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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 »
Beetlejuice Beetlejuice
After a family tragedy, three generations of the Deetz family return home to Winter River. Still haunted by Beetlejuice, Lydia's life is turned upside down when her teenage daughter, Astrid, accidentally opens the portal to the Afterlife. more »
The Front Room
It tells the story of a newly pregnant couple who are forced to take in an ailing, estranged stepmother. more »
The Critic
Ian McKellen stars as a powerful London theater critic who becomes entangled in a web of deceit and murder. more »
Seeking Mavis Beacon
Investigates the disappearance and reexamines the legacy of one of the most influential Black women in technology. more »
The Lavender Hill Mob
The late Alec Guinness has been retconned into a kindly screen eminence thanks to his Star Wars canonization as Old Ben Kenobi, but he was a wily actor full of dark currents. Exhibit A: this Ealing Studios heist comedy, which benefits enormously from his ability to telegraph complex motives from behind a milquetoast expression a 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 »
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 »
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 »
Texas Chainsaw Massacre | 50th Anniversary
Five friends head out to rural Texas to visit the grave of a grandfather. On the way they stumble across what appears to be a deserted house, only to discover something sinister within. Something armed with a chainsaw. 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 »
Saturday Night
At 11:30pm on October 11th, 1975, a ferocious troupe of young comedians and writers changed television forever. Find out what happened behind the scenes in the 90 minutes leading up to the first broadcast of Saturday Night Live. 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 »
We Live in Time
An up-and-coming chef and a recent divorcée find their lives forever changed when a chance encounter brings them together, in a decade-spanning, deeply moving romance. 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 »
LET’S START A CULT
Having missed out on his cult's long awaited ritual suicide, an obnoxious loser teams up with his bogus ex-messiah to rebuild their doomsday commune. Traveling together through middle America, the constantly-bickering duo induct a military wannabe, a mentally unstable mom, and a mysterious foreign hitchhiker into their cult... b 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 »
The Big Sleep
If you have a friend who’s always whispering “Who’s he?” or “Why did that happen?” during movies, leave them home. The plot of Howard Hawks’ classic adaptation of Raymond Chandler’s hardboiled novel approaches quantum physics. But Humphrey Bogart made Philip Marlowe iconic, and the crackling script, featuring work by the great L more »
Days of Heaven
One of the most beautiful American films ever made. Richard Gere and Brooke Adams star as migrant workers and secret lovers who decide to dupe wealthy farmer Sam Shepard. Heartbreak and tragedy ensue. The breath-stopping ravishment of Terence Malick’s magic-hour shooting schedule is leavened perfectly by the vinegar and innocenc 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 »
My Night at Maud’s
Nothing like an Éric Rohmer film to remind you of how Mickey Mouse most cinema is when it comes to how people and their relationships actually work. Jean-Louis Trintignant plays a stoic engineer who pines for a woman he sees in church. Or maybe he should pursue the more libertine woman with whom he has a charged overnight encoun more »
Hardcore
Writer/director Paul Schrader’s most underrated film? It’s a crowded field, but his Dantean descent into the ‘70s porn underworld is a contender. George C. Scott’s Calvinist Midwesterner ventures to Los Angeles to find his missing teen daughter with Peter Boyle’s sleazy private eye and Season Hubley’s sexworker as his guides. Th more »
Chess of the Wind
Like nothing else you will see onscreen this year. Made and banned in pre-revolution Iran and unseen again until 2020, Mohammad Reza Aslani’s film rarely leaves the walls of an oppressively opulent house as a family squabbles over an inheritance. Betrayal, murder, and other less tangible dreads rear their heads. Do not miss. -Le more »
Querelle
Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s final film adapts Jean Genet’s novel into a queer seaside fever dream. Brad Davis stars as the titular sailor amid a hotbed of vice, drug dealing, murder, repressed (and flagrant) man love, and everybody sleeping with everybody else, plus the director’s signature theatrical flair and lurid vibe. What’s more »
A Matter of Life and Death
A film romance unlike any other. WWII bomber pilot David Niven falls for radio operator Kim Hunter as his plane goes down in flames. His impossible survival sets off an interplanar incident as life and afterlife wrestle with the power of their love. Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger’s use of brain-boggling design, practical more »
The Time Masters
The director behind French cult animation classic Fantastic Planet and French comics god Möbius teamed up on an animated film? Vraiment! René Laloux and Jean “Möbius” Giraud did collaborate on this space adventure, in which a team of explorers race to save a child marooned on a hostile planet. Sort of like the trippiest episode more »
The Letter
Bette Davis’s wealthy married woman shoots a man who is not her husband dead on her front steps. Dozens see her do it. It’s up to a lawyer/family friend played by James Stephenson to get her off on self-defense. But is she as innocent as she seems? William Wyler’s noir benefits from his expert direction, the sweaty tropical sett more »
Fitzcarraldo
The focused madness of Werner Herzog’s filmmaking obsession found its purest expression in his account of a European (Klaus Kinski) who hatches an elaborate scheme to bring grand opera to the backwaters of the early 20th-century Amazon. All he has to do is drag a steamship over a mountain. Animating feat aside, it remains one of 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 »
