The Biscotts Series
Featured prominently at this year’s Whitney Biennial, Luther Price’s body of work (spanning over 25 years) is one of the most significant—and underseen—achievements of contemporary American...
View ArticleThe Man Who Will Come
Winner of eight Donatello Awards (the Italian Oscars), including Best Film, The Man Who Will Come reveals a chapter of WWII history that was rarely discussed or depicted on screen until now. From the...
View ArticleThe Salt of Life
“Lustrous, effortless, entrancing, it infects your mood as happily as a hazy Roman afternoon.”— The Financial TimesRead more
View ArticleTurn Me On, Dammit!
“A hilarious girl’s coming of age movie that Hollywood would never make.”— JezebelRead more
View ArticleThe Turin Horse
“Cinema’s greatest crafter of total environments dials up one of his most vividly immersive milieus.”— Slant MagazineRead more
View ArticleThe Day He Arrives
South Korean writer/director Hong Sang-soo (the subject of a comprehensive Wexner Center retrospective in 2006) is perhaps the finest creator of “comedies of manners” working today. With The Day He...
View ArticleKeyhole Preceded by Visitation
"A perfect gateway into the bizarre and fertile world of a unique film artist."—A. O. Scott, New York TimesRead more
View ArticleElena
"A wise and impeccably controlled drama that finds Russian helmer Andrey Zvyagintsev in outstanding form…. A taut, engrossing yarn about a coveted inheritance, cruel class differences, and quietly...
View ArticleNobody Else But You
"A hint of Twin Peaks and a large helping of the Coen Brothers in this offbeat, cleverly crafted French thriller…perhaps the closest thing to Fargo to come along in a long while."— Hollywood...
View ArticleThe Color Wheel
"[The Color Wheel is] the cinema of the future, I hope."—Ignatiy Vishnevetsky, mubi.comRead more
View ArticleBeasts of the Southern Wild
"One of the most striking films ever to premiere at the Sundance Film Festival, Benh Zeitlin’s directorial debut could serve as a poster child for everything American independent cinema aspires to be...
View ArticleAttenberg
“What a strange, moving, puzzling, funny, and ultimately absorbing film this is.”— The Globe and MailRead more
View ArticleYuri ShevchukIn the Shadow of Empire: Ukrainian National Cinema since 2000
Dr. Yuri Shevchuk of Columbia University discusses how Ukrainian cinema reflects the challenges Ukraine has faced over the last decade as it seeks to consolidate its cultural and political...
View ArticleSeeking the Monkey King
“One of 2011’s best films…an exhilarating audiovisual workout that simultaneously engages multiple parts of the brain.”—J. Hoberman, Village Voice National treasure Ken Jacobs, now in his 70s, might be...
View ArticleNuit #1
This perceptive, erotic debut feature by French Canadian filmmaker Anne Émond exposes the potential of even the most fleeting encounters. Two strangers in Montreal meet at a sweat-soaked dance party,...
View ArticleAlps
“A truly original work and a masterpiece of contemporary existentialism, confirming Lanthimos as Europe’s most pertinent hope in arthouse cinema.”—Christoph Huber, Cinema Scope Greek filmmaker Yorgos...
View ArticleTabu
“A gracious love letter to cinema.” – Sight and Sound Described by the New York Times as having “prompted something approaching a collective swoon” at the Berlin International Film Festival, the dryly...
View ArticleCaesar Must Die
A theater director holds auditions for a production of Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar among the prisoners serving long sentences for murder, drug trafficking, and Mafia-related activities.Read more
View Article56 Up
“Brilliant! The Up Series is on my list of the ten greatest films of all time.” —Roger Ebert “Give me the child when he is seven and I will give you the man.” Starting in 1964 with Seven Up, The Up...
View ArticleNight Across the Street
Cinema lost a trailblazer when Raoul Ruiz died in 2011, and this film was his final gift. The Chilean-born Ruiz, who had made films in almost every country and genre, left the world a final gift with...
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