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Knit's Island
Movie
Directed by Ekiem Barbier, Guilhem Causse, and Quentin L’Helgouac’h | 97 mins | 2023
Filmed entirely within a post-apocalyptic online game, this pioneering documentary visits with zombie-hunting players to ask them about their life philosophies. The conversations are alternately profound, silly, ... -
Daring Motion: The Films of Mark Lee Ping-bing
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Best known for his long creative partnership with Hou Hsiao-hsien, which has produced 10 features all remarkable for their graceful camera movement and a seductive, lustrous glow that imbues both scenes of quotidian contemporary life and opulent period pieces, Taiwanese-born Mark Lee Ping-bing ha...
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Zama
Directed by Lucrecia Martel | 115 mins | 2017
A scruffy bureaucrat for the Spanish crown hopelessly angles for ways to get ahead in this audacious vision of 18th-century colonial empire, adapted from Antonio de Benedetto’s 1956 novel of the same name. Don Diego’s anti-epic progress in a far-flung... -
Go Down Death
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Directed by Aaron Schimberg | 88 mins | 2013
Schimberg’s uncanny debut feature is a handcrafted American Gothic pastiche that’s like sitting in on hidden scenes from the 19th century. Lost soldiers, ghosts and lovers, schoolhouse lessons and cabaret songs—these dispatches from the past possess th... -
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... -
Typhoon Club
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Directed by Shinji Sômai | 115 mins | 1985
Emotionally raw, enormously tender and, finally, tentatively hopeful, Sômai’s breakthrough film—winner of the Grand Prix at the first Tokyo International Film Festival—observes a group of provincial junior high students who find themselves forced to take... -
Son of the White Mare
Directed by Marcell Jankovics | 86 mins | 1981
Spun from a wild Hungarian folk tale, Jankovics’s recently restored feature plays out the epic journey into the underworld undertaken by three heroes named Treeshaker, Stonecrumbler, and Irontemperer. A glowing, full spectrum of color and free interm... -
Boyfriends and Girlfriends
Movie
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... -
The French
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Directed by William Klein | 130 mins | 1982
“For me, this film encapsulates everything I loved and love about the tennis of that moment; and in the hands of the great and singular William Klein, it is at once a gripping sports page, a fascinating piece of reportage, and a work of art.”—Wes Ande...