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La Chinoise

La Chinoise

World Cinema · Drama

Director Jean-Luc Godard, whose advocacy of Maoism bordered on intoxication, infuriated many traditionalist critics with this swiftly paced satire. Disillusioned by their suburban lifestyles, a group of middle-class students, led by Guillaume (Jean-Pierre Leaud) and Veronique (Anne Wiazemsky), form …

Dogtooth

Dogtooth

Cannes Film Festival · Cult · Drama

Graceful, enigmatic, and often frightening, Dogtooth is an ingenious dark comedy that won the Un Certain Regard Prize at the 2009 Cannes Film Festival and an Oscar® nomination for Best Foreign Language Film, propelling Yorgos Lanthimos (Poor Things, The Favourite) to the forefront of contemporar…

A Farewell To Arms (1932)

A Farewell To Arms (1932)

Drama · Academy Award Winners · Based on Literature

An Academy Award nominee for Best Picture, A FAREWELL TO ARMS is a ravishing adaptation of Ernest Hemingway's legendary novel, starring Gary Cooper (High Noon) as Lt. Frederic Henry, a young ambulance driver for the Italian army in WWI, more interested in chasing women than the enemy. When seeking c…

The Lash of the Penitentes (Forbidden Fruit: The Golden Age of the Exploitation Picture, Vol 9)

The Lash of the Penitentes (Forbidden Fruit: The Golden Age of the Exploitation Picture, Vol 9)

Drama

Los Hermanos Penitentes celebrated Lent by enacting elaborate tableaus of flagellation, self-mutilation, and crucifixion. Envisioning the box-office potential of such a spectacle, cinematographer Roland Price shot several reels of footage of the rituals, then teamed with producer Harry Revier to fas…

From the Journals of Jean Seberg

From the Journals of Jean Seberg

Documentary

Mary Beth Hurt portrays Jean Seberg, as she is plucked from obscurity to star in Otto Preminger's Saint Joan, to the critical drubbing that followed, her resurrection as a star in Godard's Breathless and through her death in 1979.

The Front Page

The Front Page

National Film Registry

Raucous, irreverent, and remarkably funny, THE FRONT PAGE is a landmark in cinema history; a brilliantly orchestrated, high-speed satire that set the standard for the countless screwball comedies that followed in its wake.

The Godless Girl

The Godless Girl

Silent · Drama · Romance

A naive teenager leads a Godless Society at her high school and encourages her fellow students to “Kill the Bible.” A pious schoolmate organizes a mob to destroy her headquarters, resulting in the death of her comrade.

Miklós Jancsó Collection: The Round-Up, The Red and the White, The Confrontation, Winter Wind, Red Psalm, Electra, My Love

Miklós Jancsó Collection: The Round-Up, The Red and the White, The Confrontation, Winter Wind, Red Psalm, Electra, My Love

Drama

The first internationally recognized representative of modern Hungarian filmmaking, Miklós Jancsó's extraordinary works examined oppressive authority and the mechanics of power.

Nicholas Nickleby

Nicholas Nickleby

Drama

Based on Charles Dickens’s classic novel, Nicholas Nickleby tells the story of the eponymous young hero and his attempts to save his family and friends from the clutches of his greedy Uncle Ralph.

No Wave: The Underground Films of Beth B and Scott B

No Wave: The Underground Films of Beth B and Scott B

Drama

Emerging from the downtown art scene of a pre-gentrified 1970s New York, Beth B and Scott B crafted strikingly cinematic sci-fi and neo-noir thrillers that emblemized the alienation and spirit of rebellion fueling a generation of young creators.

The Olive Trees of Justice

The Olive Trees of Justice

Based on True Story · Cannes Film Festival · World Cinema

The first and only narrative feature by Oscar®-nominated American documentarian James Blue holds the dual distinctions of being the only French film to have been shot in Algeria during the Algerian War, and to have been the winner of the Prize of the Society of Film and Television Writers  …

Paracelsus

Paracelsus

World Cinema · Drama · Biography

A physician, alchemist, and spiritual guru, Paracelsus (1493-1541) was one of the most enigmatic figures in the history of science. And, like its subject, this 1943 film is shrouded in mystery, even though it was  directed by one of the supreme stylists of the German cinema: G.W. Pabst.

Peter Pan

Peter Pan

Family · Fantasy · Based on Literature

Herbert Brenon (Beau Geste) directed, James Wong Howe (The Thin Man) was cinematographer, Ernest Torrence (Tol'able David) made a gorgeously robust Captian Hook, and Anna May Wong was Tiger Lily. This 1924 film of James M. Barrie's timeless play retains all its period charm.

The Phantom of the Opera (Restored Version)

The Phantom of the Opera (Restored Version)

Cult · National Film Registry · Horror

This edition presents the 1929 theatrical version, restored from archival 35mm elements by Film Preservation Associates. It is highlighted by the Technicolor Bal Masque sequence (in which the Phantom interrupts the revelry wearing the scarlet robes of the Red Death), as well as meticulously hand-col…

Ponette

Ponette

Drama

A four-year-old girl tries to come to terms with the sudden death of her mother.

Silent Avant-Garde

Silent Avant-Garde

Avant Garde

SILENT AVANT-GARDE offers an essential collection of 21 short art film experiments in HD to 5K scans made from 35mm and 16mm picture elements.

A Star Is Born (1937)

A Star Is Born (1937)

Drama · Academy Award Winners · Academy Award Nominees

From maverick filmmaker William A. Wellman (The Public Enemy, Nothing Sacred) comes the original, timeless tale of Hollywood fantasy and heartbreak: A STAR IS BORN. Janet Gaynor stars as Esther Blodgett, a small-time girl who get a lucky break in Hollywood with help from movie star Norman Maine (Fre…

Steamboat Bill Jr. and College

Steamboat Bill Jr. and College

Drama · Action · Comedy

STEAMBOAT BILL, JR. was Buster Keaton’s last independent silent comedy and also one of his finest. He stars as the effete son of a gruff riverboat captain (Ernest Torrence), who struggles to earn his father’s respect (and the love of beautiful Marion Byron). But the film is best remember…

They Made Me A Fugitive

They Made Me A Fugitive

Film Noir

Director Alberto Cavalcanti (When the Day Went Well?) turns his sights on the London underworld in the engrossing Brit-Noir gangland drama THEY MADE ME A FUGITIVE.

Three Women

Three Women

Drama

Pauline Frederick and May McAvoy star as a mother and daughter who find themselves competing for the attention of George, a handsome opportist (Lew Cody) who yearns to lay hands on the women’s $3 million fortune.

Tih-Minh

Tih-Minh

Adventure · Silent · Mystery

The six-hour epic begins as adventure-seeker Jacques d’Athys returns to Nice from Indochina with his bride-to-be, Tih-Minh, and a cryptic book which provides clues to the whereabouts of hidden treasure.

Tous les Matins du Monde

Tous les Matins du Monde

Drama · Biography · Music & Dance

Monsieur de Sainte Colombe is reclusive composer who lives with his two beautiful daughters. Their lives are forever changed by the flamboyant young student Marin Marais who fascinates Colombe and entrances his daughters.

Women Who Run Hollywood

Women Who Run Hollywood

Documentary

In this four-film collection, Clara Kuperberg and Julia Kuperberg focus on those boundary-breaking women who, by force of enormous talent and sheer determination, broke the glass ceiling and established themselves as influential filmmakers within the male-dominated film industry.