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Bill Traylor: Chasing Ghosts

Documentary · Art Documentaries

This illuminating documentary tells the incredible story of Bill Traylor, a former slave who turned to drawing at age 85, creating colorful, strikingly modernist work that eventually led him to be recognized as one of America’s greatest self-taught artists and the subject of a Smithsonian retr…

Boy

Sundance Film Festival · Comedy · World Cinema

Set on the east coast of New Zealand in the year 1984, an 11-year-old kid and devout Michael Jackson fan gets a chance to know his father, who has returned to find a bag of money he buried years ago. An international hit from acclaimed writer/director Taika Waititi (Flight of the Conchords, The Inbe…

Film, the Living Record of Our Memory

Documentary · Film Documentaries

This documentary argues for the importance of film preservation through the voices of archivists, curators, technicians, and filmmakers who have contributed to making sure moving images survive and remain accessible.

Free Radicals: A History of Experimental Film

Documentary · Avant Garde · Art Documentaries

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…

Great Directors

Documentary · Art Documentaries

Ten of the greatest filmmakers in the world passionately discuss their craft in Angela Ismailos' hugely entertaining documentary GREAT DIRECTORS. Bernardo Bertolucci, David Lynch, Stephen Frears, Agnes Varda, Ken Loach, Liliana Cavani, Todd Haynes, Catherine Breillat, Richard Linklater and John Say…

The Grey Fox

Period Drama · Western · Drama

After decades in prison, stagecoach robber Bill Miner (Richard Farnsworth) emerges in 1901 a free man without a place in 20th century society…until he sees The Great Train Robbery and is inspired to once again do what he does best.

Momma's Man

Sundance Film Festival · RT Certified Fresh · American Independent

One of the most acclaimed films of this year's Sundance Film Festival, Azazel Jacobs' third feature is both a tribute to his parents (and to the lost New York of his childhood) and an acutely perceptive, deeply personal take on a universal experience: the fear of growing up.

On Meditation

Documentary · Buddhism · Spirituality

ON MEDITATION explores the deeply personal practice of meditation through an exploration of extraordinary people and their practices including David Lynch, Giancarlo Esposito, Russell Simmons, Congressman Tim Ryan, Peter Matthiessen, Mark Epstein and others.

Oscar Micheaux: The Complete Collection

Silent · Musical · Drama

This essential collection features 17 films, including seven new restorations, by the prolific independent director whose pioneering explorations of contemporary Black life paved the way for generations. Presented in partnership with the Library of Congress.

Scarlet Street (4KUHD)

4K UHD DISC · Film Noir · Crime

When middle-aged milquetoast Chris Cross (Edward G. Robinson) rescues street-walking bad girl Kitty (Joan Bennett) from the rain slicked gutters of Greenwich Village, he plunges headlong into a whirlpool of lust, larceny, and revenge. SCARLET STREET is Fritz Lang's 1945 remake of Jean Renoir's 1931 …

Sorry We Missed You

Cannes Film Festival · tiff · Drama

The British working class is once again the empathetic subject of Ken Loach’s Sorry We Missed You, a wrenching, intimate family drama that exposes the dark side of the so-called “gig economy”.

The Unmaking of a College

Documentary · Politics

In The Unmaking of a College, students at Hampshire College in Amherst, Massachusetts confront their new president’s underhanded attempt to shut down the school and discover powerful machinations at work.

The Wanderers

Musical · Cult · Period Drama

Based on the acclaimed first novel by Richard Price (The Night Of), Philip Kaufman's The Wanderers follows the exploits of the eponymous Italian-American gang in the Bronx in 1963, just before the country underwent profound change.  New 2K restoration!