Directed by George Marshall • 1939 • United States
Starring Marlene Dietrich, James Stewart, Mischa Auer
Marlene Dietrich and James Stewart ride high in this superb comedic western, both a boisterous spoof and a shining example of its genre. As the brawling, rough-and-tumble saloon singer French...
Directed by Hirokazu Kore-eda • 2009 • Japan
Starring Bae Doona, Arata Iura, Itsuji Itao
One of the most daring films by Hirokazu Kore-eda (AFTER LIFE, SHOPLIFTERS) this fable of modern alienation transports the Galatea myth to present-day Tokyo. It’s there that a life-size blow-up doll (Bae Doo...
Directed by Valeska Grisebach • 2017 • Germany
Starring Meinhard Neumann, Reinhardt Wetrek, Syuleyman Alilov Letifov
Valeska Grisebach’s intense, slow-burning thriller follows a group of German construction workers installing a hydroelectric plant in rural Bulgaria. The foreign land awakens the ...
Directed by Henry King • 1933 • United States
Starring Janet Gaynor, Will Rogers, Lew Ayres
This warm, timeless Best Picture nominee beautifully displays director Henry King’s feeling for the texture of rural America. Based on Phil Stong’s oft-adapted novel (later the source for the Rodgers and ...
Directed by Joseph Kane • 1956 • United States
Starring David Brian, Vera Ralston, Sidney Blackmer
Legendary Poverty Row studio Republic Pictures trotted out its knockoff Technicolor process, Trucolor, for this handsomely mounted noir in which a police detective (David Brian) finds himself entan...
Directed by Don Bluth • 1989 • United States
Starring Burt Reynolds, Dom DeLuise, Judith Barsi
Set in 1939 New Orleans, this colorful, song-filled family favorite from independent-animation legend Don Bluth features the voice of Burt Reynolds as Charles B. Barkin, a roguish German shepherd with ...
Directed by Paulin Soumanou Vieyra • 1964 • Senegal
This documentary captures the sport of traditional wrestling, called “lamb” in Wolof, popular in Senegal. Paulin Vieyra presents the rigorous rules of the sport and training practices by the sea. The Dakar Arena serves as a showcase for the bat...
Directed by Zhao Liang • 2009 • China
Zhao Liang’s courageous and devastating work of cinematic activism takes us inside the world of “petitioners”: Chinese citizens who come to Beijing from all over the country to seek justice against corrupt government officials and courts back home, only to f...
Directed by Joseph Krumgold • 1953 • United States
Starring Miguel Chavez, Pedro Chavez
AND NOW MIGUEL is known today as the beloved novel by Joseph Krumgold that won the Newberry Medal for excellence in American children’s literature in 1954. But few know that the story actually originated as a...
Directed by Anthony Mann • 1958 • United Kingdom
Starring Gary Cooper, Julie London, Lee J. Cobb
In one of his last and finest performances, Gary Cooper plays the reformed outlaw Link Jones, who is unwittingly drawn back into his criminal past when his train is held up by his former gang. One of...
Directed by Bruce D. Clark • 1972 • United States
Starring Fred Williamson, Vonetta McGee, William Smith
Blaxploitation legend Fred Williamson got his first starring vehicle with this gritty boxing drama. He brings his megawatt charisma to the role of Los Angeles dockworker B. J. Hammer, who cat...
Directed by Jem Cohen • 2012 • Austria, United States
Starring Mary Margaret O’Hara, Bobby Sommer, Ela Piplits
Acclaimed experimental filmmaker Jem Cohen applies his singular vision to narrative in this mesmerizing tale of two adrift strangers who find refuge in Vienna’s grand Kunsthistorisches ...
Directed by Paulin Soumanou Vieyra • 1981 • Senegal
Starring Birago Diop
BIRAGO DIOP, CONTEUR (“Birago Diop, Storyteller”) offers a portrait of the famous Senegalese writer and poet. While young writers of Antillean and African descent chose poetry to express the search for their identity within...
Directed by Raoul Walsh • 1942 • United States
Starring Errol Flynn, Alexis Smith, Jack Carson
Director Raoul Walsh meticulously evokes the salty atmosphere of late-nineteenth-century San Francisco in this highly (but engagingly) fictionalized biography of the Irish American bank clerk turned bo...
Directed by Gordon Parks • 1971 • United States
Starring Richard Roundtree, Moses Gunn, Charles Cioffi
“Hotter than Bond. Cooler than Bullitt,” the movie posters proclaimed. And as embodied by an ultrabadass Richard Roundtree, John Shaft is indeed a detective to reckon with: a stylish, streetwis...
Directed by Henry King • 1958 • United States
Starring Gregory Peck, Joan Collins, Henry Silva
The final of the five collaborations between star Gregory Peck and director Henry King is a brutal, psychologically charged revenge western shot in striking widescreen color. Jim Douglass (Peck) arrive...
Directed by Mark Robson • 1949 • United States
Starring Kirk Douglas, Marilyn Maxwell, Arthur Kennedy
A ferocious, Oscar-nominated Kirk Douglas delivers one of his defining performances as Midge Kelly, a ruthless boxer who steps on anyone and everyone around him in his single-minded pursuit of s...
Directed by Jim Jacobs • 1970 • United States
Starring Muhammad Ali, Richard Kiley, Malcolm X
Released in 1970, when Muhammad Ali was in the midst of his exile from boxing for his refusal to be drafted into the Vietnam War, this vivid documentary draws on a wealth of archival materials to tell t...
Directed by Blake Edwards • 1962 • United States
Starring Jack Lemmon, Lee Remick, Charles Bickford
Blake Edwards’s powerful adaptation of J. P. Miller’s heartrending teleplay broke startling new ground in its unsparing, bare-knuckled look at an ordinary family torn apart by alcoholism. Cast aga...
Directed by Nicholas Ray • 1958 • United States
Starring Robert Taylor, Cyd Charisse, Lee J. Cobb
Hollywood iconoclast (and favorite of the French New Wave auteurs) Nicholas Ray brings plenty of punch to this offbeat noir musical based on the life of Dixie Davis, the lawyer for infamous mob boss...
Directed by Daniel Mann • 1978 • United States
Starring Elliott Gould, Clive Revill, Harry Guardino
Robert Mitchum, Elliott Gould, and . . . a boxing kangaroo?! Yes, this movie exists. Matilda is the fighting marsupial who becomes a contender for heavyweight champion of the world, with his ex-pu...
Directed by Stuart Heisler • 1955 • United States
Starring Jack Palance, Shelley Winters, Lori Nelson
Definitive film-noir classic HIGH SIERRA receives a sleek update for the 1950s—this time in vivid widescreen Technicolor. Jack Palance fills in for Humphrey Bogart, bringing a simmering menace t...
Directed by Blake Edwards • 1962 • United States
Starring Lee Remick, Glenn Ford
Following the success of BREAKFAST AT TIFFANY’S, producer-director Blake Edwards took a detour into noir territory with this ultra-stylish, mood-drenched thriller. Lee Remick plays a San Francisco bank clerk who is ...
Directed by Paulin Soumanou Vieyra • 1981 • Senegal
Starring Ousmane Sembène
In this chronicle of the making of a masterpiece, Paulin Vieyra captures Senegalese cinema titan Ousmane Sembène during the production of his 1977 historical drama CEDDO, which would go on to be banned under the Senghor...
