Directed by Jem Cohen • 2001 • United States

Jem Cohen directs an extended music video for Sparklehorse’s song “Maxine.”

Directed by Amir Naderi • 1984 • Iran
Starring Madjid Niroumand, Moussa Torkizadeh, Abbas Nazeri

Childhood takes on mythic dimensions in one of the defining works of postrevolutionary Iranian cinema. Inspired by director Amir Naderi’s own boyhood, THE RUNNER is lit from within by Madjid Nirouman...

Directed by Tim Blake Nelson • 1997 • United States
Starring Martha Plimpton, Kevin Anderson, Nick Stahl

One of the great but long-unheralded debut films, Tim Blake Nelson’s first feature is an emotionally shattering tale of existential desolation in a small Oklahoma town. Unfolding in a fractur...

Directed by Anthony Harvey • 1966 • United Kingdom
Starring Shirley Knight, Al Freeman Jr., Frank Lieberman

Adapted from the explosive one-act play by Amiri Baraka, this intense chamber drama remains as provocative today as it was in 1966. In an empty New York City subway car, a sexually audacio...

Directed by Roger Vadim • 1968 • France, Italy
Starring Jane Fonda, John Phillip Law, Marcel Marceau

This outrageous blend of science fiction, high camp, and erotic fantasia made Jane Fonda a permanent cult icon. She is sensational as a wide-eyed space adventurer whose quest to track down a fame...

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 Corinna Belz • 2011 • Germany

A sublime work of art in its own right, this beautifully shot, endlessly revealing documentary offers unprecedented insight into the life and work of one of the greatest artists of our time. In the spring and summer of 2009, legendary German painter Gerh...

Directed by Jem Cohen • 2008 • United States
Starring Patti Smith

Patti Smith recites the first poem-song she ever wrote in this portrait of the artist and her New York City neighborhood.

Directed by Jia Zhangke • 1995 • China
Starring Wang Hongwei, Dong Shuzhe, Yao Sheng

Jia Zhangke’s raw yet revelatory student film—in many ways a precursor to his debut feature XIAO WU—stars his frequent on-screen alter ego Wang Hongwei as a young, aimless cook drifting through encounters in Bei...

Directed by Elia Kazan • 1954 • United States
Starring Marlon Brando, Karl Malden, Lee J. Cobb

Marlon Brando gives the performance of his career as the tough prizefighter-turned-longshoreman Terry Malloy in this masterpiece of urban poetry. A raggedly emotional tale of individual failure and soc...

Directed by Sylvia Chang, Joan Chen, and Li Shaohong • 2022 • China
Starring Zhou Xun, Sammi Cheng, Jackson Yee

A trio of China’s leading women filmmakers—Sylvia Chang, Joan Chen, and Li Shaohong—join forces for this three-part anthology about women navigating a new world of uncertainty amid the...

Directed by Jem Cohen • 2000 • United States

Footage of an early-1990s military ticker-tape parade in lower Manhattan takes on an increasingly unsettling tone.

Directed by Peter Bogdanovich • 1973 • United States
Starring Ryan O'Neal, Tatum O'Neal, Madeline Kahn

Peter Bogdanovich revisits the lyrical strain of bittersweet nostalgia he tapped into in THE LAST PICTURE SHOW in this 1930s-set comedy about the unlikely partnership that develops between a sm...

Directed by Jem Cohen • 1996 • United States

Inspired by Walter Benjamin and director Jem Cohen’s time working as a pushcart vendor in downtown Manhattan, LOST BOOK FOUND compiles five years worth of Super 8 and 16 mm footage into a multilayered New York city symphony.

Directed by Cy Endfield • 1950 • United States
Starring Frank Lovejoy, Kathleen Ryan, Richard Carlson

Inspired by the highly publicized 1933 murder of department store heir Brooke Hart (also the basis for Fritz Lang’s FURY), TRY AND GET ME! (a.k.a. THE SOUND OF FURY) is a searing portrait of mob...

Directed by Jem Cohen • 2007 • United States

Jem Cohen captures a minute-long slice of New York City street life.

Directed by Joseph McGrath • 1969 • United Kingdom
Starring Peter Sellers, Ringo Starr, John Cleese

Adapted by Terry Southern from his own novel, this wild satire of capitalism run amok stars Peter Sellers as a bored billionaire who, along with the street vagrant (Ringo Starr) he adopts as his s...

Directed by Danny Boyle • 2000 • United Kingdom, United States
Starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Tilda Swinton, Virginie Ledoyen

A group of young vacationers uncover the dark side of paradise in Danny Boyle’s sleek adventure mystery, which doubles as a quintessential Y2K-era time capsule. Fresh from T...

Directed by Jem Cohen • 2017 • United States

BIRTH OF A NATION is Jem Cohen’s record of Donald Trump’s 2017 presidential inauguration and the protests that followed it.

Directed by Jia Zhangke • 2016 • China
Starring Han Sanming, Jindong Liang, Yuan Wenqian

Jia Zhangke finds wry tragicomedy and sharp social insight in the story of unemployed Shanxi coal miners whose search for work leads them to surprising places.

Directed by Peter Yates • 1977 • United States, United Kingdom
Starring Robert Shaw, Jacqueline Bisset, Nick Nolte

Adapted from the best seller by JAWS author Peter Benchley, this action-packed blockbuster thriller gave audiences yet another reason to stay out of the water. Nick Nolte and Jacque...

Directed by Jem Cohen • 2004 • United States
Starring Miho Nikaido, Mira Billotte, Minda Martin

As regional character disappears and corporate culture homogenizes our surroundings, it’s increasingly hard to tell where you are. In Jem Cohen’s mesmerizing blend of narrative and documentary observa...

Directed by Roman Polanski • 2010 • United Kingdom, France, Germany
Starring Ewan McGregor, Pierce Brosnan, Kim Cattrall

A ghostwriter unwittingly becomes part of the story he is hired to tell in Roman Polanski’s acclaimed, precision-crafted political thriller, brilliantly adapted from the novel...

Directed by Clarence Brown • 1949 • United States
Starring David Brian, Juano Hernández, Claude Jarman Jr.

One of the first major Hollywood films to deal seriously and sensitively with the subject of racial injustice, this landmark adaptation of the novel by William Faulkner features a towering ...