Resnais’ deep conversation between a Japanese architect and a French actress forms the basis of this celebrated French film, considered one of the vanguard productions of the French New Wave. Set in Hiroshima after the end of World War II, the couple — lovers turned friends — intertwine their stories about the past with pondering the devastation wrought by the atomic bomb dropped on the city.
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Stanley Kubrick’s brilliant Cold War satire returns to Row House Cinema. After the insane General Jack D. Ripper initiates a nuclear strike on the Soviet Union, a war room full of politicians, generals and a Russian diplomat all frantically try to stop the nuclear strike.
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Youth, hitting the clouds! Laughing at danger! Fighting, loving, dodging death! That’s “WINGS”
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Martin Scorsese’s surrealist nightmare comedy unfolds over the course of a night in New York City when an ordinary guy loses his cab fare on his way to meet a girl. Things go downhill quickly until the sun comes up.
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Guillermo del Toro’s fantasy horror hybrid movie is set in Spain in 1944. A young girl living with her tyrannical stepfather and ailing mother explores a decaying labyrinth guarded by a mysterious faun who claims to know her destiny. If she wishes to return to her real father, she must complete three terrifying tasks.
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Daniel Day Lewis stars in this story of brutal capitalism set in oil-rich California. A silver miner cons local landowners into selling him their valuable properties for a pittance until local preacher challenges him and starts a slow-burning feud that threatens both their lives.
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This bold and candid musical features Liza Minelli as the iconic starry-eyed singer Sally Bowles who works at the Kit Kat Club in 1931 Berlin. Together with an impish emcee, they sound the clarion call to decadent fun, while outside an ominous political party grows into a brutal force.
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Paul Newman stars as Hud — a ruthless young man who works on a Texas cattle ranch who tarnishes everything and everyone he touches in this morality driven western. Supported by his father, idolized by his nephew, Hud sets himself on a path of destruction.
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Julianne Moore and Dennis Quaid play a privileged 1950s Connecticut couple in this modern melodramatic masterpiece that is another ode to All That Heaven Allows. Amidst the racial tensions and anti-gay rhetoric of the 1950s, scandal erupts and the couple’s marriage fractures.
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This watermark of 1970s German New Wave films is a tribute to All That Heaven Allows — and remains moving and relevant almost 50 years after its release. When a lonely working class widow enters a whirlwind bi-racial romance with a younger man, they face backlash from both of their families.
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