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Leaving October 26
Directed by Liu Jian | 77 mins | 2017
Liu’s second animated feature follows a construction worker who decides one day to double-cross his boss and make off with a large amount of contraband cash intended to fix his fiancée’s botched plastic surgery, initiating a down-the-rabbi... -
2 itemsBill Gunn's Personal Problems
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Leaving November 1
Bill Gunn, actor, screenwriter, novelist, and the director of art-horror classic Ganja & Hess (1973), teamed with writer Ishmael Reed and producer Steve Cannon to produce what Reed has called a “meta-soap opera,” an exceptional, rough-edged ensemble piece exploring Black worki...
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2 itemsPark Chan-wook’s Vengeance
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Leaving November 1
Park’s “Revenge Trilogy”—a high watermark of early aughts South Korean cinema, each film a stylish standalone thriller united to the rest by the theme of retribution—is represented here with leadoff film Mr. Vengeance, the ruthless, bruising tale of a factory worker forced to ...
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3 itemsThree from Jean-Luc Godard
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Leaving November 1
It might seem like a contradiction to say that one of the most influential artists of the last 60+ years was also one of the most inimitable, but Godard, whose death in 2022 marked the end of a cinematic era, was nothing if not a figure steeped in contradiction. This selection...
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Act of God
Leaving November 1
Directed by Jennifer Baichwal | 75 mins | 2009
Interviewing a host of individuals who’ve survived being struck by lightning—including author Paul Auster, musician Fred Frith, and a former CIA assassin—Baichwal creates a captivating, visually astonishing investigation into the ... -
A Day On The Grand Canal With The Emperor of China
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Directed by Philip Haas and David Hockney | 46 mins | 1988
David Hockney leads the viewer on a charming and illuminating guided tour through 17th-century China as depicted in the 72-foot scroll The Kangxi Emperor’s Southern Inspection Tour (1691-1698), the work of painter Wang... -
A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night
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Directed by Ana Lily Amirpour | 104 mins | 2014
Amirpour’s atmospheric, entirely original, black-and-white thriller gave an infusion of fresh blood to the venerable vampire movie genre, revolving around the figure of a mysterious, chador-clad female bloodsucker who exercises a... -
A Night of Knowing Nothing
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Directed by Payal Kapadia | 96 mins | 2021
An emotionally charged, intimate examination of the lives of Indian university students, Kapadia’s riveting documentary, winner of the L’Oeil d’or at the Cannes Film Festival, is built around a series of letters written by a student, ... -
Anthropocene: The Human Epoch
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Directed by Jennifer Baichwal | 87 mins | 2019
Inspired by the work of the Anthropocene Working Group, an international organization of scientists committed to the study of humanity’s dangerous transformation of the planet since the mid-20th century, Bachwal’s four-years-in-th... -
Beuys
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Directed by Andreis Veil | 107 mins | 2017
A rich trove of never-before-seen archival footage shows how the charismatic and controversial German artist Joseph Beuys’s teachings, installations, happenings—such as covering himself in honey and gold leaf in How to Explain Paintin... -
Beyond the Visible: Hilma Af Klint
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Directed by Halina Dyrschka | 94 mins | 2019
The Swedish painter and mystic Hilma af Klint was, for decades after her death, a nearly forgotten figure, but her coterie of admirers swelled to an army after a blockbuster 2018 exhibition. Dyrschka, in her assured debut, continues... -
Chile '76
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Directed by Manuela Martelli | 97 mins | 2022
Martelli’s directorial debut is an absorbing noir-tinged historical drama set in the early days of Augusto Pinochet’s dictatorship in Chile. Aline Küppenheim stars as a middle-class Santiago housewife who is drawn into an anti-gove... -
Ghost Tropic
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Directed by Bas Devos | 85 mins | 2019
After falling asleep on the Brussels subway after a long night’s work, 58-year-old Maghrebi cleaning woman Khadija (Saadia Bentaïeb) wakes up to find herself at the end of the line. and sets out to make her way home on foot, A city portra... -
Girlhood
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Directed by Céline Sciamma | 113 mins | 2014
Set in the suburbs of Paris, Sciamma’s coming-of-age story stars Karidja Touré as Marieme, a 16-year-old who finds a sense of sorority, camaraderie, and mutual support when she joins up with an amateur “gang” of girls her age—much t... -
Goodbye to Language
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Directed by Jean-Luc Godard | 70 mins | 2014
An innovator to the end, Godard’s penultimate feature finds him experimenting with the possibilities of digital 3D, using the technology to plot the disintegration of both a couple’s relationship and the images of the relationship. ... -
Grace Jones: Bloodlight & Bami
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Directed by Sophie Fiennes | 115 mins | 2018
One doesn’t have to do much to make a film about the towering, tempestuous Jamaican-born Grace Jones visually stunning and frequently outrageous, but Fiennes goes above and beyond in this documentary portrait of the powerful and pan... -
Hale County This Morning, This Evening
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Directed by RaMell Ross | 76 mins | 2018
The results of five years of living among African American families in rural Hale County, Alabama—also the setting of Walker Evans and James Agee’s photo-essay Let Us Now Praise Famous Men—Ross’s debut feature documentary is a lyrical a... -
Helmut Newton: the Bad and the Beautiful
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Directed by Gero von Boehm | 93 mins | 2020
Released on the centenary of its late subject’s birth, von Boehm’s fascinating documentary investigates the German-born photographer and provocateur Helmut Newton’s complicated legacy as the maestro of “porno chic” through interviews... -
In The Mirror of Maya Deren
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Directed by Martina Kudlacek | 103 mins | 2001
Using footage from Deren’s groundbreaking experimental films of the 1940s—among them Meshes of the Afternoon and At Land—and interviews with Deren’s contemporaries, Kudlacek’s film provides penetrating insights into the mind of it... -
Jeannette: The Childhood of Joan of Arc
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Directed by Bruno Dumont | 111 mins | 2017
Dumont puts a truly original spin on the Maid of Orleans’s origin myth in this headbanging rock opera, sung entirely a cappella to a synth-metal score. Eight-year-old Joan (Lise Leplat Prudhomme), fed up with the indignity of English ... -
Knit's Island
Leaving November 6
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 alternate... -
La Chinoise
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Directed by Jean-Luc Godard | 96 mins | 1967
Jean-Pierre Léaud, Juliet Berto, and Anne Wiazemsky co-star in Godard’s rouge-tinted, slogan-splattered political comedy concerning five innocents passing their summer vacation in a shared apartment by discoursing on Mao, performing... -
Lady Vengeance
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Directed by Park Chan Wook | 115 mins | 2005
The capper of Park’s “Revenge Trilogy” follows a woman wrongfully imprisoned for kidnapping and killing a six-year-old boy, as she meticulously lays the groundwork for an elaborate plan of retribution, then sets it into merciless mo... -
Matthew Barney: No Restraint
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Directed by Alison Chernik | 72 mins | 2006
Shot during the development of Barney’s massively ambitious film Drawing Restraint 9, made in collaboration with Björk, Chernick’s behind-the-scenes documentary offers a first-hand account of the artist’s artistic process, as well as...
