Contemporary Masters
Screening works by Bill Morrison, Gianfranco Rosi, Jafar Panahi and Adina Pintilie.
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Taxi
Jafar Panahi • 2015 • Iran
Banned from filmmaking, Panahi has adopted a new hobby—driving a taxi.
He navigates the streets of the Iranian capital picking up passengers: two women with a goldfish, a bootleg DVD dealer, his young niece.
In Taxi, from the vantage point of the cab's dashboard a po...
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The Death of Mr. Lazarescu
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Cristi Puiu • 2015 • Romania • An old man is shuttled across Bucharest from one clinic to another.
Dante Remus Lazarescu is feeling dreadfully ill. In the search for medical attention, his lone ally is Mioara, a Virgil-like paramedic ushering him toward certain twilight.
Bone-d...
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The Five Obstructions
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Lars von Trier • 2003 • Denmark-Switzerland-Belgium-France • Lars von Trier challenges his mentor.
Documents the re-making of Jørgen Leth's classic short film The Perfect Human through a maddening maze of obstacles imposed by his former student Lars von Trier.
In 1967, prominent ...
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The Pearl Button
Directed by Patricio Guzmán • Documentary • 2014 • Chile, Spain, France • Spanish with English subtitles
Featuring Patricio GuzmánWinner of the Silver Bear for Best Screenplay at the Berlin Film Festival, "The Pearl Button" explores the supernatural landscape of Chile. With its 2,670 miles of c...
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The Woman Who Left
Directed by Lav Diaz • Arthouse • 2017 • Philippines • Tagalog with English subtitles
Starring Charo Santos-Concio, John Lloyd Cruz, Michael De MesaWinner of the Golden Lion at the 2016 Venice Film Festival, Filipino filmmaker Lav Diaz’s epic story of revenge deferred functions as a tale of urb...
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This Is Not a Film
Jafar Panahi • 2011 • Iran
Banned Iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi inscribes small acts of resistance in the fabric of quotidian existence, as he remains enclosed within the confines of his Tehran apartment.
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Touch Me Not
Adina Pintilie • 2018 • Romania
Touch Me Not interrogates our notions of intimacy, and beauty, through a series of encounters with individuals who eschew touch.
NOTE: The following film contains explicit images and graphic sexual content
Essay: Corporeal Legibility in the Age of Coronavirus—A...
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Une Vie (A Woman's Life)
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Stéphane Brizé • 2016 • France-Belgium
Stéphane Brizé's luminous film depicts the travails of a noble woman enthralled and exploited by her male companions in nineteenth-century France.
Raised amid the sun-dappled countryside of Normandy, young aristocrat Jeanne meets and soon en...
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Unrelated
Joanna Hogg • United Kingdom • 2007 • An exacting eye on the discontents of the British upper class.
Anna arrives at a stately villa in Tuscany to visit her longtime friend, Verena. Her husband, Alex, has canceled at the last minute, a minor inconvenience that irritates Verena nonetheless. Tho...
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Winter Sleep
Directed by Nuri Bilge Ceylan • Drama • 2014 • Turkey • Turkish with English subtitles
Starring Haluk Bilginer, Melisa Sözen, Demet AkbagDirected by cinema master Nuri Bilge Ceylan, this enthralling, brilliantly photographed film won the Palme d'Or at the 2014 Cannes Film Festival and was Turke...
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You, the Living
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Roy Andersson • Sweden • 2007
Dreams can be terrifying. But so is reality. A psychiatrist prescribes pills to his patients, unconvinced that happiness is even possible. A middle-aged woman is down in the dumps, but refuses her boyfriend’s comfort. A pickpocket robs a fancy diner b...