Ivan’s Childhood

With excruciating honesty, The Squid and the Whale chronicles the experiences of two young brothers growing up in 1980s Park Slope, Brooklyn, as they navigate the jagged contours of the divorce of their parents, both writers. The acclaimed third feature by Noah Baumbach marked a critical development for the filmmaker as he turned toward an increasingly personal […]

A stunning new restoration for the 60th anniversay of Le Mépris, one of the most notable examples of the French New Wave from cinema’s original enfant terrible: Jean-Luc Godard. Featuring the style icon Brigitte Bardot as Camille, and legendary French talent Michel Piccoli  as Paul, Le Mépris boasts a strong and eclectic supporting cast featuring […]

It seemed to be a carnival funhouse just like any other: mysterious, eerie, scary, but all in good fun. Yet it wasn’t just any funhouse. In this one there was murder. And the horror became real. The story concerns four teenagers who visit a local carnival for a night of innocent amusement. They soon discover, […]

Writer-director Felipe Gálvez makes his revelatory debut with The Settlers, a searing and indelible take on the Western. At the turn of the 20th century, three horsemen set out across the Tierra del Fuego archipelago, tasked with securing a wealthy landowner’s vast property. Accompanying a reckless British lieutenant and an American mercenary is mestizo marksman […]

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När den tvåfaldigt Oscarbelönade Hollywoodgiganten George Stevens sjösatte sina planer att filma Jesu liv sparades det inte på några kostnader. Med fyra års förberedelser, en inspelningsperiod på hela nio månader och en budget som

Michael Haneke is one of contemporary cinema’s most provocative and challenging directors. Like his previous features Amour, The White Ribbon and Hidden, Happy End is an incisive and bitingly satirical exploration of middle class life, and the Laurents are a very Haneke clan. The ageing patriarch (played with gusto by Amour’s Jean-Louis Trintignant) is keen […]

Steeped in the bohemian cool of Chicago’s 1990s Black creative scene, love jones—the smart, sexy, and stylish debut feature of writer-director Theodore Witcher—is a love story for anyone who has ever wondered: How do I know when I’ve found the one? Larenz Tate and Nia Long have magnetism and chemistry to burn as the striving, […]