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3 itemsDirected by Claire Denis
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From the suburbs of Paris to the shores of Tahiti, this trio of films epitomizes the sensuous, elliptical style that undergirds Claire Denis’s reputation as one of the finest filmmakers of her generation. In her intimate worlds, family ties are deep but fraught, old wounds never quite close up, a...
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5 itemsDirected by Mary Stephen
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By the age of 25, the peripatetic Mary Stephen had already circled the globe: born in British Hong Kong, immersed in cinephilia during her studies at Montreal’s Concordia University (then Loyola), Stephen went on to establish herself in the film industry upon relocating to Paris, where she would ...
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4 itemsDirected by Tsai Ming-liang
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For the past 35 years, director Tsai has distinguished himself as one of the most tirelessly brilliant filmmakers in the world with his achingly empathetic, beautifully crafted films about love, longing, sex, and urban alienation, the through line between them his subtly expressive muse, Lee Kang...
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Center Stage
Directed by Stanley Kwan | 154 mins | 1991
One of the brightest stars of the Golden Age of Hong Kong cinema pays tribute to a predecessor from pre-revolutionary Chinese cinema, as Maggie Cheung passionately embodies Ruan Lingyu (1910-1935), the silent screen icon who committed suicide when hounde... -
Mayor
Directed by David Osit | 89 mins | 2020
Winner of a 2022 Peabody Award, this gripping and surprisingly droll portrait of Musa Hadid during his second term as the mayor of Ramallah, the de facto Palestinian capital, is equally a portal into the Israel-Palestine conflict just prior to the genocidal... -
The Pillow Book
Directed by Peter Greenaway | 126 mins | 1995
Made from animal skins, parchment has been used as a medium for language since ancient times; in Peter Greenaway’s sumptuous, Hong Kong–set fabulation, the human body is the preferred site of expression, and the act of inscription an erotic rite. Vivi... -
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’... -
Mädchen in Uniform
Directed by Géza von Radványi | 91 mins | 1958
Leaving aside the portrayals of royals that had been her breakthrough, Romy Schneider ventured into more risqué territory with this story of Sapphic desire bubbling up in a Potsdam boarding school—the second silver screen adaptation of Christa Winslo... -
Morvern Callar
Directed by Lynne Ramsay | 98 mins | 2002
A sensory odyssey packed into an intimate story of love, death, and theft, Lynne Ramsay’s second feature stays close to its impossibly distant title character, played with a transfixing inscrutability by Samantha Morton. Passing off the work of her suicid...
