Three Girls
Dir. Philippa Lowthorpe
Sexual assault and trafficking are never easy to depict onscreen, especially when they’re based on true events, but Three Girls…
Lie with Me
Dir. Olivier Peyon
Oh, the pains of first love. Many a film has been created in memory of it, so the struggles of…
Hiroshima Mon Amour
Dir. Alain Resnais
While initially commissioned to be an atomic bomb documentary, Hiroshima Mon Amour became something entirely different. For starters, it’s not…
Kind Hearts and Coronets
Dir. Robert Hamer
Murder is terrible, of course, but it proves to be surprisingly hilarious in Kind Hearts and Coronets. On top of…
In a Lonely Place
Dir. Nicholas Ray
Hollywood, 1950s. A list of filmmakers were denied work due to suspected Communist Party membership or sympathies. Some folded under…
High Sierra
Dir. Raoul Walsh
Nearly a decade after the Hays Code, the time for glorified gangsters was over. However, before Hollywood shifted their gaze…
The Point
Dir. Fred Wolf
Making a video for a concept album isn’t particularly new, but you’d be hard pressed to find a feature as…
House
Dir. Nobuhiko Obayashi
Visiting a relative can feel strange, because especially when the loved one you share is gone, the visit will inevitably…
Hundreds of Beavers
Dir. Mike Cheslik
Who would’ve thought a wordless, black-and-white, slapstick comedy would still be hugely entertaining in this day and age? Hundreds of…
Le Doulos
Dir. Jean-Pierre Melville
Le Doulos starts with an explanation of the title. While the word refers to the specific type of hat the…
Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles
Dir. Chantal Akerman
When the film publication Sight and Sound dubbed it “the greatest film of all time,” movie fans were quick to…
Sans Soleil
Dir. Chris Marker
In the hands of another director, Sans Soleil would simply be a travelogue. A set of beautiful shots from Japan,…
Holiday
Dir. George Cukor
Holiday marked Katharine Hepburn’s Hollywood comeback, and for good reason– she’s the best out of the cast, she’s downright magnetic,…
Love Affair
Dir. Leo McCarey
Has there ever been a romance film more iconic than Love Affair? Modern moviegoers might find the plot a tad…
Peeping Tom
Dir. Michael Powell
You know how many films depict the magic and wonder of cinema in such gorgeous, magnificent scenes? Peeping Tom does…
Kedi
Dir. Ceyda Torun
With its detailed portraits of seven of Istanbul’s most adored felines, Kedi affirms what anyone who’s spent some time with…
Lore
Dir. Cate Shortland
What would you do if your parents were Nazis? Based on the second novella of Rachel Seiffert’s The Dark Room,…
Bedevilled
Dir. Jang Cheol-soo
Despite how the title sounds like, the horror of Bedevilled isn’t a devil, a demon, or a spirit. It isn’t…
The Official Story
Dir. Luis Puenzo
Most people aspire to have families, deciding to form their own by marrying, bearing children, and if fertility makes that…
The Children's Hour
Dir. William Wyler
The Children’s Hour was one of the few sympathetic depictions of a lesbian character at a time when same-sex relationships…
The Tales of Hoffmann
Dir. Emeric Pressburger & Michael Powell
In the last years of their partnership, Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger decided to take on another art form in…