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The Adventures of Biffle and Shooster

Slapstick · Comedy

America's favorite fake 1930s comedy team is back in four all-new, all-different, all-hilarious shorts: "The Biffle Murder Case," "Imitation of Wife," "Schmo Boat" (in Cinecolor!) and the instant-classic horror spoof "Bride of Finklestein" (featuring Max Davidson in his talkie comeback). Starring Ni…

The Bitch

Drama · Romance

Film and television icon Joan Collins (TV’s Dynasty, The Stud) reprises her role as the beautiful Fontaine, a high-living, pleasure-seeking divorcee who meets her match in the first class cabin on a flight to London.

Bodies, Rest & Motion

Drama · Romance

Bridget Fonda, Tim Roth, Phoebe Cates, and Eric Stoltz star in this left-field Gen-X romantic dramedy that harkens back to the anti-establishment cinema of the previous generation…fittingly, Easy Rider’s Peter Fonda makes a cameo appearance.

Charlotte Rampling: The Look

Art Documentaries · Documentary · Film Documentaries

THE LOOK features Charlotte Rampling in a series of reflective conversations with artists, friends, and one-time collaborators such as novelist Paul Auster and photographers Peter Lindbergh and Juergen Teller, revealing the personality and philosophies of one of our most iconic screen stars.

The Cherry Orchard

Based on Literature · Period Drama · World Cinema

Anton Chekhov’s THE CHERRY ORCHARD is the timeless story of an aristocratic Russian family torn apart by buried secrets and changing times. Stars Alan Bates and Charlotte Rampling.

Deceptive Practice: The Mysteries and Mentors of Ricky Jay

Art Documentaries · Documentary

DECEPTIVE PRACTICE traces Jay's achievements and influences, from his apprenticeship at age 4 with his grandfather, to such now-forgotten legends as Al Flosso, Slydini, Cardini and his primary mentors, Dai Vernon and Charlie Miller.

Desperate Souls, Dark City and the Legend of Midnight Cowboy

Documentary · Film Documentaries

This is not a documentary about the making of Midnight Cowboy: it is about the deeply gifted and flawed people behind a dark and difficult masterpiece; New York City in a troubled time of cultural ferment; and the era that made a movie and the movie that made an era.

The Draughtsman's Contract

Drama

A young artist is commissioned by the wife of a wealthy landowner to make a series of drawings of the estate while her husband is away.

Early Russian Cinema, Vol. 7: Evgeni Bauer

Drama · Silent · Comedy

These three films by the magnificent and macabre Evgeni Bauer reveal the distinctive eroticism and dark melodrama of early Russian cinema.

The Edge of the World

Drama · Romance

Two families living on a remote island off of Scotland are torn asunder by a race between their sons in this thrilling romantic drama from director Michael Powell (The Red Shoes, Stairway to Heaven).

Escape To Life: The Erica & Klaus Mann Story

“Escape to Life: The Erika and Klaus Mann Story” is the result of a remarkable pairing between fiction and non-fiction filmmakers Wieland Speck and Andrea Weiss. It depicts another remarkable relationship, between Erika and Klaus Mann, the brilliant eldest children of German author Thoma…

F.T.A.

Documentary · War · Comedy

In 1971, at the height of the Vietnam War, Jane Fonda and Donald Sutherland toured an anti-war comedy show across Southeast Asia. Despite being highly controversial, it was a huge success among stationed soldiers. Out of circulation and difficult to see for decades, F.T.A. has now been fully restore…

Free Radicals: A History of Experimental Film

Art Documentaries · Avant Garde · Documentary

This documentary provides a vivid introduction to one of the most important, yet perpetually marginalized, realms of filmmaking: Avant-garde cinema. In its exploration of this expansive domain, FREE RADICALS privileges rare interviews with filmmakers in the avant-garde tradition and includes several…

Galileo

Drama · Theatre

Based on the play by Bertolt Brecht (originally translated by Charles Laughton), GALILEO explores not merely the infamous historical figure, but the philosophical concepts for which he was both celebrated and condemned.

Gorky Park

Thriller · Mystery · Drama

When three murder victims are discovered in Moscow’s Gorky Park detective Arkady Renko is determined to identify the bodies and find the killer. But when the clues point toward the involvement of the KGB, Renko is hunted by the secret police and confronted by an intricate web of deception and …

The Gospel of Eureka

Documentary

Love, faith and civil rights collide in a southern town as evangelical Christians and drag queens step into the spotlight to dismantle stereotypes in this documentary narrated by Mx Justin Vivian Bond.

Happy Times

Action · Comedy · Jewish Interest

A seemingly friendly dinner party erupts into a night of violence and terror at a lush Hollywood estate.

The Homecoming

Theatre

A professor returns home after a long absence to introduce his wife to his father and two brothers, but the family reunion has unexpected and disturbing consequences. Based on one of Harold Pinter's greatest plays.

Household Saints

Drama · Religion · Romance

Nancy Savoca’s chronicle of a spirited Italian-American New York family boasts memorable performances from Vincent D’Onofrio, Tracey Ullman, Lili Taylor, and Michael Imperioli, and showcases a unique voice in 1990s independent filmmaking.

I Am Chris Farley

Documentary · Biography

Chris Farley lived his life full speed and committed to make everyone around him laugh out loud. His hilarious, touching and wildly entertaining story - from his early days in Madison, Wisconsin, through his work at the legendary Second City to his rapid rise to the top of the comedy world on &ldquo…

The Jewish Soul: Classics of Yiddish Cinema

Period Drama · Jewish Interest · Drama

Too often segregated within an academic and cultural niche, Yiddish cinema is in fact a varied and vibrant genre ripe for reappraisal. Whether shot in the fields of Poland or makeshift studios in Manhattan, Yidishe Kino endure not only as precious documents of a vanishing culture, but a fascinating …

Killer's Moon

Horror · Cult

An important film in the evolution of “video nasties” (especially violent films that brought about stricter censorship in the UK in the early 1980s), KILLER'S MOON sets a quartet of drug-addled psychopaths against a group of vacationing schoolgirls.

King: A Filmed Record...Montgomery to Memphis

Documentary · National Film Registry · Historic Drama

King: A Filmed Record...from Montgomery to Memphis is the landmark 3-hr documentary that chronicles the life and work of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., from the beginnings of the Civil Rights movement in Montgomery, Alabama, and culminating with his assassination in Memphis in 1968. Academy Award nomi…

Love, Sweat & Tears

Documentary

Death, taxes, and menopause are unavoidable facts of life. Love, Sweat & Tears is a groundbreaking, inspiring, and humorous look at a long-taboo subject that will impact both women and men during their lifetimes.

Lucky Grandma

Crime · Comedy

In New York City, an ornery, chain-smoking Chinese Grandma (Tsai Chin) goes all in at the casino, landing herself on the wrong side of luck… and in the middle of a Chinatown gang war.

Michael

Drama · Silent · LGBTQ

Danish film master Carl Theodor Dreyer's homoerotic classic Michael is a mature and visually elegant period romance decades ahead of its time.

The Mill and the Cross

Fine Art · Period Drama · Culture

Inspired by Pieter Bruegel's "The Way to Calvary," visionary director Lech Majewski creates a brilliantly complex and fascinating multi-layered dreamscape that melds art, history, and religion with the quotidian joys and struggles of ordinary people.

Molly's Theory of Relativity

Drama · Comedy

Jeff Lipsky creates a funny and beautifully idiosyncratic portrait of a 28-year-old unem- ployed astrophysicist about to make the most reckless deci- sion of her life. The family and friends that surround her - some real, dead, and possibly imaginary, come and go asMolly observes the unbreakable bon…

Mythic Journeys

Meditation · Spirituality

Every human being has asked the questions: who am I, what is my purpose, why am I here? The answers are in the sustaining allegories of myths that have been passed from generation to generation. With gorgeous stop-motion animation by the creators of The Dark Crystal and Labyrinth and stimulating int…

Oh, Canada

Drama

Paul Schrader and Richard Gere reunite more than 40 years after American Gigolo in this moving portrait of an aging artist telling his life story, unfiltered, before it’s too late.

Out 1

Drama · Cult

Jacques Rivette's Out 1 has been practically impossible to see for more than forty years. Both the complete 8-part series, Out 1: noli me tangere (1971), and the shorter theatrical version, Out 1: Spectre (1974), are offered here in newly restored 2K presentations supervised by the films director of…

People of the Wind

Documentary · History · World Cinema

A nominee for Oscars® and Golden Globes alike, PEOPLE OF THE WIND documents the famous Bakhtiari migration, a 200-mile journey made twice every year by 500,000 Iranian nomads and their animals.

Radical Wolfe

Documentary

This illuminating look at Tom Wolfe follows his journey from beat reporter at the Washington Post to overnight sensation as the leader of the New Journalism movement and author of major works like The Right Stuff, The Bonfire of the Vanities, and A Man in Full.

The Romantic Englishwoman

Drama · World Cinema · Comedy

A sly, sophisticated love story that is a showcase for its two Oscar-winning stars: Michael Caine and Glenda Jackson.With a sparklingly witty screenplay from Academy Award-winner Tom Stoppard (Shakespeare in Love), and directed by Joseph Losey, THE ROMANTIC ENGLISHWOMAN is a wildly entertaining ride…

Scare Us

Anthology · Horror

A writers’ club local bookstore meeting is underscored with the news that an infamous serial killer is back to terrorize their small town.

Scavenger Hunt

Comedy

It’s a mad, mad mob of maniacs in a wild and hilarious $200,000,000 winner-takes-all Scavenger Hunt! The nutty and newly-departed millionaire’s will was specific: his fifteen would-be heirs are to participate in a highly-unusual Scavenger Hunt and whoever finds all the items first, wins …

Sleep

Thriller · Horror · World Cinema

Dreams and reality collide in this ambitious, unsettling psychological thriller that tackles the horrors of Germany’s past.  A flight attendant suffers a breakdown after experiencing demonic nightmares. Her resourceful daughter visits the aptly named village of Stainbach where her comatos…

The Sorrow and the Pity

History · Documentary · War

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.

Stay

Story charts the course of a relationship between a young woman (Taylor Schilling, Orange is the New Black) and a disgraced middle-aged professor (Aidan Quinn). The couple's relationship is upended by an unexpected pregnancy, which forces both characters to confront

Successive Slidings of Pleasure

Sexuality · Cult · Erotic

A cult erotic drama from the perverse imagination of Alain Robbe-Grillet, SUCCESSIVE SLIDINGS OF PLEASURE delves into the twisted mind of a young woman suspected in the stabbing death of her roommate Nora. Imprisoned in a convent, the girl's seductive wiles hypnotize the cops and clerics that surrou…

Sushi: The Global Catch

Documentary · Environment · Food & Wine

Blue Fin Tuna is a valuable commodity that faces potential extinction due to the explosion in the popularity of sushi worldwide. Once a Japanese delicacy, today the consumption of sushi represents a four billion dollar industry. Is the current sushi trade sustainable? What can be done to ensure that…

Suspicion

Thriller

A powerfully tense remake of the Alfred Hitchcock classic, this British production of SUSPICION boasts a dynamic cast, making it a worthy descendent of the original.

Taqwacore: The Birth of Punk Islam

Music & Dance · Art Documentaries · Documentary

This documentary chronicles the nascent Muslim punk rock movement in America. The film follows The Taqwacores (a term combining the Muslim concept of God consciousness with hardcore punk), and charts their brave, foolish, and often exhilarating attempts to navigate the gap between their cultures and…

A Taste of Phobia

Horror

A horror anthology in which 14 directors delve into the terrifying truths and horrors of phobias.

Tehilim

Family · World Cinema

From director Raphael Nadjari. In contemporary Jerusalem, an average middle class Jewish family balances the rituals of family, friends, religion and workaday life. But when middle-aged father and husband Eli (Shmuel Vilozni) unaccountably vanishes after a fluke car accident, the ensuing legal and e…

Test Pattern

Drama · Thriller

Winner of top prizes at the BlackStar and New Orleans Film Festivals, this gripping social thriller centers on a Black woman and her white boyfriend as they seek care following a sexual assault, offering a unique exploration of institutional racism and sexism from a Black female point of view.

Thousand Pieces of Gold

Western · Period Drama · Romance

Set in a mining town in the 1880s, Thousand Pieces of Gold tells the real-life story of Lalu (Rosalind Chao), a young Chinese woman whose desperately poor parents sell her into slavery. She is trafficked to a nefarious saloonkeeper in Idaho's gold country. Eventually Charlie (Chris Coope…

The Werewolf of Washington (Director's Cut)

Horror · Comedy

The Werewolf of Washington is a biting satire that savagely attacks beltway politics while paying playful  homage to the wolfman pictures of the past.

Whores' Glory

Documentary

WHORES' GLORY, the third film in Michael Glawogger's globalization trilogy (following MEGACITIES, WORKINGMAN'S DEATH), is an explicit and unflinching exposé of global prostitution. Glawogger's latest larger-than-life documentary is an audacious, non-judgmental study of sexuality, politics, hu…