Directed by David Fincher • 2010 • United States
Starring Jesse Eisenberg, Andrew Garfield, Justin Timberlake

Hailed as one of the great films of the twenty-first century thus far, David Fincher’s brilliant and unsettling look at the rise of the social-media era goes behind the scenes of early-2...

Directed by Brian De Palma • 1976 • United States
Starring Cliff Robertson, Geneviève Bujold, John Lithgow

Nearly twenty years after his wife’s tragic death, a guilt-ridden man (Cliff Robertson) meets her exact look-alike (Gen...

Directed by Robert Altman • 2000 • United States
Starring Richard Gere, Helen Hunt, Farrah Fawcett

Robert Altman assembles a typically virtuosic ensemble cast for this sly, satirical take on the screwball comedy. Richard Gere is the titular Dallas physician, a wealthy and successful gynecologist...

Directed by Martin Scorsese • 1976 • United States
Starring Robert De Niro, Jodie Foster, Albert Brooks

Scripted by Paul Schrader and directed by Martin Scorsese, TAXI DRIVER is a powerful study of a dangerously fractured psyche, as well as a vividly grimy portrait of New York City in the 1970s....

Directed by Robert Altman • 1971 • United States
Starring Warren Beatty, Julie Christie, René Auberjonois

This unorthodox dream western by Robert Altman may be the most radically beautiful film to come out of the New American Cinema. It stars Warren Beatty and Julie Christie as two newcomers to ...

Directed by Satoshi Kon • 2001 • Japan
Starring Miyoko Shoji, Mami Koyama, Fumiko Orikasa

When the legendary Ginei Studios shuts down, filmmaker Genya Tachibana and his assistant are tasked with interviewing its reclusive star, Chiyoko Fujiwara, who retired from the spotlight thirty years earlie...

Directed by David Fincher • 2002 • United States
Starring Jodie Foster, Kristen Stewart, Forest Whitaker

Relentlessly roving camera work heightens the sense of claustrophobic dread in this typically stylish tour de force of tension from director David Fincher. Newly divorced Meg Altman (Jodie Fo...

Directed by Alan Rudolph • 1997 • United States
Starring Nick Nolte, Julie Christie, Lara Flynn Boyle

Nick Nolte and a luminous, Academy Award–nominated Julie Christie deliver superb performances in this multilayered, offbeat comic look at what keeps a marriage going after the initial spark has ...

Directed by Amy Holden Jones • 1983 • United States
Starring Jamie Lee Curtis, Bonnie Bartlett, Matt Clark

Having proven her directorial mettle with the cult-classic slasher THE SLUMBER PARTY MASSACRE, director Amy Holden Jones next convinced producer Roger Corman to finance something completely...

Directed by Michael Winterbottom • 2010 • United Kingdom
Starring Steve Coogan, Rob Brydon, Rebecca Johnson

When Steve Coogan is asked by “The Observer” to tour England’s finest restaurants, he envisions it as the perfect getaway with his beautiful girlfriend. But, when she backs out on him, he ...

Directed by Todd Stephens • 2001 • United States
Starring Sara Rue, Birkett Turton, Karen Black

Stevie Nicks superfan Gypsy (Sara Rue) and her best friend, Clive (Kett Turton), are a pair of outcasts stuck in small-town Ohio. When they learn about “The Night of 1,000 Stevies,” a look-alike conte...

Directed by Robert Altman • 1975 • United States
Starring Keith Carradine, Karen Black, Shelley Duvall

This cornerstone of 1970s American moviemaking from Robert Altman is a panoramic view of the country’s political and cultural landscapes, set in the nation’s music capital. NASHVILLE weaves the...

Directed by Alan J. Pakula • 1976 • United States
Starring Dustin Hoffman, Robert Redford, Jack Warden

At once a taut, deeply engrossing political thriller and one of the most fascinating films ever made about the inner workings of the press, the final installment in director Alan J. Pakula’s Pa...

Directed by Alan Rudolph • 1999 • United States
Starring Bruce Willis, Albert Finney, Nick Nolte

A totally unhinged vision of all-American madness, Alan Rudolph’s outré adaptation of the novel by Kurt Vonnegut plays something like a crazed, live-action cartoon as it follows the exploits of Dwayn...

Directed by Robert Altman • 1967 • United States
Starring James Caan, Joanna Moore, Robert Duvall

Robert Altman’s second credited feature film as director—though he was fired from the production for his then-radical use of overlapping dialogue—is a space-race drama lent extra authenticity thanks...

Directed by Robert Altman • 1977 • United States
Starring Shelley Duvall, Sissy Spacek, Janice Rule

In a dusty, underpopulated California resort town, a naive southern waif, Pinky Rose (Sissy Spacek), idolizes and befriends her fellow nurse, the would-be sophisticate and “thoroughly modern” Mill...

Directed by Robert Altman • 1990 • Netherlands, United Kingdom, France
Starring Tim Roth, Paul Rhys, Kitty Courbois

The struggle between madness and genius takes its toll on the brothers Van Gogh in Robert Altman’s brilliantly inspired exploration of fevered creativity and tormented family bonds...

Directed by Robert Altman • 1970 • United States
Starring Bud Cort, Shelley Duvall, Sally Kellerman

Brewster McCloud (Bud Cort) lives deep underneath the Houston Astrodome, but his dreams rise much higher. He aims to fly. Not in a plane, but with strapped-on wings he’s designing—encouraged by a ...

Directed by Amy Holden Jones • 1982 • United States
Starring Michelle Michaels, Robin Stille, Michael Villella

Scripted by lesbian feminist author Rita Mae Brown, THE SLUMBER PARTY MASSACRE puts a smart, subversive, and lightly satirical spin on the 1980s slasher formula. When Trish (Michelle Mi...

Directed by Monique Walton • 2010 • United States
Starring Sade Jones

A woman obsessed with extraterrestrials and UFO sightings begins to question her own ethnic, cultural, and planetary origins.

Directed by Woody Allen • 1991 • United States
Starring Woody Allen, Kathy Bates, Jodie Foster

Lensed in atmospheric monochrome chiaroscuro, Woody Allen’s absurdist homage to German expressionism (with dashes of Kafka and Ingmar Bergman), is one of the writer-director’s most offbeat experiments....

Directed by Soi Cheang • 2015 • Hong Kong, China, Thailand
Starring Tony Jaa, Wu Jing, Simon Yam

A sequel in name only to KILL ZONE, the giddily frenetic KILL ZONE 2 (a.k.a. SPL 2: A TIME FOR CONSEQUENCES) teams action virtuosos Tony Jaa, Wu Jing, and Zhang Jin with Hong Kong megastars Simon Yam...

Directed by Robert Altman • 1979 • United States
Starring Paul Newman, Brigitte Fossey, Bibi Andersson

One of director Robert Altman’s most divisive works, this stark, hypnotic science-fiction experiment takes place after a nuclear holocaust has thrown the world into another ice age. A man named...

Directed by Johnnie To • 2016 • Hong Kong, China
Starring Zhao Wei, Louis Koo, Wallace Chung

When three disparate souls—a doctor desperate to redeem her reputation (Zhao Wei), a policeman who will go to any length to seek justice (Louis Koo), and a criminal with a gunshot wound to the head (Wall...