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ANDRÉ IS AN IDIOT
André Ricciardi is a self-proclaimed “idiot” for skipping the colonoscopy that could have saved him. When he learns he is dying, he turns his final chapter into an experiment in radical honesty, humor, and curiosity.
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Darren Aronofsky's brilliantly over-cranked debut is one of the defining cult films of the '90s, setting the benchmark by which all his subsequent gauntlets—Requiem for a Dream, Black Swan, mother!—would be measured.
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MCCABE & MRS. MILLER
This unorthodox dream western by Robert Altman may be the most radically beautiful film to come out of the New American Cinema.
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MEEK'S CUTOFF
During the 1840s, six settlers—including Michelle Williams, Zoe Kazan, and Paul Dano—and their guide (Bruce Greenwood) are caught in a dangerous situation: They are lost, food and water are running out, and the surrounding desert threatens to claim them all.
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LONE STAR
When a skeleton is discovered in the desert, a lawman begins an investigation that will have profound implications for all of Rio County, a place still reckoning with its history of racial violence.
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FAULT LINES: INSIDE AMERICA'S HOUSING CRISIS
Fault Lines takes a street level approach to the intersecting issues of affordability, homelessness, and legislation, using human stories to illuminate the impact of decades of policies while asking a key question that defines our moment: we know how to build more homes, so what's stopping us?
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TWO PROSECUTORS
Set in 1937, at the peak of Stalin’s Great Purge, this bleak comic parable of tyranny follows a young prosecutor's well-intentioned but blatantly foolhardy journey into the Kafkaesque bureaucratic madness of the totalitarian state.
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MY DINNER WITH ANDRE
In Louis Malle's captivating philosophical film, actor and playwright Wallace Shawn sits down with his friend the theater director André Gregory at a restaurant on New York’s Upper West Side, and the loquacious pair proceed through an alternately whimsical and despairing confessional.
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BLACK GIRL
Ousmane Sembène's debut film, one of the essential films of the 1960s, was the highest finishing African film in Sight and Sound's most recent poll of the greatest films of all time.
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BRANDED TO KILL
When Japanese New Wave bad boy Seijun Suzuki delivered this brutal, hilarious, and visually bonkers yakuza masterpiece to the executives at his studio, he was promptly fired. This is Suzuki at his most extreme, the flabbergasting pinnacle of his sixties pop-art aesthetic.
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MUSICAL SILENTS: THE WILDCAT
Ernst Lubitsch directed some of Hollywood’s greatest comedies but some of his best came early in his career in his native Germany, like The Wildcat, a madcap anti-war farce and visual feast.
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HAMLET
Riz Ahmed is electrifying in this bold reinvention of the Bard's immortal tragedy, transported to present-day London’s South Asian community, and the first adaptation to feature a predominantly non-white cast.
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SALAAM BOMBAY!
Mira Nair’s first narrative feature is a kaleidoscopic portrait of India's most populous city, her compassionate neo-realism at its most heartbreaking and life-affirming, and overflowing with colorful urban chaos.
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MONSOON WEDDING
Mira Nair’s exuberant Monsoon Wedding, winner of the Golden Lion at the Venice International Film Festival, mixes comedy and chaotic melodrama in the maelstrom of an upscale wedding in New Delhi.
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MUSICAL SILENTS: THE UNKNOWN
The most celebrated and exquisitely perverse of the many collaborations between director Tod Browning and his legendary leading man Lon Chaney, The Unknown features a wrenchingly physical performance from “the Man of a Thousand Faces.”
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BLUE HERON
Sophy Romvari’s affecting and intelligent feature debut, the story of childhood joy embedded in the confusion of a family’s growing crisis, confirms her status as one of Canada’s most exceptional emerging filmmakers.
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MUSICAL SILENTS: THAT NIGHT'S WIFE
Unfolding over the course of one night, Yasujiro Ozu’s That Night’s Wife combines suspense with the emotional domestic drama one associates with the filmmaker’s later masterpieces.
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MUSICAL SILENTS: THE GOLEM
Widely recognized as the source of the Frankenstein myth, the ancient Hebrew legend of the Golem provided actor/director Paul Wegener with the substance for one of the most adventurous films of the German silent cinema.
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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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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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