Directed by Charlotte Le Bon • 2022 • France, Canada
Starring Joseph Engel, Sara Montpetit, Monia Chokri

A dreamily unsettling summertime idyll, a moody coming-of-age reverie, and an enigmatic ghost story wrapped into one, the astonishingly assured feature debut from Charlotte Le Bon is a bewitc...

Directed by George Cukor • 1933 • United States
Starring Marie Dressler, Lionel Barrymore, Wallace Beery, John Barrymore

A sparkling ensemble cast—led by Jean Harlow, Lionel and John Barrymore, Marie Dressler, and Wallace Beery—lights up this quippy pre-Code tale of drawing room intrigue based o...

Directed by Paul Schrader • 1992 • United States
Starring Willem Dafoe, Susan Sarandon, Dana Delany

Willem Dafoe stars in this moody character study as John LeTour, a drug dealer who faces a midlife crisis now that his supplier (Susan Sarandon) wants a change of career. LeTour reencounters an ol...

Directed by Norman Jewison • 1979 • United States
Starring Al Pacino, Jack Warden, John Forsythe

“You’re out of order!” Al Pacino electrifies in this scorching indictment of the justice system, a rousing blend of scathing satire and impassioned drama from socially conscious director Norman Jewi...

Directed by Jack Conway • 1932 • United States
Starring Jean Harlow, Chester Morris, Lewis Stone

The legendary Jean Harlow delivers a star-making performance in this racy pre-Code boundary pusher. She stars as Lil Andrews, a gold-digging secretary who will do whatever it takes to get ahead in so...

Directed by Allan Moyle • 1995 • United States
Starring Anthony LaPaglia, Liv Tyler, Renée Zellweger

The ultimate in Gen X slacker cinema, this box-office bomb turned certified cult classic unfolds over the course of one pivotal day at Empire Records, an independent Delaware vinyl shop where ne...

Directed by Emily Packer and Lesley Steele • 2020 • United States

A wandering portrait of an oft-neglected shoreline community, BY WAY OF CANARSIE imagines possible futures at odds with a peaceful present. Through brief encounters, observational mise-en-scène, and expressive use of analog film, ...

Directed by Claude Barras • 2016 • France
Starring Gaspard Schlatter, Sixtine Murat, Paulin Jaccoud

After his mother’s sudden death, Icare, a young boy nicknamed Courgette, is befriended by a police officer, Raymond, who accompanies him to his new foster home, filled with other orphans his age. ...

Directed by Stanley Kramer • 1960 • United States
Starring Spencer Tracy, Fredric March, Gene Kelly

One of the twentieth century’s most spectacular trials—the 1925 Scopes “Monkey” Trial, which pitted the theory of evolution against creationism in a battle over intellectual freedom—is vividly dra...

Directed by Joan Tewkesbury • 1979 • United States
Starring Talia Shire, Richard Jordan, Keith Carradine

The sole theatrical feature directed by Joan Tewkesbury—whose screenplays for NASHVILLE and THIEVES LIKE US yielded two of Robert Altman’s finest films—is an endlessly intriguing, shaggy-dog ...

Directed by Faye Ruiz • 2021 • United States
Starring Faye Ruiz, Adriana Acedo-Campillo, Grisel Wilson

Mar, a young trans woman, returns to her childhood home. Finding a neighborhood she once knew intimately drastically altered by gentrification, she is forced to reckon with a place that has see...

Directed by John Frankenheimer • 1966 • United States
Starring Rock Hudson, Salome Jens, John Randolph

Rock Hudson is a revelation in this sinister, science-fiction-inflected dispatch from the fractured 1960s. SECONDS, directed by John Frankenheimer, concerns a middle-aged banker who, dissatisfi...

Directed by Alex Westfall • 2020 • Philippines
Starring Polly Cabrera, Carlon Josol, Andie Ong

As one half of the dictatorial regime that ruled the Philippines, Imelda Marcos would become infamous for embezzling billions from the country to sustain her extravagant lifestyle. In this imagining of...

Directed by Joe Swanberg • 2007 • United States
Starring Greta Gerwig, Kent Osborne, Andrew Bujalski

Over the course of one hot postgraduate summer, Hannah (Greta Gerwig) falls precariously in and out of love. A breaker of hearts and chronically dissatisfied, she finds herself drifting away from...

Directed by Dorothy Arzner • 1931 • United States
Starring Judith Wood, Dorothy Hall, Charles “Buddy” Rogers

Dorothy Arzner offers a snappily entertaining, socially perceptive look at female solidarity in this Depression-era tale of young women striving to succeed in their careers and in love. N...

Directed by Wanda Tuchock and George Nicholls Jr. • 1934 • United States
Starring Ginger Rogers, Frances Dee, Billie Burke

Wanda Tuchock—one of the very few women to be credited as a director in 1930s Hollywood—cowrote and codirected this briskly entertaining girls-gone-wild drama. When Virginia...

Directed by Dario Argento • 1982 • Italy
Starring Anthony Franciosa, John Saxon, Daria Nicolodi

Dario Argento raises the giallo genre to new heights with this darkly humorous and notoriously grisly murder mystery, widely considered one of his finest works. American mystery author Peter Neal (Ant...

Directed by Joe Swanberg and Greta Gerwig • 2008 • United States
Starring Greta Gerwig, Joe Swanberg, Jay Duplass

Those are the times that long-distance lovers James and Mattie (he’s in Chicago, she’s in Brooklyn) carve out for their rambling phone calls and decreasingly satisfying hookups. Flas...

Directed by Peter Bogdanovich • 1971 • United States
Starring Timothy Bottoms, Jeff Bridges, Cybill Shepherd

THE LAST PICTURE SHOW is one of the key films of the American cinema renaissance of the seventies. Set during the early fifties, in the loneliest Texas nowheresville to ever dust up a mov...

Directed by Jonathan Demme • 1993 • United States
Starring Tom Hanks, Denzel Washington, Antonio Banderas

The first major Hollywood film to address the AIDS crisis and homophobia is a groundbreaking, empathetic social drama directed with a humanist touch by Jonathan Demme. Tom Hanks won the Acad...

Directed by Samira Saraya • 2020 • Israel
Starring Samira Saraya, Hadas Yaron, Fidaa Zidan

Yasmine, an openly lesbian Arab nurse living in Tel Aviv, finds out that her lover, an intelligence officer in the Israeli army, has been reporting on their relationship. Their affair is further strained b...

Directed by Francis Ford Coppola • 2024 • United States
Starring Frederic Forrest, Teri Garr, Nastassja Kinski

One of the most intoxicating cinematic achievements of the 1980s is given spectacular new life in this director-approved reimagining, which includes six minutes of never-before-seen fo...

Directed by Melvin Van Peebles • 1970 • United States
Starring Godfrey Cambridge, Estelle Parsons, Howard Caine

Melvin Van Peebles puts a spin on Franz Kafka’s THE METAMORPHOSIS in this provocative racial satire. Bigoted white insurance salesman Jeff Gerber (Godfrey Cambridge) has it made: he’s ...

Directed by Mervyn LeRoy • 1933 • United States
Starring Marie Dressler, Wallace Beery, Robert Young

Though not as well remembered today as her more glamorous MGM colleagues like Greta Garbo and Joan Crawford, salt-of-the-earth, sixty-five-year-old Marie Dressler was the number-one box office st...