The Sight and Sound Poll of 2022 shocked the film world when it named Chantal Akerman’s feminist art film the number one film of all time. A lonely widowed housewife does her daily chores and takes care of her apartment where she lives with her teenage son, and turns the occasional trick to make ends meet. Slowly, her ritualized daily routines begin to fall apart.
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A dramatized account of a great Russian naval mutiny and a resultant public demonstration, showing support, which brought on a police massacre. The film had an incredible impact on the development of cinema and is a masterful example of montage editing.
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In his radical debut feature, Ousmane Sembène reveals the agony of the postcolonial experience through the story of a Senegalese migrant abused by her French employers. Eager to find a better life abroad, a Senegalese woman becomes a governess to a family in southern France where she suffers from discrimination and marginalization.
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The extraordinary, internationally embraced Yi Yi (A One and a Two . . .), directed by the late Taiwanese master Edward Yang, follows a middle-class family in Taipei over the course of one year, beginning with a wedding and ending with a funeral. Warm, sprawling, and dazzling, this intimate epic is one of the undisputed masterworks of the new century.
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Céline Sciamma’s slow burning love story is a rich period piece about a female painter On an isolated island in Brittany who is obliged to paint a wedding portrait of a young woman. Stunning cinematography and a heartbreaking plot make it one of the best modern pieces of queer cinema.
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Tony Shalhoub and Stanley Tucci star in this charming food movie about two immigrant brothers trying to save their Italian restaurant in New Jersey in the 1950s. In a final effort to save the restaurant, the brothers plan to put on an evening of incredible food.
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A foodie rat and hapless chef team up to realize their dreams by working together in the kitchen of one of Paris’ finest restaurants. This adorable and funny animated classic from Pixar is a Row House staff favorite that we’ve been dying to show!
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This humorous and endearing ‘Japanese Noodle Western’ is and ode to the joys of food. When a pair of truck drivers happen onto a decrepit roadside shop selling ramen noodles, the widowed owner begs them to help her turn her establishment into a paragon of the “art of noodle-soup making.”
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Ralph Fiennes and Anya Taylor-Joy star in this delectably deranged thriller. A young couple join an eclectic cast of wealthy and famous guests on a remote island with an exclusive restaurant — run by a celebrity chef who has prepared a lavish menu, with some shocking surprises.
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Thirteen years after Yang Jian (known to some as Erlang Shen) imprisoned his sister beneath a mountain, the once powerful god now scrapes by as a penniless bounty hunter.
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