The teasingly entwined ambiguities of love and death continue to fascinate Alain Guiraudie (Stranger by the Lake), who returns with a sharp, sinister, yet slyly funny thriller. Set in an autumnal, woodsy village in his native region of Occitanie, his latest follows the meandering exploits of Jérémie (Félix Kysyl), an out-of-work baker who has drifted […]
“Loosely inspired by the risqué writings of early-20th-century maverick Yu Dafu… We are introduced to two men, travel agent Jiang Cheng (Qin Hao) and bookish Wang Ping (Wu Wei), embroiled in a passionate love affair…Shot surreptitiously in the eastern city of Nanjing with available light, SPRING FEVER is a deliriously erotic and anguished melodrama, where […]
Evoking the strident student activism in the days of the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests and massacre, Ye’s film follows small-town girl Hao Lei to the fictional “Beiqing University,” where she finds romance with a fellow undergraduate, is swept up in the ardent idealism of the moment, and then, in the years that follow, settles into […]
Set in 1987 Oakland, Freaky Tales is a multi-track mixtape of colorful characters — an NBA star, a corrupt cop, a female rap duo, teen punks, neo-Nazis, and a debt collector — on a collision course in a fever dream of showdowns and battles. Executive produced by hip-hop pioneer Too $hort, and featuring an all-star […]
It’s Alejo’s pick! Operating under the assumption that by procuring alcohol for an upcoming party, they will finally be able to break their longstanding losing streak with the fairer sex, socially inept high school seniors Evan (Michael Cera) and Seth (Jonah Hill) set out to secure the adult beverages that could get them off of […]
Got some nostalgia for you, homies. An afternoon of radical, never-before-seen 16mm footage shot by Ray Balberan Mission Mediarts Archive and recently digitized in 5K by the Prelinger Archive. The screening will be followed by a conversation with Ray Balberan moderated by Roberto Ariel Vargas. Founded in 1971, Mission Mediarts was formed as a Mission […]
Hedge fund Alden Global Capital is quietly gobbling up newspapers across the country and gutting them, but no one knows why — until journalist Julie Reynolds begins to investigate. Her findings trigger rebellions across the country by journalists working at Alden-owned newspapers. Backed by the NewsGuild union, the newsmen and women go toe-to-toe with their […]
Hong Kong, 1962: Chow Mo-wan (Tony Leung Chiu-wai) and Su Li-zhen (Maggie Cheung Man-yuk) move into neighboring apartments on the same day. Their encounters are formal and polite—until a discovery about their spouses creates an intimate bond between them. At once delicately mannered and visually extravagant, Wong Kar Wai’s In the Mood for Love is […]
Employing a nonlinear narrative, Cianfrance’s bittersweet heartbreaker of a movie slides back and forth along a six-year timeline to review crucial points in the relationship of working-class couple Dean and Cindy (Ryan Gosling and Michelle Williams, in marvelously committed performances), tracking the ups and downs that lay between their passionate, playful early courtship to their […]
New Restoration! Geneviève (Catherine Deneuve), a beautiful young Frenchwoman who works at a small-town boutique selling umbrellas, falls for dashing mechanic Guy (Nino Castelnuovo). Their brief romance is interrupted when Guy is drafted to serve in the Algerian War. Though pregnant by Guy, Geneviève marries an older businessman, Roland (Marc Michel), and begins to move […]
The lush and breathtaking beauty of the Alps, filmed with painterly grace under natural light from frigid winter to redemptive spring, provides the physical and emotional backdrop for Vermiglio, Maura Delpero’s visionary film, which won the Silver Lion at the 2024 Venice Film Festival. This singular portrait of a sprawling family, set in the small, […]
A wondrous journey, through realms natural and mystical, Flow follows a courageous cat after his home is devastated by a great flood. Teaming up with a capybara, a lemur, a bird, and a dog to navigate a boat in search of dry land, they must rely on trust, courage, and wits to survive the perils […]
