THE EYES OF TAMMY FAYE is an intimate look at the extraordinary rise, fall and redemption of televangelist Tammy Faye Bakker. In the 1970s and 80s, Tammy Faye and her husband, Jim Bakker, rose from humble beginnings to create the world's largest religious broadcasting network and theme park, and were revered for their message of more »
Marc-André Leclerc climbs alone, far from the limelight. On remote alpine faces, the free-spirited 23-year-old Canadian makes some of the boldest solo ascents in history. Yet, he draws scant attention. With no cameras, no rope, and no margin for error, Leclerc's approach is the essence of solo adventure. more »
From award-winning writer/director Justin Chon, Blue Bayou is the moving and timely story of a uniquely American family fighting for their future. Antonio LeBlanc (Chon), a Korean adoptee raised in a small town in the Louisiana bayou, is married to the love of his life Kathy (Alicia Vikander) and step-dad to their beloved daught more »
Redemption is the long game in Paul Schrader's THE CARD COUNTER. Told with Schrader's trademark cinematic intensity, the revenge thriller tells the story of an ex-military interrogator turned gambler haunted by the ghosts of his past decisions, and features riveting performances from stars Oscar Isaac, Tiffany Haddish, Tye Sheri more »
A fantasy re-telling of the medieval story of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. more »
The mystery surrounding the Salvator Mundi, the first painting by Leonardo da Vinci to be discovered for more than a century, which has now seemingly gone missing. more »
In the treacherous frontier city of Samurai Town, a ruthless bank robber (Nicolas Cage) is sprung from jail by a wealthy warlord, The Governor (Bill Moseley), whose adopted granddaughter Bernice (Sofia Boutella) has run away. Strapped into a leather suit that will self-destruct within five days if he doesn’t find the missing gir more »
Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, and Edward G. Robinson are stuck in an off-season hotel on the title spit of land as a raging hurricane bears down in this classic noir. Bacall is a war widow. Bogart is her late husband’s former commanding officer, passing through to pay his respects. Robinson is an Al Capone-like gangster who ho more »
When horror auteur John Carpenter was a film student in the early ‘70s, he and some pals spent a few thousand bucks slapping together a stoner-comedy version of 2001: A Space Odyssey. It still looks like it cost a nickel, but Carpenter’s nascent craft and the smart script—co-written with Alien screenwriter Dan O’Bannon, who als more »
Wong Kar-wai became unmistakably himself with his second feature. While he still sticks in some half-hearted crime business, Days of Being Wild languishes in inchoate and ineffable desires, as Leslie Cheung’s troubled playboy toys with women (Maggie Cheung and Carina Lau) and obsesses over his own lost biological mother in 1960 more »
In order to obtain research funds for her studies, a scientist accepts an offer to participate in an extraordinary experiment: for three weeks, she is to live with a humanoid robot, created to make her happy. more »
An underseen rough-cut noir gem. Beverly Michaels’ sultry blonde blows into town and quickly hooks both the milquetoast tailor across the hall (ubiquitous character actor Percy Helton) and the hunky neighborhood barkeep (Richard Egan). The blonde and the barkeep strike sparks and scheme to double cross his alcoholic wife out of more »
Werner Herzog’s early masterpiece opens with a jaw-dropping shot of ant-like conquistadors inching down the spine of an Andean peak—almost reason enough alone to see it on a big screen. The rest of the film follows the maniacally ambitious title Spaniard (Klaus Kinski) as he blusters and backstabs his way toward mythical Amazoni more »
Bass René Pape, the world’s reigning Boris, reprises his overwhelming portrayal of the tortured tsar caught between grasping ambition and crippling paranoia, kicking off the Live in HD season on October 9, 2021. more »
What is consciousness? Is it in all living beings? Why are we predisposed for mystical experience? And what happens when we die? With haunting cinematography, AWARE follows six of the world’s most brilliant researchers approaching the most mysterious of enigmas, consciousness, from radically different perspectives, from within a more »
A couple retreat to the island that inspired Ingmar Bergman to write screenplays for their upcoming films when the lines between reality and fiction start to blur. more »
Follows the story of the Wild Boars youth soccer team who got trapped and their dramatic 2018 rescue. more »
The Velvet Underground explores the multiple threads that converged to bring together one of the most influential bands in rock and roll. more »
Possession contains multitudes. Andrzej Żuławski’s film is, on one level, a low-budget horror flick of its era with a tentacled monster at its heart. It’s also, through the central relationship between Sam Neill and Isabelle Adjani’s married couple, a cathartic expressionist exorcism of the director’s own painful divorce—Kramer more »
Yannick Nézet-Séguin conducts Grammy Award–winning jazz musician and composer Terence Blanchard’s adaptation of Charles M. Blow’s moving memoir, which The New York Times praised after its 2019 world premiere at Opera Theatre of Saint Louis as “bold and affecting” and “subtly powerful.” more »
Federico Fellini’s La Strada made wife Guiletta Masina a star, but Nights of Cabiria made her an icon. In the title role, she takes that most thankless of roles—prostitute with a heart of gold—and imbues it with wit and pathos, as one man after another (Franco Fabrizi, Amedeo Nazzari, François Périer) abuses her hopeful heart. more »
A key influence on Bong Joon-ho’s Parasite, Kim Ki-young’s classic explores the moral hazards of a South Korean society in transition from traditional to modern, and from working to middle class. A composer (Kim Jin-kyu) has done well enough teaching music to build his family a new two-story house, but his pregnant homemaker wi more »
Think of Jean-Pierre Melville’s slow-burner as the Gallic Heat. Fate brings together an ex-con (Alain Delon) and an escaped prisoner (Gian Maria Volonté)—might as well recruit an alcoholic ex-cop (Yves Montand) and pull an elaborate jewel heist. But old underworld rivalries flare up, and an obsessed detective (André Bourvil) wi more »
Everyone knows a couple like Lai (Tony Leung) and Ho (Leslie Cheung). They can’t stay together, but they can’t stay apart, fighting and making up like some people go grocery shopping. Happy Together finds them on a trip to Argentina, isolated in a country where they don’t speak the language, their relationship finally going col more »
If you’re of a certain age, you can probably recite chunks of the dialogue and summon up favorite scenes with no trouble. But how long’s it been since you’ve actually seen Rick, Ilsa, Laszlo, Renault, Sam, and the rest play out their desperate gambits and suffer their heartbreaks on the big screen? If you haven’t seen it, you’r more »
There’s a long tradition of films about groups of aimless young people wavering on the cusp of adulthood that all trace their roots back to Federico Fellini’s sublime I Vitelloni. A gang of small-town pals (Franco Fabrizi, Alberto Sordi, Franco Interlenghi, Riccardo Fellini, and Leopoldo Trieste) chase gi more »
The ancient Greek myth of Orpheus, who attempts to harness the power of music to rescue his beloved Eurydice from the underworld. more »
Ingmar Bergman tries his hand at horror. Max Von Sydow and Liv Ullman play a painter and his wife who head for a remote island for an extended summer getaway. The folks who live in the castle on the other side of the island are odd, but not as odd as what’s going on in Von Sydow’s slowly disintegrating min more »
(1968 Pier Paolo Pasolini) A mysterious visitor in the form of peak-gorgeousness Terence Stamp shows up at the home of a bourgeois Italian family of four. He almost benevolently sets about seducing members of the household. He departs as inexplicably as he arrives. The family’s lives alter in profound ways. Pier Paolo Pasolini’s more »
In this New Year’s Day performance, Laurent Pelly’s storybook staging of Massenet’s Cendrillon, a hit of the 2017–18 season, is presented with an all-new English translation in an abridged 90-minute adaptation, with mezzo-soprano Isabel Leonard as its rags-to-riches princess. more »
Bartlett Sher’s bold new take on Verdi’s timeless tragedy. more »
The exhilarating soprano Lise Davidsen makes her Live in HD debut in one of her signature roles, the mythological Greek heroine of Strauss’s enchanting masterpiece. more »
For the first time in company history, the Met presents the original five-act French version of Verdi’s epic opera of doomed love among royalty, set against the backdrop of the Spanish Inquisition. more »
Superstar Anna Netrebko makes her long-awaited Met role debut as Puccini’s icy princess—seen live in cinemas on May 7. more »
On May 21, soprano Nadine Sierra takes on one of the repertory’s most formidable and storied roles, the haunted heroine of Lucia di Lammermoor. more »
Shakespeare offers a gauntlet to composers that shouldn’t always be picked up, but Dean’s Hamlet rises to the challenge. more »
