Leaving October 1

Directed by Lina Wertmüller | 120 mins | 1973
Country bumpkin anarchist Giancarlo Giannini arrives in Rome on a mission to assassinate Mussolini with the assistance of partisan prostitute Mariangela Melato in Wertmüller’s 1930s-set tragicomedy—but his resolve falters when he fa...

Leaving October 1

Directed by Itsvan Szabo | 146 mins | 1981
In early 1930s Germany, an ambitious stage actor (Klaus Maria Brandauer) enjoys the greatest success of his career in the role of Mephistopheles—and his new fame will become his downfall, as he clings to the spotlight by becoming an ea...

Leaving October 1

Directed by Bertrand Bonello | 130 mins | 2016
Opening with a group of teens prowling the streets of Paris, in the midst of pulling off a bombing plot, Bonello’s film soon becomes something altogether different, as these vacant subversives tuck away inside a department store an...

Leaving October 1

Directed by Luchino Visconti | 179 mins | 1960
Set in Visconti’s ancestral home of Milan, his epic devotional tragedy centers on a clan who emigrate north in search of better prospects, only to see their close-knit family unit torn apart when brother Rocco (Alain Delon), rising...

Leaving October 1

Directed by Derek Jarman | 90 mins | 1976
Jarman’s feature debut—co-directed with Humfress—makes blatant the latent homoeroticism in artistic renderings of the biblical story of the martyrdom of St. Sebastian, reveling in the male form while recounting a tale of repressed desir...

Leaving October 1

Directed by Lina Wertmüller | 116 mins | 1975
The comedy of errors begins when Neapolitan hustler Giancarlo Giannini inadvertently murders the lover of one of his septet of homely sisters. Worse luck follows, and Giannini lands in a concentration camp where, in order to survive...

Leaving October 1

Directed by Ursula Meier | 97 mins | 2012
Meier’s second collaboration with cinematographer Agnès Godard lays its scene at a posh ski resort in the snowy, scenic Swiss Alps—but instead of going in for stereotypical postcard views, Meier’s raw, wrenching Sister searches out the ...

Leaving October 1

Directed by Ilisa Barbash and Lucien Castaing-Taylor | 102 mins | 2009
The last of a dying breed, the Norwegian-American shepherd subjects of Sweetgrass oversee their herds from high in the saddle, leading them to summer pasture through the sometimes perilous and often breathta...

Leaving October 1

Directed by Lina Wertmüller | 114 mins | 1974
A battle royale of the sexes/classes begins when vacationing socialite Mariangela Melatoand her Communist servant Giancarlo Giannini find themselves stranded alone together on a Mediterranean island in Wertmüller’s kinky, anarchic r...

Leaving October 1

Directed by Lina Wertmüller | 108 mins | 1972
The kind of potent cocktail of sex and politics only Wertmüller can concoct, The Seduction of Mimi stars Giancarlo Giannini as a laborer being wooed by both the unions and the mafioso while he runs back-and-forth between his hot-to-...

Leaving October 1

Directed by Serge Bozon | 106 mins | 2013
Isabelle Huppert and Sandrine Kiberlain star as two odd-couple internal-affairs officers sent to investigate the murder of an Algerian informant in the small French town of Villeneuve, where a local cop launches an investigation of his ...

Leaving October 1

Directed by Arwen Curry | 68 mins | 2018
Released in the year of its subject’s death, Curry’s detailed, decade-in-the-making documentary about the extraordinary life and legacy of Le Guin gives the writer a chance to hold court on her work. Featuring a who’s who of science fict...