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Stream FRIENDS AND STRANGERS at homeA wry social satire that follows Ray, a white Australian twentysomething stumbling through his cushioned, comfortable life in affluent Sydney.

FRIENDS AND STRANGERS

James Vaghaun | 81 min | 2021

Stream SPACKED OUT at homeLau’s newly restored study of the everyday hope and despair experienced by four dead-end young working-class women in Hong Kong.

SPACKED OUT

Lawrence Lau | 91 min | 2000

Stream IWOW: I WALK ON WATER at homeA sprawling, spiritual epic that travels from Harlem to Haarlem, Netherlands, from Khalik Allah.

IWOW: I WALK ON WATER

Khalik Allah | 200 min | 2020

Stream SEED SONG at homeA documentary portrait of Vicuña that emphasizes her relationship with the natural world, particularly her study of seeds

SEED SONG

Cecila Vicuña | 8 min | 2015

Stream RUN at homeFilmmaker Alex Prager envisions a group of urbanites on the run from a gigantic metallic orb.

RUN

Alex Prager | 6 min | 2022

Stream YUNG LEAN, PLEASE BE MY YUNG LOVE at homeMellen stars as an Extremely Online young woman pitching woo to rapper Yung Lean.

YUNG LEAN, PLEASE BE MY YUNG LOVE

Julia Mellen | 16 min | 2018

Stream BITTER MONEY at homeWang follows two teenage cousins journeying to the city of Huzhou, seeking a better life.

BITTER MONEY

Wang Bing | 152 min | 2016

Stream THREE SISTERS at homeA sorrowful and piercing look at a trio of siblings who sustain themselves as almost-orphans, with a particular focus on the eldest, 10-year-old Yingying.

THREE SISTERS

Wang Bing | 153 min | 2012

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

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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

DECEMBER ARRIVALS

Stream (NOW) at homeA studio-shot short that shows Mangolte’s deep engagement with New York avant-garde.

(NOW)

Babette Mangolte | 10 min | 1976

Stream ACCORDING TO... at homeKevin Jerome Everson’s 2007 short considers Black pageants in two contexts.

ACCORDING TO...

Kevin Jerome Everson | 9 min | 2007

Stream BEACH RITUAL at homeA record of Vicuña’s seaside sacrificial performance during documenta 14 in 2017.

BEACH RITUAL

Cecila Vicuña | 12 min | 2017

Stream BLACK MOTHER at homeFeted experimental filmmaker Khalik Allah trains his eye on Jamaica, the land of his mother’s birth.

BLACK MOTHER

Khalik Allah | 77 min | 2018

Stream BULLETPROOF at homeA film that coolly and compassionately examines the shocking rise of violence in American schools.

BULLETPROOF

Todd Chandler | 84 min | 2020

Stream CALAMITY JANE & DELPHINE SEYRIG: A STORY at homeA tribute to Delphine Seyrig and her fascination with American frontierswoman Martha Jane Canary, better known as Calamity Jane.

CALAMITY JANE & DELPHINE SEYRIG: A STORY

Babette Mangolte | 87 min | 2019

Stream CECILIA VICUÑA: EX-TERMINATION LIVING QUIPU at homeA site-specific performance in which the artist transforms the Guggenheim Museum’s famous rotunda with knotted quipu.

CECILIA VICUÑA: EX-TERMINATION LIVING QUIPU

Stephen J. Grant, Stephan Knuesel | 12 min | 2023

Stream COMMODITY CITY at homeA humanizing look at simple lives amidst the bustle of hypercapitalism.

COMMODITY CITY

Jessica Kingdon | 11 min | 2017

Stream DILATING FOR MAXIMUM RESULTS at homeNyala Moon’s comic voice offers instructions for a trans woman who wants to hook up IRL with an online lover.

DILATING FOR MAXIMUM RESULTS

Nyala Moon | 15 min | 2023

Stream DISTANT CONSTELLATION at homeA dreamy, drifting documentary that takes place inside an Istanbul retirement home.

DISTANT CONSTELLATION

Shevaun Mizrahi | 82 min | 2018

Stream DON'T BLINK - ROBERT FRANK at homeA portrait of the legendary Swiss-born photographer and filmmaker Robert Frank.

DON'T BLINK - ROBERT FRANK

Laural Israel | 82 min | 2015

Stream EL QUIPU DE PAULA EN NUEVA YORK at homeOne of Vicuña’s Quipu El Quipu de Paula en Nueva York, honoring Paula Prado, a weaver from La Ligua, Chile.

EL QUIPU DE PAULA EN NUEVA YORK

Cecila Vicuña | 3 min | 2011

Stream FRIENDS AND STRANGERS at homeA wry social satire that follows Ray, a white Australian twentysomething stumbling through his cushioned, comfortable life in affluent Sydney.

FRIENDS AND STRANGERS

James Vaghaun | 81 min | 2021

Stream FRY DAY at homeA party celebrating the execution of Ted Bundy transforms into a tense coming-of-age adventure.

FRY DAY

Laura Moss | 17 min | 2017

Stream I FIGHT THESE HOES IN THE SHOWER at homeA wickedly funny aria of free-associative direct-to-camera shit-talking and narcissistic self-deprecation from Mellen’s alter ego.

I FIGHT THESE HOES IN THE SHOWER

Julia Mellen | 15 min | 2021

Stream IWOW: I WALK ON WATER at homeA sprawling, spiritual epic that travels from Harlem to Haarlem, Netherlands, from Khalik Allah.

IWOW: I WALK ON WATER

Khalik Allah | 200 min | 2020

Stream KON KON at homeVicuña confronts the ecological and cultural degradation of Concón, Chile, where her art practice began.

KON KON

Cecila Vicuña | 54 min | 2010

Stream LEMON TREE at homeAn autumnal road trip leads to a loss of innocence for a young boy

LEMON TREE

Rachel Waldon | 18 min | 2023

Stream LIGHT FROM LIGHT at homeA compassionate, delicately performed ghost story from Tennessee filmmaker Paul Harrill.

LIGHT FROM LIGHT

Paul Harrill | 82 min | 2019

Stream MACK DOES MACDOWELL: WOODLANDS WOODLANDS SKETCHES SKETCHES at homeA collection of 10 experimental shorts “inspired by the ghosts and magic” of composer and pianist Edward MacDowell.

MACK DOES MACDOWELL: WOODLANDS WOODLANDS SKETCHES SKETCHES

Jodie Mack | 29 min | 2020

Stream MALNI: TOWARDS THE OCEAN, TOWARDS THE SHORE at homeThe Chinookan people’s origin-of-death myth is at the core of Indigenous filmmaker Sky Hopinka’s dreamy, ethereal feature debut.

MALNI: TOWARDS THE OCEAN, TOWARDS THE SHORE

Sky Hopinka | 80 min | 2020

Stream NEW YEARS at homeA haunting work of low-tech horror that recounts a traumatic New Year’s house party.

NEW YEARS

Julia Mellen | 8 min | 2017

Stream NOTES ON AN APPEARANCE at homeIn an eerily empty New York City, the search for a missing friend reveals a mysterious world of intrigue and conspiracy.

NOTES ON AN APPEARANCE

Ricky D'Ambrose | 60 min | 2018

Stream PALM SUNDAY at homeStruck by a vision, a young Black Jamaican immigrant strives to be admitted to an all-white Baptist Church.

PALM SUNDAY

Wes Goodrich | 16 min | 2023

Stream PARACAS at homeVicuña’s animation of a 2,000-year old textile made by Indigenous peoples in the Paracas/Nazca region.

PARACAS

Cecila Vicuña | 19 min | 1983

Stream PIONEER at homeA father tells his son the most epic bedtime story ever.

PIONEER

David Lowery | 16 min | 2011

Stream QUIPU AUSTRAL at homeIn Vicuña’s Quipu Austral, the artist activates an abandoned site on Cockatoo Island on Sydney Harbor for the 18th Biennale of Sydney.

QUIPU AUSTRAL

Cecila Vicuña | 4 min | 2012

Stream QUIPU CEQUE at homeVicuña’s Quipu Ceque explores the “ceque,” an Andean map used to locate water, in relation to the quipu.

QUIPU CEQUE

Cecila Vicuña | 2 min | 2014

Stream QUIPU LAVA at homeVicuña’s Quipu Lava is dedicated to the girls and women who have been victims of violence.

QUIPU LAVA

Cecila Vicuña | 5 min | 2020

Stream QUIPU MAPOCHO at homeVicuña’s Quipu Mapocho embraces ritual to address climate change.

QUIPU MAPOCHO

Cecila Vicuña | 10 min | 2015

Stream QUIPU VISCERA at homeVicuña’s Quipu Viscera addresses the viscerality of menstruation.

QUIPU VISCERA

Cecila Vicuña | 3 min | 2011

Stream RUN at homeFilmmaker Alex Prager envisions a group of urbanites on the run from a gigantic metallic orb.

RUN

Alex Prager | 6 min | 2022

Stream SEED SONG at homeA documentary portrait of Vicuña that emphasizes her relationship with the natural world, particularly her study of seeds

SEED SONG

Cecila Vicuña | 8 min | 2015

Stream SIDE HUSTLE at homeA sex worker’s artistic ambitions are juxtaposed with the economic anxiety resulting from a client’s financial troubles.

SIDE HUSTLE

Abby Harri | 16 min | 2023

Stream SKELETON QUIPU at homeOne of Vicuña’s Skeleton Quipu, edited in binary and inverted color.

SKELETON QUIPU

Cecila Vicuña | 3 min | 2014

Stream SPACKED OUT at homeLau’s newly restored study of the everyday hope and despair experienced by four dead-end young working-class women in Hong Kong.

SPACKED OUT

Lawrence Lau | 91 min | 2000

Stream THE CAMERA: JE OR LA CAMERA: I at homeMangolte’s second feature-length film as director is a structuralist self-portrait, shot in the filmmaker’s adopted home of New York City.

THE CAMERA: JE OR LA CAMERA: I

Babette Mangolte | 88 min | 1977

Stream THE COLD EYE (MY DARLING, BE CAREFUL) at homeMangolte’s semi-autobiographical “narrative” film is set in the ’70s New York bohemia of the filmmaker’s youth.

THE COLD EYE (MY DARLING, BE CAREFUL)

Babette Mangolte | 90 min | 1980

Stream THE MODELS OF PICKPOCKET (BREAKING SILENCE) at homeMangolte tracks down Bresson’s leading “models” for his early masterpiece Pickpocket, each a wellspring of reminiscences and observations about the legendary director and his quest.

THE MODELS OF PICKPOCKET (BREAKING SILENCE)

Babette Mangolte | 52 min | 2003

Stream THE SKY ON LOCATION at homeUnder the avowed inspiration of painter J.M.W. Turner, Mangolte embarks on a cinematic journey across the American West.

THE SKY ON LOCATION

Babette Mangolte | 78 min | 1983

Stream THE TREES at homeA blackly comic parable for the climate change moment.

THE TREES

Ramzi Bashour | 23 min | 2021

Stream THERE? WHERE? at homeAn essay on displacement in southern California.

THERE? WHERE?

Babette Mangolte | 8 min | 1979

Stream VISIBLE CITIES at homeTwo female characters search for a home in the architecturally hostile environment of the SoCal desert.

VISIBLE CITIES

Babette Mangolte | 31 min | 1991

Stream WATER MOTOR at homeA filmed record of postmodern dancer and choreographer Trisha Brown in a solo performance.

WATER MOTOR

Babette Mangolte | 7 min | 1978

Stream WHAT IS POETRY TO YOU? at homeVicuña approaches passers-by from all walks of life on the streets of Bogotá to ask what poetry means to them.

WHAT IS POETRY TO YOU?

Cecila Vicuña | 23 min | 1980

Stream WHAT MAISIE KNEW at homeMangolte’s re-reading of Henry James’s What Maisie Knew, which filters the follies of a divorced couple through the perspective of a child, their only daughter.

WHAT MAISIE KNEW

Babette Mangolte | 58 min | 1975

Stream YUNG LEAN, PLEASE BE MY YUNG LOVE at homeMellen stars as an Extremely Online young woman pitching woo to rapper Yung Lean.

YUNG LEAN, PLEASE BE MY YUNG LOVE

Julia Mellen | 16 min | 2018

POPULAR NOW

Stream THE THOUGHTS THAT ONCE WE HAD at homeA playful and passionate personal journey through film history—and the history of the 20th century—by essay filmmaker extraordinaire Andersen.

THE THOUGHTS THAT ONCE WE HAD

Thom Andersen | 108 min | 2015

Stream A SHAPE OF THINGS TO COME at homeAn elderly hermit living in the Sonora Desert faces a sudden intrusion in the form of border patrol agents.

A SHAPE OF THINGS TO COME

Lisa Malloy and J.P. Sniadecki | 77 min | 2020

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 TOWARDS MATHILDE at homeAn essential but lesser-known Claire Denis film, in which she documents the creation of a new dance work by Mathilde Monnier.

TOWARDS MATHILDE

Claire Denis | 84 min | 2005

Stream BUNKER at homeA documentary study of “prepper” pathology and the new American dream of outliving a doomed planet.

BUNKER

Jenny Perlin | 90 min | 2021

Stream THE HOTTEST AUGUST at homeA panoramic view of contemporary US society, anxious for an uncertain future.

THE HOTTEST AUGUST

Brett Story | 94 min | 2019

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 BITTER MONEY at homeWang follows two teenage cousins journeying to the city of Huzhou, seeking a better life.

BITTER MONEY

Wang Bing | 152 min | 2016

Stream THREE SISTERS at homeA sorrowful and piercing look at a trio of siblings who sustain themselves as almost-orphans, with a particular focus on the eldest, 10-year-old Yingying.

THREE SISTERS

Wang Bing | 153 min | 2012

Stream BELOW SEA LEVEL at homeRosi’s second feature respectfully observes the outcasts and drop-outs living hardscrabble lives in California’s desolate desert flatlands.

BELOW SEA LEVEL

Gianfranco Rosi | 110 min | 2008

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

BOATMAN

Gianfranco Rosi | 55 min | 1993

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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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

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

FOCUS ON 25 NEW FACES

POEMS IN SPACE: FILMS BY CECILIA VICUÑA

Stream POEMS IN SPACE: FILMS BY CECILIA VICUÑA at homeArtist Cecila Vicuña discusses her filmmaking practice in this exclusive interview.

POEMS IN SPACE: FILMS BY CECILIA VICUÑA

Metrograph | 7 min | 2023

Stream WHAT IS POETRY TO YOU? at homeVicuña approaches passers-by from all walks of life on the streets of Bogotá to ask what poetry means to them.

WHAT IS POETRY TO YOU?

Cecila Vicuña | 23 min | 1980

Stream SEED SONG at homeA documentary portrait of Vicuña that emphasizes her relationship with the natural world, particularly her study of seeds

SEED SONG

Cecila Vicuña | 8 min | 2015

Stream BEACH RITUAL at homeA record of Vicuña’s seaside sacrificial performance during documenta 14 in 2017.

BEACH RITUAL

Cecila Vicuña | 12 min | 2017

Stream EL QUIPU DE PAULA EN NUEVA YORK at homeOne of Vicuña’s Quipu El Quipu de Paula en Nueva York, honoring Paula Prado, a weaver from La Ligua, Chile.

EL QUIPU DE PAULA EN NUEVA YORK

Cecila Vicuña | 3 min | 2011

Stream KON KON at homeVicuña confronts the ecological and cultural degradation of Concón, Chile, where her art practice began.

KON KON

Cecila Vicuña | 54 min | 2010

Stream PARACAS at homeVicuña’s animation of a 2,000-year old textile made by Indigenous peoples in the Paracas/Nazca region.

PARACAS

Cecila Vicuña | 19 min | 1983

Stream QUIPU AUSTRAL at homeIn Vicuña’s Quipu Austral, the artist activates an abandoned site on Cockatoo Island on Sydney Harbor for the 18th Biennale of Sydney.

QUIPU AUSTRAL

Cecila Vicuña | 4 min | 2012

Stream QUIPU CEQUE at homeVicuña’s Quipu Ceque explores the “ceque,” an Andean map used to locate water, in relation to the quipu.

QUIPU CEQUE

Cecila Vicuña | 2 min | 2014

Stream QUIPU LAVA at homeVicuña’s Quipu Lava is dedicated to the girls and women who have been victims of violence.

QUIPU LAVA

Cecila Vicuña | 5 min | 2020

Stream QUIPU MAPOCHO at homeVicuña’s Quipu Mapocho embraces ritual to address climate change.

QUIPU MAPOCHO

Cecila Vicuña | 10 min | 2015

Stream QUIPU VISCERA at homeVicuña’s Quipu Viscera addresses the viscerality of menstruation.

QUIPU VISCERA

Cecila Vicuña | 3 min | 2011

Stream SKELETON QUIPU at homeOne of Vicuña’s Skeleton Quipu, edited in binary and inverted color.

SKELETON QUIPU

Cecila Vicuña | 3 min | 2014

Stream CECILIA VICUÑA: EX-TERMINATION LIVING QUIPU at homeA site-specific performance in which the artist transforms the Guggenheim Museum’s famous rotunda with knotted quipu.

CECILIA VICUÑA: EX-TERMINATION LIVING QUIPU

Stephen J. Grant, Stephan Knuesel | 12 min | 2023

LIFE IN FILM: A BABETTE MANGOLTE RETROSPECTIVE

Stream CALAMITY JANE & DELPHINE SEYRIG: A STORY at homeA tribute to Delphine Seyrig and her fascination with American frontierswoman Martha Jane Canary, better known as Calamity Jane.

CALAMITY JANE & DELPHINE SEYRIG: A STORY

Babette Mangolte | 87 min | 2019

Stream THE CAMERA: JE OR LA CAMERA: I at homeMangolte’s second feature-length film as director is a structuralist self-portrait, shot in the filmmaker’s adopted home of New York City.

THE CAMERA: JE OR LA CAMERA: I

Babette Mangolte | 88 min | 1977

Stream WATER MOTOR at homeA filmed record of postmodern dancer and choreographer Trisha Brown in a solo performance.

WATER MOTOR

Babette Mangolte | 7 min | 1978

Stream WHAT MAISIE KNEW at homeMangolte’s re-reading of Henry James’s What Maisie Knew, which filters the follies of a divorced couple through the perspective of a child, their only daughter.

WHAT MAISIE KNEW

Babette Mangolte | 58 min | 1975

Stream THE MODELS OF PICKPOCKET (BREAKING SILENCE) at homeMangolte tracks down Bresson’s leading “models” for his early masterpiece Pickpocket, each a wellspring of reminiscences and observations about the legendary director and his quest.

THE MODELS OF PICKPOCKET (BREAKING SILENCE)

Babette Mangolte | 52 min | 2003

Stream THE COLD EYE (MY DARLING, BE CAREFUL) at homeMangolte’s semi-autobiographical “narrative” film is set in the ’70s New York bohemia of the filmmaker’s youth.

THE COLD EYE (MY DARLING, BE CAREFUL)

Babette Mangolte | 90 min | 1980

Stream THE SKY ON LOCATION at homeUnder the avowed inspiration of painter J.M.W. Turner, Mangolte embarks on a cinematic journey across the American West.

THE SKY ON LOCATION

Babette Mangolte | 78 min | 1983

Stream VISIBLE CITIES at homeTwo female characters search for a home in the architecturally hostile environment of the SoCal desert.

VISIBLE CITIES

Babette Mangolte | 31 min | 1991

Stream (NOW) at homeA studio-shot short that shows Mangolte’s deep engagement with New York avant-garde.

(NOW)

Babette Mangolte | 10 min | 1976

Stream THERE? WHERE? at homeAn essay on displacement in southern California.

THERE? WHERE?

Babette Mangolte | 8 min | 1979

GOING INTO A MEMORY: THREE WORKS BY JULIA MELLEN

HIGHLIGHTS, FAVORITES, AND DEEP CUTS FROM FILMMAKER MAGAZINE’S 25 NEW FACES

Stream RUN at homeFilmmaker Alex Prager envisions a group of urbanites on the run from a gigantic metallic orb.

RUN

Alex Prager | 6 min | 2022

Stream ACCORDING TO... at homeKevin Jerome Everson’s 2007 short considers Black pageants in two contexts.

ACCORDING TO...

Kevin Jerome Everson | 9 min | 2007

Stream PIONEER at homeA father tells his son the most epic bedtime story ever.

PIONEER

David Lowery | 16 min | 2011

Stream COMMODITY CITY at homeA humanizing look at simple lives amidst the bustle of hypercapitalism.

COMMODITY CITY

Jessica Kingdon | 11 min | 2017

Stream DILATING FOR MAXIMUM RESULTS at homeNyala Moon’s comic voice offers instructions for a trans woman who wants to hook up IRL with an online lover.

DILATING FOR MAXIMUM RESULTS

Nyala Moon | 15 min | 2023

Stream PALM SUNDAY at homeStruck by a vision, a young Black Jamaican immigrant strives to be admitted to an all-white Baptist Church.

PALM SUNDAY

Wes Goodrich | 16 min | 2023

Stream MACK DOES MACDOWELL: WOODLANDS WOODLANDS SKETCHES SKETCHES at homeA collection of 10 experimental shorts “inspired by the ghosts and magic” of composer and pianist Edward MacDowell.

MACK DOES MACDOWELL: WOODLANDS WOODLANDS SKETCHES SKETCHES

Jodie Mack | 29 min | 2020

Stream SIDE HUSTLE at homeA sex worker’s artistic ambitions are juxtaposed with the economic anxiety resulting from a client’s financial troubles.

SIDE HUSTLE

Abby Harri | 16 min | 2023

Stream THE TREES at homeA blackly comic parable for the climate change moment.

THE TREES

Ramzi Bashour | 23 min | 2021

Stream LEMON TREE at homeAn autumnal road trip leads to a loss of innocence for a young boy

LEMON TREE

Rachel Waldon | 18 min | 2023

Stream FRY DAY at homeA party celebrating the execution of Ted Bundy transforms into a tense coming-of-age adventure.

FRY DAY

Laura Moss | 17 min | 2017

Stream YUNG LEAN, PLEASE BE MY YUNG LOVE at homeMellen stars as an Extremely Online young woman pitching woo to rapper Yung Lean.

YUNG LEAN, PLEASE BE MY YUNG LOVE

Julia Mellen | 16 min | 2018

ZEITGEIST FILMS AT 35

Stream NANCY GERSTMAN AND EMILY RUSSO ON 35 YEARS OF ZEITGEIST FILMS at homeZeitgeist Films co-founders Nancy Gerstman and Emily Russo discuss their retrospective at Metrograph.

NANCY GERSTMAN AND EMILY RUSSO ON 35 YEARS OF ZEITGEIST FILMS

Metrograph | 4 min | 2023

Stream A ZED & TWO NOUGHTS at homeA queasily comic meditation on sex and death, in which two zoologist widowers become obsessed with decomposition, experimenting on animals and crafting time-lapse films of decaying flesh.

A ZED & TWO NOUGHTS

PETER GREENAWAY | 115 min | 1985

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 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 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 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 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 FILM ABOUT A WOMAN WHO... at homeRainer’s landmark second feature tells the story of a woman whose sexual dissatisfaction masks an enormous anger.

FILM ABOUT A WOMAN WHO...

Yvonne Rainer | 90 min | 1974

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 JOURNEYS FROM BERLIN / 1971 at homeIlluminated by a lead performance from critic Annette Michelson, Rainer’s revelatory fourth feature was inspired by her experiences living in West Berlin in the late ’70s.

JOURNEYS FROM BERLIN / 1971

Yvonne Rainer | 125 min | 1980

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 LIVES OF PERFORMERS at homeRainer’s debut feature film announced her shift from the world of dance towards avant-garde cinema, and what would become a career-long interest in “women’s stories” and the teasing machinations of melodrama.

LIVES OF PERFORMERS

Yvonne Rainer | 90 min | 1972

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 MURDER AND MURDER at homeRainer’s last feature is also one of her most personal, inspired by the lows and highs of a breast cancer diagnosis in the early 1990s, and the surprise of a burgeoning lesbian relationship.

MURDER AND MURDER

Yvonne Rainer | 113 min | 1997

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

SPEAKING PARTS

Atom Egoyan | 93 min | 1989

Stream THE DRAUGHTSMAN’S CONTRACT at homeGreenaway’s breakthrough, a 17th-century murder mystery in which an aristocratic wife commissions a young artist to sketch her husband’s seemingly idyllic property while he is away.

THE DRAUGHTSMAN’S CONTRACT

PETER GREENAWAY | 108 min | 1982

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 | 100 min | 2008

WANG BING: MIGRATORY PATTERNS

THE NEW AUTEURS

Stream FRIENDS AND STRANGERS at homeA wry social satire that follows Ray, a white Australian twentysomething stumbling through his cushioned, comfortable life in affluent Sydney.

FRIENDS AND STRANGERS

James Vaghaun | 81 min | 2021

Stream FORT BUCHANAN at homeA comic queer soap opera from Benjamin Crotty, in his audacious feature debut.

FORT BUCHANAN

Benjamin Crotty | 65 min | 2015

Stream DEAD SLOW AHEAD at homeA shipping freighter makes an uncertain voyage across the Atlantic.

DEAD SLOW AHEAD

Mauro Herce | 73 min | 2015

Stream RAILWAY SLEEPERS at homeApichatpong regular Sompot Chidgasornpongse’s meditative documentary portrait of Thailand’s railways.

RAILWAY SLEEPERS

Sompot Chidgasornpongse | 102 min | 2017

Stream THE LOAD at homeAn atmospheric suspense thriller/morality play set during the 1999 NATO bombing of Serbia.

THE LOAD

Ognjen Glavonić | 98 min | 2018

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

CLASSIC CINEMA

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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 BUNKER at homeA documentary study of “prepper” pathology and the new American dream of outliving a doomed planet.

BUNKER

Jenny Perlin | 90 min | 2021

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 DIESTE (URUGUAY) at homeAn inimitable survey of the work of Uruguayan architect and engineer Eladio Dieste.

DIESTE (URUGUAY)

Heinz Emigholz | 95 min | 2017

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 FILMFARSI at homeA cinematic excavation, revealing a vital and often risqué alternate history of Iranian film.

FILMFARSI

Ehsan Khoshbakht | 83 min | 2020

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 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 GOFF IN THE DESERT at homeEmigholz’s tribute to the trailblazing American architect Bruce Goff.

GOFF IN THE DESERT

Heinz Emigholz | 110 min | 2003

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 JUKE at homeAndersen’s idiosyncratic and enrapturing homage to pioneering African American filmmaker Spencer Williams.

JUKE

Thom Andersen | 30 min | 2015

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 LIGHT YEARS at homeAn intimate, illuminating chronicle of Argentine master filmmaker Lucrecia Martel.

LIGHT YEARS

Manuel Abramovich | 75 min | 2017

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 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 PARABETON: PIER LUIGI NERVI AND ROMAN CONCRETE at homeEmigholz’s study of Nervi, the poet of poured concrete.

PARABETON: PIER LUIGI NERVI AND ROMAN CONCRETE

Heinz Emigholz | 100 min | 2012

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 PERRET IN FRANCE AND ALGERIA at homeEmigholz’s biography/cultural history focuses on French architects and construction engineers Auguste and Gustave Perret.

PERRET IN FRANCE AND ALGERIA

Heinz Emigholz | 110 min | 2012

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 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 STREETSCAPES [DIALOGUE] at homeA dialogue drama plays out against a backdrop of Uruguayan buildings by Eladio Dieste, Julie Vilamajó, and Arno Brandlhuber.

STREETSCAPES [DIALOGUE]

Heinz Emigholz | 132 min | 2017

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 DEAD NATION at homeJude’s documentary-essay examines the rise of anti-Semitism in Romania prior to and during World War II.

THE DEAD NATION

Radu Jude | 83 min | 2017

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 THE HOTTEST AUGUST at homeA panoramic view of contemporary US society, anxious for an uncertain future.

THE HOTTEST AUGUST

Brett Story | 94 min | 2019

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 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 THE PRISON IN TWELVE LANDSCAPES at homeStory’s lauded breakthrough reveals the ripple effects of the American criminal justice and carceral systems from outside the prison walls.

THE PRISON IN TWELVE LANDSCAPES

Brett Story | 87 min | 2016

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 THE THOUGHTS THAT ONCE WE HAD at homeA playful and passionate personal journey through film history—and the history of the 20th century—by essay filmmaker extraordinaire Andersen.

THE THOUGHTS THAT ONCE WE HAD

Thom Andersen | 108 min | 2015

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 THE WORKS AND DAYS PT. 1 at homeAn epic hybrid documentary portrait about the matriarch of a family in a tiny mountain village in the prefecture of Kyoto, Japan.

THE WORKS AND DAYS PT. 1

C.W. Winter, Anders Edström | 102 min | 2020

Stream THE WORKS AND DAYS PT. 2 at homeAn epic hybrid documentary portrait about the matriarch of a family in a tiny mountain village in the prefecture of Kyoto, Japan.

THE WORKS AND DAYS PT. 2

C.W. Winter, Anders Edström | 102 min | 2020

Stream THE WORKS AND DAYS PT. 3 at homeAn epic hybrid documentary portrait about the matriarch of a family in a tiny mountain village in the prefecture of Kyoto, Japan

THE WORKS AND DAYS PT. 3

C.W. Winter, Anders Edström | 129 min | 2020

Stream THE WORKS AND DAYS PT. 4 at homeAn epic hybrid documentary portrait about the matriarch of a family in a tiny mountain village in the prefecture of Kyoto, Japan.

THE WORKS AND DAYS PT. 4

C.W. Winter, Anders Edström | 147 min | 2020

Stream TO THE MOON at homeA freewheeling visual essay that mines cinematic archives to contemplate Earth’s nearest neighbor.

TO THE MOON

Tadhg O'Sullivan | 76 min | 2021

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 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 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 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 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 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 TOWARDS MATHILDE at homeAn essential but lesser-known Claire Denis film, in which she documents the creation of a new dance work by Mathilde Monnier.

TOWARDS MATHILDE

Claire Denis | 84 min | 2005

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 SHAPE OF THINGS TO COME at homeAn elderly hermit living in the Sonora Desert faces a sudden intrusion in the form of border patrol agents.

A SHAPE OF THINGS TO COME

Lisa Malloy and J.P. Sniadecki | 77 min | 2020

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 BUNGALOW at homeKöhler’s slyly funny feature debut concerns a disaffected teen German soldier who returns to his countryside home.

BUNGALOW

Ulrich Köhler | 85 min | 2002

Stream DEAD SLOW AHEAD at homeA shipping freighter makes an uncertain voyage across the Atlantic.

DEAD SLOW AHEAD

Mauro Herce | 73 min | 2015

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 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 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 FORT BUCHANAN at homeA comic queer soap opera from Benjamin Crotty, in his audacious feature debut.

FORT BUCHANAN

Benjamin Crotty | 65 min | 2015

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 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 IN MY ROOM at homeA contemplative, deadpan comic film from the Berlin school filmmaker about the pleasures and perils of independence.

IN MY ROOM

Ulrich Köhler | 119 min | 2018

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 RAILWAY SLEEPERS at homeApichatpong regular Sompot Chidgasornpongse’s meditative documentary portrait of Thailand’s railways.

RAILWAY SLEEPERS

Sompot Chidgasornpongse | 102 min | 2017

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 SLOW MACHINE at homeAn unlikely encounter with an NYPD counter-terrorism expert leads an actress to flee to the upstate home of musician friend Eleanor Friedberger.

SLOW MACHINE

Paul Felten and Joe DeNardo | 72 min | 2020

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 THE AMERICAN SECTOR at homeA cockeyed history of the fall of the Berlin Wall that never leaves the United States.

THE AMERICAN SECTOR

Courtney Stephens and Pacho Velez | 69 min | 2020

Stream THE LOAD at homeAn atmospheric suspense thriller/morality play set during the 1999 NATO bombing of Serbia.

THE LOAD

Ognjen Glavonić | 98 min | 2018

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 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 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

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 WILCOX at homeA mysterious drifter embarks on a solitary voyage into the wilds of Quebec.

WILCOX

Denis Côté | 66 min | 2019

INTERNATIONAL ARTHOUSE

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 AFTERNOON at homeDirector Tsai sits with muse Lee Kang-sheng, discussing all manner of things professional and very personal.

AFTERNOON

Tsai Ming Liang | 137 min | 2015

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 AVA at homeMysius’s beautifully enigmatic feature debut follows a 13-year-old girl who learns she is about to lose her eyesight.

AVA

Sadaf Foroughi | 103 min | 2017

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 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 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 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 CHANGE OF LIFE at homeA landmark work of Portuguese cinema that tells the story of a young man’s return from abroad to his hometown fishing village in lyrical, neorealist style.

CHANGE OF LIFE

Paulo Rocha | 94 min | 1966

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 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 DIESTE (URUGUAY) at homeAn inimitable survey of the work of Uruguayan architect and engineer Eladio Dieste.

DIESTE (URUGUAY)

Heinz Emigholz | 95 min | 2017

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 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 GOFF IN THE DESERT at homeEmigholz’s tribute to the trailblazing American architect Bruce Goff.

GOFF IN THE DESERT

Heinz Emigholz | 110 min | 2003

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 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 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 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 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 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 INFINITE FOOTBALL at homeA hilariously deadpan documentary profile of a soccer obsessive, from one of the leading lights of the Romanian New Wave.

INFINITE FOOTBALL

Corneliu Porumboiu | 70 min | 2018

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 LIGHT YEARS at homeAn intimate, illuminating chronicle of Argentine master filmmaker Lucrecia Martel.

LIGHT YEARS

Manuel Abramovich | 75 min | 2017

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

O SANGUE

Pedro Costa | 95 min | 1989

Stream PARABETON: PIER LUIGI NERVI AND ROMAN CONCRETE at homeEmigholz’s study of Nervi, the poet of poured concrete.

PARABETON: PIER LUIGI NERVI AND ROMAN CONCRETE

Heinz Emigholz | 100 min | 2012

Stream PERRET IN FRANCE AND ALGERIA at homeEmigholz’s biography/cultural history focuses on French architects and construction engineers Auguste and Gustave Perret.

PERRET IN FRANCE AND ALGERIA

Heinz Emigholz | 110 min | 2012

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 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 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 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 STREETSCAPES [DIALOGUE] at homeA dialogue drama plays out against a backdrop of Uruguayan buildings by Eladio Dieste, Julie Vilamajó, and Arno Brandlhuber.

STREETSCAPES [DIALOGUE]

Heinz Emigholz | 132 min | 2017

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 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 POWER OF KANGWON PROVINCE at homeA man and a woman traveling through South Korea’s mountainous east are gradually revealed to be linked by the past.

THE POWER OF KANGWON PROVINCE

Hong Sangsoo | 110 min | 1998

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 TO THE MOON at homeA freewheeling visual essay that mines cinematic archives to contemplate Earth’s nearest neighbor.

TO THE MOON

Tadhg O'Sullivan | 76 min | 2021

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 TOWARDS MATHILDE at homeAn essential but lesser-known Claire Denis film, in which she documents the creation of a new dance work by Mathilde Monnier.

TOWARDS MATHILDE

Claire Denis | 84 min | 2005

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 | 100 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 VIRGIN STRIPPED BARE BY HER BACHELORS at homeA typically wry meditation from Hong on the vagaries of memory and the deceits of subjectivity.

VIRGIN STRIPPED BARE BY HER BACHELORS

Hong Sangsoo | 126 min | 2000

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

WINTER WIND

MIKLOS JANCSó | 80 min | 1969

Stream WOMAN ON THE BEACH at homeA creatively blocked filmmaker engages in an affair with the girlfriend of his friend and sometime collaborator at a coastal resort.

WOMAN ON THE BEACH

Hong Sangsoo | 127 min | 2006

LGBTQ+ VOICES

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 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 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 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 MURDER AND MURDER at homeRainer’s last feature is also one of her most personal, inspired by the lows and highs of a breast cancer diagnosis in the early 1990s, and the surprise of a burgeoning lesbian relationship.

MURDER AND MURDER

Yvonne Rainer | 113 min | 1997

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 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 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

AT HOME WITH...

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 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 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 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 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 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 THE HOTTEST AUGUST at homeA panoramic view of contemporary US society, anxious for an uncertain future.

THE HOTTEST AUGUST

Brett Story | 94 min | 2019

Stream THE GRIEF OF OTHERS at homeWang’s stirring and acutely observed drama of a tragedy-touched family’s inner life.

THE GRIEF OF OTHERS

Patrick Wang | 103 min | 2015

Stream TOWARDS MATHILDE at homeAn essential but lesser-known Claire Denis film, in which she documents the creation of a new dance work by Mathilde Monnier.

TOWARDS MATHILDE

Claire Denis | 84 min | 2005

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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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

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

ANOTHER LENS

BILL GUNN'S PERSONAL PROBLEMS

BRUNO DUMONT'S FRANCE

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

THE DIARIES OF JONAS MEKAS

ELECTRIC SYSTEMS: FIVE DOCUMENTARIES FROM JENNIFER BAICHWAL

ÉRIC ROHMER X 3

ETHNOGRAPHIC EYE

EUGÈNE GREEN X 2

THE FILMS OF EPHRAIM ASILI

THE FILMS OF SHIRLEY CLARKE

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 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 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 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 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

HEINZ EMIGHOLZ: ARCHITECTURE AS AUTOBIOGRAPHY

HOME AND AWAY

HONG SANGSOO FOCUS

JOANNA HOGG X 3

LATER DAYS

LINA WERTMÜLLER & HER BEAUTIES

NEXT OF KIN: FOUR FROM ATOM EGOYAN

PARK CHAN-WOOK'S VENGEANCE

PEDRO COSTA RESTORED

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

THREE BY PATRICK WANG

THREE BY PIETRO MARCELLO

THREE BY TSAI MING-LIANG

THREE FROM JEAN-LUC GODARD

TROUBLED WATERS: FOUR FROM GIANFRANCO ROSI

TWO BY BRETT STORY

YVONNE RAINER: A RETROSPECTIVE

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