porter at a hotel in postwar ...

Directed by Nicolas Roeg • 1985 • United Kingdom
Starring Theresa Russell, Gary Busey, Tony Curtis

Four unnamed people who look and sound a lot like Albert Einstein, Marilyn Monroe, Joe DiMaggio, and Joseph McCarthy converge in one New York City hotel room in this compelling, visually inventive ...