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Mr. Cinema Watch Mr. Cinema
Mr. Cinema
Mr. Cinema

Alternate Title: Lo kong ching chuen
Director: Samson Chiu  (2007)
110 minutes

Inspired by the Italian film CINEMA PARADISIO, MR. CINEMA follows the life of pro-communist Zhou in this affectionate look at forty years of Hong Kong history.

La France Watch La France
La France
La France

Director: Serge Bozon  (2007)
102 minutes

Winner of the Prix Jean Vigo for the best French debut film, Serge Bozon's LA FRANCE is "a WWI movie like none other" (NY Times).A striking vision that reaches for the sublime amidst the dehumanizing horror of war, LA FRANCE is a highly acclaimed work of

The Little Girl Who Sold the Sun Watch The Little Girl Who Sold the Sun
The Little Girl Who Sold the Sun
The Little Girl Who Sold the Sun

Alternate Title: La petite vendeuse de Soleil
Director: Djibril Diop Mambéty  (1999)
43 minutes

African master Djibril Diop Mambety's final film brings us the feisty Sili Lam, a twelve year old paraplegic who becomes the first girl to sell a daily newspaper in the competitive world of young male newspaper vendors.

The Scent of Green Papaya Watch The Scent of Green Papaya
The Scent of Green Papaya
The Scent of Green Papaya

Alternate Title: Mùi du du xanh
Director: Anh Hung Tran  (1993)
104 minutes

An Academy Award® nominee for "Best Foreign Language Film," Tran Anh Hung's feature-length debut recreates antebellum Vietnam through both the wide eyes of childhood and the deep blush of first love.

Le combat dans l'île Watch Le combat dans l'île
Le combat dans l'île
Le combat dans l'île

Alternate Title: Fire and Ice
Director: Alain Cavalier  (1962)
104 minutes

Filled with thrilling plot twists, jazzy gun battles and stormy betrayals, this scintillating neo-noir unfolds against a backdrop of ’60s political turmoil and is strikingly shot in stark black and white by legendary cinematographer Pierre Lhomme.

Poetry Watch Poetry
Poetry
Poetry

Alternate Title: Shi
Director: Lee Chang-dong  (2010)
139 minutes

POETRY is a portrait of a woman's brave fight against Alzheimer's disease and against her guilt over a relative's brutal crime.

a sketchbook for The Library Van Watch a sketchbook for The Library Van
a sketchbook for The Library Van
a sketchbook for The Library Van

Director: Gideon Koppel  (2005)
57 minutes

Filmmaker Gideon Koppel's precursor to SLEEP FURIOUSLY, A SKETCHBOOK FOR THE LIBRARY VAN is, indeed, a preparatory rough-draft of the extraordinary feature-length documentary.

John's Gone Watch John's Gone
John's Gone
John's Gone

Director: Benny Safdie, Josh Safdie  (2010)
22 minutes

JOHN'S GONE is a fever dream comedy. John sells things online, cheats off dollar stores, needs friends but settles for strangers, has roaches. He is punch drunk, not with love but something far more strange and lost. One can only say John's gone.

Inferno Watch Inferno
Inferno
Inferno

Alternate Title: L'enfer d'Henri-Georges Clouzot
Director: Serge Bromberg, Ruxandra Medrea  (2009)
100 minutes

One of the great, unfinished works in film history, Henri-Georges Clouzot's INFERNO was an audaciously experimental film with a virtually unlimited budget that was stopped only three weeks into production.

My Breakfast with Blassie Watch My Breakfast with Blassie
My Breakfast with Blassie
My Breakfast with Blassie

Director: Linda Lautrec, Johnny Legend, Mark Shepard  (1983)
57 minutes

In characteristic Andy Kaufman style, he and professional wrestler "Classy" Freddie Blassie run a parody of MY DINNER WITH ANDRE in this hilarious film.

The Color of Fame Watch The Color of Fame
The Color of Fame
The Color of Fame

Alternate Title: El tinte de la fama
Director: Alejandro Bellame Palacios  (2008)
90 minutes

Magaly enters a TV contest looking for Marilyn Monroe look-alikes, pressured by her husband and a money prize of $25,000 to help them overcome their precarious financial situation.

Disc Jockey Watch Disc Jockey
Disc Jockey
Disc Jockey

Alternate Title: Diskzokej
Director: Jiří Barta  (1980)
9 minutes

Jiří Barta’s dense cut-out animation invokes the rising tide of materialism with Pop Art panache.

Dogtooth Watch Dogtooth
Dogtooth
Dogtooth

Alternate Title: Kynodontas
Director: Yorgos Lanthimos  (2009)
97 minutes

Graceful, enigmatic and often frightening, DOGTOOTH is an ingenious dark comedy that won the Prix Un Certain Regard at the 2009 Cannes Film Festival, propelling Yorgos Lanthimos to the forefront of contemporary cinema’s most ambitious young filmmakers.

The Beaches of Agnès Watch The Beaches of Agnès
The Beaches of Agnès
The Beaches of Agnès

Alternate Title: Les plages d'Agnès
Director: Agnès Varda  (2008)
112 minutes

A richly cinematic self portrait that touches on everything from the feminist movement and the Black Panthers to the films of husband Jacques Demy.

Zizek! Watch Zizek!
Zizek!
Zizek!

Director: Astra Taylor  (2005)
69 minutes

This captivating, erudite documentary explores the eccentric personality and esoteric work of this incomparable academic and writer who has been called everything from “the Elvis of cultural theory” to “a one person culture mulcher."

Everyone Else Watch Everyone Else
Everyone Else
Everyone Else

Director: Maren Ade  (2009)
124 minutes

A young couple’s relationship is pushed to the brink while vacationing in the Mediterranean in this smart, sexy drama from acclaimed new filmmaker Maren Ade.

Isabella Watch Isabella
Isabella
Isabella

Alternate Title: Yi sa bui lai
Director: Edmond Pang  (2006)
109 minutes

A down-on-his-luck corrupt cop has a drunken one-night stand with a mysterious girl. As events unravel, the cop discovers a shocking revelation about the girl.

Patterns Watch Patterns
Patterns
Patterns

Alternate Title: The Patterns Trilogy
Director: Jamie Travis  (2005)
9 minutes

The first film in Jamie Travis’s PATTERNS trilogy suggests a surrealist homage to the psychologically charged set designs of auteurs like Alfred Hitchcock and Douglas Sirk.

Who is Harry Nilsson (and Why is Everybody Talkin' About Him)? Watch Who is Harry Nilsson (and Why is Everybody Talkin' About Him)?
Who is Harry Nilsson (and Why is...
Who is Harry Nilsson (and Why is Everybody Talkin' About Him)?

Director: John Scheinfeld  (2010)
116 minutes

WHO IS HARRY NILSSON…?, a wildly entertaining, star studded documentary tells the story of one of the most talented and versatile singer songwriters in pop music history and the man the Beatles dubbed their favorite American musician.

Why the Anderson Children Didn't Come to Dinner Watch Why the Anderson Children Didn't Come to Dinner
Why the Anderson Children Didn't...
Why the Anderson Children Didn't Come to Dinner

Director: Jamie Travis  (2003)
17 minutes

The award-winning short film tells the “gloriously surreal” story of three seven year-olds forced to endure their mother’s culinary abuses.