Suspicion hung in the air like stale smoke throughout the 1970s. In the shadow of Watergate, the Vietnam War, and the public’s unraveling faith in its institutions, American filmmakers crafted taut, paranoid narratives that echoed the disillusioned national mood. This collection brings together s...

Few actors bring as much intensity or intelligence to the screen as Jodie Foster, a veteran who has spent nearly her entire life in front of the camera. Already a formidable screen presence at just twelve years old when she delivered her indelible breakthrough performance in TAXI DRIVER, she subs...

Born one hundred years ago, Robert Altman made movies that play like the cinematic equivalent of jazz—elastic, improvisational, and thrillingly alive to chance and happenstance. A master of the ensemble epic whose maverick sensibility stood out even in the auteur-driven New Hollywood era, Altman ...

Delve into shadowy cloisters with an unholy congregation of films that scramble the sacred and the profane through lurid tales of nuns gone wild. From the fevered blasphemy of Ken Russell’s THE DEVILS and the delirious hysteria of ALUCARDA to the surrealist sacrilege of Pedro Almodóvar’s DARK HAB...

Steeped in the pervasive sense of distrust that rippled through American society in the 1970s, Alan J. Pakula’s Paranoia Trilogy—KLUTE, THE PARALLAX VIEW, and ALL THE PRESIDENT’S MEN—stands as a masterclass in cinematic unease. Featuring career-defining performances from Jane Fonda, Warren Beatty...

Celebrate the release of the latest much-anticipated opus by Paul Thomas Anderson, ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER, by revisiting two of the touchstone works that established him as one of contemporary American cinema’s most revered auteurs. With a virtuoso ensemble cast that includes Tom Cruise, Philip...

In the 1990s, underground music—from punk and hip-hop to indie rock and electronica—exploded into the pop-culture consciousness through some of the defining films of the era. Movies like PUMP UP THE VOLUME didn’t just capture the social and aesthetic codes of disaffected Gen Xers; they also deliv...