21st Century Cinema
126 Episodes
Explore the best of contemporary cinema from around the world.
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1:15:38Episode 1
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...
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Boyhood
Episode 2
Directed by Richard Linklater • 2014 • United States
Starring Ellar Coltrane, Patricia Arquette, Ethan HawkeThere 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...
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Le Havre
Episode 3
Directed by Aki Kaurismäki • 2011 • Finland, France
Starring Blondin Miguel, André WilmsIn 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...
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1:45:54Episode 4
White Material
Episode 4
Directed by Claire Denis • 2009 • France
Starring Isabelle Huppert, Christophe Lambert, Isaach De BankoléIn 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...
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1:54:52Episode 5
Still Walking
Episode 5
Directed by Hirokazu Kore-eda • 2008 • Japan
Starring Hiroshi Abe, Yui Natsukawa, YouThe 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...
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1:22:32Episode 6
The Gleaners and I
Episode 6
Directed by Agnès Varda • 2000 • France
Starring Agnès VardaAgnès 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...