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Between the Temples
A cantor in a crisis of faith finds his world turned upside down when his grade school music teacher re-enters his life as his new adult Bat Mitzvah student. more »
The Critic
Ian McKellen stars as a powerful London theater critic who becomes entangled in a web of deceit and murder. more »
The Front Room
It tells the story of a newly pregnant couple who are forced to take in an ailing, estranged stepmother. more »
Good One
During a weekend backpacking trip in the Catskills, 17-year-old Sam navigates the clash of egos between her father and his oldest friend. more »
Seeking Mavis Beacon
Investigates the disappearance and reexamines the legacy of one of the most influential Black women in technology. more »
Sing Sing
Divine G, imprisoned at Sing Sing for a crime he didn't commit, finds purpose by acting in a theatre group alongside other incarcerated men in this story of resilience, humanity, and the transformative power of art. more »
The Substance
A fading celebrity decides to use a black market drug, a cell-replicating substance that temporarily creates a younger, better version of herself. more »
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Office Space
Flair. TPS reports. The red Swingline stapler. Mike Judge’s takeout on work in general, and the cube-farm culture of white-collar labor in particular, was so dead-on and scathing that it provided a whole new set of terms and concepts to mock and undermine them. Since it was famously a failure at the box office and only became be more »
Within Our Gates
Oscar Micheaux’s landmark debut is no mere curio of cinema history. The oldest surviving feature film by a Black director jumps back and forth over the Mason-Dixon line as our heroine (Evelyn Preer) works to uplift the race and faces love and family troubles of her own. Micheaux captures many startling moments of century-old hum more »
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¡Casa Bonita Mi Amor!
Casa Bonita, a quirky Mexican restaurant in Colorado with cliff divers, faces closure. South Park (1997) creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone try saving this piece of childhood/Colorado history. more »
Megalopolis
The city of New Rome is the main conflict between Cesar Catilina, a brilliant artist in favor of a utopian future, and the greedy mayor Franklyn Cicero. Between them is Julia Cicero, her loyalty divided between her father and her beloved. more »
Scanners
David Cronenberg’s breakout leveled-up artistically as well as at the box office. Despite an inert lead performance from Stephen Lack, Scanners depicts a reality full of weaponized psychics at war but also disturbingly recognizable corporate conspiracies and house-of-mirrors paranoia. While the director’s work is best known for more »
A Woman Under The Influence
The role that made Gena Rowlands a legend. John Cassavetes wrote his wife the role of an unconventional homemaker at odds with her working-stiff husband (Peter Falk), and she seized it with every cell. As engrossing and timeless as her deeply felt performance may be, its essential humanity forces a reckoning that’s even more po more »
Leonardo: The Works
Leonardo da Vinci is acclaimed as the world’s favourite artist. Many TV shows and feature films have showcased this extraordinary genius but Leonardo: The Works presents every single attributed painting, in Ultra HD quality, never seen before on the big screen. more »
3 Women
Shelly Duvall was an acting genius, and Robert Altman’s dreamlike tour de force presents the most eloquent proof. Her clueless single working gal is so blithely bluff that she impresses a rube (Sissy Spacek) fresh off the bus even as she otherwise inspires snickers on- and off-screen. But hidden depths lurk in these characters, more »
A Different Man
After undergoing a facial reconstructive surgery, Edward becomes fixated on an actor in a stage production based on his former life. more »
Joker: Folie à Deux
Failed comedian Arthur Fleck meets the love of his life, Harley Quinn, while in Arkham State Hospital. Upon release, the pair embark on a doomed romantic misadventure. more »
The Apprentice
The story of how a young Donald Trump started his real estate business in 1970s and 80s New York with the helping hand of infamous lawyer Roy Cohn. more »
Made in England: The Films of Powell and Pressburger
Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger made some of the greatest films ever, period, including The Red Shoes, Black Narcissus, and A Matter of Life and Death, the latter two coming to the Charles revival series later this fall. In this adroit doc, Martin Scorsese spends a couple of hours enthusing in illustrated and intimate deta more »
Chungking Express
The crazy thing about Wong Kar-wai’s international breakout is that it doesn’t really become the film people love and remember until about halfway through. Not that the opening star-crossed encounter between Brigitte Lin’s blonde-wigged moll and Takeshi Kaneshiro’s detective is forgettable—far from it. But once heartbroken Tony more »
Black Narcissus
A bloody miracle. Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger conjured the high Himalayas entirely on British soundstages and created a torrid, visually rapturous exploration of duty and suppressed passion amid a colony of British nuns (led by Deborah Kerr). Jean Simmons dons brownface to play a local, but the film’s essential theme o more »
Rushmore
Before there were “Wes Anderson films,” Wes Anderson made an unexpected sophomore breakout so rich, so sparkling, so tonally perfect that it bought him the freedom to make whatever he wanted . . . which was Wes Anderson films. Jason Schwartzman, Bill Murray, and Oliva Williams sweetly play real people with pr more »
Young Frankenstein
“Mel Brooks” and “refined” usually don’t appear in the same sentence, but paying homage to the Universal horror universe provided an elegant monochrome frame to elevate his Borscht Belt shtick. A murderer’s row of ‘70s cinema second bananas—Madeline Kahn, Cloris Leachman, Kenneth Mars, Marty Feldman, Terri Garr, and Peter Boyle— more »
Invasion of the Body Snatchers
Pet-theory time. While the 1956 original sounded a warning about Cold War paranoia, Philip Kaufman’s 1978 remake offers an elegy for the 1960s. Donald Sutherland leads the real San Franciscans, floppy haired intellectuals who like exotic food and going to book events, while the alien-pod people who would replace them strike firs more »
Army of Shadows
Former French Resistance fighter Jean-Pierre Melville slips behind the front lines of World War II for a hard look at the vicious war in the streets of occupied France. As with a Resistance cell, information is parceled out slowly, obliquely—you follow Lino Ventura before you know why. Soon, you’re trapped deep in a world of sud more »
Van Gogh: Poets & Lovers
200 years after its opening and a century after acquiring its first Van Gogh works, the National Gallery, London is hosting the UK’s biggest ever Van Gogh exhibition. Van Gogh is not only one of the most beloved artists of all time, but perhaps the most misunderstood. more »
Burden of Dreams
It says a lot that a documentary about Werner Herzog dragging a steamship over a mountain is as compelling as the film he made about a character dragging a steamship over a mountain (Fitzcarraldo). Doc legend Les Blank’s camera shadows Herzog as he plunges into the Peruvian jungle and surmounts every muddy, sweaty obstacle to ca more »
Nickel Boys
Based on the Pulitzer Prize winning novel by Colson Whitehead, Nickel Boys chronicles the powerful friendship between two young African American men navigating the harrowing trials of reform school together in Florida. more »
Raphael Revealed
More than just a painter, Raphael was one of the most extraordinary artists of the Renaissance but is often misunderstood or mythologised. On the basis of this extraordinary exhibition in Rome, this film allows Raphael, for the first time, to be truly revealed. more »
Canaletto & The Art of Venice
An journey into the life and art of Venice's famous view-painter, no artist better captures the essence and allure of Venice than Giovanni Antonio Canal, better known as Canaletto. more »
Young Picasso
Pablo Picasso is one of the most famous names in art history, his image and his art are everywhere, yet few know the remarkable story of his rise to greatness. Young Picasso takes an in-depth look at the journey of Picasso’s life and traces his path to genius. 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 »
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 »
A Real Pain
Mismatched cousins David and Benji reunite for a tour through Poland to honor their beloved grandmother. The adventure takes a turn when the odd-couple's old tensions resurface against the backdrop of their family history. more »
