Directed by Michael Mann • 2006 • United States, Germany
Starring Jamie Foxx, Colin Farrell, Gong Li

Packed with woozy poetry and visual pyrotechnics, Michael Mann’s big-screen adaptation of the 1980s television show that established his reputation is one of the most formally daring films releas...

Directed by Hou Hsiao-hsien • 2001 • Taiwan
Starring Shu Qi, Jack Kao, Duan Chun-hao

Hou Hsiao-hsien’s neon-splashed reverie is a dreamlike drift through the night world of early-2000s Taipei. From the year 2011, the wayward Vicky (Shu Qi)—a bar hostess caught between a jealously possessive boyf...

Directed by Bernardo Bertolucci • 2003 • France, Italy, United Kingdom
Starring Eva Green, Michael Pitt, Louis Garrel

This late-career triumph from Bernardo Bertolucci is an intoxicating homage to love, sex, cinema, and the revolutionary spirit of the 1960s, suffused with the wide-eyed wonder of...

Directed by Charles Burnett • 1977 • United States
Starring Henry Gayle Sanders, Kaycee Moore, Charles Bracy

A quiet revelation of American independent filmmaking, Charles Burnett’s lyrical debut feature unfolds as a mosaic of Black life in the Watts neighborhood of Los Angeles, where Stan (Henr...

Directed by Steven Soderbergh • 1998 • United States Starring George Clooney, Jennifer Lopez, Don Cheadle

The megawatt star power of George Clooney and Jennifer Lopez propels this sexy, sleekly entertaining ...

Directed by Thomas McGuane • 1975 • United States
Starring Peter Fonda, Warren Oates, Margot Kidder

Thomas McGuane adapted his own novel for this wonderfully weird, deadpan portrait of outsiders and oddballs living in Key West, Florida. Peter Fonda stars as a wannabe fishing guide who finds hims...

Directed by Susan Streitfeld • 1996 • United States, Germany
Starring Tilda Swinton, Amy Madigan, Karen Sillas

In her stunning American film debut, the singularly arresting, chameleonic Tilda Swinton stars as Eve Stephens, a ruthless, bisexual Los Angeles lawyer on the edge. As she struggles to ...

Directed by Terry Zwigoff • 1995 • United States
Starring Robert Crumb

Terry Zwigoff’s landmark 1995 film is an intimate documentary portrait of the underground artist Robert Crumb, whose unique drawing style and sexually and racially provocative subject matter have made him a household name in ...

Directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz • 1959 • United States, United Kingdom
Starring Elizabeth Taylor, Katharine Hepburn, Montgomery Clift

Gay panic, incest, and a sprinkling of cannibalism: Tennessee Williams’s one-act southern-gothic shocker gets an appropriately lurid screen adaptation cowritten ...

Directed by Michael Mann • 1986 • United States
Starring William Petersen, Kim Greist, Joan Allen

Michael Mann’s hypnotic, hyperstylized adaptation of Thomas Harris’s novel “Red Dragon” was the first film to introduce audiences to the infamous Hannibal Lecter. Will Graham (William Petersen) is a...

Directed by Michael Haneke • 2007 • United States, Austria, France
Starring Naomi Watts, Tim Roth, Michael Pitt

Michael Haneke’s English-language remake of his most controversial film retains the original’s ability to shock and unnerve in its provocative investigation of the link between violenc...

Directed by Sini Anderson • 2013 • United States

Kathleen Hanna, electrifying lead singer of the punk band Bikini Kill and dance-punk trio Le Tigre, rose to national attention as the reluctant but never shy voice of the riot grrrl movement, becoming both a famously outspoken feminist leader as w...

Directed by Jacques Rozier • 1958 • France
Starring Rene Ferro, Francis De Peretti, Elisabeth Klar

This breezy portrait of two Vespa-riding seventeen-year-old boys cruising the Rivera in search of girls captures the spirit of callow youth and the scenic splendors of the Mediterranean summertime.

Directed by Jacques Rozier • 1983 • France
Starring Fabrice Luchini, Solveig Dommartin, Carole Jacquinot

Jacques Rozier cleverly reflects on the state of modern filmmaking through a spirited debate between Don Quixote, here a movie director who champions creative freedom, and Sancho Panza, who a...

Directed by Jacques Rozier • 1964 • France

One of two documentaries Jacques Rozier made chronicling the making of Jean-Luc Godard’s CONTEMPT (along with LE PARTI DES CHOSES), PAPARAZZI focuses on the intense media frenzy that accompanied star Brigitte Bardot’s every move, offering a revealing lo...

Directed by Jean-Luc Godard • 1968 • United Kingdom

The Rolling Stones, at the peak of their creative powers, meet Jean-Luc Godard at the advent of his radical political phase in this fractured reflection of the social unrest of the 1960s. Directed by Godard at his most defiantly provocative, SY...

Directed by Michael Mann • 1995 • United States
Starring Al Pacino, Robert De Niro, Val Kilmer

Robert De Niro and Al Pacino face off in this titanic crime epic from pulp poet Michael Mann. A gang of thieves led by snazzy super-criminal Neal McCauley (De Niro) pull off a string of robberies on ba...

Directed by Michael Lindsay-Hogg • 1996 • United Kingdom

Filmed before a live audience in London in 1968, THE ROLLING STONES ROCK AND ROLL CIRCUS was originally conceived as a BBC television special—but it would ultimately be nearly thirty years before this all-star concert-film spectacular woul...

Directed by Tom DiCillo • 2006 • United States
Starring Steve Buscemi, Michael Pitt, Alison Lohman

Having brilliantly lampooned the world of low-budget filmmaking in LIVING IN OBLIVION, director Tom DiCillo and Steve Buscemi reteamed for another wicked satire of the entertainment industry, prese...

Directed by Moustapha Alassane • 1966 • Niger, France
Starring Harouna Diarra, Djingarey Abdoulaye Maïga, Zalika Souley

The Wild West comes to Africa in this raucous send-up of cultural colonialism—an influence on Djibril Diop Mambety’s TOUKI BOUKI—in which a young Nigerien man returns home from...

Directed by D. A. Pennebaker • 2007 • United States

In DONT LOOK BACK, D. A. Pennebaker immortalized Bob Dylan’s landmark 1965 British tour with one of the greatest music documentaries of all time. With 65 REVISITED, Pennebaker returned to his trove of archival footage to create an alternate rec...

Directed by Serge Moati • 1966 • France

A making-of documentary chronicles the behind-the-scenes anarchy of Moustapha Alassane’s African western RETURN OF AN ADVENTURER.

Directed by Matthew Harrison • 1994 • United States
Starring Jason Andrews, Eddie Daniels, Kevin Corrigan

Shot guerrilla-style in a whirlwind eleven days for just $11,000, Matthew Harrison’s edgy, invigorating indie follows Simon (Jason Andrews), a small-time hustler who ekes out a living sellin...

Directed by Göran Olsson • 2014 • Denmark, Finland, Sweden

Using Frantz Fanon’s anticolonial call to arms “The Wretched of the Earth” as a launching point, director Göran Olsson (THE BLACK POWER MIXTAPE 1967–1975) constructs a revelatory assemblage of archival newsreel footage documenting decade...