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  • 35 Shots of Rum

    Directed by Claire Denis | 100 mins | 2008
    “It’s the best father-daughter movie I can think of. And it’s one of the greatest romances, too… The dance sequence to 'Night Shift' by the Commodores is not able to be described. We are witness to the most magical thing that can happen between two peopl...

  • 38

    Directed by Micaela Durand and Daniel Chew | 23 mins | 2021
    Vivid interruptions of sound and images fragment the psychic landscape of a 38-year-old woman who becomes obsessed with the social media presence of the young woman who broke up her relationship. The latest entry in Chew and Durand’s ong...

  • A Bigger Splash

    Directed by Jack Hazan | 106 mins | 1973
    Jack Hazan’s intimate and innovative film about English-born, often California-based artist David Hockney and his work honors its subject through creative risk-taking. The improvisatory narrative-nonfiction hybrid features Hockney—a wary participant—as wel...

  • A Laundry Day

    Directed by Johanna Makabi | 4 mins | 2022
    Serendipity strikes at a Harlem laundromat where Fatou, a French African woman, meets a handsome stranger, in this homage to the French New Wave tinged with political meditations on American society.

  • A Touch of Sin

    Leaving January 1

    Directed by Jia Zhangke | 130 mins | 2013
    Jia’s jarringly to-the-moment wuxia film, based on scandalous stories from around Mainland China circulated via Weibo posts, focuses on four individuals in four provinces pushed towards violence by rampant injustice—including one who re...

  • A Woman, a Part

    Directed by Elisabeth Subrin | 98 mins | 2016
    Sick of L.A. and sitcom success, actress and woman on the verge Anna Baskin (Maggie Siff) looks to reconnect with her roots in the New York theater scene. But the city offers no respite in this smart and restrained drama, the sole narrative feature by...

  • A Zed And Two Noughts

    Directed by Peter Greenaway | 115 mins | 1985
    After a freak accident involving a swan leaves two women dead and a third—Andrea Ferréol’s Alba—with just one leg, the twin zoologist widowers of the deceased become obsessed with decomposition, experimenting on animals and crafting time-lapse films o...

  • Air Doll

    Directed by Kore-eda Hirokazu | 116 mins | 2009
    A Tokyo waiter’s sex doll (Korean star Bae Doona) comes to life in this bittersweet modern fairy tale from the director of "Shoplifters" and "Nobody Knows." Her wide-eyed wanderings bring out the loneliness of the metropolis—shot by Hou Hsiao-hsien’...

  • All is Forgiven

    Directed by Mia Hansen-Løve | 98 mins | 2007
    Mia Hansen-Løve was only twenty-five when she directed one of the most striking and auspicious first features in 21st century French cinema, which finds the brisk economy of expression, nuanced characterization, and formal daring of her future films (F...

  • Alois Nebel

    Directed by Tomás Lunák | 97 mins | 2011
    Based on the trilogy of Czech graphic novels by Jaroslav Rudis and Jaromir 99, this black-and-white rotoscoped animation (of live-action footage) follows a train dispatcher tormented by his past. Set in 1989 when Communism ended in the soon-to-be-former Cz...

  • Around a Small Mountain

    Directed by Jacques Rivette | 86 mins | 2009
    Rivette’s swan song shows the French New Waver going out in typically playful style with a circus yarn starring the legendary Jane Birkin as a bohemian performer with a secret. A passing wanderer (Sergio Castellitto) is entranced by her family’s travel...

  • Asako I & II

    Directed by Ryusuke Hamaguchi | 119 mins | 2018
    Between the international breakthrough of 2015’s "Happy Hour" and the sensation that was 2021’s "Drive My Car," Hamaguchi produced this beguiling romance, concerning a young woman and her affairs with, first, a self-dramatizing young drifter, Baku, ...

  • Backbone Tale

    Directed by Jérémy Clapin | 9 mins | 2004
    Clapin’s first short is a game of Tetris as much as it is a love story. It centers on a man whose spine bends at a striking right angle: his eyes can gaze only downwards, his hat perched on the back of his head. The appearance of a woman whose back bends ...

  • Beast

    Directed by Benjamin Nicolas | 11 mins | 2021
    While the opening of this Expressionistic short film—depicting a perfunctory exchange between a rideshare driver and his passenger about Christmas shopping—gives little indication as to the direction it’s headed in, then the ominous title is rather mo...

  • Beeswax

    Directed by Andrew Bujalski | 100 mins | 2009
    One of the acclaimed writer-director’s unsung gems is a casually nuanced portrait in contrasts between twenty-something twin sisters, Jeannie and Lauren, in Austin, Texas. While Jeannie (who’s paraplegic) keeps a steely eye on her vintage shop, Lauren...

  • Blonde Cobra

    Directed by Ken Jacobs | 34 mins | 1963
    In Blonde Cobra, dubbed “the masterpiece of Baudelairean cinema” by Jonas Mekas, Jacobs turns his camera on fellow underground icon Jack Smith. Screening as part of a selection of five experimental shorts from the Brooklyn-born Jacobs, one of the most wildl...

  • Blondes in the Jungle

    Directed by Lev Kalman and Whitney Horn | 48 mins | 2009
    As much inspired by "Degrassi Junior High" (1987-1991) as Warhol’s "Lonely Cowboys" (1968), Kalman and Horn’s kaleidoscopic 1987-set first feature has the titular blondes, a trio of heedless teens, plunge into the Honduran jungle in search ...

  • Boyfriends and Girlfriends

    Directed by Éric Rohmer | 103 mins | 1987
    Rohmer uses the amorous misadventures of two girlfriends in the Paris suburbs to test the old proverb “les amis de mes amis sont mes amis” (“the friends of my friends are my friends”) in the final episode of his “Comedies and Proverbs” series. Taking an i...

  • Caged Heat

    Directed by Jonathan Demme | 80 mins | 1974
    Among Corman’s hall-of-fame stable of writers and directors was Demme, who offers a more humorous (but still titillating) take on the women-in-prison genre here in his directorial debut. The inmates fend off the abuses by the warden (Barbara Steele) and...

  • Carl Ruggles' Christmas Breakfast

    Directed by Carolee Schneemann | 9 mins | 1963
    In her first video work, Schneemann crafts an impressionistic portrait of another fearlessly provocative multidisciplinary artist: the eponymous Ruggles, best known for his dissonant, ultramodernist compositions and his lacerating tongue. Blotches of...

  • Cemetery of Splendour

    Directed by Apichatpong Weerasethakul | 122 mins | 2015
    Weaving together Thailand’s rich fundament of supernatural mythology and its often troubled national history, Apichatpong crafts a bewitching and seductive cinematic idyll, in which comatose soldiers suffering from a mysterious sleeping sick...

  • Christmas Inventory

    Directed by Miguel Gomes | 22 mins | 2000
    In this early work by the beloved and formally daring Portuguese auteur, the portrayal of a multi-generational Yuletide family gathering gives way to documentation of the season’s chintzy and charming accouterments: tinsel twinkles, baubles bob, and a Spi...

  • Claire's Camera

    Directed by Hong Sangsoo | 68 mins | 2017
    Isabelle Huppert re-teams with the Korean master for a light-footed comedy about a Polaroid-wielding schoolteacher visits Cannes and befriends a newly jobless woman (Kim Minhee). Their quick friendship sheds light on the meddlesome reasons for her firing,...

  • Colette and Justin

    Directed by Alain Kassanda | 89 mins | 2022
    “How do you make a film from the oppressor’s archives?” In Kassanda’s documentary, familial bonds anchor a historical investigation: the Kinshasa-born, Paris-based director probes the colonial history of Congo and its journey to independence, interweavi...