Directed by David Lynch • 1999 • United States
Starring Richard Farnsworth, Sissy Spacek, Harry Dean Stanton

In between the dark, florid surrealism of the LA-set neonoirs LOST HIGHWAY and MULHOLLAND DR., director David Lynch took a detour to America’s heartland for this surprisingly down-to-eart...

Directed by Hal Hartley • 2010 • United States
Starring Jordana Maurer, Hal Hartley, Louis Andriessen

Hal Hartley’s conscientious assistant in Berlin receives weekly letters from her boss and sends him the books he needs as he struggles in Amsterdam to stage Dutch composer Louis Andriessen’s ope...

Directed by Hal Hartley • 1997 • United States
Starring Miho Nikaido, Elina Löwensohn, James Urbaniak

A minimalist, atmospheric meditation on the theme of love focuses on reconciliation and forgiveness.

Directed by Shabier Kirchner • 2018 • Antigua and Barbuda
Starring Tiquan White

The debut short from cinematographer Shabier Kirchner is an immersive, woozily impressionistic portrait of street life on his home island of Antigua, as seen through the eyes of a young boy.

Directed by Preston Sturges • 1941 • United States
Starring Joel McCrea, Veronica Lake

Tired of churning out lightweight comedies, Hollywood director John L. Sullivan (Joel McCrea) decides to make O BROTHER, WHERE ART THOU?—a serious, socially responsible film about human suffering. After his pr...

Directed by Carlos Mario • 2020 • Puerto Rico
Starring Evelyn Cordero-Olavarría

This poetic look at political protest in Puerto Rico offers an intimate and empowering perspective on the struggle for recognition and self-determination.

Directed by James Gray • 2008 • United States
Starring Joaquin Phoenix, Gwyneth Paltrow, Vinessa Shaw

Set in the insular world of Brighton Beach, Brooklyn, this timeless romantic drama features a remarkably raw, vulnerable performance from Joaquin Phoenix as Leonard, a charismatic but troubled y...

Directed by Hal Hartley • 1991 • United States
Starring Bob Gosse, Jessica Sager, Jeffrey Howard

Young, middle-class, white, college-educated, unskilled, broke, drunk. An aspiring writer tries his hand at real estate, selling Brooklyn as the next great art capital of the world.

Directed by Chloe Abrahams • 2023 • United Kingdom, United States

Sri Lankan British artist and filmmaker Chloe Abrahams’s debut feature is an enveloping, hypnotic, urgently personal meditation on family, memory, identity, violence, and love. At its center are three extraordinary women: the dire...

Directed by Martin Scorsese • 1991 • United States
Starring Robert De Niro, Nick Nolte, Jessica Lange

Martin Scorsese fuses his bravura stylistic command and personal themes of sin and guilt with the pulp-pleasure mechanics of genre filmmaking for this brutally effective thriller, a morally unse...

Directed by Hal Hartley • 1987 • United States
Starring Marissa Chibas, George Feaster, Steven Geiger

A shy and introverted city surveyor has his quiet, scholarly world turned upside down when a young woman mysteriously appears in his apartment in this poetic, sometimes surreal look at male assu...

Directed by Alex Cox • 1987 • United States
Starring Ed Harris, Peter Boyle, Marlee Matlin

A hallucinatory biopic that breaks all cinematic conventions, WALKER, from British director Alex Cox, tells the story of nineteenth-century American adventurer William Walker (Ed Harris), who abandoned a s...

Directed by Barbara Connell and Bill Jersey • 1966 • United States

With extraordinary access and unflinching frankness, this remarkable, underseen documentary offers an X-ray of the soul of a divided America working through the social shockwaves of the civil rights movement. The film chronicles ...

Directed by Hal Hartley • 2010 • United States
Starring Hal Hartley, Miho Nikaido

Hal Hartley and his wife, actor Miho Nikaido, travel to Japan to see her parents and reflect on twelve years of marriage, her career ambitions, and the adventures of growing older.

Directed by Stephen Herek • 1989 • United States
Starring Keanu Reeves, Alex Winter, George Carlin

It’s a totally bodacious odyssey when slacker SoCal teens Bill (Alex Winter) and Ted (Keanu Reeves)—in danger of failing their high school history report, with potentially disastrous consequences f...

Directed by Maxime Jean-Baptiste • 2018 • France, French Guiana

NOU VOIX (“Our Voice”) is an autobiographical video based on the experiences of filmmaker Maxime Jean-Baptiste’s father, who appeared as an extra in the 1990 French film JEAN GALMOT, AVENTURIER. By replaying part of the film, Jean-B...

Directed by Jane Schoenbrun • 2021 • United States
Starring Anna Cobb, Michael J. Rogers, May Leitz

“I want to go to the World’s Fair.” Isolated teen Casey (Anna Cobb) repeats this cryptic mantra three times into the eerie glow of her laptop screen, initiating herself into the viral World’s Fair...

Directed by Hal Hartley • 1994 • United States
Starring Dwight Ewell, Lianna Pai, Paul Schulze

Hal Hartley chronicles the mundane circumstances of a city under siege.

Directed by Hal Hartley • 2000 • United States
Starring D. J. Mendel, Miho Nikaido, David Neumann

An intricately choreographed fight breaks out over the solution to a math problem.

Directed by Rhea Storr • 2020 • United States

Filmmaker Rhea Storr offers an ecstatic immersion into Junkanoo—a form of carnival celebrated in the Bahamas and a living expression of Afrofuturism as resistance.

Directed by Hal Hartley • 2010 • United States
Starring Nikolai Kinski, Bettina Zimmermann, Ireen Kirsch

A commercially realistic but artistically conflicted playwright lends his Berlin apartment to a young actor friend so she can rehearse her drama-school audition while he goes off to save his ...

Directed by Bette Gordon • 1983 • United States
Starring Sandy McLeod, Will Patton, Richard M. Davidson

The provocative, sexually charged tale of a woman’s journey of self-discovery, Bette Gordon’s independent landmark offers a bold challenge to conventional notions of feminism and pornography. ...

Directed by Stuart Rosenberg • 1967 • United States
Starring Paul Newman, George Kennedy, Luke Askew

“What we’ve got here is failure to communicate.” Paul Newman delivers one of his most celebrated performances as a man who will not surrender to authority—even at the cost of his life. When Luke ...

Directed by Hal Hartley • 1988 • United States
Starring Ricky Ludwig, Mike Brady, Gary Sauer

Bursts of canine aggression punctuate a portrait of three men confronting their friendship and failings.