Directed by Mariama Diallo • 2018 • United States
Starring Kara Young, Taliah Webster, Madeline Weinstein

She’s white and she wants dreads . . . The staff of a Black hair salon in Brooklyn fend off a terrifying new monster: white women intent on literally sucking the lifeblood from Black culture.

Directed by Paul Mazursky • 1969 • United States
Starring Natalie Wood, Elliott Gould, Robert Culp

At the height of the sexual revolution, upwardly mobile married couple Bob (Robert Culp) and Carol (Natalie Wood) return from a freethinking group-encounter session with an elevated sense of hon...

Directed by Jean Rollin • 1972 • France
Starring Marie-Pierre Castel, Mireille Dargent, Philippe Gasté

With its scenario dredged from director Jean Rollin’s subconscious and a script written in only two days, the dreamlike horror fantasia REQUIEM FOR A VAMPIRE was cited by its maker as his pures...

Directed by Stuart Gordon • 2007 • Canada, United States, United Kingdom
Starring Mena Suvari, Stephen Rea, Russell Hornsby

A shocking twist of fate brings two strangers together in a grisly fight for survival in this darkly comic, ripped-from-the-headlines thriller from RE-ANIMATOR director Stu...

Directed by Jean Rollin • 1975 • France
Starring Jean-Loup Philippe, Annie Belle, Natalie Perrey

Director Jean Rollin blends a moody tale of vampirism and incest with his signature obsessions: childhood, nostalgia, lost love, romantic quests, cinema, obsolescence. While attending a launch party ...

Directed by Nanfu Wang • 2016 • China, United States

A work of startling courage that had to be smuggled out of China, Nanfu Wang’s gripping documentary captures the palpable danger as she follows maverick activist Ye Haiyan (a.k.a. Hooligan Sparrow) and her band of colleagues to Hainan Province...

Directed by Hal Needham • 1978 • United States
Starring Burt Reynolds, Jan-Michael Vincent, Sally Field

Burt Reynolds is at his amiable best in this rollicking tribute to the daring stuntmen and stuntwomen who risk their lives for movie magic. He stars as Sonny Hooper, a veteran stuntman at the ...

Directed by Rajee Samarasinghe • 2022 • Sri Lanka, United States

“This footage was shot shortly after the civil war in Sri Lanka on the occasion of my mother’s long-delayed reunion with Kamala, the aunt she lived with as a child. Kamala was living a life of solitude at this point and has now sin...

Directed by David Weissman and Bill Weber • 2002 • United States

Even amid the proudly nonconformist counterculture of psychedelic San Francisco in the late 1960s and early ’70s, the gender-bending burlesque performance art provocateurs The Cockettes stood out for their outrageous, glitter-bedec...

Directed by Mervyn LeRoy • 1931 • United States
Starring Edward G. Robinson, Marian Marsh, H. B. Warner

This hard-hitting look at the cynical world of tabloid journalism casts Edward G. Robinson as Joseph Randall, a ruthless newspaper editor who will go to any length, use any means, and destroy ...

Directed by Rhea Storr • 2021 • United Kingdom

MADNESS REMIXED examines the fetishization of Josephine Baker’s body through data-moshing analogue film. What unfolds is a questioning of which images of Black bodies should be reproduced and on what terms.

Directed by Alexis McCrimmon • 2022 • United States

HERON 1954–2002 is a visual eulogy that taps into the phenomena of makeshift memorials and small gestures of mourning. Honoring the life of a loved one who died due to an accidental opioid overdose, the film materializes the process of overdue ...

Directed by Mervyn LeRoy • 1933 • United States
Starring James Cagney, Mary Brian, Allen Jenkins

In this breezy pre-Code comedy, the ever-dynamic James Cagney stars as Lefty Merrill, a motormouthed flimflam artist who has yet to find a scam he won’t run on any hapless sucker he can find to fall ...

Directed by Ayanna Dozier • 2022 • United States

MAMAN BRIGITTE stitches together the intimacy of a private ritual involving the Voudou loa Maman Brigitte (who governst the barrier between the living and the dead) with the sounds of the body (spitting, running, vomiting, etc.). These “interior” ...

Directed by Carl Elsaesser • 2021 • United States

“Stretching and blurring the boundaries of video essay, experimental film, and home movie, traces of a 1950s homemade melodrama by amateur filmmaker Joan Thurber Baldwin intermingle with a mournful homage to the author’s grandmother and her vacat...

Directed by Peter Yates • 1968 • United States
Starring Steve McQueen, Robert Vaughn, Jacqueline Bisset

In the role that made him a superstar, Steve McQueen stars as Lieutenant Frank Bullitt, a hard-bitten police detective assigned to protect the star witness in a congressional investigation. Bu...

Directed by Rafael Manuel • 2020 • Philippines, United Kingdom
Starring Jorybel Agotto, Sunshine Teodoro, Micah Musah

The self-contained cosmos of a country-club golf course serves as a microcosm of Filipino society in this sharply observed miniature. New “tee-girl” Isabel still has to learn the...