Film Studies

Bacurau

A small village in the Brazilian sertão town finds its sun-dappled day-to-day disturbed when ...

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Brakhage

Stan Brakhage (1933-2003) was possibly the most important filmmaker of the avant-garde, and one of t...

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Blank City

BLANK CITY is an "absorbing snapshot of a daring time" (LA Times) when a disparate crew of renegade ...

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Custody

A broken marriage leads to a bitter custody battle with an embattled son at the center in this tense...

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3 Faces

Filmmaker Jafar Panahi and actress Behnaz Jafari travel to the rural northwest of Iran after receivi...

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Filmworker

After starring as Lord Bullingdon in Barry Lyndon, Leon Vitali gave up his acting career to toil in ...

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Final Cut

Oscar® winner Michel Hazanavicius (The Artist) remakes the Japanese cult hit One Cut of the Dead...

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Great Directors

Ten of the greatest filmmakers in the world passionately discuss their craft in Angela Ismailos' hug...

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David Holzman's Diary

This landmark 1967 faux-documentary finds recently dumped David Holzman (L. M. Kit Carson) unloading...

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Human

Using testimonies and aerial images, filmmaker Yann Arthus-Bertrand confronts the realities and dive...

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Chained For Life

Jess Weixler (Teeth) and Adam Pearson (Under the Skin) star in this brilliantly oddball, acerbically...

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Losing Ground

Decades after her death, Kathleen Collins has finally been rediscovered as a groundbreaking writer, ...

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A Faithful Man

Louis Garrel’s sophomore feature, in which he also stars alongside Lily-Rose Depp and Laetitia...

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Murina

Set on a remote island along the Croatian coast, this Cannes Camera d’Or winner follows 17-yea...

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Neptune Frost

In an otherworldly e-waste dump camp, an anti-colonialist hacking collective attempts a takeover of ...

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Long Day's Journey Into Night

Bi Gan follows up his knockout debut, Kaili Blues, with this noir-tinged film about a solitary man (...

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Nollywood Babylon

This documentary chronicles the wild world of "Nollywood," a term coined in the early '90s to descri...

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F.W. Murnau's Nosferatu

A cornerstone of the horror genre, F.W. Murnau's Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror is resurrected...

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D.W. Griffith: Father of Film

Acclaimed three-part documentary tells the proud, sad story of D.W. Griffith: the man who first bro...

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A History of Israeli Cinema

Raphaël Nadjari’s extraordinary two-part documentary weaves together clips from more than...

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Pioneers of African-American Cinema

A monumental collection of historically vital films, digitally mastered in HD using archival element...

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Free Radicals: A History of Experimental Film

This documentary provides a vivid introduction to one of the most important, yet perpetually margina...

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Free Radicals (Barbara Albert)

A group of friends in a suburban Austrian town reexamine their lives after the unexpected death of a...

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Alma's Rainbow

Ayoka Chenzira’s overlooked classic, newly restored and ripe for rediscovery, is a coming-of-a...

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Cinema Sabaya

A young filmmaker (Dana Ivgy, Zero Motivation) teaching a workshop in a community center puts camera...

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Scarlet

One of contemporary cinema’s most versatile talents, Pietro Marcello follows his dramatic brea...

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Scrapper

Georgie is a dreamy 12-year-old girl who lives happily alone in her London flat, filling it with...

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Searching for Mr. Rugoff

Searching for Mr. Rugoff is the story of Donald Rugoff, who was the crazy genius behind Cinema 5, th...

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SEMBENE!

In 1952, Ousmane Sembene, a Senegalese dockworker and fifth-grade dropout, began dreaming an impossi...

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Brainwashed: Sex-Camera-Power

In this eye-opening documentary, celebrated independent filmmaker Nina Menkes explores the sexual po...

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Film Socialisme

Legendary director Jean-Luc Godard (Contempt) triumphantly returns to the screen with FILM SOCIALISM...

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Comedy, Spectacle, and New Horizons

This edition explores the establishment of cinematic genres in the first years of the 20th Century, ...

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Harry Dean Stanton: Partly Fiction

Harry Dean Stanton: Partly Fiction is a personal documentary about the iconic actor in his intimate ...

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Harold and Lillian: A Hollywood Love Story

Movie fans know the work of Harold and Lillian Michelson, even if they don’t recognize the nam...

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Synonyms

Based on the real life experiences of writer-director Nadav Lapid (The Kindergarten Teacher, Policem...

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The Mountain

Set against the 1950’s "golden age" of American male supremacy, an introverted young man (Tye ...

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Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story

Weaving interviews and clips with never-before-heard audio tapes of Hedy Lamarr speaking on the reco...

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Hit the Road

Panah Panahi, son and collaborator of embattled Iranian master Jafar Panahi, makes a striking featur...

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RECORDER: THE MARION STOKES PROJECT

Marion Stokes, a civil rights-era radical who became fabulously wealthy and reclusive later in ...

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Songs from the North

SONGS FROM THE NORTH is an essay film which offers an unique look at the enigma of North Korea, a co...

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The 78 Project Movie

The 78 Project is on a journey across America to make one-of-a-kind 78rpm records with musicians in ...

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The European Pioneers

From the archives of the British Film Institute, this collection features forty distinctive works fr...

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The Image Book

The legendary Jean-Luc Godard adds to his influential, iconoclastic legacy with this provocative col...

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The Oyster Princess

A hilarious silent comedy from a master filmmaker. A pampered American oyster tycoon decides to buy ...

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Code of the Freaks

In an unprecedented look inside the disabled community, Code of the Freaks gives the mic to some of ...

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Drew: The Man Behind The Poster

DREW: THE MAN BEHIND THE POSTER is a feature-length documentary film highlighting the career of post...

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Henri Langlois: Phantom of the Cinematheque

Celebrates the man who cultivated cinema's future by protecting its past. "A MOVIEGOER'S TREAT AND A...

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Scotty and the Secret History of Hollywood

Scotty and the Secret History of Hollywood is the deliciously scandalous story of Scotty Bowers, a h...

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The Forger

Based on a true story of bravery in the face of evil, The Forger stars Louis Hofmann (Netflix’...

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Killer of Sheep: The Charles Burnett Collection

KILLER OF SHEEP collects the titular standout from director Charles Burnett's career as well as My B...

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The Competition

The Competition begins, significantly, with the image of a locked gate—that of La F&eacut...

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Before The Nickelodeon

Noted film historian Charles Musser co-wrote and directed this definitive tribute to Edwin S. Porter...

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The Five Obstructions

Lars von Trier now enters the world of documentary filmmaking alongside his idol, Danish filmmaker J...

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The Magic of Melies

Tribute is paid to the screen's first special effects wizard in this special collection of marvelous...

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Bless Their Little Hearts

In this key masterpiece of the LA Rebellion, written by Charles Burnett and directed by Billy Woodbe...

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Hell's Highway (plus Signal 30, Highways of Agony, Options to Live)

This unique documentary recounts the history of the shock-value driver's education films that haunte...

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Goodbye to Language

Winner of the Jury Prize at the 2014 Cannes Film Festival, Goodbye to Language is a triumphant maste...

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THE PERVERT'S GUIDE TO CINEMA

THE PERVERT'S GUIDE TO CINEMA takes the viewer on an exhilarating ride through some of the grea...

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Fiddler's Journey to the Big Screen

The fall of 2021 marked the 50th anniversary of Fiddler on the Roof, the film Pauline Kael (The New ...

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Tokyo Pop

Bleach-blonde rocker Wendy (Carrie Hamilton) spontaneously moves from New York City to Tokyo with dr...

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