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MY UNDESIRABLE FRIENDS: PART I - LAST AIR IN MOSCOW [SECTION I]
Julia Loktev's kinetic documentary, a brilliant vérité paranoid thriller, follows several Russian dissident journalists, mostly young women, during the fall and winter of 2021-2022, in the lead up to Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
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MY UNDESIRABLE FRIENDS: PART I - LAST AIR IN MOSCOW [SECTION II]
Julia Loktev's kinetic documentary, a brilliant vérité paranoid thriller, follows several Russian dissident journalists, mostly young women, during the fall and winter of 2021-2022, in the lead up to Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
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THE WIZ
Based on a fantastically successful, Tony-winning 1975 Broadway hit, with a cast that includes Richard Pryor, Michael Jackson, Lena Horne, and Diana Ross, and behind-the-scenes talent including Berry Gordy, Quincy Jones, and Sidney Lumet, The Wiz is an eccentric, dazzling, befuddling, and often astonishing oddity.
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THE HARDER THEY COME
The film that made a star of Jimmy Cliff and brought reggae to the world, Perry Henzell’s The Harder They Come remains A-list cinema, a swaggering cops-robbers-and-reggae epic fueled by one of the great soundtracks in movie history.
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MY UNDESIRABLE FRIENDS: PART I - LAST AIR IN MOSCOW
Julia Loktev's kinetic documentary, a monumental vérité paranoid thriller, follows several Russian dissident journalists, mostly young women, during the fall and winter of 2021-2022, in the lead up to Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
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THE CHRONOLOGY OF WATER
Based on the bracingly candid memoir by competitive swimmer Lidia Yuknavitch, and marking the directorial debut of Kristen Stewart, The Chronology of Water is a raw and unflinching portrait of survival, sexuality, and self-invention, starring Imogen Poots, Thora Birch, Kim Gordon, and Jim Belushi.
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THE BATTLE OF ALGIERS
One of the most influential political films in history, Gillo Pontecorvo's film vividly recreates, in guerrilla documentary style, a key year in the tumultuous Algerian struggle for independence from the occupying French in the 1950s.
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I AM CUBA
Both a landmark of radical political cinema and one of the most visually ravishing films ever made, this legendary hymn to revolution unfolds in four explosive vignettes that capture Cuban life on the brink of transformation.
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WERCKMEISTER HARMONIES
In honor of the formidable Hungarian artist Béla Tarr, we're screening one of his towering masterpieces. In thirty-nine hypnotic long takes engraved in ghostly black and white, Werckmeister Harmonies conjures an apocalyptic vision of dreamlike dread and fathomless beauty.
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HEAVEN
We honor the great actress/filmmaker Diane Keaton with a new restoration of her first venture behind the camera. Heaven is a talking-head documentary that probes humanity’s evolving relationship to the puzzle of what happens to us after we die.
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THE PRINCESS BRIDE
Rob Reiner sure did make some great films. Like, a lot. We could go back and forth picking favorites all day, but to celebrate his life and career we picked one of those rare movies that everyone likes, The Princess Bride.
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DEAD MAN'S WIRE
Featuring scenery gnawing performances from Bill Skarsgård, Dacre Montgomery, Colman Domingo, and police procedural Grand Poobah Al Pacino, Gus Van Sant’s Dog Day Afternoon riff diligently recreates the strange true crime story that turned an unhinged nobody into an eccentric outlaw folk hero.
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THE MYSTERIOUS GAZE OF THE FLAMINGO
Winner of the Un Certain Regard Award at Cannes, Diego Céspedes’ dazzling debut feature reimagines the early AIDS era as a queer western with poetic intimacy and desert-dry surrealism.
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WISDOM OF HAPPINESS
If you’ve ever dreamed of a personal visit with the Dalai Lama, this film is about to make your dream come true. Speaking as a member of our single global community, he shares practical wisdom for finding peace, compassion, and hope with disarming clarity and deep humanity.
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NIGHT OF THE JUGGLER
Hardly seen at all during its 1980 debut, Night of the Juggler came and went with very little notice. But its restoration 45 years later has uncovered a hidden gem in the genre of Decaying 1970s New York, with the New York Times dubbing it “the great gritty New York movie you’ve never seen.”
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QUEEN KELLY
A decadent late-silent masterpiece, Erich von Stroheim’s epic unfinished swan song, starring the great Gloria Swanson, pulls no punches. This vital new digital reconstruction brings von Stroheim’s original script to life, belatedly closing the circle on his legendary directing career.
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THE PRESIDENT'S CAKE
While people across 1990s Iraq struggle to survive, 9-year old Lamia has been selected to prepare a cake to celebrate the president’s birthday. The President's Cake won the Camera D’Or at Cannes and is Iraq's official entry for Best International Film at the Academy Awards.
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