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LATCHO DROM
Shot in the glorious widescreen panoramas, Latcho Drom (translation: "safe journey") follows the thousand-year migration of the nomadic Romani people. During their trek from Northern India to Spain, they connect with local Romani communities and celebrate their their kinship through incredible, energetic music.
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MUSICAL SILENTS: HELL'S HINGES
This violent, morally shocking early feature-length Western features America’s first cinematic cowboy hero, William S. Hart, who became one of silent cinema’s most famous actors.
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SHE'S GOTTA HAVE IT
Shot over 12 days at a total cost of $175,000, Spike Lee’s debut—the story Nola Darling, a strong 20-something Black artist, and the three men in her life, who are frustrated by her independence—exploded onto American movie screens, redefining American independent cinema in the 1980s.
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MARY OLIVER: SAVED BY THE BEAUTY OF THE WORLD
Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Mary Oliver is celebrated through interviews with close friends, including John Waters, and recitations by Stephen Colbert, Lucy Dacus, Steve Buscemi, and Oprah Winfrey.
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POSSESSION
The fabulous New Zealand actor Sam Neill passed away last month at the age of 78. He made many films, including Jurassic Park, The Piano, The Hunt for Red October, but we’ve chosen to remember him with the 1981 psycho-thriller Possession. We’re not alone in loving this deeply twisted film. Sam loved it, too.
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NOTORIOUS
Sir Alfred Hitchcock turns 127 on August 13 so we’ll celebrate with one of his many, many masterpieces: Notorious, in which Cary Grant and Ingrid Bergman's off-the-chart chemistry burns a hole in the screen as they traverse a preposterous plot involving blackmail, Nazis, and plutonium.
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MALCOLM X
Built around a truly extraordinary performance from Denzel Washington, Malcolm X draws on the iconic civil rights leader’s autobiography to trace his journey of empowerment, from a childhood riven by white-supremacist violence to a life of petty crime to his conversion to Islam and rebirth as a fearless fighter for Black liberation.
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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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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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