Directed by Alfred Hitchcock • 1954 • United States
Starring James Stewart, Grace Kelly, Wendell Corey

Alfred Hitchcock was at the height of his powers as a visual storyteller when he made this enduring suspense classic. James Stewart is L. B. Jeffries, an injured photojournalist confined to his...

Directed by Cameron Crowe • 1989 • United States
Starring John Cusack, Ione Skye, John Mahoney

Cameron Crowe made his auspicious directorial debut with this beloved teenage romantic comedy, which breathed new life into the high-school movie with its refreshingly authentic characters and irresist...

Directed by Jonathan Glazer • 2004 • United States
Starring Nicole Kidman, Cameron Bright, Danny Huston

Coscripted by frequent Luis Buñuel collaborator Jean-Claude Carrière, the second feature from Jonathan Glazer is a haunting metaphysical mystery starring Nicole Kidman as a widowed New Yorker ...

Directed by Nicolas Roeg • 1976 • United States
Starring David Bowie, Rip Torn, Candy Clark

THE MAN WHO FELL TO EARTH is a daring exploration of science fiction as an art form. The story of an alien on an elaborate rescue mission provides the launching pad for Nicolas Roeg’s visual tour de fo...

Directed by Andrew Niccol • 1997 • United States
Starring Ethan Hawke, Uma Thurman, Jude Law

One of the most intelligent and thought-provoking science fiction films of the 1990s, this engrossing thriller unfolds in a not-too-distant future where a society obsessed with genetic perfection divides...

Directed by Alfred Hitchcock • 1941 • United States
Starring Cary Grant, Joan Fontaine, Nigel Bruce

Alfred Hitchcock discovered dark new shades in Cary Grant’s star persona with this classic thriller, the director and actor’s first collaboration. Handsome, charming, well-liked Johnnie Aysgarth (...

Directed by John Waters • 2000 • United States, France
Starring Melanie Griffith, Stephen Dorff, Adrian Grenier

John Waters’s defiant takedown of Hollywood mediocrity stars Melanie Griffith as a pampered movie queen who goes guerrilla when she is kidnapped by a band of underground filmmakers act...

Directed by Phillip Noyce • 1989 • Australia
Starring Nicole Kidman, Sam Neill, Billy Zane

It’s anything but smooth sailing in this tightly wound maritime thriller, featuring a sensational Nicole Kidman in her international breakthrough performance. Adapted from a novel by pulp master Charles Wi...

Directed by Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck • 2006 • Germany
Starring Ulrich Mühe, Martina Gedeck, Sebastian Koch

Set in East Berlin in the early 1980s, this acclaimed debut feature from Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck focuses on GDR’s pervasive and chilling surveillance state. The successful ...

Directed by John Waters • 1977 • United States
Starring Liz Renay, Mink Stole, Susan Lowe

Described by John Waters as “a lesbian melodrama about revolution,” the third installment in the director’s Trash Trilogy, following FEMALE TROUBLE and PINK FLAMINGOS, is a demented fairy tale wherein a scr...

Directed by Lionel Barrymore • 1931 • United States
Starring Barbara Stanwyck, Ricardo Cortez, Monroe Owsley

Directed by acting legend Lionel Barrymore, this distinctly pre-Code drama stars a typically bracing Barbara Stanwyck as Barbara O’Neill, a taxi dancer who, despite being courted by wealt...

Directed by Martin Scorsese • 1982 • United States
Starring Robert De Niro, Jerry Lewis, Sandra Bernhard

Welcome to the disturbing world of Rupert Pupkin (Robert De Niro), the psychotic aspiring comedian who believes that all he needs is one appearance on the late-night talk show hosted by Jerry...

Directed by John Dahl • 1994 • United States
Starring Linda Fiorentino, Peter Berg, Bill Pullman

Linda Fiorentino is a diabolical delight as one of the most unrepentantly wicked femmes fatales of the neonoir boom in this deliciously entertaining thriller. After roping her doctor husband (Bill Pu...

Directed by Mario Bava • 1964 • Italy, West Germany
Starring Cameron Mitchell, Eva Bartok, Thomas Reiner

Director Mario Bava cemented his reputation as the master of Italian horror with this deliriously stylized thriller, one of the foundational works of the giallo genre and an influence on dire...

Directed by Christopher Makoto Yogi • 2016 • United States

This experimental video essay looks at one hundred years of Hawai‘i as it has been depicted in film and television.

Directed by Christopher Nolan • 2000 • United States
Starring Guy Pearce, Carrie-Ann Moss, Joe Pantoliano

A virtuoso high-wire act of nonlinear storytelling, Christopher Nolan’s breakthrough second feature deploys a complex time-hopping structure to evoke the fractured psyche of Leonard Shelby (...

Directed by Zachary Treitz • 2011 • United States
Starring Rusty Blanton, Veronica Blanton, David Maloney

Facing eviction, trailer-park resident Rusty Blanton is given thirty days to find a new home for himself, his wife, and their nineteen-year-old pet alligator, Chopper.

Directed by Christopher Makoto Yogi • 2009 • United States

An aimless young filmmaker reconnects with an old friend over the course of one night in Honolulu in this contemplative study of rootlessness, human (dis)connection, and the changing landscape of Hawai‘i.

Directed by Mario Bava • 1963 • Italy
Starring John Saxon, Letícia Román, Valentina Cortese

Often cited as the first giallo film, Mario Bava’s twisty thriller (also known as THE GIRL WHO KNEW TOO MUCH) takes what could have been a mere Hitchcock homage and turns it into a virtuoso exercise in p...

Directed by Frank Borzage • 1933 • United States
Starring Spencer Tracy, Loretta Young, Marjorie Rambeau

Finding her homeless and half-starved, happy-go-lucky wanderer Bill (Spencer Tracy) takes in Trina (Loretta Young) to stay with him and the other eccentric denizens of a New York City shan...

Directed by Dario Argento • 1970 • Italy
Starring Tony Musante, Suzy Kendall, Eva Renzi

In his stunning first film as writer-director, Dario Argento singlehandedly created the giallo genre and instantly emerged as the filmmaker critics worldwide hailed as the “Italian Hitchcock.” Tony Musante an...

Directed by George Lucas • 1971 • United States
Starring Robert Duvall, Donald Pleasence, Don Pedro Colley

Before STAR WARS, director George Lucas created this haunting vision of the future starring Academy Award winner Robert Duvall. In the twenty-fifth century, humans exist in a computer-contr...

Directed by Abel Ferrara • 1984 • United States
Starring Tom Berenger, Melanie Griffith, Billy Dee Williams

Cult auteur Abel Ferrara offers a bracing plunge into the sordid neon underbelly of 1980s Times Square in this stylishly pulpy neonoir sleazefest. There’s a psychopath loose on the streets...

Directed by Christopher Makoto Yogi • 2020 • United States

Produced during the making of Christopher Makoto Yogi’s feature AUGUST AT AKIKO’S, A STILL PLACE is a filmed meditation in Akiko Masuda’s zendo on Hawai‘i Island that listens to the island awaken as the sun rises.