Directed by Todd Haynes • 2015 • United States
Starring Cate Blanchett, Rooney Mara, Kyle Chandler
Todd Haynes’s sumptuous, aching adaptation of Patricia Highsmith’s novel “The Price of Salt” deploys the mechanics of classical melodrama in service of a moving and subversive queer love story for the ages. Set in a beautifully and meticulously rendered recreation of 1950s New York, CAROL stars Cate Blanchett as the elegant, affluent, eponymous housewife, trapped in a loveless marriage, whose budding relationship with a young shopgirl (Rooney Mara) sends them both on a quest to find the freedom to love within a repressive society.
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Down with Love
Directed by Peyton Reed • 2003 • United States
Starring Renée Zellweger, Ewan McGregor, David Hyde PierceA playfully postmodern take on the Doris Day/Rock Hudson sex comedy, this giddily inventive update delights in the midcentury style and clothes while offering a fresh perspective on the genr...
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Arthur
Directed by Steve Gordon • 1981 • United States
Starring Dudley Moore, Liza Minnelli, John GielgudDudley Moore delights as the world’s richest and most lovable drunk in this giddy, bubbly modern screwball. He stars as Arthur, a spoiled, perpetually soused New York City millionaire whose family ...
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Raising Victor Vargas
Directed by Peter Sollett • 2002 • United States
Starring Victor Rasuk, Judy Marte, Melonie DiazVividly set amid New York City’s Dominican community, this warm, naturalistic slice-of-life is one of the brightest gems of early-2000s American independent cinema. Growing up on the Lower East Side,...
