21st Century Cinema

21st Century Cinema

126 Episodes

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  • Heart of a Dog

    Episode 1

    Directed by Laurie Anderson • 2015 • United States

    HEART OF A DOG marks the first feature film in thirty years by multimedia artist Laurie Anderson. A cinematic tone poem that flows from a sustained meditation on death and other forms of absence, the film seamlessly weaves together thoughts on...

  • Boyhood

    Episode 2

    Directed by Richard Linklater • 2014 • United States
    Starring Ellar Coltrane, Patricia Arquette, Ethan Hawke

    There has never been another movie like BOYHOOD, from director Richard Linklater. An event film of the utmost modesty, it was shot over the course of twelve years in the director’s native...

  • Le Havre

    Episode 3

    Directed by Aki Kaurismäki • 2011 • Finland, France
    Starring Blondin Miguel, André Wilms

    In this warmhearted comic yarn from Aki Kaurismäki, fate throws the young African refugee Idrissa (Blondin Miguel) into the path of Marcel Marx (André Wilms), a kindly old bohemian who shines shoes for a liv...

  • White Material

    Episode 4

    Directed by Claire Denis • 2009 • France
    Starring Isabelle Huppert, Christophe Lambert, Isaach De Bankolé

    In WHITE MATERIAL, the great contemporary French filmmaker Claire Denis, known for her restless, intimate dramas, introduces an unforgettably crazed character. Played by a ferocious Isabelle...

  • Still Walking

    Episode 5

    Directed by Hirokazu Kore-eda • 2008 • Japan
    Starring Hiroshi Abe, Yui Natsukawa, You

    The lyrical, profoundly moving STILL WALKING (ARUITEMO ARUITEMO) is contemporary Japanese master Hirokazu Kore-eda's most personal work to date. Created as a tribute to his late mother, the film depicts one day...

  • The Gleaners and I

    Episode 6

    Directed by Agnès Varda • 2000 • France
    Starring Agnès Varda

    Agnès Varda’s extraordinary late-career renaissance began with this wonderfully idiosyncratic, self-reflexive documentary in which the French cinema icon explores the world of modern-day gleaners: those living on the margins who surviv...