Directed by Howard Hawks • 1940 • United States
Starring Cary Grant, Rosalind Russell, Ralph Bellamy

One of the fastest, funniest, and most quotable films ever made, HIS GIRL FRIDAY stars Rosalind Russell as reporter Hildy Johnson, a standout among cinema’s powerful women. Hildy is matched in fo...

Directed by Akira Kurosawa • 1985 • Japan
Starring Tatsuya Nakadai, Akira Terao, Jinpachi Nezu

With RAN, legendary director Akira Kurosawa reimagines Shakespeare’s “King Lear” as a singular historical epic set in sixteenth-century Japan. Majestic in scope, the film is Kurosawa’s late-life mas...

Directed by Mamoru Oshii • 1995 • Japan, United Kingdom
Starring Atsuko Tanaka, Akio Otsuka, Iemasa Kayumi

2029: A female cybernetic government agent, Major Motoko Kusanagi, and the Internal Bureau of Investigations are hot on the trail of the Puppet Master, a mysterious and threatening computer...

Directed by Howard Hawks • 1939 • United States
Starring Cary Grant, Jean Arthur, Rita Hayworth

Electrified by crackling dialogue and visual craftsmanship of the great Howard Hawks, ONLY ANGELS HAVE WINGS stars Jean Arthur as a traveling entertainer who gets more than she bargained for during a ...

Directed by Sammo Hung • 2016 • Hong Kong, China
Starring Sammo Hung, Zhu Yuchen, Li Qinqin

Retired special agent Ding (Sammo Hung) makes a home in a quiet village on the Russia-China border. There, he befriends a young girl whose father (Andy Lau), in debt with the mob, disappears—leaving her i...

Directed by Julie Dash • 1991 • United States
Starring Cora Lee Day, Alva Rogers, Barbara O. Jones

Julie Dash’s rapturous vision of black womanhood and vanishing ways of life in the turn-of-the-century South was the first film directed by an African American woman to receive a wide release. In 1...

Directed by Oliver Stone • 1994 • United States
Starring Woody Harrelson, Juliette Lewis, Robert Downey Jr.

One of the most explosively controversial films of the 1990s, Oliver Stone’s savagely satirical look at the relationship between violence and the American media—adapted from a story Quenti...

Directed by Luca Guadagnino • 2022 • Italy, United States
Starring Taylor Russell, Timothée Chalamet, Michael Stuhlbarg

Imbued with both stirring romanticism and visceral horror, director Luca Guadagnino’s emotionally stunning saga of love and cannibalism traces the bond that forms between Maren...

Directed by Howard Hawks • 1932 • United States
Starring Paul Muni, Ann Dvorak, Osgood Perkins

One of the most talked-about movies of its time, the original SCARFACE is a hard-hitting, ripped-from-the-headlines story of organized crime’s brutal control over Chicago during the Prohibition era. Pa...

Directed by Peter Hedges • 2003 • United States
Starring Katie Holmes, Derek Luke, Sean Hayes

Rebellious daughter April Burns (Katie Holmes) has offered to host Thanksgiving dinner for her suburban clan in her grubby Lower East Side apartment. But her attempts to create an unforgettable feast go...

Directed by Noah Baumbach • 2007 • United States
Starring Nicole Kidman, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Jack Black

Margot Zeller (Nicole Kidman) is a short-story writer with a sharp wit and an even sharper tongue. On the eve of the wedding between her estranged sister Pauline (Jennifer Jason Leigh) and h...

Directed by Edward Dmytryk • 1947 • United States
Starring Robert Young, Robert Mitchum, Robert Ryan

This gritty film noir made history as the first Hollywood film to confront antisemitism. Three of the era’s most celebrated Roberts—Young, Mitchum, and Ryan—star in the hard-hitting tale of a pol...

Directed by Jonathan Demme • 2008 • United States
Starring Anne Hathaway, Rosemarie DeWitt, Bill Irwin

When Kym (Anne Hathaway) returns to the Buchman family home for the wedding of her sister, Rachel (Rosemarie DeWitt), she brings a long history of personal demons, family conflict, and tragedy ...

Directed by Ching Siu-tung • 1987 • Hong Kong
Starring Leslie Cheung, Joey Wong, Wu Ma

In this beloved cult-classic fantasy, a traveling tax collector (Leslie Cheung) short on funds opts to take shelter in a seemingly abandoned temple. He is surprised to discover a young woman (Joey Wang) there,...

Directed by Brett Story • 2019 • United States

A complex portrait of a city and its inhabitants, this urgent documentary from Brett Story (THE PRISON IN TWELVE LANDSCAPES) gives us a window into the collective consciousness of the present. The film’s point of departure is New York City, includin...

Directed by Howard Hawks • 1952 • United States
Starring Kirk Douglas, Dewey Martin, Elizabeth Threatt

Howard Hawks’s epic western adventure stars Kirk Douglas as pioneer Jim Deakins, the leader of the first expedition to navigate up the Missouri River. In a daring journey to expand the fur trad...

Directed by Robert Lee King • 2000 • United States, Australia
Starring Lauren Ambrose, Thomas Gibson, Nicholas Brendon

Adapted from the play by camp icon Charles Busch, this wickedly satirical genre mash-up combines the GIDGET-style beach movie of the ’60s with the ’80s teen slasher for a wildly...

Directed by Michael Roemer • 1969 • United States
Starring Martin Priest, Ben Lang, Maxine Woods

A treasure of American independent filmmaking that was neglected for decades until its triumphant rediscovery, writer-director-producer Michael Roemer’s feature follow-up to his landmark NOTHING BUT ...

Directed by Stephen Hopkins • 1993 • United States
Starring Emilio Estevez, Cuba Gooding Jr., Jeremy Piven

Boys’ night out turns into a harrowing fight to survive in this turbocharged action extravaganza. Suburban family man Frank Wyatt (Emilio Estevez) and his buddies are on their way to Chicag...

Directed by Brett Story • 2016 • Canada, United States

The contemporary American police state shapes almost every aspect of society—whether we’re aware of it or not. Without ever venturing inside a penitentiary, director Brett Story excavates the insidious, often-unseen influence that prisons—an...

Directed by Alfonso Cuarón • 2006 • United Kingdom, United States, Japan
Starring Clive Owen, Julianne Moore, Michael Caine

Alfonso Cuarón’s stunning, meticulously realized science-fiction epic envisages a future world that has fallen into anarchy in the wake of an infertility epidemic that has ...

Directed by Tim Blake Nelson • 2009 • United States
Starring Edward Norton, Susan Sarandon, Richard Dreyfuss

Director Tim Blake Nelson’s audacious, tonally assured blend of black comedy and crime thriller features a marvelous dual performance from Edward Norton as identical twins Bill and Brady ...

Directed by Bob Clark • 1974 • Canada
Starring Olivia Hussey, Keir Dullea, Margot Kidder

In 1974, a low-budget nightmare filmed in Toronto was unleashed upon theaters and revolutionized horror cinema. A now-legendary film among genre aficionados, the groundbreaking BLACK CHRISTMAS was not only t...

Directed by Mamoru Oshii • 2008 • Japan
Starring Atsuko Tanaka, Akio Otsuka, Koichi Yamadera

Mamoru Oshii’s remastered version of his landmark cyber-tech thriller GHOST IN THE SHELL preserves most of the original, while updating it with new, digitally animated sequences. 2029: A female cyberneti...