The Connection
In a downtown loft, a group of junkies gather to wait for their connection... while a clueless documentarian attempts to film them. Clarke's film was banned on release and remains powerful and transgressive.
The Exiles
From dusk to dawn, a group of young Native Americans in Los Angeles, hang out, dance, drink, flirt, and remember life on the reservations they have left in this glistening black-and-white film.
Portrait of Jason
Shirley Clarke filmed gay actor, hustler, chanteuse Jason Holliday's 12-hour soliloquy, creating a documentary that Ingmar Bergman said was "the most extraordinary film I’ve seen in my life.”
Rocco and His Brothers
The tragedy of Luchino Visconti’s searing family drama is set in motion when brothers Rocco and Simone both fall in love with the mercurial Nadia. Presented by Martin Scorsese.
The Sorrow and the Pity
What did French people of do during WW II? Marcel Ophüls' Oscar-nominated documentary shattered the myth of an undivided and universally resistant France under the Vichy government.