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25TH HOUR
Spike Lee’s most underrated film stars Edward Norton as a kingpin in his last day before serving a seven-year bid, alongside an all-star cast—Philip Seymour Hoffman, Brian Cox, Rosario Dawson, Anna Paquin—doing top-notch work. 25th Hour is arguably the definitive film of the post-9/11 NYC.
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THE SAMURAI AND THE PRISONER
"Kurosawa has made one of his best films, a work that feels a bit like Agatha Christie, a bit like Shakespeare, and even a bit like Samurai Columbo." —Brian Tallarico, rogerebert.com
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JASON AND THE ARGONAUTS
A brave man and his shipload of followers heedlessly throw themselves into one dangerous adventure after another, as vengeful gods mark their progress. Nah, forget Christopher Nolan, we’re talking about Don Chaffey’s 1963 masterpiece, where undisputed stop-motion master Ray Harryhausen puts on an absolute clinic.
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BAMBOOZLED
With this blisteringly funny, unapologetically confrontational satire, writer-director Spike Lee examined the past, present, and future of racism in American popular culture, issuing a daring provocation to creators and consumers alike—so on-point that it’s sometimes hard to watch.
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DILWALE DULHANIA LE JAYENGE
The longest-running film in the history of Indian cinema, still screening at Mumbai’s Maratha Mandir cinema 30 years after its release, Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge—popularly referred to as "DDLJ"—stars Shah Rukh Khan and Kajol as Raj and Simran, two Londoners who fall in love on a European backpacking holiday.
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HOW TO DIVORCE DURING THE WAR
In this "stinging satire" (Rolling Stone), high-flying executive Marija chooses the worst possible moment to inform her husband Vytas she wants a divorce: just one day before Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
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MUSICAL SILENTS: THE PASSION OF JOAN OF ARC
Spiritual rapture and institutional hypocrisy come to stark, vivid life in one of the most transcendent masterpieces of the silent era.
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