La Chinoise
Director Jean-Luc Godard, whose advocacy of Maoism bordered on intoxication, infuriated many traditionalist critics with this swiftly paced satire. Disillusioned by their suburban lifestyles, a group of middle-class students, led by Guillaume (Jean-Pierre Leaud) and Veronique (Anne Wiazemsky), form …
Hold Me Tight
Vicky Krieps (Phantom Thread) gives another riveting performance as a woman on the run from her family for mysterious reasons in Mathieu Amalric’s most ambitious directorial outing to date.
I Was, I Am, I Will Be
After a Kurdish gigolo and an airline pilot meet at a Turkish resort, their lives change in unexpected ways. Given the opportunity to study and work in Germany, Baran moves from a troubled past to a complicated present, with the prospect of a promising future not far from his grasp. Meanwhile, his m…
I've Heard the Mermaids Singing
Patricia Rozema’s charming, whimsical story about a waifish daydreamer with artistic aspirations is structured around a video-recorded confession and won the Prix de la Jeunesse at the 1987 Cannes Film Festival.
Naked Acts
Celebrated as a key film in the canon of Black independent cinema of the 1990s, Bridgett M. Davis’s Naked Acts tells the story of an aspiring actor who has just landed her first major role, but must overcome her fear of disrobing in public when she learns it requires a nude scene.
Nuit #1
Anne Émond's striking feature film debut is a daring examination of a one-night stand. Clara and Nikolaï meet at a rave. They return to Nikolaï's apartment and frantically make love. Afterwards, instead of parting, the two lovers divulge their deepest secrets to one another.
Pin-Down Girl
No films better represent the “mainstreaming” of exploitation than GIRL GANG and PIN-DOWN GIRL, and no actor was more suited to such low-grade potboilers than deadpan baritone Timothy Farrell. PIN-DOWN GIRL stars Peaches Page as a woman caught in the vice-riddled world of female wr…
Poison
Inspired by the writings of Jean Genet, Poison deftly interweaves trio of transgressive tales-“Hero,” “Horror” and “Homo”-that build toward a devastating climax.
Thousand Pieces of Gold
Set in a mining town in the 1880s, Thousand Pieces of Gold tells the real-life story of Lalu (Rosalind Chao), a young Chinese woman whose desperately poor parents sell her into slavery. She is trafficked to a nefarious saloonkeeper in Idaho's gold country. Eventually Charlie (Chris Coope…