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La Chinoise

Drama · World Cinema

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 …

Down Down the Deep River

Down Down The Deep River marks the directorial debut of Will Sheff, lead singer and songwriter for Okkervil River. Shot in Sheff’s hometown over one year with local non-actors, the dreamy, dialogue-free short film is a story of childhood, imagination, alienation, and loss.

Down a Dark Stairwell

Documentary

A Chinese-American police officer kills an unarmed Black man in a dark stairwell of a New York City housing project, igniting a complicated fight for accountability and justice.

Fanny

World Cinema

FANNY is the second part of Marcel Pagnol’s classic trilogy following the loves and losses of a Marseille port community. Actor and director Daniel Auteuil (The Well-Digger’s Daughter) has faithfully and beautifully recreated the grand emotions of this beloved text. Following the events …

Hold Me Tight

Cannes Film Festival · Drama · RT Certified Fresh

Vicky Krieps (Phantom Thread) gives another riveting performance as a woman on the run from her family for mysterious reasons in Mathieu Amalric’s most ambitious directorial outing to date.

I Was, I Am, I Will Be

Romance · Drama · World Cinema

After a Kurdish gigolo and an airline pilot meet at a Turkish resort, their lives change in unexpected ways. Given the opportunity to study and work in Germany, Baran moves from a troubled past to a complicated present, with the prospect of a promising future not far from his grasp. Meanwhile, his m…

I've Heard the Mermaids Singing

Comedy · Cannes Film Festival · LGBTQ

Patricia Rozema’s charming, whimsical story about a waifish daydreamer with artistic aspirations is structured around a video-recorded confession and won the Prix de la Jeunesse at the 1987 Cannes Film Festival.

Last Step Down

The recent revival of interest in 1970s grindhouse cinema has unearthed some bizarre and seedy films, but none are as shamelessly exploitive as these two entries in the softcore horror genre. THE LAST STEP DOWN observes the initiation of several voluptuous young women into a satanic cult. With its z…

Let It Come Down: The Life of Paul Bowles

One of the most enigmatic artists of the 20th century, writer, composer and wanderer Paul Bowles (1910–1999) is profiled by a filmmaker who has been obsessed with his genius since age nineteen. Set against the dramatic landscape of North Africa, the mystery of Bowles (famed author of The Shelt…

Marius

World Cinema

Writers Daniel Auteuil ((adaptation)) and Marcel Pagnol ((based on the writings of)) Directed by Daniel Auteuil

Naked Acts

Comedy · Drama

Celebrated as a key film in the canon of Black independent cinema of the 1990s, Bridgett M. Davis’s Naked Acts tells the story of an aspiring actor who has just landed her first major role, but must overcome her fear of disrobing in public when she learns it requires a nude scene.

Nuit #1

Erotic · Drama · World Cinema

Anne Émond's striking feature film debut is a daring examination of a one-night stand. Clara and Nikolaï meet at a rave. They return to Nikolaï's apartment and frantically make love. Afterwards, instead of parting, the two lovers divulge their deepest secrets to one another.

Pin-Down Girl

Crime · Drama

No films better represent the “mainstreaming” of exploitation than GIRL GANG and PIN-DOWN GIRL, and no actor was more suited to such low-grade potboilers than deadpan baritone Timothy Farrell. PIN-DOWN GIRL stars Peaches Page as a woman caught in the vice-riddled world of female wr…

Poison

Drama

Inspired by the writings of Jean Genet, Poison deftly interweaves trio of transgressive tales-“Hero,” “Horror” and “Homo”-that build toward a devastating climax.

Rapt

Thriller · World Cinema

Nominated for four Cesar Awards (including Best Film, Best Director and Best Actor), Lucas Belvaux's edge-of-your-seat thriller -- inspired by the 1978 kidnapping of French industrialist Edouard-Jean Empain -- features a career-defining performance by Yvan Attal (Munich, My Wife Is an Actress) as a …

Thousand Pieces of Gold

Romance · Period Drama · Historic Drama

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…