Directed by Ulysses Jenkins • 1980 • United States

In 1972 and ’73, Ulysses Jenkins and the collective from Venice, California, known as Video Venice News documented the Watts Summer Festival—a major Black cultural event established in 1966 to commemorate the Watts Rebellion that jolted the Los ...

Directed by Just Jaeckin • 1975 • France, West Germany Starring Corinne Cléry, Udo Kier, Alain Noury

Before there was FIFTY SHADES OF GREY, there was THE STORY OF O, the infamous adaptation of the controversial erotic...

Directed by Blerta Basholli • 2021 • Albania, Macedonia
Starring Yllka Gashi, Çun Lajçi, Aurita Agushi

This Sundance award winner—the first film in the festival’s history to receive the Grand Jury Prize, the Audience Award, and the Directing Award—is a searing portrait of loss and a woman’s uphi...

Directed by Joseph H. Lewis • 1953 • United States
Starring Vittorio Gassman, Barry Sullivan, Polly Bergen

Directed in typically dynamic, imaginative style by B-noir maestro Joseph H. Lewis (GUN CRAZY, THE BIG COMBO) this atmospheric, Louisiana-set cat-and-mouse thriller follows an obsessive lie...

Directed by Ulysses Jenkins • 1981 • United States

Ulysses Jenkins continues his investigation of mass-media saturation in this kaleidoscope of VHS-recorded TV flotsam, menacing lawnmowers, footballs, and the artist’s own waggling butt.

Directed by David Koff • 1978 • United States

Banned in Britain for its supposedly incendiary message, this riveting documentary offers a searing analysis of structural racism in Britain. Featuring incisive contributions from activists and everyday citizens, BLACKS BRITANNICA paints a devastatin...

Directed by Lewis Milestone • 1936 • United States
Starring Bing Crosby, Ethel Merman, Charles Ruggles

Romance and classic songs are in the air in this fun-filled romp set on the high seas, an adaptation of the Cole Porter Broadway musical written by Guy Bolton and P. G. Wodehouse. When Billy Cr...

Directed by Raoul Walsh • 1940 • United States
Starring George Raft, Ann Sheridan, Ida Lupino

Humphrey Bogart and George Raft share a driving ambition in this feisty tale of brothers trying to make a go of their independent trucking enterprise. After ten years of the Great Depression, scrappy Jo...

Directed by Henry Hathaway • 1935 • United States
Starring Gary Cooper, Ann Harding, John Halliday

Based on George du Maurier’s classic and intensely romantic novel, PETER IBBETSON tells the otherworldly tale of two childhood sweethearts reunited as adults, only to be separated again through a t...

Directed by Irving Lerner • 1958 • United States
Starring Vince Edwards, Phillip Pine, Herschel Bernardi

Vince Edwards stars as a hired assassin whose latest “assignment” (Caprice Toriel) is about to testify against the mob. But this particular target is not so easy to get at. So he waits . . . ...

Directed by Alexander Hall • 1936 • United States
Starring George Raft, Dolores Costello, Ida Lupino

In this comic charmer, illicit casino operator Johnny Lamb (George Raft) hires down-on-her-luck socialite Lucille Sutton (Dolores Costello) as his hostess, in order to help her get back on her fe...

Directed by Jacques Tourneur • 1956 • United States
Starring Brian Keith, Aldo Ray, Anne Bancroft

Directed by Jacques Tourneur from one of the masterful, despairing novels of David Goodis, NIGHTFALL is the tale of an innocent man trapped in a senseless and lethal web of seduction and crime. The...

Directed by Alfred Hitchcock • 1972 • United Kingdom
Starring Jon Finch, Barry Foster, Barbara Leigh-Hunt

After more than three decades in Hollywood, Alfred Hitchcock returned to Britain to make his penultimate film, which finds the master pushing the boundaries of graphic violence to shocking e...

Directed by Blake Edwards • 1962 • United States
Starring Lee Remick, Glenn Ford

Following the success of BREAKFAST AT TIFFANY’S, producer-director Blake Edwards took a detour into noir territory with this ultra-stylish, mood-drenched thriller. Lee Remick plays a San Francisco bank clerk who is ...

Directed by Julien Temple • 2007 • Ireland, United Kingdom

Legendary frontman of the Clash Joe Strummer was one of rock’s most magnetic and complex figures—an electrifying performer who brought an explosive political edge to the punk movement. In this visually dynamic documentary, veteran chroni...

Directed by Kevin Jerome Everson and Kahlil I. Pedizisai • 2020 • United States

Kevin Jerome Everson and Kahlil I. Pedizisai update the 1898 film SOMETHING GOOD – NEGRO KISS, which features the first representation of African American intimacy in cinema history.

Directed by Tom DiCillo • 2006 • United States
Starring Steve Buscemi, Michael Pitt, Alison Lohman

Having brilliantly lampooned the world of low-budget filmmaking in LIVING IN OBLIVION, director Tom DiCillo and Steve Buscemi reteamed for another wicked satire of the entertainment industry, prese...

Directed by Archie Mayo • 1942 • United States
Starring Jean Gabin, Ida Lupino, Thomas Mitchell

French screen legend Jean Gabin made his Hollywood debut in this broodingly fatalistic noir melodrama. He stars as an alcoholic dockworker who, following a night of heavy drinking, wakes up with no me...

Directed by Edward Dmytryk • 1952 • United States
Starring Adolphe Menjou, Arthur Franz, Gerald Mohr

Blacklisted director Edward Dmytryk—one of the original Hollywood Ten—made his return to filmmaking with this disturbingly prescient psychological thriller. Shot with gritty, documentary-style re...

Directed by Ulysses Jenkins • 1979 • United States

Ulysses Jenkins—alongside fellow Otis Art Institute student Kerry James Marshall—stages a surrealist minstrel show in this dream-vision exploration of the history of Black representation.

Directed by Ulysses Jenkins • 1983 • United States

A video companion to a twenty-four-hour group performance organized by Ulysses Jenkins, DREAM CITY collages live music, poetry, and dance into a pulsating kaleidoscope of color and sound. Frequent Jenkins collaborators Maren Hassinger, Senga Nen...

Directed by Mike Judge • 1996 • United States
Starring Mike Judge, Bruce Willis, Demi Moore

Mike Judge’s mouth-breathing, metalhead slacker icons Beavis and Butt-Head made their big-screen debut in this smash-hit animated feature that takes the series’s gleefully lowbrow humor to new heights of ...

Directed by Kevin Jerome Everson • 2017 • United States

Kevin Jerome Everson chronicles three famous UFO sightings over Mansfield, Ohio.

Directed by Michael Curtiz • 1941 • United States
Starring Edward G. Robinson, Ida Lupino, John Garfield

Michael Curtiz’s masterful adaptation of Jack London’s classic psychological adventure novel gives Edward G. Robinson one of his finest screen hours as Wolf Larsen, the tyrannical captain of ...