Oscar Nominees
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perfectly a strangeness
Movie
Directed by Alison McAlpine • 2024 • Canada
The awe-inspiring majesty of the natural world—from the expansive desert to the star-streaked night sky—is captured through unexpected eyes in this sublimely cinematic, Oscar-nominated documentary short. In the vast Chilean desert, three wandering donk...
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Three by Kleber Mendonça Filho
1 season
As his acclaimed latest THE SECRET AGENT comes to theaters, catch up with the bold, gripping, and fearlessly political cinema of Brazilian director Kleber Mendonça Filho. Fusing slow-burn suspense with incisive social commentary, his features NEIGHBORING SOUNDS and BACURAU (the latter codirected ...
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How to Shoot a Ghost
Movie
Directed by Charlie Kaufman • 2025 • United States, Greece
Starring Jessie Buckley, Josef AkikiPart ghost story, part city symphony, this elegiac short directed by Charlie Kaufman traces the meeting of two recently deceased young people—a troubled photographer (Jessie Buckley) and a gay transla...
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Directed by Joachim Trier
1 season
With six features—including his acclaimed latest, SENTIMENTAL VALUE—to his name, Norwegian auteur Joachim Trier has established himself as one of the most virtuosic directors working today, a humanist who brings novelistic depth and insight to his intimate portraits of people grappling with every...
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Drive My Car
Movie + 3 extras
Directed by Ryusuke Hamaguchi • 2021 • Japan
Starring Hidetoshi Nishijima, Toko Miura, Reika KirishimaOnly 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...
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Foreign-Language Oscar Winners
1 season
A cross section of the last seven decades of international cinema, this lineup of past winners of the Academy Award for best foreign-language film includes masterpieces by titans like Akira Kurosawa, Federico Fellini, Ingmar Bergman, and Luis Buñuel; high-water marks of the Czechoslovak New Wave;...
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Guillermo del Toro’s Adventures in Moviegoing
1 season
The Oscar-winning director of THE SHAPE OF WATER and PAN’S LABYRINTH sat down with MYTHBUSTERS’ Adam Savage to talk about the cinematic inspirations that fuel his flights of phantasmagoria—and to introduce some of his favorite films.
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Directed by Jafar Panahi
1 season
As his Palme d’Or–winning latest IT WAS JUST AN ACCIDENT comes to theaters this fall, revisit the vital, self-reflexive, slyly perceptive films of the brilliant Iranian auteur Jafar Panahi, whose every work is an act of resistance. In his first two films, the neorealist revelations THE WHITE BALL...
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Josh and Benny Safdie’s Adventures in Moviegoing
1 season
The undisputed kings of kinetic, adrenaline-rush cinema that unfolds at the heart-stopping pace of a New York minute, Josh and Benny Safdie have been keeping audiences on the edge of their seats (and on the verge of a panic attack) for over a decade with whirlwind character studies like UNCUT GEM...
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The Craft of Acting: Ethan Hawke