Directed by Akira Kurosawa • 1985 • Japan
Starring Tatsuya Nakadai, Akira Terao, Jinpachi Nezu
With RAN, legendary director Akira Kurosawa reimagines Shakespeare’s “King Lear” as a singular historical epic set in sixteenth-century Japan. Majestic in scope, the film is Kurosawa’s late-life master...
Directed by Agnès Varda • 1977 • France
Starring Valérie Mairesse, Thérèse Liotard, Ali Raffi
In the early 1960s in Paris, two young women become friends. Pomme is an aspiring singer. Suzanne is a pregnant country girl unable to support a third child. Pomme lends Suzanne the money for an illegal...
Directed by Dorothy Arzner • 1936 • United States
Starring Rosalind Russell, John Boles
As scripted by Mary C. McCall Jr. (adapting the Pulitzer Prize–winning play by George Kelly) and directed by Dorothy Arzner, this searing domestic drama packs a subversive, antipatriarchal punch. In a command...
Directed by Mike Leigh • 1997 • United Kingdom
Starring Katrin Cartlidge, Lynda Steadman
CAREER GIRLS looks at two thirty-year-old career women who meet up after a long period apart and rediscover the relationship they enjoyed when they shared an apartment years ago. Moving, sad and funny, it’s ...
Directed by Donald Cammell and Nicolas Roeg • 1970 • United Kingdom
Starring Mick Jagger, James Fox
With this hallucinatory chamber drama, Nicolas Roeg and Donald Cammell tapped into a powerful vein of counterculture paranoia and psychological violence. Mick Jagger and James Fox star as a decade...
Directed by Apichatpong Weerasethakul • 2015 • Thailand
Starring Jenjira Pongpas, Banlop Lomnoi
Soldiers with a mysterious sleeping sickness are transferred to a temporary clinic in a former school. The memory-filled space becomes a revelatory world for housewife and volunteer Jenjira, as she wa...
Directed by Robin Hardy • 1973 • United Kingdom
Starring Edward Woodward, Christopher Lee
This legendary cult favorite was released to relatively little fanfare but has gone on to be regarded as one of the most disturbing and audacious horror films of all time. A young girl’s disappearance bring...
Directed by Zofia Kowalewska • 2016 • Poland
A Polish couple on the cusp of celebrating their forty-fifth anniversary confronts still-fresh emotional wounds in this tender documentary exploration of commitment, betrayal, and forgiveness.
Directed by Apichatpong Weerasethakul • 2010 • Thailand
Starring Thanapat Saisaymar, Jenjira Pongpas, Sakda Kaewbuadee
Winner of the Palme d’Or, UNCLE BOONMEE WHO CAN RECALL HIS PAST LIVES is an unclassifiable tale of a man embracing life’s greatest mystery. Suffering from acute kidney failure, ...
Directed by Souleymane Cissé • 1987 • Mali
Starring Issiaka Kane, Aoua Sangare
This adaptation of an ancient oral legend from Mali is one the most acclaimed and widely seen African films ever made. An Oedipal story infused with magic, YEELEN is as visually stunning as anything from Hollywood. Se...
Directed by Carol Reed • 1959 • United Kingdom
Starring Alec Guiness, Maureen O’Hara, Burl Ives
Based on the novel by Grahame Greene, this witty spy comedy stars Alec Guiness as Jim Wormold, a vacuum-cleaner salesman in Cuba who joins the British Secret Service in order to keep up with his daugh...
Directed by Apichatpong Weerasethakul • 2004 • Thailand
Starring Banlop Lomnoi, Sakda Kaewbuadee
TROPICAL MALADY is a lyrical and mysterious love story by maverick Thai director Apichatpong Weerasethakul. The film chronicles the mystical romance between a young soldier and the country boy he sed...
Directed by Penelope Spheeris • 1998 • United States
With the final installment of her DECLINE OF WESTERN CIVILIZATION trilogy, Penelope Spheeris focuses on the gutter-punk lifestyle of homeless teenagers in Los Angeles. Turning her attention away from the famous musicians profiled in the first ...
Directed by Carlos Reygadas • 2005 • Mexico
Starring Marcos Hernández, Anapola Mushkadiz
Cast entirely with nonprofessionals, BATTLE IN HEAVEN tells the story of Marcos, the middle-aged chauffeur of Ana, daughter of a Mexican general. Marcos is the only member of Ana’s household who knows she le...
Directed by Krzysztof Kieślowski • 1966 • Poland
While a film student in Łódź, Krzysztof Kieślowski made the 1966 silent short THE TRAM, about a flirtatious boy and a pretty girl. The film is presented here courtesy of the Polish National Film, Television, and Theatre School in Łódź.
Directed by Penelope Spheeris • 1988 • United States
The second in Penelope Spheeris’s trilogy on alternative LA, THE METAL YEARS takes a fast-paced look at the outrageous heavy metal scene of the late eighties. Set in Los Angeles, the film explores the lives of struggling musicians, fans, and s...
Directed by David Lowery • 2011 • United States
Starring Will Oldham, Myles Brooks
A father tells his son the most epic bedtime story ever.
Directed by Martin Rosen • 1982 • United Kingdom, United States
Starring John Hurt, Christopher Benjamin
Two dogs embark on a perilous quest toward freedom in this heartrending animated adventure. Having already adapted WATERSHIP DOWN for the screen, director Martin Rosen turned to another class...
Directed by Mauritz Stiller • 1924 • Sweden
Starring Lars Hanson, Greta Garbo
A daring but reckless minister (Lars Hanson) is defrocked and forced to leave town. He attempts to piece his life back together after becoming a tutor to a wealthy countess’s stepdaughter, but the countess has her own ...
Directed by Alexander Mackendrick • 1951 • United Kingdom
Starring Alec Guinness, Joan Greenwood, Cecil Parker
A young laboratory assistant in a textile mill infuriates management and labor when he invents an indestructible, stain-resistant fabric and tries to put it on the market. One of the mo...
Directed by Christopher Miles • 1975 • United Kingdom
Starring Glenda Jackson, Susannah York, Vivien Merchant
Jean Genet receives an unbridled, expertly cinematic rendering in this adaptation of his perverse play. Glenda Jackson and Susannah York play Solange and Claire, Paris maids who tend to ...
Directed by Dorothy Arzner • 1933 • United States
Starring Katharine Hepburn, Colin Clive, Billie Burke
Aristocrat, daredevil aviatrix . . . and an irresistibly beautiful woman: Katharine Hepburn stars as Lady Cynthia Darrington, the world’s top female pilot, afraid of nothing—except her love fo...
Directed by Jaromil Jireš • 1959 • Czechoslovakia
This early short by Jaromil Jireš anticipates the formal and stylistic experimentation that would characterize VALERIE AND HER WEEK OF WONDERS.
Directed by Peter Glenville • 1955 • United Kingdom
Starring Alec Guinness, Jack Hawkins
Unfolding in an unnamed Eastern European country after World War II, THE CARDINAL is a stripped-down struggle of wills between two archetypal characters. The Cardinal (Alec Guinness) has been arrested and, c...
