The legendary actor and director — most recently behind HOLD ME TIGHT — discusses his life in film: cinephilia, blindspots, and the gap (or unity) between creating and loving art.

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István Szabó • Hungary • 1980 • Love and deceit in World War II.

In World War II-era Hungary, the resistance pairs two unrelated members to act as husband and wife in an effort to stay hidden in plain sight. Will they be able to maintain the illusion without giving in to their gr...

Fritz Lang • Germany • 1922

Dr. Mabuse is a gambler, hypnotist, and all-around criminal mastermind. This legendary silent film contains many crime genre elements from the time, including characters who slip in and out of disguise, mind control, gambling clubs, exotic women, brutal henchmen and ...

Abbas Fahdel • Iraq-France • 2015 • Everyday Iraqis caught in a conflict not of their own making.

Filmmaker Abbas Fahdel traveled home from France two weeks before the 2002 American invasion of Iraq. Interviewing friends, family members, and neighbors, he encountered a populace bracing for war,...

Filmmaker Abbas Fahdel traveled home from France two weeks before the 2002 American invasion of Iraq. Interviewing friends, family members, and neighbors, he encountered a populace bracing for war, encountering shortages of food, water, and basic goods even before the soldiers arrived. A year l...

Andrea Arnold • UK • 2006 • Jackie notices a man from her past monitoring CCTV cameras.

Jackie lives alone, monitoring CCTV cameras in a high-rise housing complex in Glasgow's northern periphery. She engages from time to time in an affair with a married man, but her life is otherwise uneventful....

Ken Jacobs • United States • 2011 • An investigation of the space between two and three dimensions.

In Jacobs’s words, “The film could have well been called Kicking and Screaming but that only describes me in the process of making it, questioning its taste. Once the message kicked in it overrod...

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Miguel Gomes • Portugal • 2012 • A sumptuous, eccentric romance by a modern master.

Pilar is a middle-class woman, and devout Catholic, living in Lisbon. She has become something of a de facto daughter of Aurora, her imperious neighbor. When Aurora is hospitalized one day, she sen...

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Jean-Luc Godard • Switzerland • 2018 • Does art inform reality, or vice versa?

Fragments of cinema, canonical and obscure, fill the frame. They appear acid-washed, saturated, disintegrating. Films by Roberto Rossellini, Abderrahmane Sissako, Ridley Scott—and Godard himself—featu...

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Stéphane Brizé • France • 2015 • A powerful, deeply troubling vision of modern labor.

Middle-aged Thierry is unemployed. Despite working the same job for many years, he has been laid off, and is now being subjected to the humiliating spectacle of searching for new employment. Vi...

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Miklós Jancsó • Hungary • 1967 • A magnificent formal investigation of war.

Set in Central Russia during the Civil War of 1918, Russia's Red soldiers and the counter-revolutionary Whites engage in murderous entanglements in the hills along the Volga. This epic conflict moves with...

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Andrei Tarkovsky • Sweden • 1986 • Tarkovsky's haunting final masterpiece.

NEW 4K RESTORATION! Famed Russian filmmaker Andrei Tarkovsky's final masterpiece, The Sacrifice is a haunting vision of a world threatened with nuclear annihilation that inspired Andrew Sarris (The Village ...

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Abel Ferrara • Italy • 2014

Tommaso is an American expat living in Rome. His days pass listlessly—taking Italian courses, working on a new script, attending an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting. Once a wild child, Tommaso is living a life of relative domestic tranquility with his wi...

Ken Jacobs • United States • 1969 • One of Ken Jacobs' great experiments in photography and editing.

Ken Jacobs started experimenting with found footage, expanding a five-minute fragment of Billy Bitzer’s Tom, Tom, The Piper’s Son (1905) to feature length. In Jacobs’s words—“Ghosts! Cine-recor...

Derek Jarman • United Kingdom • 1993 • A modern, theatrical retelling of Wittgenstein.

Born in 1889 to wealthy family, Ludwig Wittgenstein was a prodigy, educated in Vienna and Manchester before settling into a career as a philosopher at Cambridge, where he taught alongside Bertrand Russell and ...

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Alain Resnais • 2012 • France

Actors take over in this exploration of the creative process.

A coterie of French actors have been summoned to bear witness to the last will and testament of Antoine d'Anthac, a theater director with whom they have worked over the years. Appearing ...