Directed by David Fincher • 1997 • United States
Starring Michael Douglas, Sean Penn, Deborah Kara Unger

The enormously wealthy and emotionally remote investment banker Nicholas Van Orton (Michael Douglas) receives a strange gift from his ne’er-do-well younger brother (Sean Penn) on his forty-ei...

Directed by Maya Deren, Teiji Ito, and Chero Ito • 1993 • United States

Assembled posthumously from footage shot by experimental filmmaker Maya Deren between 1947 and 1954, this documentary on Haitian vodou ceremonies offers a rare and illuminating glimpse into a vibrant and often misunderstood ...

Directed by Maya Deren • 1945 • United States
Starring Talley Beatty

Filmmaker Maya Deren collapses the boundaries of space and time as dancer Talley Beatty leaps miraculously through a series of environments, from a forest to a sculpture-filled museum.

Directed by Maya Deren • 1955 • United States
Starring Don Freisinger, Richard Sandifer, Barbara Levin

Made in collaboration with the Metropolitan Opera Ballet School, this experimental dance film unfolds in a floating cosmic realm, an expression of director Maya Deren’s desire to “place a dance...

Directed by Maya Deren • 1944 • United States
Starring Maya Deren, John Cage, Alexander Hammid

In this dreamlike psychogeographical journey, legendary avant-garde filmmaker Maya Deren plays a woman who washes up on a beach and encounters a multiplicity of selves.

Directed by Jack Hazan • 1973 • United Kingdom
Starring David Hockney

This intimate and innovative documentary about English-born, California-based artist David Hockney and his work honors its subject through creative risk-taking. Director Jack Hazan creates an improvisatory narrative-nonfiction...

Directed by Maurice Pialat • 1980 • France
Starring Isabelle Huppert, Gérard Depardieu, Guy Marchand

A young Isabelle Huppert and Gérard Depardieu make for one of the most breathtaking screen couples in French-cinema history in this raw, sexy, messy tale of amour fou. Huppert is Nelly, a well-to...

Directed by Maya Deren • 1948 • United States
Starring Chao-Li Chi

This short study in movement features actor and dancer Chao-Li Chi in an ecstatic demonstration of martial-arts ritual.

Directed by Gabriel Abrantes • 2013 • France
Starring Edith Scob, Laetitia Dosch, Omid Rawendah

With a cast featuring Edith Scob and Esther Garrel, this delirious espionage farce resembles what might have happened if ZERO DARK THIRTY had been written by Georges Bataille.

Directed by Maya Deren • 1946 • United States
Starring Maya Deren, Anaïs Nin, Frank Westbrook

The most influential of the series of dance films made by pioneering avant-garde filmmaker Maya Deren, RITUAL IN TRANSFIGURED TIME combines intricate choreography with time-distorting cinematic effects ...

Directed by Hlynur Pálmason • 2017 • Iceland, Denmark
Starring Elliott Crosset Hove, Simon Sears, Vic Carmen Sonne

A simmering drama of isolation, sibling rivalry, and revenge plays out amid the stark, surreal landscape of a remote limestone quarry in the expressionistically stylized feature deb...

Directed by Buster Keaton • 1925 • United States
Starring Buster Keaton, T. Roy Barnes, Ruth Dwyer

It’s a race to the altar when down-on-his-luck stockbroker Jimmie Shannon (Buster Keaton) learns that he stands to inherit seven million dollars if he gets married by seven p.m. on his twenty-seve...

Directed by Atom Egoyan • 1984 • Canada
Starring Patrick Tierney, Berj Fazlian, Sirvart Fazlian

Atom Egoyan’s striking debut finds the director already working through the themes of technology, isolation, and identity that recur obsessively throughout his work. Peter (Patrick Tierney) is cataton...

Directed by Tom Tykwer • 2009 • United States, Germany
Starring Clive Owen, Naomi Watts, Armin Mueller-Stahl

A high-stakes game of suspense, intrigue, and explosive action plays out against a succession of striking international locales from Milan to New York to Istanbul in this globe-trotting c...

Directed by Buster Keaton and Clyde Bruckman • 1926 • United States
Starring Buster Keaton, Marion Mack, Glen Cavender

Consistently ranked among the greatest films ever made, Buster Keaton’s THE GENERAL is so brilliantly conceived and executed that it continues to inspire awe and laughter with e...

Directed by Atom Egoyan • 2005 • United Kingdom, Canada
Starring Kevin Bacon, Colin Firth, Alison Lohman

In 1957, a young woman was found dead under mysterious circumstances in the hotel room of a superstar, Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis–esque comedy team. Now, fifteen years later, journalist Kare...

Directed by Gabriel Abrantes • 2016 • Portugal
Starring Margarida Lucas, Amanda Rodarte, Gilda Nomacce

Taking Wittgenstein’s assertion that the most profound problems can only be discussed in the form of jokes as a starting point, OS HUMORES ARTIFICIAIS (“The Artificial Humors”) combines old-Hol...

Directed by Tay Garnett • 1946 • United States
Starring Lana Turner, John Garfield, Cecil Kellaway

Lana Turner and John Garfield set the screen ablaze with their smoldering chemistry in this erotically charged noir classic based on the novel by James M. Cain. Down-and-out drifter Frank Chambers ...

Directed by Atom Egoyan • 1999 • Canada, United Kingdom
Starring Bob Hoskins, Elaine Cassidy, Arsinée Khanjian

Atom Egoyan’s haunting adaptation of the novel by William Trevor is a Hitchcockian psychological thriller that swirls around the filmmaker’s signature themes of fate and loss. Felicia (...

Directed by Turner Ross and Bill Ross IV • 2016 • United States

In the summer of 2015, legendary musician David Byrne staged an event at Brooklyn’s Barclays Center to celebrate the creativity of color guard: synchronized dance routines involving flags, rifles, and sabers, colloquially known as “...

Directed by William Lustig • 1992 • United States
Starring Robert Davi, Caitlin Dulany, Gretchen Becker

The legend of cinema’s most notorious undead NYPD officer continues with the third and final installment in the Maniac Cop franchise. When Officer Kate Sullivan (Gretchen Becker) storms a host...

Directed by Buster Keaton and Charles Reisner • 1928 • United States
Starring Buster Keaton, Ernest Torrence, Tom McGuire

STEAMBOAT BILL, JR. was Buster Keaton’s last independent silent comedy and also one of his finest. He stars as the sensitive son of a gruff riverboat captain (Ernest Torrence...

Directed by Maurice Pialat • 1987 • France
Starring Gérard Depardieu, Sandrine Bonnaire, Maurice Pialat

Winner of the Palme d’Or at the 1987 Cannes Film Festival—where its victory was greeted with more than a bit of controversy—Maurice Pialat’s searing adaptation of a novel by Georges Bernanos s...

Directed by Sam Green • 2022 • United States

This immersive sensory odyssey from Academy Award–nominated documentarian Sam Green (THE WEATHER UNDERGROUND) explores the elemental phenomenon of sound by weaving together thirty-two specific auditory explorations into a meditation on the power of so...