This thoughtful, beautiful 1970s French sci-fi film was unlike any other animated film before it. It’s a surreal and immersive experience with an amazing score and a plot that can still make you question your place on this planet and your very humanity.
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Sidney Lumet directed this Al Pacino classic saga in which a bank heist goes wrong and devolves into a hostage situation with a media circus as the robber’s motives are slowly revealed. Based on a real would-be Brooklyn robbery.
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Revisit the infamous Long Island summer home of Big Edie and Little Edie — the Park Avenue debutantes turned eccentric recluses. Follow filmmakers into the surreal world of Jackie Onassis’ cousin and aunt in one of the most famous documentaries of all time.
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What do a young, pessimistic teen and a free-spirited 80-year-old woman have in common? Not much, but that doesn’t matter in this quirky film about the deep and enduring friendship between Harold and Maude — the all time greatest BFFs of ’70s cinema.
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Hans is a self-confident man, driving across the country with his wife and two daughters by his side. His ego gets the better of him when he gets into an argument with another driver. The van driver turns out to be the wrong man to cross on the road, and sets out to teach Hans a deadly lesson. Skillfully pushing the buttons of Hans’s arrogance, a simple family road trip turns into a deadly obstacle course in this nerve-wracking, blackly comic morality tale thriller.
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Utterly unique in film history, Mariam Ghani’s archival marvel What We Left Unfinished is a probing and engrossing case study in censorship, authoritarianism, and political art. Thirty years after the Soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan and the subsequent civil war, during a new era of political uncertainty for the embattled nation, What We Left Unfinished looks closely at the era of state-funded Afghan filmmaking during the country’s Communist era.
Read MoreAll the Streets Are Silent: The Convergence of Hip Hop and Skateboarding (1987-1997)
Posted on July 7, 2021
In the immersive and kaleidoscopic documentary ALL THE STREETS ARE SILENT, director Jeremy Elkin captures the artistic language that bridges hip hop, skateboarding, and street culture and paints a portrait of ’90s New York through more than 30 original interviews with skateboarders, rappers, and other musicians, graffiti artists, photographers, writers, and filmmakers, using exclusive footage and photographs from the era to bring an extraordinary time period back to life.
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Meet the former players of the Japanese women’s volleyball team. Now in their 70s, they used to be known as the ‘Witches of the Orient’ because of their seemingly supernatural powers on the courts.
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Helsinki, 1945. The end of the war brings a new sense of artistic and social freedom for painter Tove Jansson. While focusing her artistic dreams on painting, the enchanting tales of the ‘Moomin’ creatures she told to scared children in bomb shelters, rapidly take on a life of their own, bringing international fame.
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The brilliant work, personal struggles, and cultural impact of iconic American writers Truman Capote and Tennessee Williams explodes onto the screen in this innovative dual-portrait documentary. Filmmaker Lisa Immordino Vreeland masterfully collages a wealth of archival material, including dishy talk show appearances with Dick Cavett and David Frost, with clips from some of the duo’s most memorable movie adaptions.
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