Directed by Paul Thomas Anderson • 2002 • United States
Starring Adam Sandler, Emily Watson, Philip Seymour Hoffman

Chaos lurks in every corner of this giddily off-kilter foray into romantic comedy by Paul Thomas Anderson. Struggling to cope with his erratic temper, novelty-toilet-plunger sales...

Directed by Alex Proyas • 1994 • United States
Starring Brandon Lee, Rochelle Davis, Ernie Hudson

This seductively grungy, operatically stylized thriller has achieved cult immortality both for its sleek noir world-building and for the impressive performance of Brandon Lee, whose tragic accidenta...

Directed by Satoshi Kon • 2006 • Japan
Starring Megumi Hayashibara, Toru Furuya, Koichi Yamadera

The final feature directed by anime legend Satoshi Kon is a dizzying, dazzling tour through the unconscious that takes the genre to new heights of giddy imagination. Atsuko is a psychiatrist who has ...

Directed by Todd Haynes • 1998 • United Kingdom, United States
Starring Ewan McGregor, Toni Collette, Christian Bale

A CITIZEN KANE for the glittering, hedonistic glam-rock explosion, Todd Haynes’s deliriously flamboyant third feature follows journalist Arthur Stuart (Christian Bale) as he launc...

Directed by Robert Altman • 2006 • United States
Starring Meryl Streep, Lily Tomlin, Lindsay Lohan

Based on Garrison Keillor’s beloved radio program of the same name, Robert Altman’s deeply moving final film invites audiences to the fictional “closing night” of the fabled show. As the rain pours...

Directed by Jia Zhangke • 2020 • China

From master director Jia Zhangke comes a vital document of Chinese society and its transformation since 1949. Jia interviews three prominent authors—Jia Pingwa, Yu Hua, and Liang Hong—born in the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s, respectively. In their stories, we h...

Directed by Robert Altman • 1994 • United States
Starring Marcello Mastroianni, Sophia Loren, Anouk Aimée

Something like a NASHVILLE for the ’90s, Robert Altman’s deliciously catty fashion-industry satire zigzags, in inimitable Altman style, between the swarm of reporters, designers, models, pow...

Directed by Roman Polanski • 1974 • United States
Starring Jack Nicholson, Faye Dunaway, John Huston

An Oscar-winning screenplay by Robert Towne, career-defining performances from Jack Nicholson and Faye Dunaway, and Roman Polanski’s atmospheric direction come together in one of the greatest fil...

Directed by Alan J. Pakula • 1974 • United States
Starring Warren Beatty, Hume Cronyn, William Daniels

Perhaps no director tapped into the pervasive sense of dread and mistrust that defined the 1970s more effectively than Alan J. Pakula, who, in the second installment of his celebrated Paranoia ...

Directed by Paul Thomas Anderson • 1999 • United States
Starring Tom Cruise, Melinda Dillon, Philip Seymour Hoffman

Paul Thomas Anderson’s Altmanesque portrait of a day in the crisscrossing lives of various San Fernando Valley residents—including a sleazy pickup artist (Tom Cruise); a distraugh...

Directed by William Friedkin • 1977 • United States
Starring Roy Scheider, Bruno Cremer, Francisco Rabal

A hallucinatory journey into the heart of darkness, William Friedkin’s pulse-pounding reimagining of the suspense classic THE WAGES OF FEAR was dismissed upon its release, only to be recogniz...

Directed by Steven Kampmann and William Porter • 1988 • United States
Starring Mark Harmon, Blair Brown, Jodie Foster

Jodie Foster’s deeply affecting performance as a young woman whose life takes a tragic turn haunts this unabashedly heart-tugging coming-of-age melodrama. Washed-up minor-league ...

Directed by Ashley McKenzie • 2015 • Canada
Starring Sofia Banzhaf, Andrew Gillis

An overworked student finds his life thrown into chaos when he gets involved with a young drug addict.

Directed by Joseph Pierce • 2008 • United Kingdom

A button-pushing comedian performs before an increasingly agitated crowd—until his body rebels against him and reveals the dark truth behind his one-liners.

Directed by Jia Zhangke • 2006 • China
Starring Zhao Tao, Han Sanming, Wang Hongwei

Jia Zhangke employs an eloquent hybrid of documentary and fiction to tell the story of those left behind by a rapidly transforming Chinese society. Great changes have come to the town of Fengjie due to the constr...

Directed by Jia Zhangke • 2015 • China
Starring Zhao Tao, Zhang Yi, Liang Jingdong

Visionary filmmaker Jia Zhangke scales new heights with MOUNTAINS MAY DEPART. Starring the luminous Zhao Tao, the film is both an intimate drama and a decades-spanning epic about how China’s capitalist experiment ...

Directed by Jorge Jácome • 2017 • Portugal
Starring André Andrade, Gabriel Desplanque, Jorge Jácome

Drenched in lysergic lavender, this sci-fi pseudo-documentary is both a dreamy vision of ecological apocalypse and a tender queer love story set on an island in the Azores overrun by endlessly pro...

Directed by Trevor Tweeten • 2021 • United States

Sound and image meet in a mesmerizing, multisensory experience in this journey through Ethiopian American artist Julie Mehretu’s expansive painting “Congress,” which sets the artwork to the acclaimed album “Promises,” a collaboration between elec...

Directed by Grace Passô and Ricardo Alves Jr. • 2019 • Brazil
Starring Grace Passô, Zora Santos, Dona Jandira

A wandering voice is able to invade any matter—solid, liquid, or gas—and it decides for the first time to invade a woman’s body. From this experience it narrates what it feels and what i...

Directed by Athi-Patra Ruga • 2008 • South Africa

Clad in pink stilettos, fishnet stockings, and outré headgear, a mute figure wanders, alien-like, through the city.

Directed by André Novais Oliveira • 2010 • Brazil
Starring Gabriel Martins, Maurílio Martins

Two men chat casually on a rooftop—but not all is as it seems in this cryptic look at obsession in the age of video surveillance.

Directed by Jorge Jácome • 2019 • Portugal

Jorge Jácome’s hypnotic video essay sets a gauzy kaleidoscope of images to a philosophical rumination on the crushing malaise of our present age and the indistinct longing for a return to the past.

Directed by David Cronenberg • 1986 • United States
Starring Jeff Goldblum, Geena Davis, John Getz

“Be afraid. Be very afraid.” Body-horror master David Cronenberg’s renowned remake of the 1950s science-fiction classic is one of the filmmaker’s most gruesome yet heartbreakingly poignant creation...

Directed by Joseph Pierce • 2012 • United Kingdom

The shape-shifting, black-and-white animation of director Joseph Pierce turns a snapshot of a seemingly ordinary day at a North London pub into an unsettlingly surreal vision of life on the bottom rung of society.