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No Other Land
This film made by a Palestinian-Israeli collective shows the destruction of the occupied West Bank's Masafer Yatta by Israeli soldiers and the alliance which develops between the Palestinian activist Basel and Israeli journalist Yuval. more »
On Becoming A Guinea Fowl
On an empty road in the middle of the night, Shula stumbles across the body of her uncle. As funeral proceedings begin around them, she and her cousins bring to light the buried secrets of their middle-class Zambian family. more »
The Assessment
In the near future where parenthood is strictly controlled, a couple's seven-day assessment for the right to have a child unravels into a psychological nightmare. more »
La Dolce Vita
One Show Only! It’s become a shorthand reference for swinging Rome and the louche early ‘60s, but then Moby Dick isn’t really about a whale. Marcello Mastroianni’s playboy journalist cavorts through the city, chasing celebrities and women and eroding his soul in the process. Speaking of shorthand, this is where the full floweri more »
Blue Velvet
David Lynch presaged the modern internet back when the real thing was two tin cans and a string. Noir always posited a realm of vice and violence just beneath the surface of the sunlit world of family dinners and dates to the dance, but Blue Velvet makes the dark underneath’s accessibility—and more »
Bob Trevino Likes It
When lonely 20-something Lily Trevino accidentally befriends a stranger online who shares the same name as her own self-centered father, encouragement and support from this new Bob Trevino could change her life. more »
Death of a Unicorn
Father-Daughter duo Elliott and Ridley hit a unicorn with their car and bring it to the wilderness retreat of a mega-wealthy pharmaceutical CEO. more »
Early Spring
Yasujirō Ozu gets a bit soapy here, albeit in an Ozu kind of way. A bored salaryman (Ryō Ikebe) feeling distanced from his wife (Chikage Awashima) starts an affair with a young colleague (Keiko Kishi). Really, just admiring the director’s trademark three-or-four-shot transitions is almost worth the price of admission alone. -Lee more »
Dawn of Impressionism
The Impressionists are the most popular group in art history - millions flock every year to marvel at their masterpieces. But, to begin with, they were scorned, penniless outsiders. 1874 was the year that changed everything. more »
Saturday Night Fever
The soundtrack spins wall-to-wall bangers and the disco sequences thrill, but the reason journeyman John Badham’s epochal smash still works like a 4/4 beat comes down to character and story. John Travolta, never better as a sort of human husky dog, senses a bigger life beyond the 9-to-5 and the release of the dancefloor. But can more »
The Friend
Follows a story of love, friendship, grief and healing, about a writer who adopts a Great Dane that belonged to a late friend and mentor. more »
Soundtrack to a Coup D’Etat
The United States’ involvement in the 1960 assassination of Congolese leader Patrice Lumumba and the country’s subsequent decline into decades of dictatorship and ongoing instability is well-established. Filmmaker John Grimonprez creates a stylish and verve-y account of that history by infusing his 2024 documentary with the musi more »
Mulholland Drive
David Lynch took a failed post-Twin Peaks TV pilot and transformed it into a film regularly acclaimed as one of this century’s best, an LA story that’s both love letter and poison pen, a sun-baked/noir-lit Persona, a star-is-born showcase for Naomi Watts, the spawning grounds for at least a dozen memes, and an more »
The Ballad of Wallis Island
THE BALLAD OF WALLIS ISLAND follows Charles (Tim Key), an eccentric lottery winner who lives alone on a remote island and dreams of getting his favorite musicians, McGwyer Mortimer (Tom Basden and Carey Mulligan) back together. more »
A Woman is A Woman
Based on the unlikely premise that a man doesn’t want to have a baby with Anna Karina, Jean-Luc Godard’s first color film is soufflé-light but wicked smart. The director manages to make a ‘60s romantic comedy and an exploded drawing of one at the same time, playing with sound, music, dialogue, the fourth wall, credits, and other more »
Alphaville
Jean-Luc Godard mashes up sci-fi and noir to create something very much like a mid-’60s Godard film. Pug-faced Eddie Constantine plays a hard-boiled private eye dispatched to the titular future city on a mission who encounters a somewhat dystopian reality that closely resembles mid-century Paris. Both a time capsule and a visio more »
The Wedding Banquet
A gay man makes a deal with his lesbian friend: a green-card marriage for him, in exchange for in vitro fertilization treatments for her. Plans evolve as Min's grandmother surprises them with a Korean wedding banquet. more »
Killer of Sheep
Charles Burnett’s debut feature, shot mostly in the early ‘70s at the height of the Blaxploitation boom, captures an entirely different slice of Black life—thankless labor, scraping by, ordinary family, dreams deferred—via discursive vignettes and Burnett’s richly poetic eye. It feels like a miracle that this great film exists a more »
Spring Breakers
Harmony Korine transcends his usual Cinema of Troll-ery as a quartet of college students (headlined by former Disney teens Vanessa Hudgens and Selena Gomez) turn to crime to escape their ordinary lives for a week. But when you stare into the bikini-clad beer-bong abyss, it stares back. James Franco has to be seen to be believed. more »
The Shrouds
Karsh, an innovative businessman and grieving widower, builds a device to connect with the dead inside a burial shroud. more »
The Servant
James Fox is a classic upper-crust Brit twit. Dirk Bogarde is the perfect manservant for a respectable gentleman —or is he? Rather than settle for class-war cliches, screenwriter Harold Pinter and director Joseph Losey serve up something altogether more complex and delicious, and Fox gets in a dry run for his turn in Performance more »
Bad Shabbos
An engaged interfaith couple are about to have their parents meet for the first time over a Shabbat dinner when an accidental death gets in the way. more »
Seven
Endlessly ripped-off to this day, David Fincher’s breakout manages the neat trick of balancing deep stylization (e.g. the constant rain) with palpable grit and realism as beleaguered cops chase a next-level serial killer. It helps that he’s got Morgan Freeman to ballast the emotional tone and aspirations to profundity. Brad Pitt more »
Mildred Pierce
Michael Curtiz out-pulps James M. Cain’s original novel, staging a murder in the very first scene and streamlining the melodrama. The resulting adaptation not only brings the noir, it amps up the class division and the mother/daughter love/hate. If you ever wondered why Joan Crawford was a big deal, this is an excellent way to f more »
Heavy Metal
For 13-year-old boys of all ages. Back in the day, the titular comic brought European artists like Jean “Moebius” Giraud and “adult” themes to newstands. The titular film brings a brace of the comic’s stories to life through budget animation and a soundtrack crammed with bespoke tunes from classic rockers. Content warning: many, more »
Let’s Get Lost
It’s a genuine shock when Chet Baker cops to being 57 in this biodoc—he looks 30 years older. The contrast between his heartthrob younger days as the Great White Hope of jazz trumpet and the withered, scuffling addict of his final year on earth fuels fashion photographer Bruce Weber’s suitably elegant film. Despite the ad-campai more »
The Princess Bride
Is there anyone who doesn’t light up a little about this movie? Part fairy tale, part meta-comedy, Rob Reiner’s take on William Goldman’s story of farm boys, princesses, pirates, and giants still delights with its wry wit and flashes of genuine pathos. Secret MVP: Robin Wright Penn, who makes something really hard look easy. -Le more »
THE MAGNIFICENT AMBERSONS
The fact that RKO cut nearly an hour out of Orson Welles’ follow-up to Citizen Kane and it still stands as one of the greatest films ever made has inspired decades of pained what-ifs. Welles shadows the title Midwestern clan as their 19th-century wealth and influence succumbs to onrushing modernity and simple hubris. Every scene more »
Michelangelo: Love & Death
The spectacular sculptures and paintings of Michelangelo seem so familiar to us, but what do we really know about this Renaissance giant? more »
