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Stream MILLENNIUM MAMBO at homeA seductive submersion into the techno-scored neon nightlife of Taipei, drenched in club lights and a nagging undercurrent of ennui.

MILLENNIUM MAMBO

Hou Hsiao-hsien | 119 min | 2001

Stream POSSESSION at homeBanned upon its original release in 1981, Possession is cinematic delirium at its most intoxicating.

POSSESSION

ANDRZEJ ŻUłAWSKI | 124 min | 1981

Stream MADE IN HONG KONG at homeChan’s raw, atmospheric portrait of nihilistic youth and a city on the brink, the first independent film released in post-Handover Hong Kong.

MADE IN HONG KONG

FRUIT CHAN | 99 min | 1997

Stream GOODBYE, DRAGON INN at homeTsai’s minimalist yet multifaceted film in which a soon-to-be-shut-down movie palace, the Fo-Ho—its screening room, projection booth, hallways, bathrooms—becomes a sort of haunted house.

GOODBYE, DRAGON INN

TSAI MING-LIANG | 82 min | 2003

Stream L’INTRUS at homeOne of Denis’s most exhilarating films, which charts the travels of a mercenary (Michel Subor) as he journeys from the snowy Alps to Korea to Tahiti in search of a heart transplant and his son.

L’INTRUS

CLAIRE DENIS | 130 min | 2004

Stream THE FRENCH at homeKlein’s stunningly up-close-and-personal sports documentary, set behind the scenes of the 1981 French Open.

THE FRENCH

WILLIAM KLEIN | 135 min | 1982

Stream BOYFRIENDS AND GIRLFRIENDS at homeA new restoration of the final episode of Rohmer’s “Comedies and Proverbs” series, in which two young women are tempted by each other’s love interests.

BOYFRIENDS AND GIRLFRIENDS

ÉRIC ROHMER | 103 min | 1987

Stream FOUR ADVENTURES OF REINETTE AND MIRABELLE at homeThis breezy, witty film tracks the friendship between a savvy Parisian and a naïve painter from the countryside through four connected vignettes.

FOUR ADVENTURES OF REINETTE AND MIRABELLE

ÉRIC ROHMER | 99 min | 1987

Stream THE AVIATOR’S WIFE at homeThe first title in Rohmer’s “Comedies and Proverbs” film cycle is a fleecy farce of romantic overanalysis starring Philippe Marlaud and Marie Rivière.

THE AVIATOR’S WIFE

ÉRIC ROHMER | 106 min | 1981

Stream A BIGGER SPLASH at homeHazan’s narrative-nonfiction hybrid focusing on artist David Hockney is a time capsule of hedonistic gay life in the 1970s as well an invaluable portrait of art history in action.

A BIGGER SPLASH

JACK HAZAN | 106 min | 1974

Stream THE WINDMILL MOVIE at home“What if someone else wrote your autobiography?” That is the question posited by Alexander Olch as he tells the life-story of his former Harvard professor, the filmmaker Richard P. Rogers.

THE WINDMILL MOVIE

Alexander Olch | 82 min | 2008

Stream ALL IS FORGIVEN at homeA strikingly original, deeply empathetic family drama that sidesteps all clichéd sentimentality on the way to achieving quietly devastating results. 

ALL IS FORGIVEN

MIA HANSEN-LøVE | 105 min | 2007

Stream DOWNTOWN 81 at homeStarring Jean-Michel Basquiat, this street-smart rock-musical fantasy provides a window into a long-lost world of life on the margins that feels especially potent today.

DOWNTOWN 81

EDO BERTOGLIO | 72 min | 1981 / 2000

Stream LAST AND FIRST MEN at homeA surreal, stunning feature debut and final cinematic testament from the late composer and musician Jóhann Jóhannsson (Sicario, Arrival, Mandy).

LAST AND FIRST MEN

JóHANN JóHANNSSON | 72 min | 2020

Stream RUDE BOY at homeRude Boy follows roughneck Ray Gange as he drops his Soho sex-shop job to roadie for The Clash—the most fiery, revolutionary rock ’n’ roll band of the era.

RUDE BOY

JACK HAZAN AND DAVID MINGAY | 113 min | 1980

Stream THE COMPETITION at homeThis Wiseman-esque documentary from Claire Simon observes a process that is highly personal, idiosyncratic, and subject to the vagaries of personal prejudice.

THE COMPETITION

CLAIRE SIMON | 121 min | 2016

Stream DUET FOR CANNIBALS at homeEssayist, novelist, critic, and cinephile, Susan Sontag made only four films as a writer/director, and this one—her first—provides an introduction to a startlingly original filmmaker.

DUET FOR CANNIBALS

SUSAN SONTAG | 95 min | 1969

Stream THE GREAT ADVENTURE at homeHailed “a masterpiece” by The New York Times when it opened in 1955, this rhapsody of a film centers around life on a Swedish farm in the north of the country.

THE GREAT ADVENTURE

ARNE SUCKSDORFF | 77 min | 1953

Stream HYENAS at homeA hallucinatory, biting satire of a contemporary Senegal whose post-colonial dreams are faced with erosion by Western materialism.

HYENAS

DJIBRIL DIOP MAMBéTY‎ | 110 min | 1992

Stream LE FRANC & THE LITTLE GIRL WHO SOLD THE SUN at homeTwo medium-length films by the Senegalese master that provide a rich social vision, sly humor, and formal ingenuity.

LE FRANC & THE LITTLE GIRL WHO SOLD THE SUN

DJIBRIL DIOP MAMBéTY‎ | 45 min | 1994/1999

Stream THE PRAIRIE TRILOGY at homeJohn Hanson and Rob Nilsson collaborated on this remarkable series of documentaries underwritten by the North Dakota Humanities Council.

THE PRAIRIE TRILOGY

JOHN HANSON AND ROB NILSSON | 90 min | 1978 - 1980

Stream THE RAFT at homeA document of the thin line between science and cultism in the early ’70s and a touching story of female camaraderie.

THE RAFT

MARCUS LINDEEN | 97 min | 2018

SEPTEMBER ARRIVALS

Stream A DIFFERENT SCORE at homeFeaturing live footage of musician Devonté Hynes (Blood Orange), this is the first documentary devoted to the life and work of the late composer Julius Eastman.

A DIFFERENT SCORE

Anaïs Ngbanzo | 35 min | 2023

Stream A TALE BY MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE at homeStraub reflects on his own mortality by way of Montaigne.

A TALE BY MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE

Jean-Marie Straub | 33 min | 2013

Stream ANTIGONE at homeBertolt Brecht’s adaptation of Sophocles’s Antigone performed in its entirety; Straub and Huillet’s final film set in the ancient world.

ANTIGONE

Jean-Marie Straub, Danièle Huillet | 100 min | 1991

Stream CASA DE LAVA at homeDrawing inspiration from Tourneur’s I Walked with a Zombie, Costa creates an atmospheric and unsettling rumination on his homeland’s colonial past.

CASA DE LAVA

Pedro Costa | 105 min | 1994

Stream COMMUNISTS at homeStraub’s moving tribute to his longtime collaborator and partner Danièle Huillet.

COMMUNISTS

Jean-Marie Straub | 72 min | 2014

Stream CONCERNING VENICE at homeStraub’s meditation on the glories and decline of the Venetian Republic.

CONCERNING VENICE

Jean-Marie Straub | 24 min | 2013

Stream DIALOGUE OF SHADOWS at homeThe story of two distant lovers united by a shared love for Bach’s Cantata 140 (“Sleepers Wake”).

DIALOGUE OF SHADOWS

Jean-Marie Straub | 28 min | 2013

Stream DOLANDO at homeActor Dolando Bernardini delivers a stirring a cappella performance of the 1581 epic poem Jerusalem Delivered.

DOLANDO

Jean-Marie Straub, Danièle Huillet | 7 min | 2002

Stream EN RACHÂCHANT at homeStraub and Huillet’s charming adaptation of Marguerite Duras’s 1971 children’s story Ah! Ernesto.

EN RACHÂCHANT

Jean-Marie Straub, Danièle Huillet | 7 min | 1982

Stream EUROPA 2005, 27 OCTOBER at homeStraub and Huillet’s final collaboration released during the latter’s life.

EUROPA 2005, 27 OCTOBER

Jean-Marie Straub, Danièle Huillet | 12 min | 2006

Stream EVERY REVOLUTION IS A THROW OF THE DICE at homeA collection of Straub and Huillet’s friends take turns reading from a poem by Stéphane Mallarmé.

EVERY REVOLUTION IS A THROW OF THE DICE

Jean-Marie Straub, Danièle Huillet | 11 min | 1977

Stream FEATHERS at homeEl Zohairy’s absurdist satire observes the transformations that occur in an Egyptian family after a children’s birthday party goes awry.

FEATHERS

Omar El Zohairy | 114 min | 2021

Stream FRANCE AGAINST THE ROBOTS at home​​Straub’s final completed film, the last gesture of resistance in a filmography comprised of nothing but.

FRANCE AGAINST THE ROBOTS

Jean-Marie Straub | 10 min | 2020

Stream FROM TODAY UNTIL TOMORROW at homeA screwball comedy-inspired reworking of an opera by Straub and Huillet touchstone Arnold Schönberg.

FROM TODAY UNTIL TOMORROW

Jean-Marie Straub, Danièle Huillet | 62 min | 1996

Stream INCANTATI at homeA short work in conversation with history, Italian literature, and Straub and Huillet’s 2001 film The Return of the Prodigal Son.

INCANTATI

Jean-Marie Straub, Danièle Huillet | 5 min | 2002

Stream KISS OF LIFE at homeTwo HIV-positive Black men reflect on their experience living with AIDS.

KISS OF LIFE

Clifford Prince King | 7 min | 2022

Stream LOTHRINGEN! at homeStraub revisits his native country. A homecoming and a reckoning.

LOTHRINGEN!

Jean-Marie Straub, Danièle Huillet | 20 min | 1994

Stream MODESTY AND SHAME at homeHervé Guibert’s harrowing and moving document of his own body’s deterioration after being diagnosed with AIDS.

MODESTY AND SHAME

Hervé Guibert | 62 min | 1992

Stream NEW MUSIC: SOUNDS AND VOICES FROM THE AVANT-GARDE NEW YORK 1971 at homeA riveting document of NYC’s ground-breaking musical avant-garde scene, shot in 1971 and released 40 years later.

NEW MUSIC: SOUNDS AND VOICES FROM THE AVANT-GARDE NEW YORK 1971

Hans G. Helms | 51 min | 2010

Stream O SANGUE at homeThe compassionate and disarmingly beautiful opening of Costa’s astonishing career.

O SANGUE

Pedro Costa | 95 min | 1989

Stream O SOMMA LUCCE! at homeThe final stanzas of Dante’s Divine Comedy are recited on a Tuscan hillside.

O SOMMA LUCCE!

Jean-Marie Straub | 18 min | 2009

Stream PEOPLE OF THE LAKE at homeStraub’s reflective look at the northern shores of Lake Geneva, his adopted home.

PEOPLE OF THE LAKE

Jean-Marie Straub | 18 min | 2018

Stream PROPOSITION IN FOUR PARTS at homeA film in dialogue with the work of one of Straub and Huillet’s less likely influences, D.W. Griffith.

PROPOSITION IN FOUR PARTS

Jean-Marie Straub, Danièle Huillet | 42 min | 1985

Stream THE ALGERIAN WAR! at homeA conscientious objector to his country’s war in Algeria, Straub brings a personal perspective to this late film about an ex-soldier who encounters a ghost.

THE ALGERIAN WAR!

Jean-Marie Straub | 2 min | 2014

Stream THE AQUARIUM AND THE NATION at homeStraub’s beguiling cosmic, involving a fish tank in a Chinese restaurant in Paris.

THE AQUARIUM AND THE NATION

Jean-Marie Straub | 31 min | 2015

Stream THE METAMORPHOSIS OF BIRDS at homeVasconcelos’s magic realist hybrid documentary tells the story of the filmmaker’s family history with lyrical, dreamlike imagery.

THE METAMORPHOSIS OF BIRDS

Catarina Vasconcelos | 101 min | 2020

Stream VITALINA VARELA at homeCosta’s solemn and sumptuous Vitalina Varela gives center stage to Vitalena, a Cape Verdean widow, as she begins to establish a new life.

VITALINA VARELA

Pedro Costa | 124 min | 2019

Stream WHERE DOES YOUR HIDDEN SMILE LIE? at homeAn intimate insight into Costa’s creative process through his dialogue with two of his premiere artistic inspirations, filmmaker duo Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet.

WHERE DOES YOUR HIDDEN SMILE LIE?

Pedro Costa | 104 min | 2001

Stream WORKERS, PEASANTS at homeStraub and Huillet’s stirring ode to resistance, comprised of a chorus of readings from anti-fascist modernist Elio Vittorini’s novel Women of Messina.

WORKERS, PEASANTS

Jean-Marie Straub, Danièle Huillet | 123 min | 2000

POPULAR NOW

Stream O SANGUE at homeThe compassionate and disarmingly beautiful opening of Costa’s astonishing career.

O SANGUE

Pedro Costa | 95 min | 1989

Stream A DIFFERENT SCORE at homeFeaturing live footage of musician Devonté Hynes (Blood Orange), this is the first documentary devoted to the life and work of the late composer Julius Eastman.

A DIFFERENT SCORE

Anaïs Ngbanzo | 35 min | 2023

Stream NEW MUSIC: SOUNDS AND VOICES FROM THE AVANT-GARDE NEW YORK 1971 at homeA riveting document of NYC’s ground-breaking musical avant-garde scene, shot in 1971 and released 40 years later.

NEW MUSIC: SOUNDS AND VOICES FROM THE AVANT-GARDE NEW YORK 1971

Hans G. Helms | 51 min | 2010

Stream DAYS at homeTsai’s gradual refinement of his cinema to bare essentials reaches a new level of serene beauty in Days.

DAYS

Tsai Ming Liang | 127 min | 2020

Stream A VISIT TO THE LOUVRE at homeA cinematic “tour” of the Louvre.

A VISIT TO THE LOUVRE

Jean-Marie Straub, Danièle Huillet | 49 min | 2004

Stream RIGHT NOW, WRONG THEN at homeA visiting director falls for a shy local painter, in Hong’s twice-told tale.

RIGHT NOW, WRONG THEN

Hong Sangsoo | 121 min | 2015

Stream HILL OF FREEDOM at homeThe story of a terse long-distance relationship, charmingly told through a shuffled stack of love letters.

HILL OF FREEDOM

Hong Sangsoo | 66 min | 2014

Stream CLASS RELATIONS at homeStraub and Huillet’s nightmare-vivid adaptation of Franz Kafka’s incomplete novel Amerika.

CLASS RELATIONS

Jean-Marie Straub, Danièle Huillet | 126 min | 1984

Stream FUTURA at homeThree of Italian cinema’s leading lights—Marcello, Munzi, and Rohrwacher—quiz teenagers across the country about their thoughts, hopes, dreams.

FUTURA

Pietro Marcello, Alice Rohrwacher, Francesco Munzi | 105 min | 2021

Stream BOYFRIENDS AND GIRLFRIENDS at homeA new restoration of the final episode of Rohmer’s “Comedies and Proverbs” series, in which two young women are tempted by each other’s love interests.

BOYFRIENDS AND GIRLFRIENDS

ÉRIC ROHMER | 103 min | 1987

Stream FOUR ADVENTURES OF REINETTE AND MIRABELLE at homeThis breezy, witty film tracks the friendship between a savvy Parisian and a naïve painter from the countryside through four connected vignettes.

FOUR ADVENTURES OF REINETTE AND MIRABELLE

ÉRIC ROHMER | 99 min | 1987

Stream THE AVIATOR’S WIFE at homeThe first title in Rohmer’s “Comedies and Proverbs” film cycle is a fleecy farce of romantic overanalysis starring Philippe Marlaud and Marie Rivière.

THE AVIATOR’S WIFE

ÉRIC ROHMER | 106 min | 1981

Stream MILLENNIUM MAMBO at homeA seductive submersion into the techno-scored neon nightlife of Taipei, drenched in club lights and a nagging undercurrent of ennui.

MILLENNIUM MAMBO

Hou Hsiao-hsien | 119 min | 2001

Stream POSSESSION at homeBanned upon its original release in 1981, Possession is cinematic delirium at its most intoxicating.

POSSESSION

ANDRZEJ ŻUłAWSKI | 124 min | 1981

LEAVING SOON

Stream A COTTAGE ON DARTMOOR at homeFairly squirming with sexual jealousy, and steeped in the shadows of imported German Expressionism, Asquith’s revenge melodrama follows a barber’s assistant’s fatal attraction to a new co-worker.

A COTTAGE ON DARTMOOR

Anthony Asquith | 88 min | 1929

Stream ARABIAN NIGHTS VOL. 1: THE RESTLESS ONE at homeThe Viana do Castelo shipyards, Portugal’s beekeepers, and a magic realist jape about a witch doctor are all fodder for Gomes’s first dizzying volume.

ARABIAN NIGHTS VOL. 1: THE RESTLESS ONE

Miguel Gomes | 125 min | 2015

Stream ARABIAN NIGHTS VOL. 2: THE DESOLATE ONE at homeGomes’s spirited yet darkening second chapter, involving a serial killer on the run, an absurdist courtroom drama, and a lonely Maltese poodle.

ARABIAN NIGHTS VOL. 2: THE DESOLATE ONE

Miguel Gomes | 131 min | 2014

Stream ARABIAN NIGHTS VOL. 3: THE ENCHANTED ONE at homeIn volume three, we encounter a community of bird trappers engaged in teaching their captives new songs, and Scheherazade, the storyteller of One Thousand and One Nights, herself.

ARABIAN NIGHTS VOL. 3: THE ENCHANTED ONE

Miguel Gomes | 125 min | 2015

Stream GLITTERBUG at homeA posthumous collage made up of material Jarman selected before his death, offering glimpses into the life of gay London, as well as myriad moments of everyday enchantment and occult symbolism.

GLITTERBUG

Derek Jarman | 60 min | 1994

Stream HAPPY TIMES at homeAn Israeli-American couple invite family and friends to their tasteless McMansion in the Hollywood Hills for a Sabbath dinner but wind up hosting a massacre instead. Selected by Cece Vargas.

HAPPY TIMES

Michael Mayer | 93 min | 2019

Stream IT FELT LIKE LOVE at homeNever Rarely Sometimes Always director Hittman’s feature debut about a sexually inexperienced south Brooklyn teenager (Gina Piersanti) who’s embarrassed to fess up to everything she doesn’t know about sex. Selected by Kristine Veras.

IT FELT LIKE LOVE

Eliza Hittman | 82 min | 2013

Stream MANIAC at homeExploitation pioneer Esper’s zilch-budget roadshow thriller is a down ’n’ dirty little number involving mad scientists, vaudevillians, showgirls, and a cat-farmer named “Goof.”

MANIAC

Dwain Esper | 51 min | 1934

Stream THE ANGELIC CONVERSATION at homeJarman returned to Shakespeare with this painterly work inspired by his love poems—particularly, his 14 sonnets addressed to the unnamed young man scholars refer to as the Fair Youth, read by Judi Dench.

THE ANGELIC CONVERSATION

Derek Jarman | 77 min | 1985

Stream THE BIG ANIMAL at homeAn absurdist, Kafka-inspired fable about a bank employee who tasks himself with caring for a fugitive Bactrian camel that has taken up residence in his garden. Selected by Clare Maceda.

THE BIG ANIMAL

Jerzy Stuhr | 73 min | 2000

Stream THE DEATH KISS at homeWhen their leading man is killed during a film shoot, production manager Bela Lugosi and screenwriter David Manners must race against time to collar the culprit.

THE DEATH KISS

Edwin L. Marin | 75 min | 1932

Stream THE LAST OF ENGLAND at homeA dolorous, moving portrait of a nation in its drab twilight, starring Tilda Swinton.

THE LAST OF ENGLAND

Derek Jarman | 92 min | 1988

Stream THE TEMPEST at homeJarman offers a typically idiosyncratic approach to Shakespeare, revivifying the Bard by rescuing him from fusty fidelity.

THE TEMPEST

Derek Jarman | 95 min | 1979

Stream WAR REQUIEM at homeA dazzlingly complex decoupage of sound and image that moves nimbly between past and present, offering a stark denunciation of militarism, with the figure of the Old Soldier (Laurence Olivier) the silent sentinel that sees all.

WAR REQUIEM

Derek Jarman | 92 min | 1989

FOUR BY PEDRO COSTA

JULIUS EASTMAN: A DIFFERENT SCORE

THE COMPLETE STRAUB-HUILLET COLLECTION

Stream MACHORKA-MUFF at homeThe pair’s first collaboration, based on a short story by Heinrich Böll.

MACHORKA-MUFF

Jean-Marie Straub, Danièle Huillet | 18 min | 1962

Stream NOT RECONCILED at homeStraub and Huillet’s startlingly original experimental adaptation of Heinrich Böll’s 1959 novel Billiards at Half-Past Nine.

NOT RECONCILED

Jean-Marie Straub, Danièle Huillet | 55 min | 1965

Stream CHRONICLE OF ANNA MAGDALENA BACH at homeA landmark achievement in the musician biopic that puts most formulaic efforts in that line to shame.

CHRONICLE OF ANNA MAGDALENA BACH

Jean-Marie Straub, Danièle Huillet | 94 min | 1968

Stream THE BRIDEGROOM, THE ACTRESS, AND THE PIMP at homeA condensed, intricately shot version of Ferdinand Bruckner’s 1926 play, starring Rainer Werner Fassbinder.

THE BRIDEGROOM, THE ACTRESS, AND THE PIMP

Jean-Marie Straub, Danièle Huillet | 23 min | 1968

Stream EYES DO NOT WANT TO CLOSE AT ALL TIMES at homeStraub and Huillet’s first film shot in Italy, describing the machinations and scheming that followed the death of Emperor Nero.

EYES DO NOT WANT TO CLOSE AT ALL TIMES

Jean-Marie Straub, Danièle Huillet | 88 min | 1970

Stream HISTORY LESSONS at homeStraub and Huillet’s anachronistic historical drama, based on Brecht’s experimental novel The Business Affairs of Mr Julius Caesar.

HISTORY LESSONS

Jean-Marie Straub, Danièle Huillet | 85 min | 1972

Stream INTRODUCTION TO ARNOLD SCHOENBERG'S 'ACCOMPANIMENT TO A CINEMATOGRAPHIC SCENE' at homeA ringing, righteous denouncement of anti-Semitism.

INTRODUCTION TO ARNOLD SCHOENBERG'S "ACCOMPANIMENT TO A CINEMATOGRAPHIC SCENE"

Jean-Marie Straub, Danièle Huillet | 17 min | 1973

Stream MOSES AND AARON at homeAmong Straub and Huillet’s supreme achievements, an awesomely austere adaptation of innovative Austrian composer Arnold Schoenberg’s unfinished opera of the same title.

MOSES AND AARON

Jean-Marie Straub, Danièle Huillet | 107 min | 1974

Stream FORTINI/CANI at homeStraub and Huillet draw from an essay by Franco Fortini, one of the most important intellectuals of the Italian New Left.

FORTINI/CANI

Jean-Marie Straub, Danièle Huillet | 83 min | 1976

Stream EVERY REVOLUTION IS A THROW OF THE DICE at homeA collection of Straub and Huillet’s friends take turns reading from a poem by Stéphane Mallarmé.

EVERY REVOLUTION IS A THROW OF THE DICE

Jean-Marie Straub, Danièle Huillet | 11 min | 1977

Stream FROM THE CLOUD TO THE RESISTANCE at homeTwo texts by Italian poet, essayist, and novelist Cesare Pavese form the foundation of Straub and Huillet’s dazzling bifurcated film.

FROM THE CLOUD TO THE RESISTANCE

Jean-Marie Straub, Danièle Huillet | 104 min | 1979

Stream TOO EARLY, TOO LATE at homeStraub and Huillet explore parallels between Egypt in its struggle against colonial rule and the powder keg atmosphere of pre-revolutionary France.

TOO EARLY, TOO LATE

Jean-Marie Straub, Danièle Huillet | 100 min | 1981

Stream EN RACHÂCHANT at homeStraub and Huillet’s charming adaptation of Marguerite Duras’s 1971 children’s story Ah! Ernesto.

EN RACHÂCHANT

Jean-Marie Straub, Danièle Huillet | 7 min | 1982

Stream CLASS RELATIONS at homeStraub and Huillet’s nightmare-vivid adaptation of Franz Kafka’s incomplete novel Amerika.

CLASS RELATIONS

Jean-Marie Straub, Danièle Huillet | 126 min | 1984

Stream PROPOSITION IN FOUR PARTS at homeA film in dialogue with the work of one of Straub and Huillet’s less likely influences, D.W. Griffith.

PROPOSITION IN FOUR PARTS

Jean-Marie Straub, Danièle Huillet | 42 min | 1985

Stream DEATH OF EMPEDOCLES at homeStraub and Huillet’s first adaptation of Friedrich Hölderlin’s play about a suicidal Greek philosopher.

DEATH OF EMPEDOCLES

Jean-Marie Straub, Danièle Huillet | 132 min | 1987

Stream BLACK SIN at homeThe Greek philosopher Empedocles throws himself into the mouth of Sicily’s volcanic Mount Etna to prove his immortality.

BLACK SIN

Jean-Marie Straub, Danièle Huillet | 42 min | 1989

Stream CEZANNE, CONVERSATION WITH JOACHIM GAASQUET at homeStraub and Huillet’s rich and lovely tribute to the painter Paul Cézanne.

CEZANNE, CONVERSATION WITH JOACHIM GAASQUET

Jean-Marie Straub, Danièle Huillet | 52 min | 1990

Stream ANTIGONE at homeBertolt Brecht’s adaptation of Sophocles’s Antigone performed in its entirety; Straub and Huillet’s final film set in the ancient world.

ANTIGONE

Jean-Marie Straub, Danièle Huillet | 100 min | 1991

Stream LOTHRINGEN! at homeStraub revisits his native country. A homecoming and a reckoning.

LOTHRINGEN!

Jean-Marie Straub, Danièle Huillet | 20 min | 1994

Stream FROM TODAY UNTIL TOMORROW at homeA screwball comedy-inspired reworking of an opera by Straub and Huillet touchstone Arnold Schönberg.

FROM TODAY UNTIL TOMORROW

Jean-Marie Straub, Danièle Huillet | 62 min | 1996

Stream SICILIA! at homeStraub and Huillet’s masterpiece tragicomedy follows a Sicilian returning to his native island after a long stay in New York.

SICILIA!

Jean-Marie Straub, Danièle Huillet | 66 min | 1999

Stream WORKERS, PEASANTS at homeStraub and Huillet’s stirring ode to resistance, comprised of a chorus of readings from anti-fascist modernist Elio Vittorini’s novel Women of Messina.

WORKERS, PEASANTS

Jean-Marie Straub, Danièle Huillet | 123 min | 2000

Stream THE RETURN OF THE PRODIGAL SON/HUMILIATED at homeElio Vittorini’s 1949 novel Women of Messina provided the inspiration for these paired films, both of which focus on a peasant community in postwar Italy.

THE RETURN OF THE PRODIGAL SON/HUMILIATED

Jean-Marie Straub, Danièle Huillet | 30 min | 2002

Stream DOLANDO at homeActor Dolando Bernardini delivers a stirring a cappella performance of the 1581 epic poem Jerusalem Delivered.

DOLANDO

Jean-Marie Straub, Danièle Huillet | 7 min | 2002

Stream A VISIT TO THE LOUVRE at homeA cinematic “tour” of the Louvre.

A VISIT TO THE LOUVRE

Jean-Marie Straub, Danièle Huillet | 49 min | 2004

Stream EUROPA 2005, 27 OCTOBER at homeStraub and Huillet’s final collaboration released during the latter’s life.

EUROPA 2005, 27 OCTOBER

Jean-Marie Straub, Danièle Huillet | 12 min | 2006

Stream ITINERARY OF JEAN BRICARD at homeThe last film made by Straub and Huillet is an elegant, elegiac work of oral history.

ITINERARY OF JEAN BRICARD

Jean-Marie Straub, Danièle Huillet | 40 min | 2008

Stream O SOMMA LUCCE! at homeThe final stanzas of Dante’s Divine Comedy are recited on a Tuscan hillside.

O SOMMA LUCCE!

Jean-Marie Straub | 18 min | 2009

Stream THE MOTHER at homeStraub’s mournful, Greek myth, inspired by a text by Cesare Pavese.

THE MOTHER

Jean-Marie Straub, Danièle Huillet | 20 min | 2012

Stream A TALE BY MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE at homeStraub reflects on his own mortality by way of Montaigne.

A TALE BY MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE

Jean-Marie Straub | 33 min | 2013

Stream DIALOGUE OF SHADOWS at homeThe story of two distant lovers united by a shared love for Bach’s Cantata 140 (“Sleepers Wake”).

DIALOGUE OF SHADOWS

Jean-Marie Straub | 28 min | 2013

Stream CONCERNING VENICE at homeStraub’s meditation on the glories and decline of the Venetian Republic.

CONCERNING VENICE

Jean-Marie Straub | 24 min | 2013

Stream COMMUNISTS at homeStraub’s moving tribute to his longtime collaborator and partner Danièle Huillet.

COMMUNISTS

Jean-Marie Straub | 72 min | 2014

Stream THE ALGERIAN WAR! at homeA conscientious objector to his country’s war in Algeria, Straub brings a personal perspective to this late film about an ex-soldier who encounters a ghost.

THE ALGERIAN WAR!

Jean-Marie Straub | 2 min | 2014

Stream THE AQUARIUM AND THE NATION at homeStraub’s beguiling cosmic, involving a fish tank in a Chinese restaurant in Paris.

THE AQUARIUM AND THE NATION

Jean-Marie Straub | 31 min | 2015

Stream PEOPLE OF THE LAKE at homeStraub’s reflective look at the northern shores of Lake Geneva, his adopted home.

PEOPLE OF THE LAKE

Jean-Marie Straub | 18 min | 2018

Stream FRANCE AGAINST THE ROBOTS at home​​Straub’s final completed film, the last gesture of resistance in a filmography comprised of nothing but.

FRANCE AGAINST THE ROBOTS

Jean-Marie Straub | 10 min | 2020

LOVE SONGS X METROGRAPH

HONG SANGSOO FOCUS

THREE BY TSAI MING-LIANG

SUMMER OF ROHMER

THE NEW AUTEURS

Stream ALL THE CITIES OF THE NORTH at homeDane Komljen’s second feature is a tender and enigmatic farewell to failed utopias, set amidst the bungalows of a former Yugoslav resort complex.

ALL THE CITIES OF THE NORTH

Dane Komjlen | 97 min | 2016

Stream ARABY at homeThe first film directed jointly by Brazilians João Dumans and Affonso Uchoa, a contemporary hallmark of the hybrid docufiction genre.

ARABY

Affonso Uchôa, João Dumans | 97 min | 2017

Stream CABALLERANGO at homeA riveting observational documentary portrait of a traditional community shaken to its foundations by the coming of modernization.

CABALLERANGO

Juan Pablo González | 61 min | 2018

Stream FEATHERS at homeEl Zohairy’s absurdist satire observes the transformations that occur in an Egyptian family after a children’s birthday party goes awry.

FEATHERS

Omar El Zohairy | 114 min | 2021

Stream MIMOSAS at homeA mysterious, majestic, and mystical Sufi Western.

MIMOSAS

Óliver Laxe | 96 min | 2016

Stream THE COMPUTER ACCENT at homeHeartening or horrifying depending on your viewpoint, The Computer Accent is a window into the future.

THE COMPUTER ACCENT

Riel Roch Decter, Sebastian Pardo | 83 min | 2021

Stream THE GRAND BIZARRE at homeA sensuous study of textile patterns from around the wide world, set to a pop soundtrack by the visionary filmmaker Jodie Mack herself.

THE GRAND BIZARRE

Jodie Mack | 60 min | 2018

Stream THE HUMAN SURGE at homeWriter-director-editor Eduardo Williams’s experimental debut feature, a startling three-act opus that travels from Argentina, to Mozambique, and the Philippines.

THE HUMAN SURGE

Eduardo Williams | 109 min | 2016

Stream THE METAMORPHOSIS OF BIRDS at homeVasconcelos’s magic realist hybrid documentary tells the story of the filmmaker’s family history with lyrical, dreamlike imagery.

THE METAMORPHOSIS OF BIRDS

Catarina Vasconcelos | 101 min | 2020

Stream THOSE THAT, AT A DISTANCE, RESEMBLE ANOTHER at homeA peaceful, painstaking visual essay about modern conservation.

THOSE THAT, AT A DISTANCE, RESEMBLE ANOTHER

Jessica Sarah Rinland | 67 min | 2019

THE FILMS OF EPHRAIM ASILI

THREE BY PIETRO MARCELLO

CLASSIC CINEMA

Stream A COTTAGE ON DARTMOOR at homeFairly squirming with sexual jealousy, and steeped in the shadows of imported German Expressionism, Asquith’s revenge melodrama follows a barber’s assistant’s fatal attraction to a new co-worker.

A COTTAGE ON DARTMOOR

Anthony Asquith | 88 min | 1929

Stream A FAREWELL TO ARMS at homeMaster of melodrama Borzage adapts Hemingway’s 1929 novel of love and war, with Gary Cooper as the American serving in the Italian ambulance brigade in WWI.

A FAREWELL TO ARMS

Frank Borzage | 80 min | 1932

Stream A STAR IS BORN at homeWellman’s wrenching Technicolor melodrama of rising and falling stars streaking past one another, in the unsurpassable original version.

A STAR IS BORN

William Wellman | 111 min | 1937

Stream BLESS THEIR LITTLE HEARTS at homeA singular document of Thatcher-era South London immigrant life, Rosso’s cult sound-system drama is hard-nosed, indignant, and utterly compelling.

BLESS THEIR LITTLE HEARTS

Billy Woodberry | 80 min | 1983

Stream THE BLOODY BROOD at homeRoffman’s feature debut follows a straight-and-narrow cat who falls into a seedy underworld of beatnik baddies, led by a young Peter Falk.

THE BLOODY BROOD

Julian Roffman | 80 min | 1959

Stream THE BLUE ANGEL at homeThe film that first paired Josef von Sternberg and Marlene Dietrich, launching one of the greatest actress-director collaborations in cinema history.

THE BLUE ANGEL

Josef von Sternberg | 104 min | 1930

Stream BOCCACCIO '70 at homeA four-part anthology comedy exploring love and the liberated woman in contemporary Italy, featuring contributions by some of the country’s greatest working filmmakers.

BOCCACCIO '70

Vittorrio De Sica, Federico Fellini, Mario Monicelli, Luchino Visconti | 205 min | 1962

Stream THE CHASE at homeArthur Ripley’s nightmare-logic thriller propels a penniless, PTSD-haunted WWII vet into a job behind the wheel for a Miami mobster.

THE CHASE

Arthur Ripley | 86 min | 1946

Stream COLLEGE at homeBuster Keaton goes to college where he tries to bulk up to impress a beautiful co-ed with predictably hysterical results.

COLLEGE

Buster Keaton | 66 min | 1927

Stream THE CRUZ BROTHERS AND MISS MALLOY at homeFor her first film, Collins adapted a series of Henry H. Roth stories about three young Puerto Rican men watched over by their father’s ghost.

THE CRUZ BROTHERS AND MISS MALLOY

Kathleen Collins | 54 min | 1980

Stream THE DEATH KISS at homeWhen their leading man is killed during a film shoot, production manager Bela Lugosi and screenwriter David Manners must race against time to collar the culprit.

THE DEATH KISS

Edwin L. Marin | 75 min | 1932

Stream FEAR AND DESIRE at homeA group of soldiers embark on a surreal journey to escape from behind enemy lines in Kubrick’s genius debut feature.

FEAR AND DESIRE

Stanley Kubrick | 62 min | 1952

Stream THE GIRL ON A MOTORCYCLE at homeSixties “It” Girl Marianne Faithfull leads the mod-styled erotic delirium as a Harley-riding free spirit rendezvousing with both her lover, played by Alain Delon, and her husband.

THE GIRL ON A MOTORCYCLE

Jack Cardiff | 91 min | 1968

Stream HELLBOUND TRAIN at homeThe work of self-taught African American evangelists, this surreal featurette is a campy episodic catalog of iniquity set on the titular choo-choo.

HELLBOUND TRAIN

James and Eloyce Gist | 50 min | 1930

Stream THE HITCH-HIKER at homeLupino’s personal favorite of her directorial efforts, a nerve-wracking, impeccably performed thriller about a vacation gone awry.

THE HITCH-HIKER

Ida Lupino | 71 min | 1953

Stream THE HOMECOMING at homeA brilliantly claustrophobic adaptation of Harold Pinter’s play about a young man who returns to the hornet’s nest of his estranged family’s London home for the holidays.

THE HOMECOMING

Peter Hall | 111 min | 1973

Stream THE ICEMAN COMETH at homeLee Marvin and Jeff Bridges lead Frankenheimer’s definitive take on the habitual tipplers who gather at Harry Hope’s saloon, and their dashed pipe dreams.

THE ICEMAN COMETH

John Frankenheimer | 239 min | 1973

Stream L'AGE D'OR at homeBuñuel’s first feature, a savage surreal satire taking aim at bourgeois morality, the Catholic Church, and society as a whole.

L'AGE D'OR

Luis Buñuel | 63 min | 1930

Stream THE LAST LAUGH at homeMurnau’s bold use of a moving camera changed cinema forever in this simple, tragic story of a hotel doorman whose life falls apart after he loses his job.

THE LAST LAUGH

F. W. Murnau | 90 min | 1924

Stream LOSING GROUND at homeA landmark of American independent cinema, which follows the marriage between a Black philosophy professor (Seret Scott) and her painter husband (Bill Gunn), both at a crossroads in their lives.

LOSING GROUND

KATHLEEN COLLINS | 86 min | 1982

Stream MÄDCHEN IN UNIFORM at homeA lonely teenage boarder falls for her teacher in Leontine Sagan’s pioneering all-female cast lesbian romance.

MÄDCHEN IN UNIFORM

Leontine Sagan | 87 min | 1931

Stream MANIAC at homeExploitation pioneer Esper’s zilch-budget roadshow thriller is a down ’n’ dirty little number involving mad scientists, vaudevillians, showgirls, and a cat-farmer named “Goof.”

MANIAC

Dwain Esper | 51 min | 1934

Stream MARRIAGE ITALIAN STYLE at homeVittoria De Sica’s unexpectedly moving farce, charting the 22-year relationship between Marcello Mastroianni’s caddish businessman and Sophia Loren’s street-smart sex worker.

MARRIAGE ITALIAN STYLE

Vittorrio De Sica | 102 min | 1964

Stream THE MASK at homeThe Mask isn’t just the first Canadian horror feature and the first Canadian film shot in 3D—it’s also a landmark of psychedelic cinema, dating from a time before most of the world had heard of LSD.

THE MASK

Julian Roffman | 83 min | 1961

Stream METROPOLIS at homeLang’s expressionist epic—the definitive science-fiction bonanza of the 1920s—in which a downtrodden proletariat underclass rise up against their masters.

METROPOLIS

Fritz Lang | 149 min | 1927

Stream MY BROTHER’S WEDDING at homeIntroduced by Charles Burnett.

MY BROTHER’S WEDDING

Charles Burnett | 115 min | 1983

Stream NATIVE SON at homeA twentysomething Black valet accidentally kills his white employer’s daughter in this Argentine adaptation of Richard Wright’s influential 1940 novel.

NATIVE SON

Pierre Chenal | 91 min | 1951

Stream NEVER FEAR at homeA beautiful young dancer is suddenly crippled by polio in Ida Lupino’s hard-eyed, semi-autobiographical melodrama.

NEVER FEAR

Ida Lupino | 82 min | 1950

Stream NIGHT TIDE at homeYoung Dennis Hopper stars as a sailor who falls in love with a woman who may or may not be a real-life mermaid.

NIGHT TIDE

Curtis Harrington | 86 min | 1961

Stream THE SOUTHERNER at homeArguably the greatest of the films that the legendary French director Jean Renoir made in Hollywood, The Southerner is a tough, unvarnished portrait of the hardships of rural life.

THE SOUTHERNER

Jean Renoir | 92 min | 1945

Stream THE STRANGER at homeOrson Welles’s oft unfairly overlooked third feature, a baroque thriller about a war crimes investigator looking for a Nazi fugitive in small-town Connecticut, with Welles starring as the prime suspect.

THE STRANGER

Orson Welles | 95 min | 1946

Stream SCARLET STREET at homeIn the elite class of Lang’s American films, this seamy, gut-twisting noir about a painter looking for love in all the wrong places is one of the most thoroughly devastating films ever produced in Hollywood.

SCARLET STREET

Fritz Lang | 102 min | 1945

Stream SIDEWALK STORIES at homeWriter-director-star Charles Lane’s contemporary update of Chaplin’s The Kid, shot in beautiful black and white in downtown New York.

SIDEWALK STORIES

Charles Lane | 97 min | 1989

Stream SUNFLOWER at homeThe magisterial final collaboration between Sophia Loren, Marcello Mastroianni, and director Vittoria De Sica.

SUNFLOWER

Vittorrio De Sica | 107 min | 1970

Stream THEY MADE ME A FUGITIVE at homeAlberto Cavalcanti’s direction lends a palpable sense of mounting dread to this sterling specimen of the spiv film.

THEY MADE ME A FUGITIVE

Alberto Cavalcanti | 78 min | 1947

Stream VARIETY at homeOne of the great independent films of the ’80s, in which a woman lands a job at a downtown porno theater and finds herself drawn towards what’s happening onscreen—as well as other troubling fantasies.

VARIETY

Bette Gordon | 100 min | 1983

Stream THE WILDCAT at homeErnst Lubitsch’s silent satirical fantasy, in which a playboy Lieutenant sent to a remote alpine outpost loses his head over two women.

THE WILDCAT

Ernst Lubitsch | 79 min | 1921

Stream YESTERDAY, TODAY AND TOMORROW at homeThe holy trinity of Loren, Marcello Mastroianni, and De Sica reunite in this triptych buoyant boudoir comedy.

YESTERDAY, TODAY AND TOMORROW

Vittorrio De Sica | 119 min | 1964

DOCUMENTARIES

Stream !WOMEN ART REVOLUTION at homeA “secret history” of feminist art from the 1960s to the 21st century.

!WOMEN ART REVOLUTION

Lynne Hershman Leeson | 83 min | 2010

Stream A BIGGER SPLASH at homeHazan’s narrative-nonfiction hybrid focusing on artist David Hockney is a time capsule of hedonistic gay life in the 1970s as well an invaluable portrait of art history in action.

A BIGGER SPLASH

JACK HAZAN | 106 min | 1974

Stream A DAY ON THE GRAND CANAL WITH THE EMPEROR OF CHINA at homeDavid Hockney leads the viewer on a charming and illuminating guided tour through 17th-century China as depicted in the 72-foot scroll The Kangxi Emperor’s Southern Inspection Tour.

A DAY ON THE GRAND CANAL WITH THE EMPEROR OF CHINA

Philip Haas, David Hockney | 46 min | 1988

Stream A NOT SO SILENT NIGHT at homeCaptured live, the final annual Christmas performance from the McGarrigle Sisters is a stirring, star-studded feast for music lovers.

A NOT SO SILENT NIGHT

Gerard Schmidt | 94 min | 2009

Stream ACT OF GOD at homeBachwal’s visually ravishing investigation into just what happens when you get hit by lightning.

ACT OF GOD

Jennifer Baichwal | 75 min | 2009

Stream AMERICAN HUNGER at homeA stirring meditation on the colonial past and a possible pan-African future.

AMERICAN HUNGER

Ephraim Asili | 19 min | 2013

Stream ANTHROPOCENE: THE HUMAN EPOCH at homeInspired by the Anthropocene Working Group, Bachwal’s film is an awe-striking and terrifying record of the scars left on the planet by mankind.

ANTHROPOCENE: THE HUMAN EPOCH

Jennifer Baichwal | 87 min | 2019

Stream ARAYA at homeA key work of Latin American cinema, Benacerraf’s film is an engrossing, lyric portrait of daily life and labors for the salt workers of the Araya peninsula.

ARAYA

Margot Benacerraf | 90 min | 1959

Stream THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF NICOLAE CEAUSESCU at homeA tour de force of montage filmmaking illustrating the rise and fall of Romania’s notorious totalitarian and his wife.

THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF NICOLAE CEAUSESCU

Andrei Ujica | 180 min | 2011

Stream BEHIND THE WHITE GLASSES at homeGiuseppe Pignone’s tender documentary pays tribute to Line Wertmüller, tracing her early days as an assistant to Fellini through to her rise to international arthouse celebrity.

BEHIND THE WHITE GLASSES

Valerio Ruiz | 112 min | 2015

Stream BEUYS at homeA rich trove of never-before-seen archival footage shows the charismatic and controversial German artist Joseph Beuys’s teachings, installations, and happenings.

BEUYS

Andreis Veil | 107 min | 2017

Stream BEYOND THE VISIBLE: HILMA AF KLINT at homeA revealing examination of the Swedish painter and mystic Hilma af Klint.

BEYOND THE VISIBLE: HILMA AF KLINT

Halina Dyrschka | 94 min | 2019

Stream BOATMAN at homeRosi’s deceptively simple feature debut journeys down India’s Ganges river.

BOATMAN

Gianfranco Rosi | 55 min | 1993

Stream BREATHE IN, BREATHE OUT at homeA documentary exploring rebirth and the reconciliation process in postwar Vietnam.

BREATHE IN, BREATHE OUT

Beth B | 71 min | 2001

Stream BRIDGES GO ROUND at homeClarke’s vividly colored short turns the bridges of New York Harbor into an eerie, swaying jungle of dizzying abstractions.

BRIDGES GO ROUND

Shirley Clarke | 8 min | 1958

Stream BULLFIGHT at homeClarke documents a bravura performance by Anna Sokolow, a choreographed interpretation of the dance between matador and bull.

BULLFIGHT

Shirley Clarke | 9 min | 1955

Stream CABALLERANGO at homeA riveting observational documentary portrait of a traditional community shaken to its foundations by the coming of modernization.

CABALLERANGO

Juan Pablo González | 61 min | 2018

Stream THE COMPETITION at homeThis Wiseman-esque documentary from Claire Simon observes a process that is highly personal, idiosyncratic, and subject to the vagaries of personal prejudice.

THE COMPETITION

CLAIRE SIMON | 121 min | 2016

Stream THE COMPUTER ACCENT at homeHeartening or horrifying depending on your viewpoint, The Computer Accent is a window into the future.

THE COMPUTER ACCENT

Riel Roch Decter, Sebastian Pardo | 83 min | 2021

Stream THE EXILES at homeA look at young Native Americans living in the crumbling slums of Bunker hill that shows LA at its most beautiful–and its most cold.

THE EXILES

Kent McKenzie | 72 min | 1961

Stream F.T.A. at homeA vital record of activist art, following The Free Theater Associates, including performers Donald Sutherland and Jane Fonda, on their anti-Vietnam roadshow.

F.T.A.

Francine Parker | 103 min | 1972

Stream FILMWORKER at homeAn intimate look at the life of Leon Vitali, who gave up his dreams of an acting career to dedicate his life to that of Stanley Kubrick’s.

FILMWORKER

Tony Zierra | 94 min | 2018

Stream FIRE AT SEA at homeInspired by the horrors of the European immigration crisis, Rosi’s Golden Bear-winning impressionistic documentary follows a 12-year-old boy living on Lampedusa.

FIRE AT SEA

Gianfranco Rosi | 114 min | 2016

Stream FLUID FRONTIERS at homeThe final film in Asili’s Diaspora Suite, an ode to resistance in the face of repression.

FLUID FRONTIERS

Ephraim Asili | 23 min | 2017

Stream FORGED WAYS at homeAn electric combination of diary film, documentary, and fiction, moving from Harlem to the cities and villages of Ethiopia.

FORGED WAYS

Ephraim Asili | 15 min | 2010

Stream THE FRENCH at homeKlein’s stunningly up-close-and-personal sports documentary, set behind the scenes of the 1981 French Open.

THE FRENCH

WILLIAM KLEIN | 135 min | 1982

Stream FUTURA at homeThree of Italian cinema’s leading lights—Marcello, Munzi, and Rohrwacher—quiz teenagers across the country about their thoughts, hopes, dreams.

FUTURA

Pietro Marcello, Alice Rohrwacher, Francesco Munzi | 105 min | 2021

Stream GOODBYE TO LANGUAGE at homeGodard’s penultimate feature finds him experimenting with the possibilities of digital 3D to plot the disintegration of a couple’s relationship and its images.

GOODBYE TO LANGUAGE

Jean-Luc Godard | 70 min | 2014

Stream GRACE JONES: BLOODLIGHT AND BAMI at homeA stunning portrait of the powerful and pansexual glam-pop diva.

GRACE JONES: BLOODLIGHT AND BAMI

Sophie Fiennes | 105 min | 2018

Stream HELMUT NEWTON: THE BAD AND THE BEAUTIFUL at homeAn investigation into photographer and provocateur Helmut Newton through interviews with muses like Charlotte Rampling, Claudia Schiffer, and Grace Jones.

HELMUT NEWTON: THE BAD AND THE BEAUTIFUL

Gero von Boehm | 93 min | 2020

Stream IN THE MIRROR OF MAYA DEREN at homeKudlacek’s film provides a penetrating insight into the mind of its legendary subject, artist and filmmaker Maya Deren.

IN THE MIRROR OF MAYA DEREN

Martina Kudlacek | 103 min | 2001

Stream IN PARIS PARKS at homeA study of bodies in motion—specifically, the flow of crowds in and out of the parks of Paris.

IN PARIS PARKS

Shirley Clarke | 14 min | 1954

Stream THE IMAGE BOOK at homeA labyrinthine personal journey in search of the meaning of images, with Godard, narrating in voice-over, as elusive guide.

THE IMAGE BOOK

Jean-Luc Godard | 88 min | 2019

Stream KINDAH at homeThe penultimate entry in the Diaspora Suite, shot between New York and the Jamaican city of Accompong.

KINDAH

Ephraim Asili | 12 min | 2016

Stream LAST TRAIN HOME at homeLixin Fan’s moving documentary traces the mass phenomenon that is the annual homecoming journeys of Chinese migrant workers to celebrate Lunar New Year.

LAST TRAIN HOME

Lixin Fan | 85 min | 2009

Stream LET IT COME DOWN: THE LIFE OF PAUL BOWLES at homeAn intimate portrait of the peripatetic American writer Paul Bowles, shot in New York and his adopted home of Tangier.

LET IT COME DOWN: THE LIFE OF PAUL BOWLES

Jennifer Baichwal | 75 min | 1999

Stream LOST, LOST, LOST at homeMekas’s somber, stirring rumination on the immigrant experience and his years as a war-displaced new arrival to the US.

LOST, LOST, LOST

Jonas Mekas | 178 min | 1976

Stream LOUISE BOURGEOIS: THE SPIDER, THE MISTRESS... at homeSculptor Louise Bourgeois often turns cryptic in interviews, but thanks to Wallach’s patient, observant approach to her sometimes spiky subject, Bourgeois reveals much.

LOUISE BOURGEOIS: THE SPIDER, THE MISTRESS...

Marion Cajori | 99 min | 2008

Stream MACHINES at homeA look inside a textile factory in India that captures both the beauty of the fabrics and the ugly reality of the backbreaking labor and dismal working conditions within.

MACHINES

Rahul Jain | 71 min | 2016

Stream MANUFACTURED LANDSCAPES at homeA stirring, deeply empathetic travelog, moving from China to Bangladesh, inspired by the work of photographer Edward Burtynsky.

MANUFACTURED LANDSCAPES

Jennifer Baichwal | 86 min | 2006

Stream MANY THOUSANDS GONE at homeA single summer afternoon in two cityscapes a world apart: Harlem, New York, and Salvador, Brazil.

MANY THOUSANDS GONE

Ephraim Asili | 8 min | 2015

Stream MATTHEW BARNEY: NO RESTRAINT at homeShot during the development of Barney’s massively ambitious film Drawing Restraint 9, Chernick’s behind-the-scenes documentary offers a first-hand account of the artistic process.

MATTHEW BARNEY: NO RESTRAINT

Alison Chernik | 72 min | 2006

Stream MOANA WITH SOUND at homeFlaherty, the father of American documentary, followed his massively successful Nanook of the North with this visually ravishing document of the traditional life of Polynesians on the Samoan island of Savaiʻi.

MOANA WITH SOUND

Robert Flaherty | 85 min | 1926

Stream MOMENTS WITHOUT PROPER NAMES at homeA unique and elegiac self-portrait from the titanically talented director/photographer/composer Gordon Parks, looking back on his life.

MOMENTS WITHOUT PROPER NAMES

Gordon Parks | 60 min | 1987

Stream THE MYSTERY OF PICASSO at homeAn astonishing real-time record of the most influential artist of the 20th century at work.

THE MYSTERY OF PICASSO

Henri-Georges Clouzot | 78 min | 1956

Stream NATIONTIME at homeWilliam Greaves’ riveting documentary record of the 1972 National Black Political Convention, a historic event that gathered Black voices from across the political spectrum.

NATIONTIME

William Greaves | 80 min | 1972

Stream ORNETTE: MADE IN AMERICA at homeShirley Clarke reconnected with Ornette Coleman in the early ’80s, shooting his concert at a newly opened arts center in Fort Worth, Texas.

ORNETTE: MADE IN AMERICA

SHIRLEY CLARKE | 77 min | 1985

Stream OUT OF SIGHT, OUT OF MIND at homeAn intense study of the physical, psychological, and social breakdown of the human condition.

OUT OF SIGHT, OUT OF MIND

Beth B | 6 min | 1995

Stream OVER YOUR CITIES GRASS WILL GROW at homeA documentation of German artist Anselm Kiefer’s monumental task of transforming an abandoned silk factory in the south of France into the site of an ongoing series of massive installations.

OVER YOUR CITIES GRASS WILL GROW

Sophie Fiennes | 95 min | 2011

Stream PAYBACK at homeA lyric documentary about the nature of debut, inspired by Margaret Atwood’s vital nonfiction book Payback.

PAYBACK

Jennifer Baichwal | 82 min | 2012

Stream PORTRAIT OF JASON at homeShirley Clarke's documentary portrait of Jason Holliday, a gay, African American cabaret dancer, part-time hustler, and full-time raconteur.

PORTRAIT OF JASON

SHIRLEY CLARKE | 95 min | 1967

Stream PRIVILEGE at homeA delightfully anarchic autobiographical meta-film exploring the power dynamics underpinning experience, memory, and the manner in which women’s stories are told.

PRIVILEGE

Yvonne Rainer | 103 min | 1990

Stream THE PROJECTIONIST at homeFerrara’s fond, often funny portrait of a NYC independent theater operator, holding out against the corporate chains, in spite of overwhelming odds.

THE PROJECTIONIST

ABEL FERRARA | 81 min | 2019

Stream THE RAFT at homeA document of the thin line between science and cultism in the early ’70s and a touching story of female camaraderie.

THE RAFT

MARCUS LINDEEN | 97 min | 2018

Stream RECORDER: THE MARION STOKES PROJECT at homeA sensitive portrait of an African American left-wing activist who was also a tireless media watchdog.

RECORDER: THE MARION STOKES PROJECT

Matt Wolf | 87 min | 2019

Stream SAVAGE/LOVE at homeOne man’s quest for love, an intensely emotional short film by Clarke working with playwright Sam Shepard and actor Joseph Chaikin.

SAVAGE/LOVE

Shirley Clarke | 25 min | 1981

Stream SACRO GRA at homeThe first nonfiction film to win the Venice Film Festival’s Golden Lion, Sacro GRA is a city symphony of the Roman outer suburbs.

SACRO GRA

Gianfranco Rosi | 95 min | 2013

Stream SKYSCRAPER at homeThis playful live-action short, nominated for an Academy Award, daringly documents the construction of the Tishman Building high above Fifth Avenue.

SKYSCRAPER

Shirley Clarke | 20 min | 1960

Stream TOUCH ME NOT at homeA documentary-fiction hybrid essay film combining interviews with a narrative centered on two characters struggling with a sense of alienation from their bodies.

TOUCH ME NOT

Adina Pintilie | 123 min | 2018

Stream WALDEN at homeMekas’s exhilarating, epic portrait of the New York avant-garde arts scene of the 1960s.

WALDEN

Jonas Mekas | 177 min | 1969

Stream WHORES' GLORY at homeShooting in the red light districts of Thailand, Bangladesh, and Mexico, Michael Glawogger’s globe-hopping documentary studies the lives of three sex workers.

WHORES' GLORY

Michael Glawogger | 110 min | 2011

Stream THE WINDMILL MOVIE at home“What if someone else wrote your autobiography?” That is the question posited by Alexander Olch as he tells the life-story of his former Harvard professor, the filmmaker Richard P. Rogers.

THE WINDMILL MOVIE

Alexander Olch | 82 min | 2008

Stream WORKINGMAN'S DEATH at homeGlawogger’s globe-spanning documentary panorama is a post-apocalyptic movie set in the present day, with vignettes revealing a world of grueling labor and Stygian landscape.

WORKINGMAN'S DEATH

Michael Glawogger | 122 min | 2005

SHORT FILMS

Stream A MOMENT IN LOVE at homeAn ambitious, scene-shifting piece in which Clarke explores the possibilities of avant-garde dance on film.

A MOMENT IN LOVE

Shirley Clarke | 9 min | 1956

Stream AMERICAN HUNGER at homeA stirring meditation on the colonial past and a possible pan-African future.

AMERICAN HUNGER

Ephraim Asili | 19 min | 2013

Stream BLONDE COBRA at homeIn Blonde Cobra, dubbed “the masterpiece of Baudelairean cinema” by Jonas Mekas, Jacobs turns his camera on fellow underground icon Jack Smith. Selected by Harry Kroessler.

BLONDE COBRA

KEN JACOBS | 33 min | 1963

Stream BRIDGES GO ROUND at homeClarke’s vividly colored short turns the bridges of New York Harbor into an eerie, swaying jungle of dizzying abstractions.

BRIDGES GO ROUND

Shirley Clarke | 8 min | 1958

Stream BULLFIGHT at homeClarke documents a bravura performance by Anna Sokolow, a choreographed interpretation of the dance between matador and bull.

BULLFIGHT

Shirley Clarke | 9 min | 1955

Stream THE BRIDEGROOM, THE ACTRESS, AND THE PIMP at homeA condensed, intricately shot version of Ferdinand Bruckner’s 1926 play, starring Rainer Werner Fassbinder.

THE BRIDEGROOM, THE ACTRESS, AND THE PIMP

Jean-Marie Straub, Danièle Huillet | 23 min | 1968

Stream DANCE IN THE SUN at homeClarke’s first completed short, observing choreographer Daniel Nagrin.

DANCE IN THE SUN

Shirley Clarke | 6 min | 1953

Stream FLUID FRONTIERS at homeThe final film in Asili’s Diaspora Suite, an ode to resistance in the face of repression.

FLUID FRONTIERS

Ephraim Asili | 23 min | 2017

Stream FORGED WAYS at homeAn electric combination of diary film, documentary, and fiction, moving from Harlem to the cities and villages of Ethiopia.

FORGED WAYS

Ephraim Asili | 15 min | 2010

Stream HOME MOVIE #20: DANCE TESTS at homeOne of several early experimental trial films produced by Clarke that illustrates her long-standing ambition to find new dimensions to dance on screen.

HOME MOVIE #20: DANCE TESTS

Shirley Clarke | 6 min | 1953

Stream THE HORSE at homeA young boy holds a tender vigil over a horse that’s reached the end of his life.

THE HORSE

Charles Burnett | 14 min | 1973

Stream IN PARIS PARKS at homeA study of bodies in motion—specifically, the flow of crowds in and out of the parks of Paris.

IN PARIS PARKS

Shirley Clarke | 14 min | 1954

Stream KINDAH at homeThe penultimate entry in the Diaspora Suite, shot between New York and the Jamaican city of Accompong.

KINDAH

Ephraim Asili | 12 min | 2016

Stream LITTLE STABS AT HAPPINESS at homeA collection of smaller silent segments made between 1956 and ’63. Selected by Harry Kroessler.

LITTLE STABS AT HAPPINESS

KEN JACOBS | 15 min | 1960

Stream MACHORKA-MUFF at homeThe pair’s first collaboration, based on a short story by Heinrich Böll.

MACHORKA-MUFF

Jean-Marie Straub, Danièle Huillet | 18 min | 1962

Stream MANY THOUSANDS GONE at homeA single summer afternoon in two cityscapes a world apart: Harlem, New York, and Salvador, Brazil.

MANY THOUSANDS GONE

Ephraim Asili | 8 min | 2015

Stream ORCHARD STREET at homeKen Jacobs documents the tradition of eager haggling and bargain hunting that once took place on the Lower East Side commercial thoroughfare of the title. Selected by Harry Kroessler.

ORCHARD STREET

KEN JACOBS | 12 min | 1955

Stream QUIET AS KEPT at homeBurnett observes a New Orleans family displaced by Hurricane Katrina in this sweetly comic, lovingly detailed short.

QUIET AS KEPT

Charles Burnett | 6 min | 2007

Stream SKYSCRAPER at homeThis playful live-action short, nominated for an Academy Award, daringly documents the construction of the Tishman Building high above Fifth Avenue.

SKYSCRAPER

Shirley Clarke | 20 min | 1960

Stream SAVAGE/LOVE at homeOne man’s quest for love, an intensely emotional short film by Clarke working with playwright Sam Shepard and actor Joseph Chaikin.

SAVAGE/LOVE

Shirley Clarke | 25 min | 1981

Stream SEVERAL FRIENDS at homeShowing his distinctly American brand of neorealism, Burnett’s first short follows a group of friends filling an empty L.A. day.

SEVERAL FRIENDS

Charles Burnett | 21 min | 1969

Stream WHEN IT RAINS at homeFacing eviction, a desperate mother enlists the help of a jazz musician in Burnett’s playful and deeply empathetic short.

WHEN IT RAINS

Charles Burnett | 14 min | 1995

Stream THE WHIRLED at homeA collection of smaller silent segments made between 1956 and ’63. Selected by Harry Kroessler.

THE WHIRLED

KEN JACOBS | 20 min | 2007

Stream WINDOW at homeJacobs, always interested in experiments in perception, uses his camera to contemplate the frame of a window and the exterior beyond. Selected by Harry Kroessler.

WINDOW

KEN JACOBS | 12 min | 1964

ARTISTS ON CAMERA

Stream MATTHEW BARNEY: NO RESTRAINT at homeShot during the development of Barney’s massively ambitious film Drawing Restraint 9, Chernick’s behind-the-scenes documentary offers a first-hand account of the artistic process.

MATTHEW BARNEY: NO RESTRAINT

Alison Chernik | 72 min | 2006

Stream A DAY ON THE GRAND CANAL WITH THE EMPEROR OF CHINA at homeDavid Hockney leads the viewer on a charming and illuminating guided tour through 17th-century China as depicted in the 72-foot scroll The Kangxi Emperor’s Southern Inspection Tour.

A DAY ON THE GRAND CANAL WITH THE EMPEROR OF CHINA

Philip Haas, David Hockney | 46 min | 1988

Stream !WOMEN ART REVOLUTION at homeA “secret history” of feminist art from the 1960s to the 21st century.

!WOMEN ART REVOLUTION

Lynne Hershman Leeson | 83 min | 2010

Stream BEUYS at homeA rich trove of never-before-seen archival footage shows the charismatic and controversial German artist Joseph Beuys’s teachings, installations, and happenings.

BEUYS

Andreis Veil | 107 min | 2017

Stream BEYOND THE VISIBLE: HILMA AF KLINT at homeA revealing examination of the Swedish painter and mystic Hilma af Klint.

BEYOND THE VISIBLE: HILMA AF KLINT

Halina Dyrschka | 94 min | 2019

Stream OVER YOUR CITIES GRASS WILL GROW at homeA documentation of German artist Anselm Kiefer’s monumental task of transforming an abandoned silk factory in the south of France into the site of an ongoing series of massive installations.

OVER YOUR CITIES GRASS WILL GROW

Sophie Fiennes | 95 min | 2011

Stream IN THE MIRROR OF MAYA DEREN at homeKudlacek’s film provides a penetrating insight into the mind of its legendary subject, artist and filmmaker Maya Deren.

IN THE MIRROR OF MAYA DEREN

Martina Kudlacek | 103 min | 2001

Stream HELMUT NEWTON: THE BAD AND THE BEAUTIFUL at homeAn investigation into photographer and provocateur Helmut Newton through interviews with muses like Charlotte Rampling, Claudia Schiffer, and Grace Jones.

HELMUT NEWTON: THE BAD AND THE BEAUTIFUL

Gero von Boehm | 93 min | 2020

Stream LOUISE BOURGEOIS: THE SPIDER, THE MISTRESS... at homeSculptor Louise Bourgeois often turns cryptic in interviews, but thanks to Wallach’s patient, observant approach to her sometimes spiky subject, Bourgeois reveals much.

LOUISE BOURGEOIS: THE SPIDER, THE MISTRESS...

Marion Cajori | 99 min | 2008

Stream THE MYSTERY OF PICASSO at homeAn astonishing real-time record of the most influential artist of the 20th century at work.

THE MYSTERY OF PICASSO

Henri-Georges Clouzot | 78 min | 1956

Stream A BIGGER SPLASH at homeHazan’s narrative-nonfiction hybrid focusing on artist David Hockney is a time capsule of hedonistic gay life in the 1970s as well an invaluable portrait of art history in action.

A BIGGER SPLASH

JACK HAZAN | 106 min | 1974

Stream DOWNTOWN 81 at homeStarring Jean-Michel Basquiat, this street-smart rock-musical fantasy provides a window into a long-lost world of life on the margins that feels especially potent today.

DOWNTOWN 81

EDO BERTOGLIO | 72 min | 1981 / 2000

CONTEMPORARY CINEMA

Stream A TOUCH OF SIN at homeJia Zhangke’s jarringly to-the-moment wuxia film focuses on four individuals in four provinces, each pushed towards violence by rampant injustice.

A TOUCH OF SIN

Jia Zhangke | 130 min | 2013

Stream ARCHIPELAGO at homeEdward (Tom Hiddleston) is lured into a holiday in Cornwall by his mother and aunt in Hogg’s second feature, an ethnographic study of the atomized English bourgeois in the wild.

ARCHIPELAGO

Joanna Hogg | 114 min | 2010

Stream BACURAU at homeSomething strange is happening in Bacurau. Under threat from an unknown enemy, the rural Brazilian settlement braces itself for a brutal fight for survival.

BACURAU

Kleber Mendonça Filho and Juliano Dornelles | 131 min | 2019

Stream THE BIG ANIMAL at homeAn absurdist, Kafka-inspired fable about a bank employee who tasks himself with caring for a fugitive Bactrian camel that has taken up residence in his garden. Selected by Clare Maceda.

THE BIG ANIMAL

Jerzy Stuhr | 73 min | 2000

Stream DIAMANTINO at homeA heady blend of political satire and sexual anarchy from co-directors Abrantes and Schmidt, about a dimwitted soccer player swept up into a comic conundrum.

DIAMANTINO

Daniel Schmidt and Gabriel Abrantes | 96 min | 2019

Stream DIVINE INTERVENTION at homeElia Suleiman’s nearly dialogue-free depiction of Palestinian life under Israeli occupation finds bleak, bitter humor in the tensions and taboos of a divided society.

DIVINE INTERVENTION

Elia Suleiman | 92 min | 2002

Stream EXHIBITION at homeViv Albertine of the Slits and Liam Gillick star as two married, childless fifty-something artists who share an austere modernist townhouse and a crushing sense of ennui in Hogg’s third feature.

EXHIBITION

Joanna Hogg | 104 min | 2013

Stream FILMWORKER at homeAn intimate look at the life of Leon Vitali, who gave up his dreams of an acting career to dedicate his life to that of Stanley Kubrick’s.

FILMWORKER

Tony Zierra | 94 min | 2018

Stream FIRE AT SEA at homeInspired by the horrors of the European immigration crisis, Rosi’s Golden Bear-winning impressionistic documentary follows a 12-year-old boy living on Lampedusa.

FIRE AT SEA

Gianfranco Rosi | 114 min | 2016

Stream GRACE JONES: BLOODLIGHT AND BAMI at homeA stunning portrait of the powerful and pansexual glam-pop diva.

GRACE JONES: BLOODLIGHT AND BAMI

Sophie Fiennes | 105 min | 2018

Stream HAPPY TIMES at homeAn Israeli-American couple invite family and friends to their tasteless McMansion in the Hollywood Hills for a Sabbath dinner but wind up hosting a massacre instead. Selected by Cece Vargas.

HAPPY TIMES

Michael Mayer | 93 min | 2019

Stream HARD TO BE A GOD at homeRussian giant Aleksei German’s widely lauded final film transforms a science-fiction classic into a visceral, headlong wallow in medieval muck.

HARD TO BE A GOD

Aleksei German | 177 min | 2013

Stream HERMIA & HELENA at homeMatías Piñeiro’s beguiling tale of a young Argentine theater director who arrives in New York to mount a new Spanish translation of A Midsummer Night’s Dream.

HERMIA & HELENA

Matías Piñeiro | 87 min | 2016

Stream I KILLED MY MOTHER at homeCanadian enfant terrible Xavier Dolan’s directorial debut, a raw, raucous coming-of-age comedy-drama starring Dolan himself.

I KILLED MY MOTHER

Xavier Dolan | 96 min | 2009

Stream IT FELT LIKE LOVE at homeNever Rarely Sometimes Always director Hittman’s feature debut about a sexually inexperienced south Brooklyn teenager (Gina Piersanti) who’s embarrassed to fess up to everything she doesn’t know about sex. Selected by Kristine Veras.

IT FELT LIKE LOVE

Eliza Hittman | 82 min | 2013

Stream L’INTRUS at homeOne of Denis’s most exhilarating films, which charts the travels of a mercenary (Michel Subor) as he journeys from the snowy Alps to Korea to Tahiti in search of a heart transplant and his son.

L’INTRUS

CLAIRE DENIS | 130 min | 2004

Stream LADY VENGEANCE at homeAn ingeniously plotted thriller, slowly peeling back layers to reach its unnerving final revelation.

LADY VENGEANCE

Park Chan-wook | 115 min | 2005

Stream LAST TRAIN HOME at homeLixin Fan’s moving documentary traces the mass phenomenon that is the annual homecoming journeys of Chinese migrant workers to celebrate Lunar New Year.

LAST TRAIN HOME

Lixin Fan | 85 min | 2009

Stream LONG DAY'S JOURNEY INTO NIGHT at homeAn atmospheric, neon-drenched film noir fever dream from the Chinese poet and filmmaker Bi Gan that follows a young man as he returns home for his father’s funeral, before traveling down a winding road into the past.

LONG DAY'S JOURNEY INTO NIGHT

Bi Gan | 138 min | 2019

Stream MADEMOISELLE CHAMBON at homeStéphane Brizé’s deceptively minor-key film about the developing romance between a married man and his son’s homeroom teacher, starring a standout Vincent Lindon.

MADEMOISELLE CHAMBON

Stéphane Brizé | 101 min | 2009

Stream MILLENNIUM MAMBO at homeA seductive submersion into the techno-scored neon nightlife of Taipei, drenched in club lights and a nagging undercurrent of ennui.

MILLENNIUM MAMBO

Hou Hsiao-hsien | 119 min | 2001

Stream MOUNTAINS MAY DEPART at homeA simple love triangle unfolds into an epoch-spanning triptych, describing the past, present, and future of three characters, in Jia Zhangke’s bold, elegiac drama.

MOUNTAINS MAY DEPART

Jia Zhangke | 126 min | 2015

Stream PASOLINI at homeAbel Ferrara’s retelling of the final days in the life of the 50-year-old Italian filmmaker, writer, and public intellectual.

PASOLINI

ABEL FERRARA | 84 min | 2014

Stream THE PROJECTIONIST at homeFerrara’s fond, often funny portrait of a NYC independent theater operator, holding out against the corporate chains, in spite of overwhelming odds.

THE PROJECTIONIST

ABEL FERRARA | 81 min | 2019

Stream ROOT OF EVIL at homeAn unsettlingly weird tale from Whispering Corridors director Park Ki-hyung, in which a childless couple face a series of increasingly nightmarish, inexplicable occurrences.

ROOT OF EVIL

Ki-hyeong Park | 103 min | 2003

Stream SORRY WE MISSED YOU at homeWorking-class family man Ricky is struggling with debt after the 2008 financial crisis in Ken Loach’s deeply empathetic drama exploring the dark side of the gig economy.

SORRY WE MISSED YOU

Ken Loach | 101 min | 2019

Stream SYMPATHY FOR MR. VENGEANCE at homeA brutal, claustrophobic film of escalating desperation that illustrates how an ordinary man can be pushed into acts of extraordinary retaliation.

SYMPATHY FOR MR. VENGEANCE

Park Chan-wook | 129 min | 2002

Stream UNRELATED at homeHogg’s remarkably assured debut feature, and a piercing portrait of a middle-aged crack-up.

UNRELATED

Joanna Hogg | 100 min | 2007

Stream WIFE OF A SPY at homeA woman begins to suspect that her businessman husband may be a spy for the United States in Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s deftly constructed domestic WWII-set drama.

WIFE OF A SPY

Kiyoshi Kurosawa | 115 min | 2020

Stream THE GOODTIMESKID at homeJacob’s debut feature is a droll, scrappy, punk-spirited hang-out comedy about two guys both named Rodolfo Cano and living in LA.

THE GOODTIMESKID

Azazel Jacobs | 77 min | 2005

Stream THE WOMAN WHO LEFT at homeLaz Diaz’s Golden Lion-winning epic transposes Tolstoy’s tale of a released prisoner hell-bent on revenge to the Philippines in the late 1990s.

THE WOMAN WHO LEFT

Lav Diaz | 216 min | 2016

INTERNATIONAL ARTHOUSE

Stream 12:08 EAST OF BUCHAREST at homeRomanian New Wave star Porumboi’s sly comedy about history as farce, involving a local talk show host, an alcoholic professor, and a part-time Santa Claus.

12:08 EAST OF BUCHAREST

Corneliu Porumboiu | 89 min | 2006

Stream 2 FRIENDS at homeA tender, sad, and comic debut from Campion about female friendships, and the forces that pull them apart.

2 FRIENDS

Jane Campion | 76 min | 1986

Stream A GIRL WALKS HOME ALONE AT NIGHT at homeAmirpour’s entirely original thriller about a mysterious, chador-clad female bloodsucker in the dilapidated Iranian ghost town of Bad City.

A GIRL WALKS HOME ALONE AT NIGHT

Ana Lily Amarpour | 101 min | 2014

Stream A TOUCH OF SIN at homeJia Zhangke’s jarringly to-the-moment wuxia film focuses on four individuals in four provinces, each pushed towards violence by rampant injustice.

A TOUCH OF SIN

Jia Zhangke | 130 min | 2013

Stream ACASA, MY HOME at homeA nonfiction group portrait of a family of nine who find themselves evicted from their home in the wild and forced to adapt to life in the capital.

ACASA, MY HOME

Radu Ciorniciuc | 86 min | 2020

Stream AJAMI at homeA bracingly immediate look at street life (and death) in a divided city.

AJAMI

Yaron Shani and Scandar Copti | 124 min | 2009

Stream ALL SCREWED UP at homeWertmüller’s wild, woolly working-class satire follows a cadre of Sicilian migrants struggling to make ends meet.

ALL SCREWED UP

Lina Wertmüller | 95 min | 1974

Stream AS IT IS IN HEAVEN at homePollak’s unabashedly emotional musical melodrama centers on a world-famous conductor who returns to his hometown and rediscovers the joy of music.

AS IT IS IN HEAVEN

Kay Pollak | 133 min | 2004

Stream AUGUST WINDS at homeIn a backwater coastal village in Brazil, an aimless young woman is jolted out of her ennui by the discovery of a corpse.

AUGUST WINDS

Gabriel Mascaro | 77 min | 2014

Stream BABYLON at homeIntroduced by cinematographer and filmmaker Bradford Young, ASC.

BABYLON

Franco Rosso | 95 min | 1980

Stream BEAUFORT at homeA singularly sober, somber war film in which action takes a backseat to meditation on the futility of fighting.

BEAUFORT

Joseph Cedar | 131 min | 2007

Stream BEHIND THE WHITE GLASSES at homeGiuseppe Pignone’s tender documentary pays tribute to Line Wertmüller, tracing her early days as an assistant to Fellini through to her rise to international arthouse celebrity.

BEHIND THE WHITE GLASSES

Valerio Ruiz | 112 min | 2015

Stream CASA GRANDE at homeEntitled rich kid Jean gets a crash course in class consciousness when his family drops out of the ranks of Rio de Janeiro’s moneyed elite.

CASA GRANDE

Fellipe Barbosa | 115 min | 2014

Stream CHILD'S POSE at homeA wealthy mother is willing to do anything to protect her wastrel son in this scathing indictment of corruption in contemporary Romania.

CHILD'S POSE

Cãlin Peter Netzer | 112 min | 2013

Stream COLONEL REDL at homeSzabó’s historical drama follows the rise of Alfred Redl (a riveting Klaus Maria Brandeur) through the ranks of the Austro-Hungarian Empire’s army before the outbreak of WWI.

COLONEL REDL

Itsvan Szabo | 144 min | 1984

Stream CONFIDENCE at homeWhen Kata’s husband goes into hiding in WWII-era Hungary, his resistance comrades instruct her to go live with another man.

CONFIDENCE

Itsvan Szabo | 95 min | 1980

Stream CONVERSATION PIECE at homeVisconti brings his outsized emotionality to the chamber drama form, broaching subjects of sex, fascism, and aesthetics in the tale of an aging Roman art historian.

CONVERSATION PIECE

Luchino Visconti | 121 min | 1974

Stream DR. ORLOFF’S MONSTER at homeA kinky gothic chiller from the maestro, Franco, about an orphan sent to spend the Yuletide holidays in her uncle’s surprise-filled home.

DR. ORLOFF’S MONSTER

Jesús Franco | 90 min | 1964

Stream EDEN AND AFTER at homeA work of noose-tight construction, foreboding, surreal, and brimming with blighted sensuality.

EDEN AND AFTER

ALAIN ROBBE-GRILLET | 93 min | 1970

Stream ELEKTRA, MY LOVE at homeJancsó’s radically original, downright hypnotic retelling of the Ancient Greek myth of Elektra.

ELEKTRA, MY LOVE

MIKLÓS JANCSÓ | 70 min | 1974

Stream FAMILY VIEWING at homeEgoyan’s second film tells the story of one man’s dissolution and reunion through a variety of video images

FAMILY VIEWING

Atom Egoyan | 86 min | 1987

Stream GUEST OF HONOUR at homeHigh school teacher Veronica is imprisoned for a crime she didn’t commit, while the ethical lapses of her health inspector father (a superb David Thewlis) lead to tragedy.

GUEST OF HONOUR

Atom Egoyan | 95 min | 2019

Stream HARD TO BE A GOD at homeRussian giant Aleksei German’s widely lauded final film transforms a science-fiction classic into a visceral, headlong wallow in medieval muck.

HARD TO BE A GOD

Aleksei German | 177 min | 2013

Stream HERMIA & HELENA at homeMatías Piñeiro’s beguiling tale of a young Argentine theater director who arrives in New York to mount a new Spanish translation of A Midsummer Night’s Dream.

HERMIA & HELENA

Matías Piñeiro | 87 min | 2016

Stream HOME at homeA deceptively simple story starring Isabelle Huppert, which, as lensed by the great Agnès Godard, takes on the enchanted air of a modern-day fable.

HOME

Ursula Meier | 94 min | 2009

Stream I’M GOING HOME at homeA humane, heartbreaking meditation on aging and art by the legendary Manoel de Oliveira, a sprightly 94-year-old when it was released.

I’M GOING HOME

Manoel de Oliveira | 90 min | 2001

Stream IN BETWEEN DAYS at homeA delicate, thoughtful, and intimate debut about teenager Aimie, who moves from South Korea to Toronto with her newly divorced mother.

IN BETWEEN DAYS

So Yong Kim | 83 min | 2006

Stream IXCANUL at homeAn indigenous Guatemalan girl finds herself torn between traditional society and the modern world.

IXCANUL

Jayro Bustamante | 93 min | 2015

Stream KILLA at homeA bittersweet and buoyant tale of youth’s adversity and adaptation.

KILLA

Avinash Arun | 107 min | 2014

Stream L’INTRUS at homeOne of Denis’s most exhilarating films, which charts the travels of a mercenary (Michel Subor) as he journeys from the snowy Alps to Korea to Tahiti in search of a heart transplant and his son.

L’INTRUS

CLAIRE DENIS | 130 min | 2004

Stream LA FRANCE at homeA sui generis marriage of war film and sunshine pop musical, La France follows Sylvie Testud’s lovelorn heroine into the trenches of WWI to search for her missing husband.

LA FRANCE

Serge Bozon | 102 min | 2007

Stream LA SAPIENZA at homeGreen’s meditative, exquisite film follows an unhappily married architect and his wife on a trip to follow the trail of Baroque master builder Francesco Borromini.

LA SAPIENZA

Eugène Green | 101 min | 2015

Stream LEGEND OF THE MOUNTAIN at homePhilosophy and action merge as one in wuxia legend King Hu’s atmospheric and hypnotic film, shot in the rugged terrain of South Korea.

LEGEND OF THE MOUNTAIN

King Hu | 192 min | 1979

Stream LONG DAY'S JOURNEY INTO NIGHT at homeAn atmospheric, neon-drenched film noir fever dream from the Chinese poet and filmmaker Bi Gan that follows a young man as he returns home for his father’s funeral, before traveling down a winding road into the past.

LONG DAY'S JOURNEY INTO NIGHT

Bi Gan | 138 min | 2019

Stream LOVE & ANARCHY at homeWertmüller’s 1930s-set tragicomedy follows country bumpkin anarchist Giancarlo Giannini on his mission to assassinate Mussolini.

LOVE & ANARCHY

Lina Wertmüller | 120 min | 1973

Stream MADEMOISELLE CHAMBON at homeStéphane Brizé’s deceptively minor-key film about the developing romance between a married man and his son’s homeroom teacher, starring a standout Vincent Lindon.

MADEMOISELLE CHAMBON

Stéphane Brizé | 101 min | 2009

Stream THE MEASURE OF A MAN at homeVincent Lindon is subtly overwhelming as unemployed everyman Thierry, who, after losing his factory job, must submit to a series of humiliating ordeals in his search for work.

THE MEASURE OF A MAN

Stéphane Brizé | 91 min | 2015

Stream MEPHISTO at homeIstván Szabó’s Oscar-winning political drama, a stunning study in moral rot.

MEPHISTO

Itsvan Szabo | 146 min | 1981

Stream NEXT OF KIN at homeA troubled 23-year-old chances across footage of an Armenian family who’d given up their infant son, and decides to present himself as their long-lost child.

NEXT OF KIN

Atom Egoyan | 70 min | 1984

Stream NOSTALGHIA at homeTarkovsky’s penultimate, semi-autobiographical film follows a homesick Russian musicologist in Italy, with the Tuscan countryside rendered a melancholy dreamscape.

NOSTALGHIA

Andrei Tarkovsky | 125 min | 1983

Stream ROCCO AND HIS BROTHERS at homeAlain Delon shines in Visconti’s epic devotional tragedy, a film of violent, operatic feeling.

ROCCO AND HIS BROTHERS

Luchino Visconti | 179 min | 1960

Stream SEVEN BEAUTIES at homeThe controversial, absurd, and uproarious film that made director Lina Wertmüller the talk of film culture, and garnered her the first Best Director Academy Award nomination for a woman.

SEVEN BEAUTIES

Lina Wertmüller | 106 min | 1975

Stream SISTER at homeEnormously empathetic, deeply moving, and entirely free of sentimental cheats, Sister offers an intimate depiction of destitution amidst decadence, so vivid that you can almost feel the slushy chill.

SISTER

Ursula Meier | 98 min | 2012

Stream SOPHIE SCHOLL: THE FINAL DAYS at homeRothemund’s riveting historical drama features Julia Jentsch in an award-winning performance as the most member of anti-Nazi German student group the White Rose.

SOPHIE SCHOLL: THE FINAL DAYS

Mark Rothemund | 120 min | 2005

Stream SPEAKING PARTS at homeA coruscating kaleidoscope tangled relationships, the confusion of life, and its filmed reflection.

SPEAKING PARTS

Atom Egoyan | 93 min | 1989

Stream STORY OF A LOVE AFFAIR at homeItalian master Michael Antonioni’s feature debut sees a pair of lovers become co-conspirators in murder.

STORY OF A LOVE AFFAIR

Michelangelo Antonioni | 98 min | 1950

Stream SUCCESSIVE SLIDINGS OF PLEASURE at homeSuccessive Slidings of Pleasure finds Alain Robbe-Grillet blending sadomasochism, sacrilege, and psychedelia to delirious effect.

SUCCESSIVE SLIDINGS OF PLEASURE

ALAIN ROBBE-GRILLET | 105 min | 1974

Stream SWEET BEAN at homeA delicate, charming film from Kawase about intergenerational misunderstandings and the patient, arduous process of artful food preparation.

SWEET BEAN

Naomi Kawase | 113 min | 2015

Stream SWEPT AWAY at homeWertmüller’s battle royale of the sexes/classes, a powder keg of a film that’s lost none of its ability to generate controversy almost 50 years after its release.

SWEPT AWAY

Lina Wertmüller | 114 min | 1974

Stream THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF NICOLAE CEAUSESCU at homeA tour de force of montage filmmaking illustrating the rise and fall of Romania’s notorious totalitarian and his wife.

THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF NICOLAE CEAUSESCU

Andrei Ujica | 180 min | 2011

Stream THE BIG ANIMAL at homeAn absurdist, Kafka-inspired fable about a bank employee who tasks himself with caring for a fugitive Bactrian camel that has taken up residence in his garden. Selected by Clare Maceda.

THE BIG ANIMAL

Jerzy Stuhr | 73 min | 2000

Stream THE BLOODY BROOD at homeRoffman’s feature debut follows a straight-and-narrow cat who falls into a seedy underworld of beatnik baddies, led by a young Peter Falk.

THE BLOODY BROOD

Julian Roffman | 80 min | 1959

Stream THE BOAT IS FULL at homeImhoof’s suspenseful WWII-set drama follows a ragtag band of Austrian Jewish refugees—and one Nazi deserter—as they attempt to gain asylum in Switzerland.

THE BOAT IS FULL

Markus Imhoof | 101 min | 1981

Stream THE BOW at homeSet entirely on a rotting fishing boat anchored on the Korean coast, Kim’s elegiac, unexpectedly sweet film centers on an elderly man and his charge, a teenage girl.

THE BOW

Kim Ki-duk | 90 min | 2005

Stream THE CHAMBERMAID at homeEve, a shy young woman working as a maid at a posh Mexico City hotel, pursues a vision of a better life.

THE CHAMBERMAID

Lila Avilés | 102 min | 2019

Stream THE DEATH OF MR. LAZARESCU at homePuiu’s landmark scabrous satire follows the ailing elderly Mr. Lazarescu on an infernal journey through the Romanian public health system.

THE DEATH OF MR. LAZARESCU

Cristi Puiu | 153 min | 2005

Stream THE FIVE OBSTRUCTIONS at homePart game show, part intellectual tug-of-war, Lars von Trier challenges an elder Danish filmmaker to remake his film under strict parameters.

THE FIVE OBSTRUCTIONS

Lars von Trier | 90 min | 2003

Stream THE GREY FOX at homeBorsos’s beloved adventure film gives Richard Farnsworth a career-best role as a former stagecoach robber who emerges from prison after 33 years to find a changed world—then goes right back to his old ways, planning a daring train robbery.

THE GREY FOX

Phillip Borsos | 92 min | 1982

Stream THE MASK at homeThe Mask isn’t just the first Canadian horror feature and the first Canadian film shot in 3D—it’s also a landmark of psychedelic cinema, dating from a time before most of the world had heard of LSD.

THE MASK

Julian Roffman | 83 min | 1961

Stream THE SACRIFICE at homeTarkovsky’s final masterpiece is a haunting vision of a world threatened with nuclear annihilation.

THE SACRIFICE

Andrei Tarkovsky | 149 min | 1986

Stream THE SCENT OF GREEN PAPAYA at homeThe first film in Hùng’s acclaimed Vietnam Trilogy is a beautifully detailed, sublimely sensitive romance, which observes life within two different Saigon families.

THE SCENT OF GREEN PAPAYA

Tran Anh Hung | 104 min | 1993

Stream THE SEDUCTION OF MIMI at homeGiancarlo Giannini stars as a laborer being wooed by both the unions and the mafioso in Wertmüller’s raunchy and romantic comic drama.

THE SEDUCTION OF MIMI

Lina Wertmüller | 108 min | 1972

Stream THE SON OF JOSEPH at homeParisian teenager Victor sets out in search of a father figure in Green’s effervescent modern-day reworking of the nativity story, featuring Mathieu Amalric.

THE SON OF JOSEPH

Eugéne Green | 113 min | 2016

Stream TIP TOP at homeSerge Bozon’s screwball comedy comes in a policier package, in which the central mystery opens onto the larger subject of France’s history of colonial crime.

TIP TOP

Serge Bozon | 106 min | 2013

Stream TOUCH ME NOT at homeA documentary-fiction hybrid essay film combining interviews with a narrative centered on two characters struggling with a sense of alienation from their bodies.

TOUCH ME NOT

Adina Pintilie | 123 min | 2018

Stream TRANS-EUROP-EXPRESS at homeA pulp pastiche laid out with cool, mathematical symmetry, featuring Jean-Louis Trintignant at his most theatrical.

TRANS-EUROP-EXPRESS

ALAIN ROBBE-GRILLET | 95 min | 1966

Stream TUESDAY, AFTER CHRISTMAS at homeA beautifully observed story of a middle-aged man who must choose between his wife and younger mistress.

TUESDAY, AFTER CHRISTMAS

Radu Muntean | 99 min | 2010

Stream TULPAN at homeDvortsevoy’s debut feature is a charming, vivacious depiction of an ancient way of life with an uncertain future.

TULPAN

Sergey Dvortsevoy | 103 min | 2008

Stream TU DORS NICOLE at homeVacationing 22-year-old Nicole wiles away days in her middle-class Québéc neighborhood in Lafleur’s feather-light depiction of quarterlife drift and suburban malaise.

TU DORS NICOLE

Stéphane Lafleur | 93 min | 2014

Stream WEST IS WEST at homeA young Mumbai native falls for a punkish artist and has to dream up ways to keep himself in the US in David Rathod’s charming ’80s romantic comedy.

WEST IS WEST

David Rathod | 80 min | 1989

Stream WHAT WILL PEOPLE SAY at homeA suspenseful culture-clash drama about a young woman’s repression and resilience that packs a considerable emotional punch.

WHAT WILL PEOPLE SAY

Iram Haq | 106 min | 2018

Stream WINTER WIND at homeA sprawling historical drama told with only thirteen remarkable sustained shots.

WINTER WIND

MIKLOS JANCSó | 80 min | 1969

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Stream NIGHT TIDE at homeYoung Dennis Hopper stars as a sailor who falls in love with a woman who may or may not be a real-life mermaid.

NIGHT TIDE

Curtis Harrington | 86 min | 1961

Stream PORTRAIT OF JASON at homeShirley Clarke's documentary portrait of Jason Holliday, a gay, African American cabaret dancer, part-time hustler, and full-time raconteur.

PORTRAIT OF JASON

SHIRLEY CLARKE | 95 min | 1967

Stream EXHIBITION at homeViv Albertine of the Slits and Liam Gillick star as two married, childless fifty-something artists who share an austere modernist townhouse and a crushing sense of ennui in Hogg’s third feature.

EXHIBITION

Joanna Hogg | 104 min | 2013

Stream MACHORKA-MUFF at homeThe pair’s first collaboration, based on a short story by Heinrich Böll.

MACHORKA-MUFF

Jean-Marie Straub, Danièle Huillet | 18 min | 1962

Stream SICILIA! at homeStraub and Huillet’s masterpiece tragicomedy follows a Sicilian returning to his native island after a long stay in New York.

SICILIA!

Jean-Marie Straub, Danièle Huillet | 66 min | 1999

Stream WHERE DOES YOUR HIDDEN SMILE LIE? at homeAn intimate insight into Costa’s creative process through his dialogue with two of his premiere artistic inspirations, filmmaker duo Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet.

WHERE DOES YOUR HIDDEN SMILE LIE?

Pedro Costa | 104 min | 2001

Stream IN ANOTHER COUNTRY at homeIsabelle Huppert plays three variations on the role of a Frenchwoman abroad in Korea in her first venture into Hong’s peculiar, soju-soaked world.

IN ANOTHER COUNTRY

Hong Sangsoo | 89 min | 2012

Stream ITINERARY OF JEAN BRICARD at homeThe last film made by Straub and Huillet is an elegant, elegiac work of oral history.

ITINERARY OF JEAN BRICARD

Jean-Marie Straub, Danièle Huillet | 40 min | 2008

Stream GOODBYE, DRAGON INN at homeTsai’s minimalist yet multifaceted film in which a soon-to-be-shut-down movie palace, the Fo-Ho—its screening room, projection booth, hallways, bathrooms—becomes a sort of haunted house.

GOODBYE, DRAGON INN

TSAI MING-LIANG | 82 min | 2003

Stream TAXI at homePanahi directs and stars in this docufiction miracle, which finds him posing as a share taxi driver in Tehran who, rather than cash payment, asks only to hear something about his customers’ lives.

TAXI

Jafar Panahi | 82 min | 2015

Stream MEPHISTO at homeIstván Szabó’s Oscar-winning political drama, a stunning study in moral rot.

MEPHISTO

Itsvan Szabo | 146 min | 1981

Stream MOMENTS WITHOUT PROPER NAMES at homeA unique and elegiac self-portrait from the titanically talented director/photographer/composer Gordon Parks, looking back on his life.

MOMENTS WITHOUT PROPER NAMES

Gordon Parks | 60 min | 1987

Stream THE GREY FOX at homeBorsos’s beloved adventure film gives Richard Farnsworth a career-best role as a former stagecoach robber who emerges from prison after 33 years to find a changed world—then goes right back to his old ways, planning a daring train robbery.

THE GREY FOX

Phillip Borsos | 92 min | 1982

Stream METROPOLIS at homeLang’s expressionist epic—the definitive science-fiction bonanza of the 1920s—in which a downtrodden proletariat underclass rise up against their masters.

METROPOLIS

Fritz Lang | 149 min | 1927

Stream BEYOND THE VISIBLE: HILMA AF KLINT at homeA revealing examination of the Swedish painter and mystic Hilma af Klint.

BEYOND THE VISIBLE: HILMA AF KLINT

Halina Dyrschka | 94 min | 2019

Stream THE HOMECOMING at homeA brilliantly claustrophobic adaptation of Harold Pinter’s play about a young man who returns to the hornet’s nest of his estranged family’s London home for the holidays.

THE HOMECOMING

Peter Hall | 111 min | 1973

Stream SEVEN BEAUTIES at homeThe controversial, absurd, and uproarious film that made director Lina Wertmüller the talk of film culture, and garnered her the first Best Director Academy Award nomination for a woman.

SEVEN BEAUTIES

Lina Wertmüller | 106 min | 1975

Stream MÄDCHEN IN UNIFORM at homeA lonely teenage boarder falls for her teacher in Leontine Sagan’s pioneering all-female cast lesbian romance.

MÄDCHEN IN UNIFORM

Leontine Sagan | 87 min | 1931

Stream THE DEATH OF MR. LAZARESCU at homePuiu’s landmark scabrous satire follows the ailing elderly Mr. Lazarescu on an infernal journey through the Romanian public health system.

THE DEATH OF MR. LAZARESCU

Cristi Puiu | 153 min | 2005

Stream THE SCENT OF GREEN PAPAYA at homeThe first film in Hùng’s acclaimed Vietnam Trilogy is a beautifully detailed, sublimely sensitive romance, which observes life within two different Saigon families.

THE SCENT OF GREEN PAPAYA

Tran Anh Hung | 104 min | 1993

Stream HIGH HEEL NIGHTS at homeIntimate portraits of gay artists and drag performers talking about gender, identity, and the fine lines that surround them.

HIGH HEEL NIGHTS

Beth B | 11 min | 1994

Stream LOSING GROUND at homeA landmark of American independent cinema, which follows the marriage between a Black philosophy professor (Seret Scott) and her painter husband (Bill Gunn), both at a crossroads in their lives.

LOSING GROUND

KATHLEEN COLLINS | 86 min | 1982

Stream BABYLON at homeIntroduced by cinematographer and filmmaker Bradford Young, ASC.

BABYLON

Franco Rosso | 95 min | 1980

Stream TOMMASO at homeA warts-and-all semi-self-portrait of an ex-alcoholic artist in exile, starring Willem Dafoe as an American acting coach living in Rome with his wife and child.

TOMMASO

ABEL FERRARA | 115 min | 2019

Stream KRISTINA TALKING PICTURES at homeRainer’s elegiac, hybrid third features the paradoxical feminine figure of a lovelorn lion tamer named Kristina.

KRISTINA TALKING PICTURES

Yvonne Rainer | 90 min | 1976

Stream NATIONTIME at homeWilliam Greaves’ riveting documentary record of the 1972 National Black Political Convention, a historic event that gathered Black voices from across the political spectrum.

NATIONTIME

William Greaves | 80 min | 1972

Stream BACURAU at homeSomething strange is happening in Bacurau. Under threat from an unknown enemy, the rural Brazilian settlement braces itself for a brutal fight for survival.

BACURAU

Kleber Mendonça Filho and Juliano Dornelles | 131 min | 2019

Stream RED ROAD at homeArnold’s marvelously controlled feature debut is a tense, voyeuristic revenge tale set on a Glasgow housing estate.

RED ROAD

Andrea Arnold | 113 min | 2006

Stream MY BROTHER’S WEDDING at homeIntroduced by Charles Burnett.

MY BROTHER’S WEDDING

Charles Burnett | 115 min | 1983

Stream RUSSIAN ARK at homeSokurov’s epic first feature, a single continuous shot that winds through St. Petersburg’s Winter Palace.

RUSSIAN ARK

Alexander Sokurov | 99 min | 2002

Stream THE STRANGER at homeOrson Welles’s oft unfairly overlooked third feature, a baroque thriller about a war crimes investigator looking for a Nazi fugitive in small-town Connecticut, with Welles starring as the prime suspect.

THE STRANGER

Orson Welles | 95 min | 1946

Stream IN PARIS PARKS at homeA study of bodies in motion—specifically, the flow of crowds in and out of the parks of Paris.

IN PARIS PARKS

Shirley Clarke | 14 min | 1954

Stream NOSTALGHIA at homeTarkovsky’s penultimate, semi-autobiographical film follows a homesick Russian musicologist in Italy, with the Tuscan countryside rendered a melancholy dreamscape.

NOSTALGHIA

Andrei Tarkovsky | 125 min | 1983

Stream VARIETY at homeOne of the great independent films of the ’80s, in which a woman lands a job at a downtown porno theater and finds herself drawn towards what’s happening onscreen—as well as other troubling fantasies.

VARIETY

Bette Gordon | 100 min | 1983

Stream RECORDER: THE MARION STOKES PROJECT at homeA sensitive portrait of an African American left-wing activist who was also a tireless media watchdog.

RECORDER: THE MARION STOKES PROJECT

Matt Wolf | 87 min | 2019

Stream LADY VENGEANCE at homeAn ingeniously plotted thriller, slowly peeling back layers to reach its unnerving final revelation.

LADY VENGEANCE

Park Chan-wook | 115 min | 2005

Stream GRACE JONES: BLOODLIGHT AND BAMI at homeA stunning portrait of the powerful and pansexual glam-pop diva.

GRACE JONES: BLOODLIGHT AND BAMI

Sophie Fiennes | 105 min | 2018

Stream THE AVIATOR’S WIFE at homeThe first title in Rohmer’s “Comedies and Proverbs” film cycle is a fleecy farce of romantic overanalysis starring Philippe Marlaud and Marie Rivière.

THE AVIATOR’S WIFE

ÉRIC ROHMER | 106 min | 1981

Stream A STAR IS BORN at homeWellman’s wrenching Technicolor melodrama of rising and falling stars streaking past one another, in the unsurpassable original version.

A STAR IS BORN

William Wellman | 111 min | 1937

ORIGINAL CONTENT

Stream MATTHEW BARNEY IN CONVERSATION WITH MAGGIE NELSON at homeMatthew Barney discusses his never-before-seen early works with author Maggie Nelson.

MATTHEW BARNEY IN CONVERSATION WITH MAGGIE NELSON

Metrograph | 30 min | 2023

Stream METROGRAPH EDITIONS: JOSEF ALBERS X NYFF at homeMetrograph Editions is pleased to present the first in a series of short films focusing on the cross section of visual art and cinema.

METROGRAPH EDITIONS: JOSEF ALBERS X NYFF

Metrograph | 3 min | 2023

Stream INS AND OUTS WITH TIM SQUYRES at homeIn the first episode of Ins and Outs, editor Tim Squyres breaks down a scene from Jonathan Demme’s 2007 film, Rachel Getting Married.

INS AND OUTS WITH TIM SQUYRES

Metrograph | 12 min | 2023

Stream HELENA WITTMANN IN FOCUS at homeDirector and cinematographer Helena Wittmann discusses her short films in this exclusive interview.

HELENA WITTMANN IN FOCUS

Metrograph | 7 min | 2023

Stream BRONTEZ PURNELL ON YVONNE RAINER at homeAuthor Brontez Purnell discusses the impact of Yvonne Rainer's A Film About a Woman Who on his own life and work.

BRONTEZ PURNELL ON YVONNE RAINER

Metrograph | 6 min | 2023

Stream JAIME LEVINAS ON 'DANS LE LABYRINTHE' at homeCurato Jaime Levinas discuss the films included in his series Dans Le Labyrinthe.

JAIME LEVINAS ON "DANS LE LABYRINTHE"

Metrograph | 4 min | 2023

Stream BRANDON HARRIS ON 'STRANGE FRUIT' at homeBrandon Harris, author of Making Rent in Bed-Stuy, discusses his film series Strange Fruit.

BRANDON HARRIS ON "STRANGE FRUIT"

Metrograph | 2 min | 2023

Stream FROM 7 LUDLOW: NICK PINKERTON ON “GOODBYE, DRAGON INN” at homeCritic and author Nick Pinkerton expands on his book about Tsai Ming-liang's 2003 film Goodbye, Dragon Inn.

FROM 7 LUDLOW: NICK PINKERTON ON “GOODBYE, DRAGON INN”

METROGRAPH | 7 min | 2021

Stream FROM 7 LUDLOW: ED LACHMAN ON 'CAROL' at homeCinematographer Ed Lachman discusses his work on Todd Haynes' film Carol with writer Christopher Bourne.

FROM 7 LUDLOW: ED LACHMAN ON "CAROL"

Metrograph | 26 min | 2023

Stream FROM 7 LUDLOW: K8 HARDY ON 'OUTFITUMENTARY' at homeFilmmaker K8 Hardy discusses her film Outfitumentary following a screening at Metrograph.

FROM 7 LUDLOW: K8 HARDY ON "OUTFITUMENTARY"

Metrograph | 24 min | 2022

Stream FROM 7 LUDLOW: TONY LEVIN ON 'IN THE COURT OF THE CRIMSON KING' at homeKing Crimson bassist Tony Levin discusses the new documentary, In the Court of the Crimson King with Steve Smith (Culture & Arts Editor, Gothamist)

FROM 7 LUDLOW: TONY LEVIN ON "IN THE COURT OF THE CRIMSON KING"

Metrograph | 43 min | 2023

Stream FROM 7 LUDLOW: ALEX WINTER ON 'ZAPPA' at homeFilmmaker Alex Winter discusses his 2022 documentary Zappa, about the groundbreaking musician and songwiter.

FROM 7 LUDLOW: ALEX WINTER ON "ZAPPA"

Metrograph | 32 min | 2023

Stream FROM 7 LUDLOW: TIM SQUYERS ON 'THE ICE STORM' at homeEditor Tim Squyers discusses his work on Ang Lee's 1997 film The Ice Storm.

FROM 7 LUDLOW: TIM SQUYERS ON "THE ICE STORM"

Metrograph | 25 min | 2023

Stream FROM 7 LUDLOW: YACHT ON 'THE COMPUTER ACCENT' at homePost-pop group YACHT discusses their creative use of artificial intelligence while making The Computer Accent.

FROM 7 LUDLOW: YACHT ON "THE COMPUTER ACCENT"

Metrograph | 44 min | 2022

Stream FROM 7 LUDLOW: Q&A WITH KEN JACOBS at homeLegendary experimental filmmaker Ken Jacobs joins Metrograph for a Q&A following a screening of his short films.

FROM 7 LUDLOW: Q&A WITH KEN JACOBS

Metrograph | 17 min | 2022

Stream FROM 7 LUDLOW: DEREK HOWARD ON 'AQUARELA' at homeCinematographer Derek Howard discusses his work on Aquarela, showing as part of The Trace: Theaster Gates Selects, co-presented with Gagosian

FROM 7 LUDLOW: DEREK HOWARD ON "AQUARELA"

Metrograph | 16 min | 2023

Stream FROM 7 LUDLOW: WALTER AND MICAELA SAXER ON 'SEPA' at homeProducer Walter Saxer discusses Sepa, his empathetic portrait of Peruvian inmate life.

FROM 7 LUDLOW: WALTER AND MICAELA SAXER ON "SEPA"

24 min

Stream FROM 7 LUDLOW: 'MURINA' DIRECTOR ANTONETA ALAMAT KUSIJANOVIĆ at homeMurina director Antoneta Alamat Kusijanović discusses her film with critic and author Alissa Wilkinson.

FROM 7 LUDLOW: "MURINA" DIRECTOR ANTONETA ALAMAT KUSIJANOVIĆ

Various | 28 min | 2022

Stream FROM 7 LUDLOW: BARBARA KOPPLE ON 'HARLAN COUNTY, USA' at homeDocumentarian Barbara Kopple discusses her groundbreaking 1975 film Harlan County, USA with programmer Nellie Killian and author Meagan Duggar.

FROM 7 LUDLOW: BARBARA KOPPLE ON "HARLAN COUNTY, USA"

Various | 38 min | 2022

Stream FROM 7 LUDLOW: 'SEÑORITA' DIRECTOR ISABEL SANDOVAL at homeSeñorita director Isabel Sandoval discusses her debut film with Metrograph programmer Lydia Ogwang.

FROM 7 LUDLOW: "SEÑORITA" DIRECTOR ISABEL SANDOVAL

Various | 36 min | 2022

Stream FROM 7 LUDLOW: 'CAUGHT' CINEMATOGRAPHER MICHAEL BARLOW at homeCaught cinematographer Michael Barlow discusses his work on Robert M. Young's 1996 film.

FROM 7 LUDLOW: "CAUGHT" CINEMATOGRAPHER MICHAEL BARLOW

Various | 32 min | 2022

Stream FROM 7 LUDLOW: 'RUBY IN PARADISE' DIRECTOR VICTOR NUNEZ at homeFilmmaker Victor Nunez and critic Gina Telaroli discuss Nunez's 1993 film Ruby in Paradise.

FROM 7 LUDLOW: "RUBY IN PARADISE" DIRECTOR VICTOR NUNEZ

Various | 33 min | 2022

Stream FROM 7 LUDLOW: THE SHORT LIST Q&A WITH BRONTEZ PURNELL & DIS at homeAuthor Brontez Purnell joins DIS ART for a conversation about their Short List program.

FROM 7 LUDLOW: THE SHORT LIST Q&A WITH BRONTEZ PURNELL & DIS

METROGRAPH | 22 min | 2022

Stream FROM 7 LUDLOW: DAVID GORDON GREEN ON 'GEORGE WASHINGTON' at homeFilmmaker David Gordon Green discusses his 2000 film George Washington.

FROM 7 LUDLOW: DAVID GORDON GREEN ON "GEORGE WASHINGTON"

Metrograph | 38 min | 2022

Stream FROM 7 LUDLOW: BADBADNOTGOOD ON “TALK MEMORY” at homeBADBADNOTGOOD discuss their new studio album "Talk Memory" in conversation with Brandon Jenkins.

FROM 7 LUDLOW: BADBADNOTGOOD ON “TALK MEMORY”

METROGRAPH | 16 min | 2021

Stream FROM 7 LUDLOW: NICK PINKERTON ON “GOODBYE, DRAGON INN” at homeCritic and author Nick Pinkerton expands on his book about Tsai Ming-liang's 2003 film Goodbye, Dragon Inn.

FROM 7 LUDLOW: NICK PINKERTON ON “GOODBYE, DRAGON INN”

METROGRAPH | 7 min | 2021

Stream FROM 7 LUDLOW: EMMA MYERS ON ABORTION IN AMERICAN FILM at homeGuest curator Emma Meyers discusses the films in her series "It Happens to Us: Abortion in American Film."

FROM 7 LUDLOW: EMMA MYERS ON ABORTION IN AMERICAN FILM

METROGRAPH | 8 min | 2022

Stream FROM 7 LUDLOW: MAYUKH SEN ON OUSMANE SEMBÈNE’S “BLACK GIRL” at homeWriter Mayukh Sen on Ousmane Sembène's Black Girl.

FROM 7 LUDLOW: MAYUKH SEN ON OUSMANE SEMBÈNE’S “BLACK GIRL”

VARIOUS | 18 min | 2021

Stream FROM 7 LUDLOW: “GIRLFIGHT” DIRECTOR KARYN KUSAMA AND LISA DUVA at homeGirlfight director Karyn Kusama and moderator Lisa Duva in conversation.

FROM 7 LUDLOW: “GIRLFIGHT” DIRECTOR KARYN KUSAMA AND LISA DUVA

METROGRAPH | 30 min | 2021

Stream FROM 7 LUDLOW: “BULLETPROOF” DIRECTOR TODD CHANDLER AND PRODUCER DANIELLE VARGA at homeDirector Todd Chandler and producer Danielle Varga discuss their film Bulletproof.

FROM 7 LUDLOW: “BULLETPROOF” DIRECTOR TODD CHANDLER AND PRODUCER DANIELLE VARGA

METROGRAPH | 43 min | 2021

Stream FROM 7 LUDLOW: TIM HEIDECKER AND RICK ALVERSON at homeTim Heidecker and Rick Alverson discuss their 2012 film The Comedy.

FROM 7 LUDLOW: TIM HEIDECKER AND RICK ALVERSON

METROGRAPH | 39 min | 2022

Stream FROM 7 LUDLOW: WILL MENAKER AND TRUE ANON at homeWill Menaker and the hosts of the True Anon podcast discuss The Parallax View.

FROM 7 LUDLOW: WILL MENAKER AND TRUE ANON

METROGRAPH | 37 min | 2021

Stream FROM 7 LUDLOW: LYNNE SACHS, LIZZIE OLEKSER, & SILVIA FEDERICI at homeThe Washing Society filmmakers Lynne Sachs and Lizzie Olesker in conversation with Silvia Federici, moderated by Emily Apter.

FROM 7 LUDLOW: LYNNE SACHS, LIZZIE OLEKSER, & SILVIA FEDERICI

METROGRAPH | 52 min | 2021

Stream FROM 7 LUDLOW: PATRICIA ROZEMA AND ARTIST LAURIE ANDERSON at homeFilmmaker Patricia Rozema and artist Laurie Anderson discuss Rozema's film I've Heard the Mermaids Singing.

FROM 7 LUDLOW: PATRICIA ROZEMA AND ARTIST LAURIE ANDERSON

METROGRAPH | 31 min | 2022

Stream FROM 7 LUDLOW: JONATHAN DANIEL BROWN AND MICHAEL M. BILANDIC at homeProject X star Jonathan Daniel Brown and filmmaker Michael M. Bilandic in conversation.

FROM 7 LUDLOW: JONATHAN DANIEL BROWN AND MICHAEL M. BILANDIC

METROGRAPH | 25 min | 2021

METROGRAPH SELECTS

Stream I’M GOING HOME at homeA humane, heartbreaking meditation on aging and art by the legendary Manoel de Oliveira, a sprightly 94-year-old when it was released.

I’M GOING HOME

Manoel de Oliveira | 90 min | 2001

Stream TIP TOP at homeSerge Bozon’s screwball comedy comes in a policier package, in which the central mystery opens onto the larger subject of France’s history of colonial crime.

TIP TOP

Serge Bozon | 106 min | 2013

Stream HARD TO BE A GOD at homeRussian giant Aleksei German’s widely lauded final film transforms a science-fiction classic into a visceral, headlong wallow in medieval muck.

HARD TO BE A GOD

Aleksei German | 177 min | 2013

Stream I KILLED MY MOTHER at homeCanadian enfant terrible Xavier Dolan’s directorial debut, a raw, raucous coming-of-age comedy-drama starring Dolan himself.

I KILLED MY MOTHER

Xavier Dolan | 96 min | 2009

Stream COLLEGE at homeBuster Keaton goes to college where he tries to bulk up to impress a beautiful co-ed with predictably hysterical results.

COLLEGE

Buster Keaton | 66 min | 1927

Stream THE LAST LAUGH at homeMurnau’s bold use of a moving camera changed cinema forever in this simple, tragic story of a hotel doorman whose life falls apart after he loses his job.

THE LAST LAUGH

F. W. Murnau | 90 min | 1924

Stream THE ICEMAN COMETH at homeLee Marvin and Jeff Bridges lead Frankenheimer’s definitive take on the habitual tipplers who gather at Harry Hope’s saloon, and their dashed pipe dreams.

THE ICEMAN COMETH

John Frankenheimer | 239 min | 1973

Stream THE BIG ANIMAL at homeAn absurdist, Kafka-inspired fable about a bank employee who tasks himself with caring for a fugitive Bactrian camel that has taken up residence in his garden. Selected by Clare Maceda.

THE BIG ANIMAL

Jerzy Stuhr | 73 min | 2000

Stream IT FELT LIKE LOVE at homeNever Rarely Sometimes Always director Hittman’s feature debut about a sexually inexperienced south Brooklyn teenager (Gina Piersanti) who’s embarrassed to fess up to everything she doesn’t know about sex. Selected by Kristine Veras.

IT FELT LIKE LOVE

Eliza Hittman | 82 min | 2013

Stream HAPPY TIMES at homeAn Israeli-American couple invite family and friends to their tasteless McMansion in the Hollywood Hills for a Sabbath dinner but wind up hosting a massacre instead. Selected by Cece Vargas.

HAPPY TIMES

Michael Mayer | 93 min | 2019

Stream LOSING GROUND at homeA landmark of American independent cinema, which follows the marriage between a Black philosophy professor (Seret Scott) and her painter husband (Bill Gunn), both at a crossroads in their lives.

LOSING GROUND

KATHLEEN COLLINS | 86 min | 1982

Stream ORCHARD STREET at homeKen Jacobs documents the tradition of eager haggling and bargain hunting that once took place on the Lower East Side commercial thoroughfare of the title. Selected by Harry Kroessler.

ORCHARD STREET

KEN JACOBS | 12 min | 1955

BILL GUNN'S PERSONAL PROBLEMS

BRUNO DUMONT'S FRANCE

DEREK JARMAN X 9

Stream BLUE at homeA vibrant work of courage and clarity in which voices read a poetic text by Jarman—who was dying of AIDS, and would be gone within a year— over an unceasing, monochromatic blue frame.

BLUE

Derek Jarman | 79 min | 1993

Stream CARAVAGGIO at homeA brazenly anachronistic and sensual imagining of the life of Renaissance renegade Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio, and one of the finest British films of the 1980s.

CARAVAGGIO

Derek Jarman | 93 min | 1986

Stream SEBASTIANE at homeJarman’s feature debut revels in the male form while recounting the biblical story of the martyrdom by arrows of St. Sebastian, a tale of repressed desire turned to sadism.

SEBASTIANE

Derek Jarman | 86 min | 1976

Stream THE LAST OF ENGLAND at homeA dolorous, moving portrait of a nation in its drab twilight, starring Tilda Swinton.

THE LAST OF ENGLAND

Derek Jarman | 92 min | 1988

Stream WITTGENSTEIN at homeThe tormented life of Viennese philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein is played—in a brilliantly counterintuitive decision—as a comedy in Jarman’s heady experimental biopic, starring Karl Johnson and Jarman favorite Tilda Swinton.

WITTGENSTEIN

Derek Jarman | 72 min | 1993

Stream THE TEMPEST at homeJarman offers a typically idiosyncratic approach to Shakespeare, revivifying the Bard by rescuing him from fusty fidelity.

THE TEMPEST

Derek Jarman | 95 min | 1979

Stream THE ANGELIC CONVERSATION at homeJarman returned to Shakespeare with this painterly work inspired by his love poems—particularly, his 14 sonnets addressed to the unnamed young man scholars refer to as the Fair Youth, read by Judi Dench.

THE ANGELIC CONVERSATION

Derek Jarman | 77 min | 1985

Stream GLITTERBUG at homeA posthumous collage made up of material Jarman selected before his death, offering glimpses into the life of gay London, as well as myriad moments of everyday enchantment and occult symbolism.

GLITTERBUG

Derek Jarman | 60 min | 1994

Stream WAR REQUIEM at homeA dazzlingly complex decoupage of sound and image that moves nimbly between past and present, offering a stark denunciation of militarism, with the figure of the Old Soldier (Laurence Olivier) the silent sentinel that sees all.

WAR REQUIEM

Derek Jarman | 92 min | 1989

THE DIARIES OF JONAS MEKAS

ELECTRIC SYSTEMS: FIVE DOCUMENTARIES FROM JENNIFER BAICHWAL

ETHNOGRAPHIC EYE

EUGÈNE GREEN X 2

THE FILMS OF CHARLES BURNETT

THE FILMS OF SHIRLEY CLARKE

Stream A MOMENT IN LOVE at homeAn ambitious, scene-shifting piece in which Clarke explores the possibilities of avant-garde dance on film.

A MOMENT IN LOVE

Shirley Clarke | 9 min | 1956

Stream BRIDGES GO ROUND at homeClarke’s vividly colored short turns the bridges of New York Harbor into an eerie, swaying jungle of dizzying abstractions.

BRIDGES GO ROUND

Shirley Clarke | 8 min | 1958

Stream BULLFIGHT at homeClarke documents a bravura performance by Anna Sokolow, a choreographed interpretation of the dance between matador and bull.

BULLFIGHT

Shirley Clarke | 9 min | 1955

Stream DANCE IN THE SUN at homeClarke’s first completed short, observing choreographer Daniel Nagrin.

DANCE IN THE SUN

Shirley Clarke | 6 min | 1953

Stream HOME MOVIE #20: DANCE TESTS at homeOne of several early experimental trial films produced by Clarke that illustrates her long-standing ambition to find new dimensions to dance on screen.

HOME MOVIE #20: DANCE TESTS

Shirley Clarke | 6 min | 1953

Stream IN PARIS PARKS at homeA study of bodies in motion—specifically, the flow of crowds in and out of the parks of Paris.

IN PARIS PARKS

Shirley Clarke | 14 min | 1954

Stream ORNETTE: MADE IN AMERICA at homeShirley Clarke reconnected with Ornette Coleman in the early ’80s, shooting his concert at a newly opened arts center in Fort Worth, Texas.

ORNETTE: MADE IN AMERICA

SHIRLEY CLARKE | 77 min | 1985

Stream SKYSCRAPER at homeThis playful live-action short, nominated for an Academy Award, daringly documents the construction of the Tishman Building high above Fifth Avenue.

SKYSCRAPER

Shirley Clarke | 20 min | 1960

Stream SAVAGE/LOVE at homeOne man’s quest for love, an intensely emotional short film by Clarke working with playwright Sam Shepard and actor Joseph Chaikin.

SAVAGE/LOVE

Shirley Clarke | 25 min | 1981

Stream THE CONNECTION at homeJack Gelber’s controversial off-Broadway play about a group of addicts—many of them jazz musicians—waiting for a fix.

THE CONNECTION

SHIRLEY CLARKE | 110 min | 1961

FIRST FEATURES

Stream 2 FRIENDS at homeA tender, sad, and comic debut from Campion about female friendships, and the forces that pull them apart.

2 FRIENDS

Jane Campion | 76 min | 1986

Stream A GIRL WALKS HOME ALONE AT NIGHT at homeAmirpour’s entirely original thriller about a mysterious, chador-clad female bloodsucker in the dilapidated Iranian ghost town of Bad City.

A GIRL WALKS HOME ALONE AT NIGHT

Ana Lily Amarpour | 101 min | 2014

Stream FEAR AND DESIRE at homeA group of soldiers embark on a surreal journey to escape from behind enemy lines in Kubrick’s genius debut feature.

FEAR AND DESIRE

Stanley Kubrick | 62 min | 1952

Stream KINETTA at homeThe beguiling solo directorial debut from Greek Weird Wave star Lanthimos, in which three locals make bizarre videos elaborately re-staging local murders.

KINETTA

Yorgos Lanthimos | 95 min | 2005

Stream MABOROSI at homeAn elegantly photographed story of mourning and reawakening from the Japanese master dramatist Kore-eda.

MABOROSI

Hirokazu Kore-eda | 110 min | 1995

Stream NIGHT TIDE at homeYoung Dennis Hopper stars as a sailor who falls in love with a woman who may or may not be a real-life mermaid.

NIGHT TIDE

Curtis Harrington | 86 min | 1961

Stream POISON at homeA landmark of New Queer Cinema, Todd Haynes’s first feature is a trio of intercut stories inspired by the patron saint of all queer outlaw art, Jean Genet.

POISON

Todd Haynes | 85 min | 1991

Stream RED ROAD at homeArnold’s marvelously controlled feature debut is a tense, voyeuristic revenge tale set on a Glasgow housing estate.

RED ROAD

Andrea Arnold | 113 min | 2006

Stream RUSSIAN ARK at homeSokurov’s epic first feature, a single continuous shot that winds through St. Petersburg’s Winter Palace.

RUSSIAN ARK

Alexander Sokurov | 99 min | 2002

Stream SEBASTIANE at homeJarman’s feature debut revels in the male form while recounting the biblical story of the martyrdom by arrows of St. Sebastian, a tale of repressed desire turned to sadism.

SEBASTIANE

Derek Jarman | 86 min | 1976

Stream STORY OF A LOVE AFFAIR at homeItalian master Michael Antonioni’s feature debut sees a pair of lovers become co-conspirators in murder.

STORY OF A LOVE AFFAIR

Michelangelo Antonioni | 98 min | 1950

Stream THE CONNECTION at homeJack Gelber’s controversial off-Broadway play about a group of addicts—many of them jazz musicians—waiting for a fix.

THE CONNECTION

SHIRLEY CLARKE | 110 min | 1961

Stream THE GOODTIMESKID at homeJacob’s debut feature is a droll, scrappy, punk-spirited hang-out comedy about two guys both named Rodolfo Cano and living in LA.

THE GOODTIMESKID

Azazel Jacobs | 77 min | 2005

Stream UNRELATED at homeHogg’s remarkably assured debut feature, and a piercing portrait of a middle-aged crack-up.

UNRELATED

Joanna Hogg | 100 min | 2007

Stream VARIETY at homeOne of the great independent films of the ’80s, in which a woman lands a job at a downtown porno theater and finds herself drawn towards what’s happening onscreen—as well as other troubling fantasies.

VARIETY

Bette Gordon | 100 min | 1983

FIVE FROM JEAN-LUC GODARD

IRANIAN CINEMA IN THE NEW CENTURY

JOANNA HOGG X 3

LATER DAYS

LINA WERTMÜLLER & HER BEAUTIES

MIGUEL GOMES'S ARABIAN NIGHTS

NEXT OF KIN: FOUR FROM ATOM EGOYAN

PARK CHAN-WOOK'S VENGEANCE

PETER GREENAWAY X 3

PERMEABLE BOUNDARIES: THE FILMS OF URSULA MEIER

RECENT FERRARA

SERGE BOZON X 2

SEX, POWER, AND MONEY: FILMS BY BETH B

THE SHORTS OF KEN JACOBS

STRANGE ANIMALS: THREE FROM LUCHINO VISCONTI

STARRING SOPHIA LOREN

TROUBLED WATERS: FOUR FROM GIANFRANCO ROSI

YVONNE RAINER: A RETROSPECTIVE

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