The film chronicles the life and career of singer and actor Elvis Presley, from his early days as a child to becoming a rock and roll and movie star, as well as his complex relationship with his manager Colonel Tom Parker. more »
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The Music Room
Satyajit Ray’s film is as complex and beguiling as the luxe palace interiors of its setting and Indian classical music of its showcase scenes. Chhabi Biswas plays an indolent aristocrat whose grand style and love of connoisseur concerts have helped erode his dwindling riches. more »
Everything Everywhere All At Once
An aging Chinese immigrant is swept up in an insane adventure, where she alone can save the world by exploring other universes connecting with the lives she could have led. more »
Mr. Malcolm’s List
A young woman courts a mysterious wealthy suitor in 1800s England, unaware of his unattainable list of conditions for a future wife. more »
Official Competition
A wealthy businessman hires a famous filmmaker to help make a smash hit film. more »
The Forgiven
The Forgiven takes place over a weekend in the High Atlas Mountains of Morocco, and explores the reverberations of a random accident on the lives of both the local Muslims, and Western visitors to a house party in a grand villa. more »
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Beyond the Valley of the Dolls
Sexploitation pioneer Russ Meyer created his Hairspray by appropriating the basic showbiz-is-a-bitch plot from Jacqueline Susann’s potboiler The Valley of the Dolls, slapping on some Aquarian drug and rock ‘n’ roll tropes, and infusing it all with his own peculiar horndog obsessions. The late film critic Roger Ebert deserves cre more »
Pink Flamingos
Considering Pink Flamingos' five-figure budget and aggressive transgressiveness, it's a little shocking to be reminded how well-made John Waters' triumph-of-filth really is! more »
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Female Trouble
Part of our retrospective, "THE FILTHIEST FILMS EVER MADE: The Early Films of John Waters." more »
Multiple Maniacs
Part of our retrospective, "THE FILTHIEST FILMS EVER MADE: The Early Films of John Waters." more »
Desperate Living
Part of our retrospective, "THE FILTHIEST FILMS EVER MADE: The Early Films of John Waters." ON 35MM FILM! more »
Fire, or Both Sides of the Blade
A love triangle story about a woman caught between two men, her long-time partner and his best friend, her former lover. more »
Marcel The Shell With Shoes On
Feature adaptation of the animated short film interviewing a mollusk named Marcel. more »
Mrs. Harris Goes To Paris
Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris is the enchanting tale of a seemingly ordinary British housekeeper whose dream to own a couture Christian Dior gown takes her on an extraordinary adventure to Paris. more »
Where The Crawdads Sing
Abandoned by her family, Where the Crawdads Sing is a coming of age story of a young girl raised by the marshlands of the south in the 50's. more »
Beau Travail
The detachment of French Legionnaires at the heart of Claire Denis’ enigmatic masterpiece do everything in a group. They drill. They hit the nearest town. They iron their underwear. They . . . hug? But their sergeant (Denis Levant) takes a particular dislike to a charismatic new recruit (Grégoire Colin), upsetting the unit’s equ more »
The Sound of Music
The indelible songs, the romance, the whimsy, Julie Andrews at her most chastely adorable, the last-reel whiff of peril—all these things contribute to The Sound of Music’s generation-spanning reputation as an ironclad creampuff classic. more »
Liquid Sky
A film that still may be a little ahead of the times. Aliens descend upon pre-gentrification lower Manhattan to score their fix —the chemicals the human brain produces during orgasm. more »
Fire of Love
Katia and Maurice Krafft loved two things — each other and volcanoes. For two decades, the daring French volcanologist couple roamed the planet, chasing eruptions and documenting their discoveries. more »
Bring Me The Head of Alfredo Garcia
Gritty, sweaty, sleazy, and fetid, Sam Peckinpah’s existential road movie sticks to you like a damp shirt. A Mexican crime lord demands the cabeza of the lothario who soiled his teenage daughter, and somehow the task comes to a hapless gringo lounge lizard (Warren Oates). more »
Hallelujah: Leonard Cohen, a Journey, a Song
This feature-length documentary explores the life of singer-songwriter Leonard Cohen as seen through the prism of his internationally renowned hymn, Hallelujah. more »
Inland Empire
Shot piecemeal on low-grade digital video over several years, David Lynch’s last feature film to date both culminates his auteurial approach and smashes it to pieces. more »
Red River
Howard Hawks’ seminal Western established Montgomery Clift as a movie star and movie star John Wayne as an actual actor. Wayne plays an aging rancher determined to drive his cattle hundreds of miles to market at all costs. Clift plays the young protege who rebels against his dogged elder. more »
Welcome Home Brother Charles
A Black man (Marlo Montes) is screwed over by The Man and imprisoned—we’ve seen this movie before. But unless you’ve seen "Welcome Home Brother Charles," you’ve never, ever seen it play out this way. more »
The Swimmer
Burt Lancaster embodies such a paragon of mid-century suburban WASP-iness that nothing seems awry when he materializes in a manicured Connecticut backyard wearing only swim trunks and announces a plan to breaststroke all the way home via private pools. more »
Moonrise
The sins of the father haunt a smalltown schlub in Frank Borzage’s noir. A murderer’s son (Dane Clark) kills his lifelong bully in self-defense. He’s wracked with guilt and worry that some stain of sin has been passed down, but not so wracked that he doesn’t quickly take up with the bully’s fiancee (Gail Russell) while he frets more »
DIVA
Jean-Jacques Beineix exhaled a gust of fresh Gauloise smoke into French cinema with this stylish caper film that established the ‘80s as A Thing as surely as any other cultural product you care to name. A Parisian postman (Frédéric Andréi) obsessed with the title soprano (Wilhelmenia Wiggins Fernandez) gets tangled up in two sep more »
