Film Studies

Bacurau

A few years from now... Bacurau, a small village in the Brazilian sertão, mourns the loss of ...

Brakhage

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

Bushman

In 1968, Peace Corps veteran David Schickele enlisted his friend Paul Eyam Nzie Okpokam to star in a...

Blank City

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

Custody

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

3 Faces

Iranian director Jafar Panahi’s fourth completed feature since he was officially banned from f...

Filmworker

Leon Vitali was a rising British television actor when Stanley Kubrick picked him for the role of Lo...

Final Cut

The opening night selection of last year’s Cannes Film Festival was this wacky horror comedy, ...

Four Daughters

2024 Academy Award® Nominee – Best Documentary Feature Film One of the year's most acclai...

Great Directors

SPECIAL 2-DISC SET Ten of the greatest filmmakers in the world passionately discuss their craft in ...

David Holzman's Diary

David Holzman's Diary is one of the most influential films of the 1960s, an "ingenious puzzle movie"...

Human

HUMAN is a collection of stories and images of our world, offering an immersion to the core of what ...

Chained For Life

Building on the promise of his hallucinogenic debut Go Down Death, filmmaker Aaron Schimberg d...

Losing Ground

The inimitable Kathleen Collins's second film tells the story of two remarkable people, married and ...

A Faithful Man

Nine years after she left him for his best friend, journalist Abel (Louis Garrel) gets back together...

Murina

On a remote island along Croatia’s Adriatic coast, 17-year-old Julija spends her days diving f...

Neptune Frost

Multi-hyphenate, multidisciplinary artist Saul Williams brings his unique dynamism to this Afrofutur...

Long Day's Journey Into Night

Bi Gan follows up his knockout debut, Kaili Blues, with this noir-tinged stunner about a lost s...

Nollywood Babylon

NOLLYWOOD BABYLON chronicles the wild world of “Nollywood,” a term coined in the early &...

F.W. Murnau's Nosferatu

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

D.W. Griffith: Father of Film

In this acclaimed three-part documentary, celebrated film historians Kevin Brownlow and David Gill (...

A History of Israeli Cinema

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

Pioneers of African-American Cinema

This collection of the works of America's legendary first African-American filmmakers is the only on...

Free Radicals: A History of Experimental Film

This feature-length documentary provides a vivid, eye-opening, and appropriately personal introducti...

Free Radicals (Barbara Albert)

Unsentimental yet deeply humane, Free Radicals "brims with energy, carefully drawn characters and ...

Alma's Rainbow

Alma’s Rainbow is a coming-of-age comedy-drama about three Black women living in Brooklyn...

Cinema Sabaya

A group of Palestinian and Israeli women attend a video workshop at a small town community center ru...

Scarlet

Pietro Marcello, one of contemporary cinema’s most versatile talents, follows up his dramatic ...

Scrapper

This vibrant and inventive father-daughter comedy follows Georgie (Lola Campbell), a resourceful 12-...

Searching for Mr. Rugoff

The feature documentary Searching for Mr. Rugoff is the story of Donald Rugoff, who was the crazy ge...

SEMBENE!

In 1952, Ousmane Sembene, a dockworker and fifth-grade dropout from Senegal, began dreaming an impos...

Brainwashed: Sex-Camera-Power

“If the camera is predatory, then the culture is predatory.” In this eye-opening documen...

Skin Deep

Seeking a retreat where they can salvage their struggling relationship, young couple Leyla (Mala Emd...

Film Socialisme

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

Comedy, Spectacle, and New Horizons

By 1907 the cinema's initial growing pains had subsided and fairly distinct generic categories of pr...

Harry Dean Stanton: Partly Fiction

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

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...

Synonyms

Winner of the Golden Bear at Berlinale, the latest from Nadav Lapid (The Kindergarten Teacher) featu...

The Mountain

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

Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story

What do the most ravishingly beautiful actress of the 1930s and 40s and the inventor whose concepts ...

Hit the Road

Panah Panahi, son and collaborator of embattled filmmaker Jafar Panahi and apprentice to Iranian mas...

RECORDER: THE MARION STOKES PROJECT

For over 30 years, Marion Stokes obsessively and privately recorded American television news twenty-...

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...

The 78 Project Movie

Based on the acclaimed web series but with all-new footage, The 78 Project Movie is a journey a...

The European Pioneers

While some may consider the cinema a distinctly American invention, the most influential figures dur...

The Image Book

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

The Oyster Princess

In The Oyster Princess (1919), a pampered American oyster tycoon decides to find a prince to marry h...

Code of the Freaks

Code of the Freaks presents a radical reframing of the use of disabled characters in film. Usin...

Drew: The Man Behind The Poster

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

Henri Langlois: Phantom of the Cinematheque

WITH: CLAUDE BERRI, CLAUDE CHABROL, LOTTE EISNER, PHILIPPE GARREL, JEAN-LUC GODARD,ALFRED HITCHCOCK...

Scotty and the Secret History of Hollywood

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

The Forger

Berlin, 1942. Cioma Schönhaus (Louis Hofmann, star of the hit Neflix series Dark) is a young Je...

Edison: The Invention of the Movies

A comprehensive survey of one of cinema's most influential figures, Edison: The Invention of the Mov...

Killer of Sheep: The Charles Burnett Collection

A longstanding director of ingenuity, heart and meticulous detail, Charles Burnett has earned his re...

The Competition

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

Before The Nickelodeon

An age of innovation An era of idealism The time when American movies were born BEFORE THE NI...

The Five Obstructions

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

The Magic of Melies

The MAGIC of MÉLIÈS Fifteen Fantastic Works by the Cinema’s First Special Effec...

Bless Their Little Hearts

Searching for steady work, Charlie (Nate Hardman) views his chronic unemployment as a kind of spirit...

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

Critically acclaimed upon its 2003 theatrical release, Hell's Highway: the True Story of Highway Saf...

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