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  • The Wandering Princess

    Directed by Kinuyo Tanaka • 1960 • Japan
    Starring Machiko Kyo, Eiji Funakoshi, Yomei Ryu

    Kinuyo Tanaka’s first film in both color and CinemaScope is an epic about a woman caught in the torrents of history. Based on the memoirs of Hiro Saga, THE WANDERING PRINCESS tells the story of Ryuko (Machik...

  • Showgirls

    Directed by Paul Verhoeven • 1995 • United States, France
    Starring Elizabeth Berkley, Kyle MacLachlan, Gina Gershon

    Unbound by musty notions of “good taste,” SHOWGIRLS goes farther than any other film of the 1990s in its orgiastic depiction of consumerism, crass spectacle, and the dark side of t...

  • The Tall Men

    Directed by Raoul Walsh • 1955 • United States
    Starring Clark Gable, Jane Russell, Robert Ryan

    Stunning CinemaScope landscapes, a dynamite cast, and the vigorous direction of Raoul Walsh come together in this gripping portrayal of an epic cattle drive. En route to the gold fields of Montana, Ben...

  • Cute Girl

    Directed by Hou Hsiao-hsien • 1980 • Taiwan
    Starring Kenny Bee, Anthony Chan Yau, Chang Ping-Yu

    One of the great poets of modern cinema, Hou Hsiao-hsien, made his feature debut with this sweet and lighthearted romantic comedy. Pop star Kenny Bee plays the poor city boy who, while working as an e...

  • Home Away from Home

    Directed by Maureen Blackwood • 1994 • United Kingdom
    Starring Ellen Thomas, Ashabi Ajikawo, Simon Lee Clarke

    A bittersweet drama that unfolds almost without dialogue, this prizewinning short conveys immigrant women’s experiences of isolation. Feeling displaced from her rural African roots, Miri...

  • Our Body

    Directed by Claire Simon • 2023 • France

    Timely, intimate, and deeply empathetic, OUR BODY observes the everyday operations of the gynecological ward in a public hospital in Paris. In the process, veteran documentarian Claire Simon questions what it means to live in a woman’s body, filming the d...

  • El Norte

    Directed by Gregory Nava • 1983 • Guatemala, United States
    Starring Ernesto Gómez Cruz, David Villalpando, Zaide Silvia Gutiérrez

    Brother and sister Enrique and Rosa flee persecution at home in Guatemala and journey north, through Mexico and on to the United States, with the dream of starting a ...

  • The Wicker Man

    Directed by Neil LaBute • 2006 • United States
    Starring Nicolas Cage, Ellen Burstyn, Kate Beahan

    Perhaps best remembered now for the memes it launched (“Not the bees!”), writer-director Neil LaBute’s remake of the 1973 pagan-horror classic stars Nicolas Cage at his most Nicolas Cage as Edward Ma...

  • Cocktail

    Directed by Roger Donaldson • 1988 • United States
    Starring Tom Cruise, Bryan Brown, Elisabeth Shue

    Tom Cruise’s mid-1980s rise to megastardom continued with this critically savaged but commercially popular look at love and money in “greed is good”–era Manhattan. He’s got swagger to burn as Bria...

  • Drive My Car

    Directed by Ryusuke Hamaguchi • 2021 • Japan
    Starring Hidetoshi Nishijima, Toko Miura, Reika Kirishima

    Only Ryusuke Hamaguchi, with his extraordinary sensitivity to the mysterious resonances of human interactions, could sweep up international awards (including the Oscar for Best International Fe...

  • Under the Cherry Moon

    Directed by Prince • 1986 • United States
    Starring Prince, Kristin Scott Thomas, Jerome Benton

    For his film follow-up to the massive success of PURPLE RAIN, pop auteur Prince—acting as director, star, and composer—brought his world-conquering charisma to this unapologetically goofy, high-camp ho...

  • Forever a Woman

    Directed by Kinuyo Tanaka • 1955 • Japan
    Starring Yumeji Tsukioka, Masayuki Mori, Ryoji Hayama

    Widely considered Kinuyo Tanaka’s first personal film, FOREVER A WOMAN tells the story of a recent divorcée (Yumeji Tsukioka) who is diagnosed with late-stage breast cancer. In adapting the real-life s...

  • The Virgin Suicides

    Directed by Sofia Coppola • 1999 • United States
    Starring Kirsten Dunst, Kathleen Turner, James Woods

    With this debut feature, Sofia Coppola announced her singular vision, exploring the aesthetics of femininity while illuminating the interior lives of young women. An adaptation of Jeffrey Eugeni...

  • The Revolt of Mamie Stover

    Directed by Raoul Walsh • 1956 • United States
    Starring Jane Russell, Richard Egan, Joan Leslie

    Jane Russell’s feisty performance (in a role originally intended for Marilyn Monroe), Raoul Walsh’s vigorous direction, and spectacular Hawaiian location shooting in eye-popping DeLuxe Color come toge...

  • Gigli

    Directed by Martin Brest • 2003 • United States
    Starring Ben Affleck, Jennifer Lopez, Justin Bartha

    At the height of the tabloid frenzy surrounding their (first) relationship, Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez teamed up for this notorious box-office turkey, which has provoked both disdain and fasci...

  • The Boys from Fengkuei

    Directed by Hou Hsiao-hsien • 1983 • Taiwan
    Starring Doze Niu Cheng-Tse, Zhang Shi, Lin Hsiu-Ling

    THE BOYS FROM FENGKUEI was Hou Hsiao-hsien’s fourth film as director, but in many ways it can be viewed as his first mature work—the one in which he moved away from commercial comedies toward a more...

  • Our Father, the Devil

    Directed by Ellie Foumbi • 2021 • United States
    Starring Babetida Sadjo, Souleymane Sy Savane, Jennifer Tchiakpe

    Ellie Foumbi’s elegant moral thriller is a grippingly intense exploration of trauma, revenge, and forgiveness that stands as one of the most exciting feature debuts in recent memory. ...

  • American Movie

    Directed by Chris Smith • 1999 • United States

    It takes a village to make a movie, but when that village is Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin, the results are bizarre, comical, and quintessentially American. With the help of his mother, his eighty-two-year-old uncle, and a local cast of oddballs, DIY f...

  • Girls of the Night

    Directed by Kinuyo Tanaka • 1961 • Japan
    Starring Chisako Hara, Akemi Kita, Yosuke Natsuki

    With GIRLS OF THE NIGHT, Kinuyo Tanaka reunited with screenwriter Sumie Tanaka to explore Japan’s attempted reformation of former prostitutes. The film follows Kuniko (Hisako Hara), an escort who enters a ...

  • Darwin, What?

    Directed by Isabella Rossellini and Paul David Magid • 2020 • Greece
    Starring Isabella Rossellini, Paul David Magid

    Isabella Rossellini ponders some of Charles Darwin’s most confounding theories—and gets a little help from the legendary naturalist himself.

    DARWIN, WHAT? and DARWIN, WHAT? WHAT?,...

  • The Reverend

    Directed by Nick Canfield • 2022 • United States
    Starring Reverend Vince Anderson, Questlove, Jay Bakker

    Filmed over the course of four years, THE REVEREND is a raucous concert film and an intimate portrait of singular, self-proclaimed “dirty gospel’’ singer Reverend Vince Anderson’s spiritual a...

  • Darwin, What? What?

    Directed by Isabella Rossellini and Paul David Magid • 2020 • Greece
    Starring Isabella Rossellini, Paul David Magid

    Isabella Rossellini ponders some of Charles Darwin’s most confounding theories—and gets a little help from the legendary naturalist himself.

    DARWIN, WHAT? and DARWIN, WHAT? WHAT?,...

  • Fox Film

    Directed by Isabella Rossellini • 2020 • United States

    In this bite-size, hand-drawn biology lesson, Isabella Rossellini explains how the human domestication of animals changed the course of evolution.

  • The Moon Has Risen

    Directed by Kinuyo Tanaka • 1955 • Japan
    Starring Chishu Ryu, Shuji Sano, Hisako Yamane

    For her second film, Kinuyo Tanaka directed a script by legendary collaborator and mentor Yasujiro Ozu. Though informed by Ozu’s singular take on familial relationships, THE MOON HAS RISEN also possesses Tana...