Nickel Boys
Dir. RaMell Ross
The first things that grab your attention in Nickel Boys are its beauty and technicality. Director RaMell Ross, a large-format…
Barcelona
Dir. Whit Stillman
If you like and remember the small budget New Hollywood comedies that bases its humor on witty, philosophical dialogue, you…
Night on Earth
Dir. Jim Jarmusch
An absolute delight of a gem starring a young Winona Ryder as well as an amazing cast. Arguably Jim Jarmusch’s…
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Dir. Philip Kaufman
The only Kundera film adaptation frankly hasn’t disproven that the source novel is unfilmable, but The Unbearable Lightness of Being…
Far From Heaven
Dir. Todd Haynes
Anyone who’s seen All That Heaven Allows will naturally be skeptical that a movie claiming to be an homage to…
Menace II Society
Dir. Albert Hughes & Allen Hughes
It’s hard to shake off the life you’ve grown into, but more so on the streets with a high crime…
Three Seasons
Dir. Tony Bui
Given the Vietnam War, America held certain unsavory stereotypes of their former enemy. These stereotypes inspire the ensemble of Three…
The Motorcycle Diaries
Dir. Walter Salles
Let’s fight! I’m not a fan of “Into the wild” okay okay, calm down… Maybe we can fix this. Maybe…
Mulholland Drive
Dir. David Lynch
Blonde Betty Elms has only just arrived in Hollywood to become a movie star when she meets an enigmatic brunette…
Requiem for a Dream
Dir. Darren Aronofsky
The drug-induced utopias of four Coney Island residents are shattered when their addictions run deep.
Good Night, and Good Luck.
Dir. George Clooney
The story of journalist Edward R. Murrow’s stand against Senator Joseph McCarthy’s anti-communist witch-hunts in the early 1950s.
Call Me by Your Name
Dir. Luca Guadagnino
In the summer of 1983, a 17-year-old Elio spends his days in his family’s villa in Italy. One day Oliver,…
Pan’s Labyrinth
Dir. Guillermo del Toro
In post–civil war Spain, 10-year-old Ofelia moves with her pregnant mother to live under the control of her cruel stepfather.…
12 Years a Slave
Dir. Steve McQueen
In the pre-Civil War United States, Solomon Northup, a free black man from upstate New York, is abducted and sold…
The Artist
Dir. Michel Hazanavicius
What was popular back then isn’t popular today for a reason. In film, that’s because the technology’s improved, the audience…