New Arrivals
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8 itemsDirectors’ Fortnight Showcase
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Since 1969, when it was created by the Société des réalisatrices et réalisateurs de films, the Directors’ Fortnight—an independent sidebar at the Cannes Film Festival—has been a non-competitive showcase for some of the fest’s most original, unexpected films. Bringing together documentary, fiction...
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Two Short Films by Kelly Reichardt
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Two short nonfiction works by Reichardt observing female artists at work, companion pieces of a sort to her recent Showing Up. A meditative, dialogue-free portrait of artistic process, Cal State Long Beach, CA, January 2020 looks in on the sculptor Jessica Jackson Hutchins in the act of shaping c...
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7 itemsCannes At Home
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There are film festivals, and then there’s the film festival. Since its founding in 1946, the invitation-only Cannes Film Festival has been the gold standard for fests, debuting the films of enfants terribles, old masters, and everyone in-between, and generally acting as the most reliable baromet...
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6 itemsShe is "Mother"
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Feminine ferocity abounds in this program of films centering unbreakable women: documentary portraits of Grace Jones and Maya Deren, Beth B's music video fantasy of an all-girl putsch, and films by directors including Susan Sontag, Kathleen Collins, and Ursula Meier. A Mother’s Day gift of movies...
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MoviePamfir
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Arriving May 3
Directed by Dmytro Sukholytkyy-Sobchuk | 103 mins | 2022
Returning to his home in rural Ukraine after a stint abroad, a former smuggler recruits his brother in a scheme to take up his old occupation to better support his wife and son, only to find himself at loggerheads with local... -
MovieAn Experience To Die For
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Arriving May 17
Directed by Kim Ki-young | 95 mins | 1995
The final completed film by Kim, one of the foremost directors of South Korea’s golden age, this gender-flipped take on Patricia Highsmith’s novel Strangers on a Train sees two women (one of them, Minari’s Youn Yuh-jung) make a deal to bu... -
Hale County This Morning, This Evening
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 and loving treatment...
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Rat Film
Directed by Theo Anthony | 82 mins | 2016
“There ain’t never been a rat problem in Baltimore, it’s always been a people problem.” First looking at patterns of rat infestation in Charm City, Anthony unveils the history of segregation, redlining, and environmental racism that have shaped the city f... -
MovieVal
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Arriving May 24
Directed by Mara McKevitt | 15 mins | 2024
McKevitt’s Val is a study of workplace experiences and the shifting power dynamics between two women—employer and employee—that takes place during one stifling afternoon at the office, lensed by the formidable Sean Price Williams. -
Three Crowns of the Sailor
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Arriving May 10
Directed by Raúl Ruiz | 117 mins | 1983
A callow student, scared stiff of the consequences of the murder he has just committed, allows himself to be dragged to a dance hall by a squiffed sailor who insists on making the shaken youth a captive audience to the recounting of his lif... -
Western
Directed by Valeska Grisebach | 121 mins | 2017
Tensions rise during a work stoppage when a group of German laborers erecting a hydroelectric plant in rural Bulgaria suddenly find themselves with time to get into trouble in Grisebach’s patient, tonally precise, naturalist drama, which thoughtfull... -
Festival in Cannes
Directed by Henry Jaglom | 100 mins | 2001
A barbed backstage farce of entertainment industry wheeling and dealing, Jaglom’s film is set at the 1999 festival. Actress Alice (Greta Scacchi) is angling to get funding for an indie film, sweet talking and backstabbing alongside a colorful cast of ing... -
Chile '76
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-government conspiracy wh... -
A Night of Knowing Nothing
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, L, to her estranged ... -
Ghost Tropic
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 portrait beautifully rende... -
Girlhood
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 to the chagrin of her... -
Jeannette: The Childhood of Joan of Arc
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 occupation, sets her... -
Night Across the Street
Directed by Raúl Ruiz | 113 mins | 2012
The last completed film by Chilean master Ruiz is a melancholic memoir film, a playful puzzle box of a movie in which an office worker approaching retirement reflects back on his life—including events that may not necessarily have happened. A sublime swan s... -
The Tsugua Diaries
Directed by Maureen Fazendeiro and Miguel Gomes | 102 mins | 2021
The relaxed routine of housemates Carlos, Crista, and João, living in rural isolation during the COVID pandemic, gives way to beguiling mystery in this meta-movie about the demands of filmmaking and the laxity of lockdown life, cap...
