Directed by William Dieterle • 1932 • United States
Starring Kay Francis, David Manners, Una Merkel

In the first film the ever-chic Kay Francis made at Warner Bros.—where she would quickly become the studio’s top star during the pre-Code era—she plays Lois Ames, a magazine editor whose husband i...

Directed by Joan Micklin Silver • 1975 • United States
Starring Steven Keats, Carol Kane, Dorrie Kavanaugh

Joan Micklin Silver’s remarkable feature debut is a vivid, lovingly detailed evocation of the late-nineteenth-century Jewish Lower East Side built around a luminous, Academy Award–nominated...

Directed by t.o.L • 2002 • Japan
Starring Hisayo Mochizuki, Shinji Takeda, Béatrice Dalle

Arguably the only anime ever made inspired by both Hello Kitty and Thomas Pynchon’s “The Crying of Lot 49,” TAMALA 2010: A PUNK CAT IN SPACE is a futuristic fever dream that flows back and forth in time, fo...

Directed by Joan Micklin Silver • 1999 • United States
Starring Jerry Stiller, Anne Meara, Mark Ruffalo

Legendary comedy duo (and real-life husband and wife) Jerry Stiller and Anne Meara star as the constantly bickering couple at the center of this sprightly comedy from writer-director Joan Mick...

Directed by Dustin Guy Defa • 2015 • United States

In this idiosyncratic documentary, director Dustin Guy Defa travels to Detroit to contemplate the significance and (il)legality of street art—and finds himself tempted to join a Satanic cult along the way.

Directed by Blake Edwards • 1983 • United States
Starring Burt Reynolds, Julie Andrews, Kim Basinger

Hollywood sophisticate Blake Edwards transplanted François Truffaut’s French sex comedy to 1980s LA for this ruefully funny portrait of a playboy facing a midlife crisis. David Fowler (Burt Reyno...

Directed by Ranald MacDougall • 1955 • United States
Starring Joan Crawford, John Ireland, Betsy Palmer

Joan Crawford delivers a ferocious performance in this scorching domestic melodrama. She stars as Eva Phillips, a Southern socialite who, though she appears to be the epitome of grace and char...

Directed by Rodney Llaverías • 2022 • Dominican Republic
Starring Marlene De La Cruz

Lush, surreal, wild: this richly sensorial, extravagantly imaginative short by Rodney Llaverías unfolds in a verdant, storybook world, where the middle-aged Dolores (Marlene De La Cruz) lives a hermetic existenc...

Directed by Taylor Hackford • 1984 • United States
Starring Jeff Bridges, Rachel Ward, James Woods

Based on the same novel that inspired Jacques Tourneur’s dark noir diamond OUT OF THE PAST, this steamy update infuses the classic story of betrayal, murder, and doomed love with a vivid sensuality...

Directed by François Truffaut • 1977 • France
Starring Charles Denner, Leslie Caron, Nelly Borgeaud

In this bittersweet late-career charmer, director François Truffaut revisits his recurring themes of love and romantic obsession from a poignantly reflective perspective. Charles Denner stars as t...

Directed by Joan Micklin Silver • 1977 • United States
Starring John Heard, Lindsay Crouse, Jeff Goldblum

Inspired by director Joan Micklin Silver’s time working at New York’s storied alt weekly the “Village Voice,” this unsung gem of 1970s slice-of-life seriocomedy offers an incisive, bitterswe...

Directed by Dustin Guy Defa • 2021 • United States
Starring Gayle Rankin, Hannah Gross

In this inventive, metacinematic commentary on the art of editing, a woman is confronted by a stranger who has, quite literally, been cut out of her life.

Directed by Dustin Guy Defa • 2014 • United States
Starring Bene Coopersmith, Deragh Campbell, Zachary Levy

In this acclaimed short—a precursor to director Dustin Guy Defa’s feature of the same name—a Brooklyn record-store clerk discovers a stranger passed out on the floor of his apartment . . ....

Directed by Sacha Gervasi • 2008 • Canada

One of the most beloved rockumentaries of all time, this inspiring, heartfelt celebration of the human will to persevere follows Canadian heavy-metal legends Anvil, who played some of the world’s biggest stages in the 1980s and inspired the likes of Anth...

Directed by Dustin Guy Defa • 2016 • United States
Starring Bingham Bryant, Lindsay Burdge, Hannah Gross

Dustin Guy Defa slyly deconstructs the male gaze in a series of scenes that humorously and pointedly reveal the relationship between a male director and his female actors.

Directed by Lili Horvát • 2020 • Hungary
Starring Natasa Stork, Viktor Bodó, Benett Vilmányi

The second feature by Hungarian director Lili Horvát is a slippery, seductive investigation of memory, obsession, and delusion. After twenty years in the United States, Hungarian neurosurgeon Márta (Nata...

Directed by John Ford • 1935 • United States
Starring Edward G. Robinson, Jean Arthur

Edward G. Robinson spoofs his own tough-guy image in this lively gangster farce, one of director John Ford’s rare forays into straight comedy. In a delightful double role, Robinson plays mild-mannered office cl...

Directed by Alfred E. Green • 1936 • United States
Starring Jean Arthur, George Brent, Lionel Stander

Fresh from her star-making turn in THE WHOLE TOWN’S TALKING, screwball virtuoso Jean Arthur further honed her comic mettle and Depression-era Cinderella persona with this breezy romance. She sta...

Directed by Patrick Tam • 1989 • Hong Kong
Starring Kenny Bee, Joey Wong, Tony Leung Chiu-wai

Patrick Tam, perhaps the Hong Kong New Wave’s most daring modernist and a crucial influence on Wong Kar Wai, teams with cinematographer Christopher Doyle, a regular Wong collaborator, for a stylish “he...

Directed by John Farrow • 1948 • United States
Starring Ray Milland, Charles Laughton, Maureen O’Sullivan

One of the finest suspense thrillers of the 1940s, THE BIG CLOCK stars Ray Milland as a hapless crime-magazine editor plunged into a web of danger when he begins being systematically framed ...

Directed by Joel Potrykus • 2023 • United States
Starring Kandy Kapelle, Dani Parker, Joe Anderson

In the latest slacker anthem by underground auteur Joel Potrykus, recent college grads Patty (Kandy Kapelle) and Patti (Dani Parker) enter the workplace seeking gainful unemployment—only to find th...

Directed by Dustin Guy Defa • 2011 • United States

Reconstructing a series of unearthed home movies, Dustin Guy Defa dubs his own voice over the voices of his family members to create an unsettling personal portrait of family dysfunction, revealing the devastating legacy of addiction, abuse, and...

Directed by Lloyd Bacon • 1930 • United States
Starring Dorothy Mackaill, Lewis Stone, Natalie Moorhead

Though little-known today due to her relatively short-lived career, Dorothy Mackaill was one of the most intriguing screen personalities of the silent and pre-Code eras. She shines—opposite up...

Directed by Mina Shum • 1994 • Canada
Starring Sandra Oh, Stephen Chang, Alannah Ong

An irresistible, star-making performance from Sandra Oh lights up this warm, sharp-witted look at what it means to hold onto heritage while forging one’s own identity. She stars as Jade, a young Chinese Canadian...