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  • Four by Nathan Silver

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    The glorious chaos of life bubbles right at the surface of Nathan Silver’s unpredictable sketches of human comedy. His idiosyncratic microbudget movies show people unraveling and regrouping and setting each other off as they search for what’s missing from their lives. Their ro...

  • Corpses, Fools and Monsters

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    On the occasion of their illuminating new book, "Corpses, Fools and Monsters: The History and Future of Transness in Cinema," authors Willow Catelyn Maclay and Caden Mark Gardner guest-curate a series of invigorating works that excavate political potential and thoughtful aesth...

  • Three by Nuri Bilge Ceylan

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    Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s movies entice with their gorgeous Turkish landscapes—all rolling hills and golden light—and that enchantment then primes us to delve into his landscapes of the soul. A proud humanist of the old school, Ceylan tells stories of longing, guilt, and introspecti...

  • Around a Small Mountain

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    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...

  • Dream Life

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    Directed by Mireille Dansereau | 85 mins | 1972
    The first female-directed narrative fiction feature to come out of Quebec, Dansereau’s sensual and beguiling Dream Life centers on Isabelle and Virginie (Liliane Lemaître-Auger and Véronique Le Flaguais), two single young women w...

  • Exit Elena

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    Directed by Nathan Silver | 72 mins | 2012
    One of the great under-the-radar debuts, Silver’s sly comedy drops a twenty-something nursing aide (Kia Davis) into a suburban house where her kibitzing employer—played by the director’s scene-stealing mom—keeps drawing her into drama...

  • Funeral Parade of Roses

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    Directed by Toshio Matsumoto | 105 mins | 1969
    Part of the storied output of Japan’s radical Art Theatre Guild, Matsumoto’s dazzling voyage through Tokyo’s Shinjuku neighborhood centers on two gender-nonconforming divas at “Bar Genet” but also doubles as a record of Japan’s av...

  • Last Things

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    Directed by Deborah Stratman | 49 mins | 2023
    In the artist and experimental film essayist Deborah Stratman’s scintillating latest work, life on earth—all the way through to its projected extinction—is envisioned from the perspective of rocks. Fusing hard science with speculat...

  • Neighboring Sounds

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    Directed by Kleber Mendonça Filho | 131 mins | 2012
    Mendonça Filho’s entrancing debut feature tunes into the anxious frequencies of middle-class residents on a quiet seaside street in sunny Recife, Brazil, where a private security firm has been hired to go on patrol. The commu...

  • Once Upon a Time in Anatolia

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    Directed by Nuri Bilge Ceylan | 157 mins | 2011
    Against the majestic Turkish countryside, a roaming police investigation reveals more about the investigators and the tragicomedies of everyday life than about the foggy facts of the case. Ceylan’s gorgeously shot, masterfully pa...

  • Our Beloved Month of August

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    Directed by Miguel Gomes | 147 mins | 2008
    Gomes’s magical mystery tour through the rich pageant of summertime Portugal blurs fiction and documentary as it chronicles a traveling family pop band, interviews with an array of folks in the country, and a fragile fictional love st...

  • P. P. Rider

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    Directed by Shinji Sômai | 118 mins | 1983
    Adapted from a story by Leonard Schrader—yes, Paul’s brother—"P.P. Rider" is a cheeky, playful, and consistently surprising adventure yarn about three young friends who, having witnessed the kidnapping of their school bully, set out o...

  • Soft in the Head

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    Directed by Nathan Silver | 70 mins | 2013
    Twenty-five-year-old force of nature Natalia escapes a bruising relationship and lands like a tornado touching down in the lives of a best friend and a kindly shelter manager. Silver’s feel for the helter-skelter of existence and its ...

  • Stinking Heaven

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    Directed by Nathan Silver | 70 mins | 2015
    A group home for recovering addicts teeters into cult-like territory in Silver’s hot-house drama, starring a dream team of micro-indie talent including Keith Poulson, Deragh Campbell, and Eleonore Hendricks. Shot on analog video and s...

  • The Great Pretender

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    Directed by Nathan Silver | 71 mins | 2018
    When a French theater director (Maëlle Poesy-Guichard) comes to New York to direct an autobiographical play about her disastrous last relationship, a chain reaction of romantic escapades is set off by her two stars (Esther Garrel and ...

  • The Plagiarists
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    The Plagiarists

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    Directed by Peter Parlow | 76 mins | 2019
    A deadpan auto-critique of the clichés of a soppily sincere American “indie” film, distinctively shot on a vintage television news camera and co-written by Wilkins and Robin Schavoir, The Plagiarists, a playful, provocative satire, dep...

  • The Queen

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    Directed by Frank Simon | 68 mins | 1968
    Welcome to the 1967 Miss All-American Camp Beauty Pageant, held at New York’s Town Hall! Simon’s essential document of queer history takes us backstage to rehearsals and dressing rooms at a drag competition organized by Flawless Sabrina...

  • The Wild Pear Tree

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    Directed by Nuri Bilge Ceylan | 188 mins | 2018
    An aspiring writer comes back to the village where he was born only to find that he can’t escape the debts owed by his father. Quintessentially Chekhovian, the beautifully shot story captures the ache and the ironies of the young...

  • Three Monkeys

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    Directed by Nuri Bilge Ceylan | 105 mins | 2008
    Ceylan’s unsettling noir sets up a doomed love triangle between a corrupt politico, his chauffeur who takes the rap for his crimes, and his lover—who happens to be his chauffeur’s wife. A work of true stylistic bravura, the shift...

  • 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 them...