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4 itemsFour by Dan Sallitt
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A New York-based filmmaker whose filmmaking approach owes more to acknowledged foreign masters Éric Rohmer, Maurice Pialat, and Mikio Naruse, the slim but exquisite body of work that Sallitt has created over the last 30+ years—films of understated drama and enormous emotional insight—have won him...
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4 itemsStarring Sophia Loren
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Born in Rome as Sofia Costanza Brigida Villani Scicolone, the woman the world would come to know as Sophia Loren started acting at age 16, signed a five-picture deal with Paramount at 22, and after international superstardom and countless plaudits—including an Academy Award—she is still working t...
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6 itemsThe Straub-Huillet Collection
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First meeting as cinephile students in 1954 Paris, Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet became husband-and-wife filmmaking collaborators, generating a politically and aesthetically provocative body of work made largely outside of official funding bodies, and suggesting a desire to reinvent the a...
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From Director to Producer: Davy Chou Selects
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Born in France to Cambodian parents, Davy Chou—director, producer, teacher, and film historian—has been an energetic and boundlessly enthusiastic advocate for cinema in Europe and Asia both, where his organization of workshops and role as one of the founders of the collective Kon Khmer Koun Khmer...
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3 itemsKazuo Hara's "Minamata Mandala"
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Shot over 15 years, an epic three-part group portrait of the elderly victims of Minamata disease who have spent nearly 60 years in Japanese courts fighting for recognition and compensation for their suffering from methyl mercury poisoning caused by corporate chemical dumping around their fishing ...
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All The Ships At Sea
Directed by Dan Sallitt | 64 mins | 2004
Loosely inspired by William James’s "The Varieties of Religious Experience," Sallitt’s scintillating sophomore feature revolves around the verbal joustings of two siblings—one a defector from a New Age cult, the other a Catholic theologian—on the topics of... -
An Heir
Directed by Jean-Marie Straub | 21 mins | 2011
Drawing again on a 1903 work by right-wing nationalist author Maurice Barrès—and on his own memories of growing up in the contested city of Metz—Straub’s discourse-based film concerns a French Alsatian country doctor whose soul is torn between French... -
Behemoth
Directed by Zhao Liang | 90 mins | 2015
Shot in the coal mines of Inner Mongolia, Zhao’s nonfiction symphony of industrial rapacity is a mythic-realist work of harrowing close-ups and infernal long shots beggaring belief, evoking Dante and Bosch en route to a haunting climax in an ultramodern pre... -
Boccaccio '70
Directed by Vittorrio De Sica, Federico Fellini, Mario Monicelli, and Luchino Visconti | 205 mins | 1962
An anthology comedy exploring love and the liberated woman in contemporary Italy, Boccaccio ’70 reteams Loren with De Sica in the spicy story of a shy lottery winner who hopes to cash in with ... -
Caterina
Directed by Dan Sallitt | 17 mins | 2019
A sensitive, intimate, episodic character study in miniature, as perfect as a cameo brooch, of the title’s Caterina, played by Agustina Muñoz: an Argentinian quietly observing the rush of life in her adoptive home of New York, her gradual decision to cut t... -
Corneille-Brecht
Directed by Jean-Marie Straub | 27 mins | 2009
Verses from Pierre Corneille’s Horace and Othon and from Bertholt Brecht’s 1939 radio play The Trial of Lucullus are given melodic recitation by Cornelia Geiser in Straub’s film, creating a network of connections between the despots of ancient Rome, ... -
Fourteen
Directed by Dan Sallitt | 94 mins | 2019
A lovingly detailed, bittersweet depiction of female friendship, Fourteen tracks several years in the lives of teacher’s aide Mara (Tallie Medel) and social worker Jo (Norma Kuhling), through the vicissitudes of dating in their twenties and into choppier w... -
Hard To Be A God
Directed by Aleksei German | 177 mins | 2013
The final film from German, a giant of Russian cinema who died before its release, is a headlong wallow in medieval muck, a grotesque epic adapting Arkady and Boris Stugatsky’s underground science-fiction classic which follows a team of undercover scie... -
I Killed My Mother
Directed by Xavier Dolan | 96 mins | 2009
Dolan earned enfant terrible status with his loosely autobiographical directorial debut, a raw, raucous coming-of-age comedy-drama starring Dolan himself as 16-year-old growing up in suburban Montreal with a single mother (Anne Dorval) whom he loves and h... -
Jackals and Arabs
Directed by Jean-Marie Straub and Daniéle Huillet | 11 mins | 2011
Kafka’s 1917 short story of the same name, written on the eve of the British Government’s Balfour Declaration, which announced support for the creation of a “national home for the Jewish people” in Palestine, is the source of Stra... -
Kaili Blues
Directed by Bi Gan | 113 mins | 2015
Chinese filmmaker Bi Gan’s audacious directorial debut announced a major new talent. Shot in the mining village Kaili, the director’s birthplace, the film follows a country doctor who enters a dreamlike world where the boundaries between past, present, and fut... -
Los Conductos
Directed by Camilo Restrepo | 70 mins | 2020
On the mean streets of Medellín, Colombia, a recent refugee from a religious cult struggles with his crisis of faith and his memories of traumatic violence in between brutalizing shifts at a T-shirt factory and long nights in his squat house home. “An ... -
Marriage Italian Style
Directed by Vittorrio di Sica | 102 mins | 1964
One of the most beloved of Loren’s multiple screen pairings with Marcello Mastroianni, De Sica’s unexpectedly moving farce uses a brilliant flashback structure to review the 22-year relationship between Mastroianni’s caddish bourgeois businessman an... -
Minamata Mandala Pt. I
Directed by Kazuo Hara | 119 mins | 2020
An epic group portrait of the elderly victims of Minamata disease who have spent nearly 60 years in Japanese courts fighting for recognition and compensation for their suffering from methyl mercury poisoning caused by corporate chemical dumping around thei... -
Minamata Mandala Pt. II
Directed by Kazuo Hara | 138 mins | 2020
An epic group portrait of the elderly victims of Minamata disease who have spent nearly 60 years in Japanese courts fighting for recognition and compensation for their suffering from methyl mercury poisoning caused by corporate chemical dumping around thei... -
Minamata Mandala Pt. III
Directed by Kazuo Hara | 115 mins | 2020
An epic group portrait of the elderly victims of Minamata disease who have spent nearly 60 years in Japanese courts fighting for recognition and compensation for their suffering from methyl mercury poisoning caused by corporate chemical dumping around thei... -
Sunflower
Directed by Vittorrio De Sica | 107 mins | 1970
The final of three collaborations between Loren, Marcello Mastroianni, and director De Sica, Sunflower casts the duo as lovers wed on the eve of his departure for the Russian front. After years pass without a word from her husband, she travels to Mo... -
The Inconsolable One
Directed by Jean-Marie Straub | 15 mins | 2011
Orpheus, returned from the underworld, explains to Bacchante that the gaze he cast upon wife Eurydice, condemning her to Hades, was an act of free will, not fate, in Straub’s agonized declamatory study of bereavement, based on a dialogue by Cesare Pa... -
The Poet and the Singer
Directed by Bi Gan | 22 mins | 2012
Before bounding to international prominence with his sui generis debut feature Kaili Blues, Bi Gan announced himself as a figure to watch with this lyric non-linear short, which tells the story of a small-town murder, and utilizes meticulous and utterly immersi...
