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Sátántangó
Directed by Béla Tarr | 439 mins | 1994
A cinephile rite of passage, Tarr’s magnum opus immerses us in the world of about a dozen characters in a shuttered factory town who are visited by a messianic figure but are also distracted by their own eyebrow-raising personal missions. Creating a rich te... -
In Water
Directed by Hong Sangsoo | 61 mins | 2023
Do not adjust your set: the beguiling 29th film by Hong Sangsoo—who has distilled his art to the point of operating as virtually a one-man studio—was deliberately shot out of focus. This softly radical conceit mirrors the uncertainty of one of the central... -
In Our Day
Directed by Hong Sangsoo | 83 mins | 2023
The second of two films put out by the prolific Hong in 2023, following "In Water", "In Our Day" is a lightfooted diptych that drifts into existential territory. The tale of a recently single actress, played by Hong’s longtime “muse” Kim Min-hee, who’s st... -
Saturday Fiction
Directed by Lou Ye | 126 mins | 2019
"Suzhou River" (2000) director Lou Ye sets this Hitchcockian espionage thriller in December of 1941, on the cusp of the Pearl Harbor attack. At its center, the inimitable Gong Li as a Chinese movie star who returns to Japanese-occupied Shanghai in order to app... -
3 itemsDirected by Óliver Laxe
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Óliver Laxe has been admired by those with an interest in the mystical side of cinema and the curious compounds created through intermixing documentary and fiction since the appearance of "You Are All Captains" (2010), his feature debut, made in collaboration with students at a filmmaking worksho...
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4 itemsFilms by Nina Menkes
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Formally spare but texturally and symbolically sumptuous, the films of Nina Menkes possess a strange magic. Their languorous and sometimes hallucinatory tableaux, ranging from the North African desert of "The Great Sadness of Zohara" (1983) to the gaudy Vegas casino of "Queen of Diamonds" (1991),...
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6 itemsFilms by Henry Jaglom
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A relentlessly independent but deeply collaborative filmmaker, his sensibility forged first by study at the Actors’ Studio and then by enmeshment in New Hollywood, Henry Jaglom—who passed in September of 2025—mined the hopes and hang-ups of his bohemian-bourgeoisie milieu in raw, improvisation-le...
