Yearning

Yearning

5 Episodes

The exquisite ache of longing suffuses these at once melancholy and intoxicatingly romantic visions of heartbreak, unrequited love, and forbidden passion that luxuriate in the overwhelming pull toward a connection that feels all but impossible. From swooning Hollywood classics (PANDORA AND THE FLYING DUTCHMAN, ALL THAT HEAVEN ALLOWS) and sumptuously stylized period romances (IN THE MOOD FOR LOVE, BRIGHT STAR, THE DEEP BLUE SEA) to tender evocations of queer yearning (MY OWN PRIVATE IDAHO, GOD’S OWN COUNTRY) and unpredictable tales of cosmic connection (SLEEPLESS IN SEATTLE, PREPARATIONS TO BE TOGETHER FOR AN UNKNOWN PERIOD OF TIME), these films overflow with a bittersweet pang that is familiar to anyone who has experienced the peculiar pleasure-pain of all-consuming desire.

Programmed by Hillary Weston

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Yearning

5 Episodes

  • Preparations to Be Together for an Unknown Period of Time
    1:34:35
    Preparations to Be Together for an Unknown Period of Time
    Episode 1

    Preparations to Be Together for an Unknown Period of Time

    Episode 1

    Directed by Lili Horvát • 2020 • Hungary
    Starring Natasa Stork, Viktor Bodó, Benett Vilmányi

    The second feature by Hungarian director Lili Horvát is a slippery, seductive investigation of memory, obsession, and delusion. After twenty years in the United States, Hungarian neurosurgeon Márta (Nata...

  • The Deep Blue Sea
    1:38:46
    The Deep Blue Sea
    Episode 2

    The Deep Blue Sea

    Episode 2

    Directed by Terence Davies • 2011 • United Kingdom, United States
    Starring Rachel Weisz, Tom Hiddleston, Simon Russell Beale

    Master chronicler of postwar England Terence Davies directs this ravishing adaptation of Terence Rattigan’s 1952 play about a woman whose overpowering love threatens her w...

  • The Passionate Friends
    1:31:12
    The Passionate Friends
    Episode 3

    The Passionate Friends

    Episode 3

    Directed by David Lean • 1949 • United Kingdom
    Starring Ann Todd, Trevor Howard, Claude Rains

    Four years after David Lean crafted what may be the screen’s most piercing examination of extramarital romance with BRIEF ENCOUNTER, he returned to a similar subject in this exquisite tale of a woman to...

  • In the Mood for Love
    1:39:06
    In the Mood for Love
    Episode 4

    In the Mood for Love

    Episode 4

    Directed by Wong Kar Wai • 2000 • Hong Kong
    Starring Tony Leung Chiu-wai, Maggie Cheung Man-yuk

    Hong Kong, 1962: Chow Mo-wan (Tony Leung Chiu-wai) and Su Li-zhen (Maggie Cheung Man-yuk) move into neighboring apartments on the same day. Their encounters are formal and polite—until a discovery abo...

  • The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant
    2:04:42
    The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant
    Episode 5

    The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant

    Episode 5

    Directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder • 1972 • West Germany
    Starring Margit Carstensen, Hanna Schygulla, Katrin Schaake

    In the early 1970s, Rainer Werner Fassbinder discovered the American melodramas of Douglas Sirk and was inspired by them to begin working in a new, more intensely emotional regi...

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