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Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives
Directed by Apichatpong Weerasethakul | 113 mins | 2010
Winner of the 2010 Palme d’Or at Cannes, Apichatpong’s film follows its fatally ill title character (Thanapat Saisaymar) on a final pilgrimage of sorts, traveling the countryside of Thailand’s rural northeast where he encounters long-lost lo... -
Boyfriends and Girlfriends
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Directed by Éric Rohmer | 103 mins | 1987
Rohmer uses the amorous misadventures of two girlfriends in the Paris suburbs to test the old proverb “les amis de mes amis sont mes amis” (“the friends of my friends are my friends”) in the final episode of his “Comedies and Proverbs” series. Taking an i... -
Old Enough
Directed by Marisa Silver | 92 mins | 1984
Eleven-year-old Lonnie (Sarah Boyd) is a Lower East Side kid who comes from money, while her teenaged pal Karen (Rainbow Harvest) doesn’t come from much of anything at all. At first these opposites attract, but then budding hormones and first crushes fur... -
Party Girl
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Directed by Daisy von Scherler Mayer | 94 mins | 1995
With her beguiling presence and spry, screwball energy, Parker Posey made her name as the queen of American indie cinema during its ’90s boom. The recently restored "Party Girl" captures an ascendent Posey in wickedly fine form as Mary, the to... -
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Leaving June 1
Directed by Bette Gordon | 100 mins | 1983
A young woman lands a job as a cashier at a downtown porno theater, and soon finds herself inexorably drawn towards what’s happening onscreen—as well as other troubling fantasies. One of the great independent films of the ’80s, featuring ... -
Stray Dogs
Leaving June 1
Directed by Tsai Ming-liang | 135 mins | 2013
Tsai’s devastating minimalist portrait of urban desolation, destitution and defeat is a gorgeous cinematic lament starring Lee Kang-sheng as a single father of two who ekes out a subsistence living by working as a human signboard while... -
The Hole
Directed by Tsai Ming-liang | 89 mins | 1999
It’s the close of the millennium and Taipei has emptied out with the onset of a mysterious virus, but Lee Kang-sheng and Yang Kuei-mei lag behind among the ruins, where maybe a last chance at communication lies through a breach between their apartments... -
Will-o'-the-Wisp
Directed by João Pedro Rodrigues | 67 mins | 2022
A queer musical fantasia unlike anything in recent cinema, Rodrigues’s 2069 love song finds an ailing monarch flashing back to his erotic youth as a fireman during a time of climate crisis, in which his beefcake blaze-battler (Mauro Costa) is tran... -
Will You Look At Me
Directed by Shuli Huang | 20 mins | 2022
Winner of the Queer Palm at Cannes 2022, Shuli Huang’s evocative Super 8 confessional tracks the queer filmmaker’s return to his hometown of Beijing and the ensuing conversation with his mother, long disapproving of her son’s sexuality and his pursuit of a... -
O Fantasma
Directed by João Pedro Rodrigues | 87 mins | 2000
The rare film to be both feted by festival cognoscenti and uploaded to disreputable porn sites, Rodrigues’s confrontational, controversial debut feature heralded the arrival of a major queer artist. Concerning the carnal odyssey of a Lisbon trash ... -
Unmade Beds
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Leaving June 1
Directed by Amos Poe | 70 mins | 1976
Jean-Paul Belmondo’s character in "Breathless" (1960) thought he was Humphrey Bogart; Duncan Hannah’s character in this proto-No Wave work—a restless poseur slash photographer named Rico—thinks he’s Jean-Paul Belmondo. Released the same year a... -
Faust
Leaving June 1
Directed by Jan Švankmajer | 92 mins | 1994
Drawing on a cluster of iterations of the Faust legend but faithful to none, Švankmajer reimagines the tale of a man’s compact with the Devil through flights of dark, deranging fancy. The inimitable Czech surrealist deploys his trademark... -
In the Soup
Directed by Alexandre Rockwell | 96 mins | 1992
The spirit of the Nouvelle Vague animates Alexandre Rockwell’s Sundance Grand Jury Prize-winner, a veritable who’s who of New York independent cinema—from Cassavetes stalwart Seymour Cassel through to Jim Jarmusch, and an almost babyfaced Steve Busc... -
Roma
Directed by Ari Marcopoulos | 14 mins | 2016
Evoking the spirit of postwar neo-realism, Marcopoulos sketches an impression of the Italian capital with unvarnished detail, capturing the quotidian life of a city where past and present collide. A lone roller-skater pirouettes beside an ancient canal... -
The Black Sea
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Directed by Crystal Moselle and Derrick B. Harden | 93 mins | 2024
A compassionate, convivial, and deeply humane improvised comedy from Moselle ("The Wolfpack", "Skate Kitchen") and co-director Harden, inspired by the latter’s own experiences, "The Black Sea" stars Harden—also providing original ... -
The Last Seduction
Directed by John Dahl | 110 mins | 1994
Skipping town on her husband Clay (Bill Pullman), Bridget Gregory (Linda Fiorentino) sets about seducing a series of men into abetting her lethal money-making schemes. The fact that this erotic thriller played initially on TV meant that Fiorentino was ineli... -
Signal 8
Directed by Simon Liu | 14 mins | 2019
A hypnotic portrait of contemporary Hong Kong, Chinese-English filmmaker Simon Liu’s 16mm short is a city symphony that captures the urban infrastructure of his hometown in all of its enigmatic discord, as quotidian images of daily life are haunted by strang... -
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 themselves forced to take... -
The Leather Boys
Directed by Sidney J. Furie | 107 mins | 1964
Long before he directed the Diana Ross vehicle "Lady Sings the Blues" and cult horror classic "The Entity," versatile Canadian filmmaker Furie helmed this Cockney tale of motorized delinquency and Ton-Up rocker subculture, starring Colin Campbell and ... -
afternoon
Directed by Erica Sheu | 3 mins | 2017
Taking inspiration from Jonas Mekas’s "The Diary Film," Los Angeles-based Taiwanese experimental filmmaker Erica Sheu deploys hand-processed 16mm film and in-camera editing to evoke the perspective of gazing through a window and onto the domestic life of an ...