In SISTER MIDNIGHT, the audacious debut feature from London based Indian artist and filmmaker Karan Kandhari, rebellious small-town misfit Uma (acclaimed Indian actress Radhika Apte) arrives in Mumbai to find herself totally unsuited to life as a housewife. At odds with her prying neighbors and under the constant oppressive noise and heat of the city, she decides to break free from the shackles of domesticity and follow her own path in this bold, unpredictable, and darkly funny debut. Featuring an eclectic soundtrack (Interpol frontman Paul Banks makes his debut as composer) and singular visual aesthetic, the film world-premiered in Cannes’ Directors Fortnight and won the award for Best Film in the Next Wave section at Fantastic Fest.

In a dusty, underpopulated California resort town, a naive southern waif, Pinky Rose (Sissy Spacek), idolizes and befriends her fellow nurse, the would-be sophisticate and “thoroughly modern” Millie Lammoreaux (Shelley Duvall). When Millie takes Pinky in as her roommate, Pinky’s hero worship evolves into something far stranger and more sinister than either could have anticipated. Featuring brilliant performances from Spacek and Duvall, this dreamlike masterpiece from Robert Altman careens from the humorous to the chilling to the surreal, resulting in one of the most unusual and compelling films of the 1970s.

A harried movie director retreats into his memories and fantasies.

A widow and a widower find their relationship developing into love, but their past tragedies prove hard to overcome, causing them to proceed with utmost delicacy.

Jewher lands in the US after being separated from her father at the Beijing airport. Abduweli, imprisoned and tortured for teaching Uyghur language leaves for Istanbul upon his release. Together, they join survivors of China’s "re-education camps" and their families, in Turkey, Kazakhstan, Europe and the United States to expose atrocities with the hope that global awareness will bring change.

ANIMATION CELEBRATION! Part 7 – is a brand-new show and all new to the Roxie screen! Patrons of the Roxie are realizing that these are very special animation programs filled with rare or rarely seen cartoons which have been culled from many different sources. This series is a celebration of some of the greatest cartoons ever made from animation’s golden era of the 1930’s, 40’s and 50’s. A night of rare, fun, and outrageous ‘toons for all!

Badlands announced the arrival of a major talent: Terrence Malick. His impressionistic take on the notorious Charles Starkweather killing spree of the late 1950s uses a serial-killer narrative as a springboard for an oblique teenage romance, lovingly and idiosyncratically enacted by Martin Sheen and Sissy Spacek. The film introduced many of the elements that would earn Malick his passionate following: the enigmatic approach to narrative and character, the unusual use of voice-over, the juxtaposition of human violence with natural beauty, the poetic investigation of American dreams and nightmares. This debut has spawned countless imitations, but none have equaled its strange sublimity.

Two seemingly dumb teens struggle to prepare a historical presentation with the help of a time machine.

Heather McAdams is a cartoonist, performance artist, painter, sculptor, junk salesperson, film collector, and maker of some of the most charming and hilarious movies you'll ever see. Working from a seemingly inexhaustible mountain of discarded and dismembered 16mm educational films, commercials, home movies, and musical clips, McAdams fashions pop culture x-rays and garage sale dispatches that uncover society's most sordid secrets. McAdams often scratches and paints over the original footage, and synchronizes it anew with cartoon music, vintage sound effects, pyramid scheme pitches, and whatever else she can find lying around. Her films exist at the intersection of avant-garde cinema, underground comix, and gonzo documentary filmmaking. Step right up and see The Scratchman, a businessman caught in an eternal loop of unwitting defacement. Meet…Bradley Harrison Picklesimer, the proprietor of Lexington's finest drag bar, with the best records and the best decorations in town. Prepare to be dazzled by Holiday Magic, the revolutionary system that lets you stay young and healthy. All of these wonders and more will be on view in brand-new 16mm prints.

CatVideoFest is a compilation reel of the latest and best cat videos culled from countless hours of unique submissions and sourced animations, music videos, and classic internet powerhouses. CatVideoFest is a joyous communal experience, only available in theaters, and raises money for cats in need through partnerships with local cat charities, animal welfare organizations, and shelters to best serve cats in the area. We are committed to raising awareness and money for cats in need around the world. A percentage of the proceeds from each event go to local animal shelters and/or animal welfare organizations. Since 2019, over $150,000 has been raised for local shelters in addition to adoptions, fostering, volunteer sign-ups and much more at shows. By focusing our fundraising efforts on behalf of local shelters and organizations, we’re able to divert money and attention directly to the places and causes that need it most. We trust local people working on behalf of cats to know and understand the problems that need to be solved. The 75-minute-reel of cat videos is family-friendly and can be enjoyed by anyone. The wide demographic appeal allows for it to be shown in virtually any type of setting - from museums to theaters to outdoor festivals and beyond. This flexibility means there are almost no limits to where CatVideoFest can go!

A Chinese woman lives to herself in silence, celebrating the prosperous Belle Epoque with songs and dance.

Terry Zwigoff’s landmark 1995 film is an intimate documentary portrait of the underground artist Robert Crumb, whose unique drawing style and sexually and racially provocative subject matter have made him a household name in popular American art. Zwigoff candidly and colorfully delves into the details of Crumb’s incredible career and life, including his family of reclusive eccentrics, some of the most remarkable people you’ll ever see on-screen. At once a profound biographical portrait, a riotous examination of a man’s controversial art, and a devastating look at a troubled family, Crumb is a genuine American original.

A neurotic society woman murders her husband with the help of her maid and, on the lam, escape to Mortville, a homeless community ruled over by a fascist queen.

Three teenagers are confined to an isolated country estate that could very well be on another planet. The trio spend their days listening to endless homemade tapes that teach them a whole new vocabulary. Any word that comes from beyond their family abode is instantly assigned a new meaning. Hence ‘the sea’ refers to a large armchair and ‘zombies’ are little yellow flowers. Having invented a brother whom they claim to have ostracized for his disobedience, the uber-controlling parents terrorize their offspring into submission.

Chu is a master chef who has lost his sense of taste. He has three daughters with very different personalities: the eldest daughter, Jia-Jen, is a Christian, and since her mother's death, she has taken up her mother's duties as the eldest daughter and dedicated herself to her family; the second, Jia-Chien, is a high-ranking executive of an airline company and is smart and capable, inherited with her father's culinary skills, but she does not go into her own kitchen, and only wants to buy a house and leave her home; The youngest daughter, Jia-Ning, is a college student starting to explore romance . For the weekly family dinner, Chu prepares a sumptuous meal, but his daughters have their own problems, and the conflict between the two generations always comes to the forefront. When Mrs. Liang, the mother of neighbor Jin-Rong, returns from the United States, everyone's lives gradually change.

Over a decade, within the borders of a single Brooklyn community district, a microcosm of American democracy emerges. Residents of Sunset Park face a tangled web of rising rents, a legacy of environmental racism and the loss of the industrial jobs that once sustained their community. When a global developer purchases Industry City - a massive industrial complex on the waterfront - and begins to transform it into an “innovation district,” a battle erupts over the future of the neighborhood and of New York City itself. Emergent City is an observational civic epic. It sheds light on power and process, illuminating systems and giving viewers a front row seat to the public and private spaces where the city is shaped. With extraordinary access, it tracks an ensemble of participants including the local council member, Industry City’s developers and community members with divergent stakes. The film explores the profound intersections of gentrification, climate crisis and real estate development, and asks how change might emerge from dialogue and collective action in a world where too many outcomes are constrained by money, politics and business as usual.

An octogenarian woman transitions to life in assisted living as she contends with her conflicting relationship to herself and her caregivers amidst her shifting memory, age identity, and desires.

FRESH BLACK FILMS is a dynamic selection of short films celebrating Black stories and filmmakers from all across the USA. Created to bring increased attention to the next generation of independent filmmakers, whose imaginative sensibilities and aesthetics can eventually make them internationally known, FRESH BLACK FILMS is South Carolina-based The Luminal Theater’s curated series that connects audiences with bold new films that run the gamut of emotions and enable you to see the world differently. LINEUP 30-LOVE | Jeffrey Darin McCready (Animation) A homage to the play, heartbeat and rhythm of tennis. MELANIE & KYLE | Tiara West (Romantic Drama) Amidst the captivating world of poetry, Melanie and Kyle's love flourishes. They explore the depth of their emotions through verses that intertwine their souls, revealing a timeless bond of passion, trust, and poetic beauty that transcends their mortal existence. LOST TAPES OF ANTIGUA 2029 | Odessa Whitlock (Experimental) In early 2029, while visiting her family in Antigua, a woman begins having recurring glimpses of a catastrophic hurricane that may hit her island. The only family still based in Antigua is her strong and healthy 94 year old grandmother, whom she wants to warn, but struggles with the choices in front of her. GRIEVE DIFFERENT | Justus Anderson (Drama) After isolating themselves following the death of their friend, two young men finally have a conversation about how they've been feeling - and one of them is about to make a decision he is sure to regret. ONE GLAD EVENING WHEN MY SHIFT IS OVER...I'LL FLY AWAY | Julia M. Mallory (Stop-Motion/Experimental) A combination of dark humor and stop motion collage cutout animation that explores the woes of working in retail through the intersections of gender, race, and class. SENTIENT | Jahi M. Trotter and Shelby Irene (Comedic Drama) Andrew and Toni's quest for entertainment transforms into a battle against an app that blurs reality. As they race against time, they fall into a twisted fusion of virtual immersion, friendship, and the dark side of technology.

When performance artist Bethesda Manolo moves into a queer artist commune in San Francisco, she begins work on her new show. But when she discovers an unexpected clue to her biological mother’s whereabouts, her show takes a creative turn and her stay in San Francisco turns into a musical journey of self-discovery, family and the startling realization that she just might be a fruit fly.

Part of our series Wild, Weird, Wicked: Films from Before the Code! Academy Award winner Walter Huston stars as a man planning to do nothing after he is elected to be President of the United States--but everything changes when he has a vision of the angel Gabriel Over the White House. Soon after party hack Judson Hammond (Huston--The Treasure of the Sierra Madre) takes office, he barely survives an automobile accident. While comatose, he is visited by the archangel Gabriel with a message from God. When Hammond recovers, he takes over all branches of government--turning the United States into a benign Fascist state and earning the love, adoration and respect of a grateful nation.

Georgia O’Keeffe: the Brightness of Light is a feature documentary film exploring the life and art of the most important American woman artist of the 20th century. Known as the “Mother of American Modernism,” O’Keeffe exploded on the New York art scene in the 1920s with her paintings of flowers, bones, and the beauty of nature. Nude photographs of O’Keeffe taken by her lover, Alfred Stieglitz, shocked the public and contributed to the perception that her paintings were sexually charged. In the 1970s, O’Keeffe, famously isolated in the New Mexico desert, emerged as an iconic role model for second wave feminists. From Academy Award-winning director Paul Wagner, the film features music by Emilie Levienaise-Farrouch, narration by Hugh Dancy, and Claire Danes as the Voice of Georgia O’Keeffe.

Founder of the pioneering band Cro-Mags and a legend of the NYC Hardcore scene, Harley Flanagan is a punk rock icon who has defied the odds and come out the other side. But while his career has been a no-holds-barred ride, Wired for Chaos isn’t just about the music, it’s about a man forged in fire – a survivor of neglect, sexual abuse, drugs, violence and PTSD – who's lived to tell the tale.

Following a painful breakup, macho biker Koh (Riki Takeuchi) skips town and hits the road on his beloved Kawasaki W3 650. On his countryside excursion, he encounters the free-spirited Miyo (Kiwako Harada, older sister of Obayashi favorite Tomoyo Harada) who quickly takes interest in both the leather-clad Koh and his motorbike. Koh and Miyo fall in love even as Miyo’s prodigious biking talent and thrill-seeking tendencies heighten Koh’s fear that she may push it all too far. A nostalgia-filled reminiscence, Obayashi’s monochromatic dream playfully worships the biker culture of yesteryear, delivering a sentimental and liberating take on young love.

Explores Catherine E. Coulson's life and her role as Twin Peaks' Log Lady, featuring interviews and archival footage that reveal her artistic journey and the character's cultural significance.

Initially conceived as one third of a triptych about food, In the Mood for Love was expanded into a stand-alone feature that won immediate recognition as a modern-day classic. Another third—intended as the “dessert,” as Wong Kar Wai has put it—was, until now, only screened during his masterclass at the 2001 Cannes Film Festival. Now available in wide release for the first time, In the Mood for Love 2001 demonstrates the director’s masterful ability to generate palpable atmosphere and striking characterizations on a miniature canvas—with In the Mood for Love stars Tony Leung Chiu Wai and Maggie Cheung Man Yuk once again providing the sizzling chemistry— evoking the mystery of transient, unexpected connections in the modern city through his inimitable romantic touch.

Once-renowned jockey Remo Manfredi (Nahuel Pérez Biscayart) has run out of track. Perpetually inebriated, hopped up on horse drugs, and in hock to a minor mafioso, Remo seems to have a death wish. His girlfriend and fellow jockey Abril (Úrsula Corberó) is pregnant, but more invested in the libidinous equestrian underworld than in their drab domestic existence. Remo’s only hope of getting out of debt and starting a new life is riding on Mishima, a thoroughbred specially imported from Japan for his next big race. When Mishima leaps over the fence, Remo winds up in the hospital with a life-threatening concussion. Hunted by the mob and replaced in Abril’s bed by the alluring Ana (Mariana Di Girolamo), Remo dons a disguise and finds himself as herself, wandering the streets of Buenos Aires in a striking mink coat and going by the name Dolores. A wild and surreal crime comedy from Luis Ortega (El Angel), Kill the Jockey explores the fluidity of identity, desire, and animal magnetism in a wholly original and unpredictable register.

After being wrongfully convicted of kidnapping and murdering a young child, a beautiful young woman (Lee Young-ae) is imprisoned for 13 years and forced to give up her own daughter. While in prison she gains the respect and loyalty of her fellow cellmates, all the while plotting her vendetta on the man responsible(Choi Min-Sik). Upon her release she sets in motion an elaborate plan of retribution, but what she discovers is a truth so horrifying, even revenge doesnt seem punishment enough

In 1983, a disabled Californian woman named Elizabeth Bouvia sought the “right to die,” igniting a national debate about autonomy, dignity, and the value of disabled lives. After years of courtroom trials, Bouvia disappeared from public view. Disabled director Reid Davenport narrates this investigation of what happened to Bouvia. Director Reid Davenport's signature participatory approach makes this investigation both gripping and personal. His insightful perspective and evident passion build a look at one complex case into an expansive and existential exploration of the theoretical sanctity of life and the stark practical realities of disabled experience in an ableist society. Profound and unflinching, this documentary engages in philosophical terrain that is treacherous, challenging, and ultimately rich and necessary. Life After looks closely and critically at where progressive values of bodily autonomy and individual choice collide with latent fears of disability and an unequal value of the lives of disabled people. In doing so, Reid untangles an issue at the heart of our moral societal standing. Winner of the US Documentary Special Jury Award at the 2025 Sundance Film Festival.

The sleeper arthouse hit of the early 2000s, Coppola’s sophomore feature, about the not-quite-romance between two Americans abroad—a washed-up, middle-aged actor (Bill Murray) and an unhappily married recent college graduate (Scarlett Johansson), both stranded at the Park Hyatt Tokyo—conjured up a mood of seductively lush ennui that resonated with young audiences in much the same way shoegaze records had for the previous generation. (Coincidentally, the soundtrack includes original work from My Bloody Valentine frontman Kevin Shields.) Sweetly sad, richly textured, and a showcase for Murray at his most morosely funny, this 21st-century Brief Encounter has been passed around like a precious secret ever since.

From filmmaker George Miller, originator of the post-apocalyptic genre and mastermind behind the legendary Mad Max trilogy, comes this return to the world of the Road Warrior, Max Rockatansky. Haunted by his turbulent past, Mad Max (Tom Hardy—The Dark Knight Rises) believes the best way to survive is to wander alone. Nevertheless, he becomes swept up with a band of survivors fleeing across the Wasteland in a war rig driven by an elite Imperator, Furiosa (Oscar winner Charlize Theron—Prometheus). They are escaping a Citadel tyrannized by the Immortan Joe (Hugh Keays-Byrne), from whom something irreplaceable has been taken. Enraged, the Warlord marshals all his gangs and ruthlessly pursues the rebels in the high-octane Road War that follows.

From the extraordinary mind of Palme D'Or winning director Apichatpong Weerasethakul, and starring Academy Award winner Tilda Swinton, comes a bewildering drama about a Scottish woman, who, after hearing a loud ‘bang' at daybreak, begins experiencing a mysterious sensory syndrome while traversing the jungles of Colombia.

An unconventional single mother relocates with her two daughters to a small Massachusetts town in 1963, where a number of events and relationships both challenge and strengthen their familial bonds.

Addiction, nonmonogamy, and female sexual liberation: decades before such ideas were widely discussed, Dorothy Arzner, the only woman to work as a director in 1930s Hollywood, brought them to the screen with striking frankness, sophistication, and wit—a mature treatment that stands out even in the pre-Code era. Fredric March (in one of four collaborations with Arzner) and Sylvia Sidney turn in extraordinary performances as an urbane couple whose relationship is pushed to the breaking point by his alcoholism and wandering eye, leading them into an emotionally explosive experiment with an open marriage. Exposing the hypocrisies and petty cruelties simmering beneath the surface of high-society elegance, Merrily We Go to Hell is a scathing early-feminist commentary on modern marriage.

A subtly ravishing passage through the halls of time and memory, this sublime reflection on twentieth-century Russian history by Andrei Tarkovsky (Stalker) is as much a poem composed in images, or a hypnagogic hallucination, as it is a work of cinema. In a richly textured collage of varying film stocks and newsreel footage, the recollections of a dying poet flash before our eyes, his dreams mingling with scenes of childhood, wartime, and marriage, all imbued with the mystical power of a trance. Largely dismissed by Soviet critics on its release because of its elusive narrative structure, Mirror has since taken its place as one of the director’s most renowned and influential works, a stunning personal statement from an artist transmitting his innermost thoughts and feelings directly from psyche to screen.

Two best friends living on the streets of Portland as hustlers embark on a journey of self discovery and find their relationship stumbling along the way.

Matthew Warchus directs Andrew Scott (BBC’s Sherlock, Fleabag) in Noël Coward’s provocative comedy Present Laughter. As he prepares to embark on an overseas tour, star actor Garry Essendine’s colourful life is in danger of spiralling out of control. Engulfed by an escalating identity crisis as his many and various relationships compete for his attention, Garry’s few remaining days at home are a chaotic whirlwind of love, sex, panic and soul-searching. Captured live from The Old Vic in London, Present Laughter is a giddy and surprisingly modern reflection on fame, desire and loneliness.

A deadly game of chance and destiny plays out against the stark backdrop of early-1980s West Texas in Joel and Ethan Coen’s powerful adaptation of Cormac McCarthy’s novel. When he happens upon more than two million dollars from a drug deal turned desert massacre, a retired welder and Vietnam veteran (Josh Brolin) sets into motion a wave of senseless, inexorable violence as he’s stalked across the plains by a soul-weary sheriff (Tommy Lee Jones) and a psychopathic hit man (Javier Bardem). Winner of four Academy Awards—including Best Picture, and Best Supporting Actor for the indelibly disturbing Bardem—this darkly deadpan borderlands noir keeps both the tension and the existential unease mounting through each cruelly ironic twist of fate.

This film made by a Palestinian-Israeli collective shows the destruction of the occupied West Bank's Masafer Yatta by Israeli soldiers and the alliance which develops between the Palestinian activist Basel and Israeli journalist Yuval.

The bitter-sweet story of young lovers caught up in a political struggle waged by farmers against the grain trade, the banks, and the railroads. Set in North Dakota during 1915-16, a largely forgotten era of American history.

An examination of the iconic 90s indie band, “Pavements” appears to be just another music documentary, until it doesn’t. A prismatic, narrative, scripted, documentary, musical, metatextual hybrid, the film intimately shows the band preparing for their sold-out 2022 reunion tour while simultaneously tracking the preparations for a musical based on their songs, a museum devoted to their history and a big-budget Hollywood biopic inspired by their saga as the most important band of a generation. Starring as themselves, Stephen Malkmus. Scott “Spiral Stairs” Kannbera. Mark Ibold, Steve West, & Bob Nastanovich, plus Joe Keery, Jason Schwartzman, Nat Wolff, Fred Hechinger, Logan Miller, Griffin Newman, Tim Heidecker, Michael Esper, Zoe Lister-Jones and Kathryn Gallagher.

An F.B.I. Agent goes undercover to catch a gang of surfers who may be bank robbers.

In Medieval Japan, an elderly warlord retires, handing over his empire to his three sons. However, he vastly underestimates how the new-found power will corrupt them and cause them to turn on each other...and him.

A Cornell Woolrich story inspired one of Alfred Hitchcock’s greatest thrillers, a witty mystery that implicates its audience as voyeurs. When photojournalist James Stewart is wheelchair bound due to an injury, his boredom inspires him to investigate his neighbors with the help of his gorgeous girlfriend (Grace Kelly at her most enchanting), cynical cop friend (Wendell Corey), and wisecracking masseuse (the irreplaceable Thelma Ritter). Nominated for Hitchcock’s direction, John Michael Hayes’s sparkling screenplay, Robert Burks’s color cinematography, and its sound recording, it also features a marvel of Golden Age production design—a multi-story apartment courtyard built on a Paramount soundstage.

In the not-too-distant future, corporations hold gladiatorial ball tournaments as substitutes for war. James Caan stars as a wildly popular rebel rollerballer who has had enough of a spectacle that takes extreme sports (or is it reality television?) to a violent new level. Jewison’s entry in the robust 1970s tradition of imaginative dystopias paints a future where a supposedly perfect world comes at a terrible cost. With Orson Welles collaborator John Houseman as an evil executive.

Don’t be late, Myra Inspired by true events in Pakistan, 10-year-old Myra must find her way home after missing her school van. The short thriller takes a dark turn as she tries to dodge men harassing her on the streets. Liminality In the summer of 2004, in Berkeley, California, queer teens Nina and Jay grapple with understanding Jay's uncharted transgender identity amidst the throes of first love. Hands Just a few inches between his hand and hers become an entire world of dangers and fantastic adventures. Without words, told only through the expressive language of hands, this animated short reveals an epic battle with inner fears—all within a single brief minute of anticipation. Can he cross the inner abyss and finally take a step toward happiness? Once More, Like Rain Man Once More, Like Rain Man follows Zoe, a 13-year-old Autistic actor, as she frustratingly bounces from audition to audition in attempts to be cast as autistic characters – only to be told she’s, “Not what we’re looking for”. Based on the real-life experiences of Bella Zoe Martinez, the film shares a timely, authentic, and often painful window into the world of how people with autism and other disabilities are depicted in the studio system and Hollywood. On Healing Land, Birds Perch ON HEALING LAND, BIRDS PERCH is a short documentary that tells the remarkable stories behind one of the most iconic Pulitzer Prize winning photos in history and explores the continuing aftershocks of the Vietnam War from the perspectives of both sides. Heartbeat This emotionally raw and intimate documentary, shot 25 years ago, follows a couple – the filmmakers – in their complicated journey towards bringing a new life into the world. In today’s landscape of reproductive rights, this story takes on a new meaning and offers a rare view into this moment in their lives.

Released months before lead Hiroko Yakushimaru’s breakthrough hit Sailor Suit and Machine Gun, Obayashi’s first groundbreaking idol picture is a dazzling mix of special effects and blue-screen artifice—a stylistic flair perfected in Obayashi’s debut House, now utilized for the onset of an alien invasion. Ordinary schoolgirl Yuka’s (Yakushimaru) new term comes to an odd start when she inexplicably stops an accident by using latent psychic powers. Troubled by her newfound abilities, Yuka also senses a strange force start to take hold of the school, with students turning into mind-controlled fascists, patrolling school halls, stifling dissent and mandating the re-education of freethinkers. A psychotronic fantasy forged into a young girl’s destiny to defend the planet, School in the Crosshairs is a cosmic overload of extraterrestrial tyrants, preternatural powers and Obayashi’s uniquely adroit filmmaking abilities, underlaid with an existential cry for free will.

Two boys on the two sides of the country; the northern one has lost his father, the southern has lost his mother… So both of them are looking forward a substitution.

A fearless LAPD cop on SWAT detail finds himself trapped on a runaway city bus set to explode if it falls under 50 mph.

Two penniless orphans, Black and White, struggle to survive on the mean streets of Treasure Town. When a megacorporation threatens to tear down the town to build an amusement park, Black and White engage in the fight of their life.

François Truffaut’s first feature is also his most personal. Told from the point of view of Truffaut’s cinematic counterpart, Antoine Doinel (Jean-Pierre Léaud), The 400 Blows (Les quatre cents coups) sensitively re-creates the trials of Truffaut’s own childhood, unsentimentally portraying aloof parents, oppressive teachers, and petty crime. The film marked Truffaut’s passage from leading critic to trailblazing auteur of the French New Wave.

Francis Ford Coppola's masterpiece of sustained suspense and paranoia, starring Gene Hackman as a loner surveillance expert. Hackman's Harry Caul bugs a couple in San Francisco's teeming Union Square. But why? A recluse living alone in an empty apartment, Caul plays saxophone to jazz records and broods over the deaths he may have been responsible for. And as he keeps tinkering with the recordings, he gets bugged himself, his tapes are stolen, his landlord effortlessly penetrates his security to leave a note—and then, to his horror, he figures it out. The Conversation's stellar cast also includes John Cazale (Fredo of the first two Godfather films), as Harry's dim-witted assistant, and a supporting cast of soon-to-be-stars, including Frederic Forrest (Apocalypse Now), Cindy Williams (Laverne & Shirley), Teri Garr (Young Frankenstein), and a ridiculously young Harrison Ford (three years before Star Wars). Coppola's follow-up to The Godfather, The Conversation was nominated for three Academy Awards for Sound (by legendary editor/sound designer Walter Murch), Original Screenplay, and Picture—the same year as Best Picture winner The Godfather Part II nabbed six Oscars.

“The best, the most subtle, the most ambitious, and the most successful in achieving the blend of comic insight and tragic vision that informs this director’s cinema … It has a quality of luminous intelligence exceptional even in a career for which such intelligence was generally the controlling point of view.” Roger Greenspun, The New York Times Ozu’s penultimate film, made at Toho and boasting many of that studio’s contract players, is a rich, ensemble family drama that follows a delicate trajectory from comedy to tragedy. Its plentiful cast of characters, each granted their own narrative stakes and romantic entanglements, revolves around the head of a family-operated sake brewery (Nakamura Ganjiro, of Floating Weeds). He is busy trying to marry off his widowed daughter-in-law (Hara Setsuko, in her final Ozu performance) while keeping his dalliance with an old mistress secret. When the sisterhood gets wind of their father’s impropriety, a heated quarrel portends an end to the aging, impish patriarch. Or does it? One of Ozu’s most lush and modulated efforts, The End of Summer is also among his most poignant—a film, as the title suggests, about conclusions, but not necessarily closure. Its tender staging of two sisters-in-law crouched in unison by the water’s edge is nothing short of sublime.

Los Angeles street racer Dominic Toretto falls under the suspicion of the LAPD as a string of high-speed electronics truck robberies rocks the area. Brian O'Connor, an officer of the LAPD, joins the ranks of Toretto's highly skilled racing crew undercover to convict Toretto. However, O'Connor finds himself both enamored with this new world and in love with Toretto's sister, Mia. As a rival racing crew gains strength, O'Connor must decide where his loyalty really lies.

In his controversial masterpiece The Great Dictator, Charlie Chaplin offers both a cutting caricature of Adolf Hitler and a sly tweaking of his own comic persona. Chaplin, in his first pure talkie, brings his sublime physicality to two roles: the cruel yet clownish “Tomainian” dictator and the kindly Jewish barber who is mistaken for him. Featuring Jack Oakie and Paulette Goddard in stellar supporting turns, The Great Dictator, boldly going after the fascist leader before the U.S.’s official entry into World War II, is an audacious amalgam of politics and slapstick that culminates in Chaplin’s famously impassioned speech.

The Last Picture Show is one of the key films of the American cinema renaissance of the seventies. Set during the early fifties, in the loneliest Texas nowheresville to ever dust up a movie screen, this aching portrait of a dying West, adapted from Larry McMurtry’s novel, focuses on the daily shuffles of three futureless teens—the enigmatic Sonny (Timothy Bottoms), the wayward jock Duane (Jeff Bridges), and the desperate-to-be-adored rich girl Jacy (Cybil Shepherd)—and the aging lost souls who bump up against them in the night like drifting tumbleweeds, including Cloris Leachman's lonely housewife and Ben Johnson's grizzled movie-house proprietor. Featuring evocative black-and-white imagery and profoundly felt performances, this hushed depiction of crumbling American values remains the pivotal film in the career of the invaluable director and film historian Peter Bogdanovich.

Ariel, a free-spirited and headstrong mermaid with a perpetual curiosity about humans, falls in love with Prince Eric after rescuing him from a shipwreck. In order to fulfill her desire to become human, Ariel makes a deal with Ursula, the evil sea witch, who takes Ariel's voice in exchange. Loosely based on Hans Christian Andersen's story, this animated musical feature was composer Alan Menken and lyricist Howard Ashman's first collaboration with Disney as a team, marking the beginning of what is frequently referred to as the Disney Renaissance era. The film was nominated for three Academy Awards, winning Original Score and Original Song for“Under The Sea.”

With The Music Room (Jalsaghar), Satyajit Ray brilliantly evokes the crumbling opulence of the world of a fallen aristocrat (the beloved actor Chhabi Biswas) desperately clinging to a fading way of life. His greatest joy is the music room in which he has hosted lavish concerts over the years—now a shadow of its former vivid self. An incandescent depiction of the clash between tradition and modernity, and a showcase for some of India’s most popular musicians of the day, The Music Room is a defining work by the great Bengali filmmaker.

As Bastian descends into the fantastical world of THE NEVERENDING STORY, so do we, uncovering a mystical and fantastical world filled with emperesses, dragons, and almost anything else you could imagine. A winding and enveloping West Germany fantasy epic of 1980's, THE NEVERENDING STORY is a timeless classic. It follows a boy who reads a magical book that tells a story of a young warrior whose task is to stop a dark force called the Nothing from engulfing a mystical world.

The award-winning noir feature from Producers Louis F. Dematteis and Dante Betteo, Directed by Dante Betteo The City is changing…neighborhood-by-neighborhood, block-by-block, bar-by-bar -- change with it or fight fire with fire. STARRING RICHARD MONTOYA, VERONICA VALENCIA, PEARL WONG, GEOFF HOYLE & ALEJANDRO MURGUIA. As if ripped from today's headlines reporting fires, evictions and protests in the street, "The Other Barrio" follows housing inspector Roberto Morales (Richard Montoya) as he investigates the suspicious circumstances of a fatal residential hotel fire in San Francisco’s rapidly gentrifying Latino Mission District and finds himself face-to-face with murder in the streets, corruption at City Hall and the mysterious Sofia Nido (Veronica Valencia), a beautiful but dangerous flame from his past. This independent noir feature, based on a short story by San Francisco Poet Laureate Emeritus Alejandro Murguia, takes viewers deep into neighborhoods and communities seldom seen on film, while addressing the timely issues of gentrification and displacement of low-income communities along the way. *“Bravo!”*—Poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti *A noir tale of forced neighborhood metamorphosis, as though, as it is said, the story were “ripped from the headlines.”*—Leah Garchik, SF Chronicle

Vibrant, fun, and romantic, Fawzia Mirza directs a film that evokes Bollywood musicals, while delving into the complicated bonds between mothers and daughters. Queer grad student Azra is worlds apart from her conservative Muslim mother. When her father suddenly dies, Azra finds herself on an inspired journey of discovery—from her mother’s youth in Karachi, Pakistan, to her own coming-of-age in Canada.

A young woman in pre-revolution Iran is caught between the traditional values of her small village and her own yearnings for independence and individuality. Her persistent refusal of marriage proposals coupled with her unseemly removal of her hood causes her family to seek the help of an exorcist, convinced she must be possessed by evil spirits.

In this chilling adaptation of the best-selling novel by Thomas Harris, the astonishingly versatile director Jonathan Demme crafted a taut psychological thriller about an American obsession: serial murder. As Clarice Starling, an FBI trainee who enlists the help of the infamous Hannibal“the Cannibal”Lecter to gain insight into the mind of another killer, Jodie Foster subverts classic gender dynamics and gives one of the most memorable performances of her career. As her foil, Anthony Hopkins is the archetypal antihero—cultured, quick-witted, and savagely murderous—delivering a harrowing portrait of humanity gone terribly wrong. A gripping police procedural and a disquieting immersion into a twisted psyche, The Silence of the Lambs swept the Academy Awards (best picture, director, screenplay, actress, actor) and remains a cultural touchstone.

In this classic musical fantasy, Judy Garland stars as Dorothy Gale, a young Kansas farm girl who dreams of a land "somewhere over the rainbow." Dorothy's dream comes true when she, her dog Toto, and her family's house are transported by a tornado to a bright and magical world unlike anything she has seen before. Unfortunately, she makes a mortal enemy of a wicked witch when the house falls on the hag's sister. Now, befriended by a scarecrow without a brain, a tin man with no heart and a cowardly lion--and protected by a pair of enchanted ruby slippers--Dorothy sets off along a yellow brick road for the Emerald City to beseech the all-powerful Wizard of Oz for his help to return home. This special 85th anniversary event includes exclusive insight from Leonard Maltin.

In this jazzy gangster film, reformed killer Tetsu’s attempt to go straight is thwarted when his former cohorts call him back to Tokyo to help battle a rival gang. Director Seijun Suzuki’s onslaught of stylized violence and trippy colors is equal parts Russ Meyer, Samuel Fuller, and Nagisa Oshima—an anything-goes, in-your-face rampage. Tokyo Drifter is a delirious highlight of the brilliantly excessive Japanese cinema of the sixties.

From acclaimed filmmakers Josh and Benny Safdie comes an electrifying crime thriller about Howard Ratner (Adam Sandler), a charismatic New York City jeweler always on the lookout for the next big score. When he makes a series of high-stakes bets that could lead to the windfall of a lifetime, Howard must perform a precarious high-wire act, balancing business, family, and encroaching adversaries on all sides, in his relentless pursuit of the ultimate win.

We Are Guardians, a poignant portrayal of the diverse group of native people who endeavour to save what is left of the Brazilian Amazon. The film expertly dissects the economic drivers that fuel large-scale environmental destruction, while exposing the corruption and partisan politics that enable it.

WELFARE shows the nature and complexity of the welfare system in sequences illustrating the staggering diversity of problems that constitute welfare: housing, unemployment, divorce, medical and psychiatric problems, abandoned and abused children, and the elderly. These issues are presented in a context where welfare workers as well as clients struggle to cope with and interpret the laws and regulations that govern their work and life.

A black comedy anthology film composed of six standalone shorts, all written and directed by Damián Szifron, united by a common theme of violence and vengeance.

“There’s a saying in Mexico, they call it pueblo chico, infierno grande—small town big hell…I was an easy target.” – Juan, an LGBTQ asylee from Mexico. Waves of migrants are fleeing and traversing thousands of miles to plead for safety at the US-Mexico border. Every day, more arrive at the border with hopes that their asylum cases might be heard. Caught between hardline immigration policy and international humanitarian law, most migrants at the border end deported to a potentially lethal fate, while others wait in limbo in Mexico. NO SEPARATE SURVIVAL is a participatory documentary film and community project that offers asylum seekers a chance to get behind the camera and share their perspectives as storytellers. What brought them to risk it all? What future do they dream about? What responsibility do we hold to each other across borders?