Certain Women (Blu-Ray)

A portrait of three women living subtly interlocking lives in rural Montana, striving to forge their own paths amidst the wide-open plains of the American Northwest. Laura (Laura Dern), a lawyer living and working in Livingston, struggles to handle an increasingly difficult and unpredictable client who refuses to accept that his personal injury claim will […]

Donna Deitch’s swooning and sensual first narrative feature, Desert Hearts,was groundbreaking upon its release in 1985: a love story about two women, made entirely independently, on a shoestring budget, by a woman. In this 1959-set film, adapted from a beloved novel by Jane Rule, straitlaced East Coast professor Vivian Bell (Helen Shaver) arrives in Reno to […]

Kristen Stewart joins director Olivier Assayas (Clouds of Sils Maria) again, albeit for a very different, deeply unsettling kind of film. She plays Maureen Cartwright, who is responsible for picking a celebrity’s clothes. Her life takes a darker turn when she experiences an uncanny spiritual crisis. Part-horror, part-psychological study, it defies expectations all the way […]

The tale of an eccentric band of culinary ronin who guide the widow of a noodle-shop owner on her quest for the perfect recipe, this rapturous “ramen western” by Japanese director Juzo Itami is an entertaining, genre-bending adventure underpinned by a deft satire of the way social conventions distort the most natural of human urges—our appetites. Interspersing the efforts […]