Celebrate Past Olympics and More on The Criterion Channel in July


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Summer is heating up and so is the Criterion Channel’s lineup of content. The Tokyo Olympics may be postponed this summer, but you can still celebrate with 100 Years of Olympic Films: 1912–2012, or get your dose of drama with the Marriage Stories feature on Sunday, July 12.

Here’s what’s on the Criterion Channel in July:

Friday, July 10

Double Feature: Loving on the Edge

Mala Noche and My Own Private Idaho

Touchstone works in the evolution of the New Queer Cinema movement, these twin tales of aimless youth by Gus Van Sant are swooning expressions of his signature concern: the emotional journeys of young men adrift on the margins of society. While editing his boldly original debut feature Mala Noche, about a romantic deadbeat’s wayward crush on a handsome Mexican immigrant,Van Sant met Mike Parker, a Portland street kid who became the inspiration for the young hustler played by River Phoenix in My Own Private Idaho. Further developing the themes of queer identity, transience, and unrequited longing,Van Sant created an intoxicating anthem of outsiderhood that stands as one of the defining independent films of the 1990s.

Saturday, July 11

Saturday Matinee: The White Balloon

Jafar Panahi’s revelatory debut feature is a child’s-eye adventure in which a young girl’s quest to buy a goldfish leads her on a detour-filled journey through the streets of Tehran on the eve of the Iranian New Year celebration. Cowritten by Panahi with his mentor Abbas Kiarostami, this beguiling, prizewinning fable unfolds in documentary-like real time as it wrings unexpected comedy, suspense, and wonder from its seemingly simple premise.

Sunday, July 12

Marriage Stories

Bad marriages make great movies, as evidenced by these gloriously messy, cuttingly perceptive portraits of some of the most dysfunctional relationships ever captured on-screen. With raw emotion, dramatic blowups, and soul-baring self-reflection baked into the premise, these tales of marital breakups and shakeups explore everything from jealousy, infidelity, and betrayal to the procedural complexities of divorce and separation to the myriad, sometimes barely perceptible ways in which couples drift apart. They also happen to be vehicles for some of the most personal and revealing statements from major directors like Ingmar Bergman, John Cassavetes, Ida Lupino, Mike Nichols, Noah Baumbach, Lars von Trier, Asghar Farhadi, and others, each of whom brings fresh insight to that most universal of subjects: the mysterious intricacies of human intimacy.

Come Back, Little Sheba, Daniel Mann, 1952

The Bigamist, Ida Lupino, 1953

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Richard Brooks, 1958 

La notte, Michelangelo Antonioni, 1961

Juliet of the Spirits, Federico Fellini, 1965

Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Mike Nichols, 1966

Faces, John Cassavetes, 1968

A Married Couple, Allan King, 1969

Scenes from a Marriage, Ingmar Bergman, 1973

California Suite, Herbert Ross, 1978

Kramer vs. Kramer, Robert Benton, 1979

5×2, François Ozon, 2004

The Squid and the Whale, Noah Baumbach, 2005

Antichrist, Lars von Trier, 2009

Certified Copy, Abbas Kiarostami, 2010

Tuesday, After Christmas, Radu Muntean, 2010

A Separation, Asghar Farhadi, 2011

45 Years, Andrew Haigh, 2015

Monday, July 13

Nostalgia for the Light

Master documentarian Patricio Guzmán travels ten thousand feet above sea level to the driest place on earth: Chile’s Atacama Desert, where astronomers from all over the world gather to observe the stars in a sky so translucent that it allows them to see to the boundaries of the universe. The Atacama is also a place where the harsh heat of the sun keeps human remains intact, including those of political prisoners “disappeared” by the Chilean army after the 1973 military coup. Just as astronomers search for distant galaxies, surviving relatives of the disappeared search for the remains of their loved ones in a quest to reclaim their families’ histories. Melding the celestial and the earthly, Nostalgia for the Light is a gorgeous, moving, and deeply personal odyssey into both Chilean history and the furthest reaches of space.

Tuesday, July 14

Short + Feature: Lost Pets

Pickle and Gates of Heaven

Featuring an introduction by Criterion Channel programmer Penelope Bartlett

Do all dogs go to heaven? Two documentary filmmakers explore mortality and mourning through the experiences of pet owners. In Pickle, Amy Nicholson profiles a couple of extreme animal lovers, interviewing them about the menagerie they’ve cared for and buried over the years, including paraplegic possums, emaciated cats, and morbidly obese chickens. Errol Morris’s debut feature, Gates of Heaven, immerses viewers in the community surrounding two pet cemeteries in Napa Valley, California, blending sincerity and satire to spin its quirky subject into a surprisingly expansive study of human nature.

Wednesday, July 15

Directed by Miranda July 

Featuring the 2019 documentary Miranda July: Where It Began

The fearless, brilliantly idiosyncratic films of writer-director-actor and all-around polymath Miranda July combine arrestingly oddball whimsy with astute, emotionally penetrating observations on intimacy, sexuality, loneliness, and human connection. Beginning her career as a performance artist immersed in the riot grrrl scene of 1990s Portland, Oregon, July found her way to film with her pioneering Joanie 4 Jackie project, in which she curated and distributed feminist video “chain letters” of underground movies made by women across the country. With her acclaimed features Me and You and Everyone We Know and The Future, July established herself as one of American independent cinema’s most distinctive voices, a bold, relentlessly imaginative artist who finds cosmic insight in the everyday.

Features

Me and You and Everyone We Know, Miranda July, 2005

The Future, Miranda July, 2011

Shorts

The Amateurist, Miranda July, 1998

Nest of Tens, Miranda July, 2000

Shorts from Joanie 4 Jackie 

Transeltown, Myra Paci, 1992

Dear Mom, Tammy Rae Carland, 1995

The Slow Escape, Sativa Peterson, 1998

Hawai, Ximena Cuevas, 1999

No Place Like Home #1 and #2, Karen Yasinsky, 1999

Gigi (from 9 to 5), Joanne Nucho, 2001

Ophelia’s Opera, Abiola Abrams, 2001

La Llorona, Stephanie Saint Sanchez, 2003

untitled video, Sujin Lee, 2002

Joanie 4 Jackie: A Quick Overview, Shauna McGarry, 2008

Thursday, July 16

Three Starring Jane Fonda

Few actors have dominated an era—for their work both on- and offscreen—the way Jane Fonda did in the 1960s and ’70s, when she emerged as one of the most acclaimed performers of her generation as well as a zeitgeist-defining cultural icon for her fierce political activism. All made at the peak of her career, these three films showcase Fonda’s nuance, impeccable comic timing, and versatility: she’s larger than life as an intergalactic bombshell in the cult sci-fi extravaganza Barbarella; riotously funny as a bourgeois housewife who takes up armed robbery in the barbed slapstick satire Fun with Dick and Jane; and at once prickly and disarming as a divorced woman fighting for custody of her daughter in the Neil Simon–penned ensemble farce California Suite. 

Barbarella, Roger Vadim, 1968

Fun with Dick and Jane, Ted Kotcheff, 1977 

California Suite, Herbert Ross, 1978

Friday, July 17

Double Feature: Girls and the Gang

Mona Lisa and Gloria

Featuring an audio commentary for Mona Lisa by director Neil Jordan and actor Bob Hoskins

Two gritty 1980s crime classics distinguish themselves with ingredients all too rare for the genre: heart, humor, and strong female protagonists. Set in London’s sordid criminal underworld, Neil Jordan’s Mona Lisa stars Cathy Tyson, Bob Hoskins, and Michael Caine in a surprisingly affecting, romantic neonoir about the complex relationship that develops between a glamorous call girl and a small-time mobster. Then, the great Gena Rowlands goes from gangster’s girlfriend to gun-toting action hero in John Cassavetes’s offbeat, New York-set thriller Gloria, in which she acts as avenging angel for a young boy on the run from the mob.

Saturday, July 18

Saturday Matinee: Miss Annie Rooney

As Shirley Temple grew up before the eyes of America, this delightful comeback vehicle offered her a chance to shine in a new kind of film: a charming teenage romance, complete with jive-talking, jitterbug-mad bobby soxers. She displays her patented pluck (and receives her first on-screen kiss) as starry-eyed fourteen-year-old Annie Rooney, who pines for nerdy classmate Marty (Dickie Moore) even though his wealthy family looks down on her working-class background. When Annie’s father (William Gargan) invents a new form of synthetic rubber, however, it may just be her ticket to love.

Sunday, July 19

100 Years of Olympic Films: 1912–2012

Originally scheduled to begin this month, the Tokyo Olympic Games have been postponed, but you can still celebrate a century of Olympic glory with this monumental collection. Spanning fifty-three movies and forty-one editions of the Olympic Games, 100 Years of Olympic Films: 1912–2012 is the culmination of a massive, award-winning archival project encompassing dozens of restorations by the International Olympic Committee. The documentaries collected here cast a cinematic eye on some of the most iconic moments in the history of modern sports, spotlighting athletes who embody the Olympic motto of “Faster, Higher, Stronger”: Jesse Owens shattering world records on the track in 1936 Berlin, Jean-Claude Killy dominating the Grenoble slopes in 1968, Joan Benoit breaking away to win the Games’ first women’s marathon in Los Angeles in 1984. In addition to the impressive ten-feature contribution of Bud Greenspan, this stirring collective chronicle of triumph and defeat includes such documentary landmarks as Leni Riefenstahl’s Olympia and Kon Ichikawa’s Tokyo Olympiad, along with captivating lesser-known works by major directors like Claude Lelouch, Carlos Saura, and Miloš Forman. It also offers a fascinating glimpse of the development of film itself, and of the technological progress that has brought viewers ever closer to the action. Traversing continents and decades, reflecting the social, cultural, and political changes that have shaped our recent history, this remarkable movie marathon showcases a hundred years of human endeavor.

The Games of the V Olympiad Stockholm, 1912, Adrian Wood, 2016 

The Olympic Games Held at Chamonix in 1924, Jean de Rovera, 1924 

The Olympic Games as They Were Practiced in Ancient Greece, Jean de Rovera, 1924

The Olympic Games in Paris 1924, Jean de Rovera, 1924 

The White Stadium, Arnold Fanck and Othmar Gurtner, 1928 

The IX Olympiad in Amsterdam, dir. unknown, 1928 

The Olympic Games, Amsterdam 1928, Wilhelm Prager, 1928 

Youth of the World, Carl Junghans, 1936

Olympia Part One: Festival of the Nations, Leni Riefenstahl, 1938

Olympia Part Two: Festival of Beauty, Leni Riefenstahl, 1938 

Fight Without Hate, André Michel, 1948 

XIVth Olympiad: The Glory of Sport, Castleton Knight, 1948 

The VI Olympic Winter Games, Oslo 1952, Tancred Ibsen, 1952 

Where the World Meets, Hannu Leminen, 1952

Gold and Glory, Hannu Leminen, 1953 

Memories of the Olympic Summer of 1952, dir. unknown, 1954

White Vertigo, Giorgio Ferroni, 1956 

Olympic Games, 1956, Peter Whitchurch, 1956

The Melbourne Rendez-vous, René Lucot, 1957 

Alain Mimoun, Louis Gueguen, 1959 

The Horse in Focus, dir. unknown, 1956 

People, Hopes, Medals, Heribert Meisel, 1960 

The Grand Olympics, Romolo Marcellini, 1961 

IX Olympic Winter Games, Innsbruck 1964, Theo Hörmann, 1964 

Tokyo Olympiad, Kon Ichikawa, 1965 

Sensation of the Century, prod. Taguchi Suketaro, 1966 

13 Days in France, Claude Lelouch and François Reichenbach, 1968 

Snows of Grenoble, Jacques Ertaud and Jean-Jacques Languepin, 1968 

The Olympics in Mexico, Alberto Isaac, 1969 

Sapporo Winter Olympics, Masahiro Shinoda, 1972 

Visions of Eight, Miloš Forman, Kon Ichikawa, Claude Lelouch, Yuri Ozerov, Arthur Penn, Michael Pfleghar, John Schlesinger, and Mai Zetterling, 1973 

White Rock, Tony Maylam, 1977 

Games of the XXI Olympiad, Jean-Claude Labrecque, Jean Beaudin, Marcel Carrière, and Georges Dufaux, 1977

Olympic Spirit, Drummond Challis and Tony Maylam, 1980 

O Sport, You Are Peace!, Yuri Ozerov, 1981 

A Turning Point, Kim Takal, 1984 

16 Days of Glory, Bud Greenspan, 1986 

Calgary ’88: 16 Days of Glory Bud Greenspan, 1989 

Seoul 1988, Lee Kwang-soo, 1989

Hand in Hand, Im Kwon-taek, 1989 

Beyond All Barriers, Lee Ji-won, 1989

One Light, One World, Joe Jay Jalbert and R. Douglas Copsey, 1992 

Marathon, Carlos Saura, 1993 

Lillehammer ’94: 16 Days of Glory, Bud Greenspan, 1994 

Atlanta’s Olympic Glory, Bud Greenspan, 1997 

Nagano ’98 Olympics: Stories of Honor and Glory, Bud Greenspan, 1998 

Olympic Glory, Kieth Merrill, 1999 

Sydney 2000: Stories of Olympic Glory, Bud Greenspan, 2001 

Salt Lake City 2002: Bud Greenspan’s Stories of Olympic Glory, Bud Greenspan, 2003 

Bud Greenspan’s Athens 2004: Stories of Olympic Glory, Bud Greenspan, 2005 

Bud Greenspan’s Torino 2006: Stories of Olympic Glory, Bud Greenspan, 2007 

The Everlasting Flame, Gu Jun, 2010 

Bud Greenspan Presents Vancouver 2010: Stories of Olympic Glory, prods. Bud Greenspan and Nancy Beffa, 2010 

First, Caroline Rowland, 2012 

Monday, July 20

12 O’Clock Boys

Meet the 12 O’Clock Boys, an infamous urban dirt-bike pack who whiz through the streets of Baltimore. Popping wheelies and weaving at excessive speeds through traffic, the group impressively evades the hamstrung police. Three years in the making, Lotfy Nathan’s wild, dynamic documentary captures their death-defying antics through the eyes of young adolescent Pug, a bright kid from the Westside obsessed with the riders and willing to do anything to join their ranks. Propelled by breathtakingly kinetic footage that takes viewers along for the ride, 12 O’Clock Boys spins a compelling, intimate story of a young boy and his dangerous, thrilling dream.

Tuesday, July 21

Martin Scorsese’s World Cinema Project: Soleil Ô

Exclusive streaming premiere, featuring an interview with director Med Hondo

A furious howl of resistance against racist oppression, the debut from Mauritanian director Med Hondo is a bitterly funny, stylistically explosive attack on Western capitalism and the legacy of colonialism. Laced with deadly irony and righteous anger, Soleil Ô follows a starry-eyed immigrant (Robert Liensol) as he leaves West Africa and journeys to Paris in search of a job and cultural enrichment—but soon discovers a hostile society in which his very presence elicits fear and resentment. Drawing on the freewheeling stylistic experimentation of the French New Wave, Hondo deploys a dizzying array of narrative and stylistic techniques—animation, docudrama, dream sequences, musical numbers, folklore, slapstick comedy, agitprop—to create a revolutionary landmark of political cinema and a shattering vision of awakening black consciousness.

Tuesday, July 21

Short + Feature: A Day in the Life

Fit Model and Cléo from 5 to 7

Featuring a new conversation between Fit Model director Myna Joseph and actor Lucy Owen

From 1960s Paris to contemporary New York City, two women juggle careers, relationships, and personal crises over the course of days in which nothing—and everything—happens. Myna Joseph’s elegantly shot, Big Apple–set short Fit Model follows a thirtysomething freelancer who works as everything from a babysitter to a stand-in for fashion models while also dealing with the physical and financial fallout of an accident. Joseph based her character’s city wanderings and fluid, fluctuating identity on Cléo, a singer who whiles away her day while awaiting confirmation of a cancer diagnosis in Agnès Varda’s real-time French New Wave touchstone Cléo from 5 to 7.

Wednesday, July 22

Born in Flames 

Featuring a new introduction by director Lizzie Borden

The film that rocked the foundations of the 1980s underground, this postpunk provocation is a DIY science-fiction fantasia of female rebellion set in America ten years after a social-democratic cultural revolution. When Adelaide Norris (Jean Satterfield), the black revolutionary founder of the Woman’s Army, is mysteriously killed, a diverse coalition of women—across all lines of race, class, and sexual orientation—emerges to blow the system apart. Filmed guerrilla-style on the streets of pregentrification New York, Born in Flames is a Molotov cocktail of feminist futurism that’s both an essential document of its time and radically ahead of it.

Thursday, July 23

Tokyo Olympiad: Criterion Collection Edition #155

A spectacle of magnificent proportions and remarkable intimacy, Kon Ichikawa’s Tokyo Olympiad remains one of the greatest films ever made about sports. Supervising a vast team of technicians using scores of cameras, Ichikawa captured the 1964 Summer Games in Tokyo in glorious widescreen images, using cutting-edge telephoto lenses and exquisite slow motion to create lyrical, idiosyncratic poetry from the athletic drama surging all around him. Drawn equally to the psychology of losers and winners—including the legendary Ethiopian marathoner Abebe Bikila, who receives the film’s most exalted tribute—Ichikawa captures the triumph, passion, and suffering of competition with a singular humanistic vision, and in doing so effected a transformative influence on the art of documentary filmmaking. SUPPLEMENTAL FEATURES: An introduction by film historian Peter Cowie, over eighty minutes of additional material from the Tokyo Games, archival interviews with director Kon Ichikawa, and more.

Friday, July 24

Double Feature: The Hard-Boiled Way

Gun Crazy and The Big Combo

B-movie master Joseph H. Lewis turns the ingredients of dime-store pulp into existentialist poetry in these essential noirs, which stand as two of the most stylish and influential examples of the genre ever made. His innovative camera work and eye for pop iconography made the slam-bang couple-on-the-run thriller Gun Crazy a favorite of the French New Wave upstarts, and its influence is felt in everything from Breathless to Bonnie and Clyde. In The Big Combo, the atmospheric cinematography of shadow painter John Alton, dramatically stylized set pieces, and killer performances from Cornel Wilde, Richard Conte, and Jean Wallace come together in a mesmerizingly moody, thematically subversive model of high art wrung from a low budget.

Saturday, July 25

Saturday Matinee: Destroy All Monsters

The original Godzilla team of director Ishiro Honda, special-effects supervisor Eiji Tsuburaya, and composer Akira Ifukube reunited for this kaiju extravaganza, which features no fewer than eleven monsters. Set in the remote future of 1999, when the people of Earth have achieved world peace by confining destructive creatures to Monsterland (until an alien race intervenes), Destroy All Monsters mounts a thrilling display of innovative action sequences and memorable images that have made it a favorite for generations of viewers.

Sunday, July 26

Directed by Atom Egoyan

Featuring a new introduction by Egoyan

The formally adventurous and psychologically intricate films of renowned Canadian auteur Atom Egoyan unfold according to complex, time-scrambling structures that heighten their searing emotional impact. Exploring issues of identity (including his own Armenian heritage), loss, alienation, and technology, Egoyan’s films frequently revolve around people struggling to make sense of their own shattered sense of self in the wake of profound personal tragedies. His provocative themes and elliptical style are on display in early critical triumphs like Next of Kin and Calendar and reach new heights of virtuosity in his masterpieces Exotica and The Sweet Hereafter, both of which are widely considered among the greatest Canadian films ever made.

Next of Kin, 1984

Family Viewing, 1987

Speaking Parts, 1989

The Adjuster, 1991

Calendar, 1993

Exotica, 1994 

The Sweet Hereafter, 1997

Adoration, 2008

Monday, July 27

Infinite Football

Romanian New Wave leader Corneliu Porumboiu (12:08 East of Bucharest) directs this at once hilarious and poignant look at an ordinary man’s extraordinary ambitions. Ever since a leg fracture ended his aspirations of becoming a soccer player, Laurentiu Ginghina, now a bureaucrat working in a drab government office, has devoted himself, with single-minded zeal, to reinventing the game, proposing it be radically altered (starting with reimagining the shape of the field as an octagon) in order to reduce player injuries. With both humor and humanity, Porumboiu’s marvelously offbeat, continually surprising documentary introduces us to an unforgettable individual, a self-proclaimed superman whose quixotic quest mirrors the hopes and dreams of his own country.

Tuesday, July 28

Short + Feature: Age of Exploration

Pillars and Girlhood

Featuring a new introduction by Pillars director Haley Elizabeth Anderson

Young women navigate the fraught terrain of adolescence in these richly immersive coming-of-age snapshots that touch on issues of race, class, gender, and sexuality. Haley Elizabeth Anderson’s lyrical, atmospheric short Pillars evokes the world of a girl growing up in the American South as she experiences a series of awakenings—some blissful, others brutal—after she receives her first kiss. Half a world away, on the outskirts of Paris, a teenager undergoes a similarly rocky journey toward finding herself in Céline Sciamma’s compassionate, unflinching Girlhood, which captures the rapturous highs and crushing lows of female friendship.

Wednesday, July 29

My Twentieth Century

Hungarian trailblazer Ildikó Enyedi’s award-winning first feature is a luminous, unconventional fairy tale. Two twins, Lili the anarchist and Dóra, a luxurious woman of loose morals (both played by Dorota Segda), are separated as young girls. Their lives proceed on opposing tracks until their paths reconnect on the Orient Express with Mr. Z (Tarkovsky mainstay Oleg Yankovsky), who loves them jointly. Defiantly in pursuit of happiness and in retreat from the “mass murdering century,” they are all entranced by Thomas Edison’s inventions and drunk on the miracle of existence. Among the greatest of cinematic debuts, My Twentieth Century introduced the world to Enyedi (On Body and Soul), who remains a vital, distinctive artist into the twenty-first century.

Thursday, July 30

The Loft Cinema Presents: Arizona Dream

Serbian visionary Emir Kusturica (Underground) gate-crashed Hollywood with this singular, marvelously loopy surrealist comedy featuring a remarkable cast that includes Johnny Depp, Faye Dunaway, Jerry Lewis, Lili Taylor, and Vincent Gallo. When his uncle (Lewis) in Arizona invites him to come work at the family car dealership, Axel Blackmar (Depp), a young man from New York obsessed with Eskimos and fish (and, specifically, their dreams), heads West, where he encounters lusty romance with a wealthy widow (Dunaway) and a series of oddball exploits involving turtles, a DIY flying machine, and a strikingly convincing recreation of an iconic set piece from North by Northwest. Like its title implies, Arizona Dream takes place on its own hallucinatory wavelength, a delirious, anything-goes vision of America as seen through the eyes of one of cinema’s great magic makers.

Friday, July 31

Double Feature: From Art House to Grindhouse

The Virgin Spring and The Last House on the Left

Ingmar Bergman’s The Virgin Spring, an Oscar-winning tale of savagery in medieval Sweden, served as a direct influence on Wes Craven’s notoriously nasty debut feature, The Last House on the Left. But despite sharing similar premises, these harrowing dramas about rape, murder, and revenge are the results of two vastly different directorial visions: the earlier film is a powerful interrogation of faith and morality, while Craven’s spin is a shocking work of grindhouse depravity that was banned around the world for its graphic violence and helped usher in a new era of exploitation horror cinema.

Complete list of films premiering on the Criterion Channel this month: 

12 O’Clock Boys, Lotfy Nathan, 2013

5×2, François Ozon, 2004

The Adjuster, Atom Egoyan, 1991

Adoration, Atom Egoyan, 2008**

The Amateurist, Miranda July, 1998

Arizona Dream, Emir Kusturica, 1993

Attenberg, Athina Rachel Tsangari, 2010

Barbarella, Roger Vadim, 1968

Between the Lines, Joan Micklin Silver 

The Big Combo, Joseph H. Lewis, 1955

The Bigamist, Ida Lupino, 1953

Blood on the Moon, Robert Wise, 1948

Born in Flames, Lizzie Borden, 1983

The Bowery, Sara Driver, 1994

Bullitt, Peter Yates, 1968

Calendar, Atom Egoyan, 1993

California Suite, Herbert Ross, 1978

California Typewriter, Doug Nichol, 2016

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Richard Brooks, 1958

Certain Women, Kelly Reichardt, 2016

Come Back, Little Sheba, Daniel Mann, 1952

Contemporary Color, Bill Ross IV and Turner Ross, 2016

Day of the Outlaw, André De Toth, 1959

Dear Mom, Tammy Rae Carland, 1995

A Dry White Season, Euzhan Palcy, 1989

Exotica, Atom Egoyan, 1994

Family Viewing, Atom Egoyan, 1987**

Fit Model, Myna Joseph, 2019

Fun with Dick and Jane, Ted Kotcheff, 1977

The Future, Miranda July, 2011

Gigi (from 9 to 5), Joanne Nucho, 2001

Gohatto, Nagisa Oshima, 1999

Gun Crazy, Joseph H. Lewis, 1950

The Handmaid’s Tale, Volker Schlöndorff, 1990

Hawai, Ximena Cuevas, 1999

High Heels, Pedro Almodóvar, 1991

Hollywood Shuffle, Robert Townsend, 1987

Infinite Football, Corneliu Porumboiu, 2018

Joanie 4 Jackie: A Quick Overview, Shauna McGarry, 2008

Kramer vs. Kramer, Robert Benton, 1979

Last House on the Left, Wes Craven, 1972

Lenny Cooke, Josh and Benny Safdie, 2013

La Llorona, Stephanie Saint Sanchez, 2003

Love Is the Devil: Study for a Portrait of Francis Bacon, John Maybury, 1998**

Lust for Gold, S. Sylvan Simon, 1949

Mad Hot Ballroom, Marilyn Agrelo, 2005

Man with the Gun, Richard Wilson, 1955

Me and You and Everyone We Know, Miranda July, 2005

Miss Annie Rooney, Edwin L. Marin, 1942

My Twentieth Century, Ildikó Enyedi, 1989

The Naked Spur, Anthony Mann, 1953

Nest of Tens, Miranda July, 2000

Next of Kin, Atom Egoyan, 1984**

No Place Like Home #1 and #2, Karen Yasinsky, 1999

Nostalgia for the Light, Patricio Guzmán, 2010

Ophelia’s Opera, Abiola Abrams, 2001

Pillars, Haley Elizabeth Anderson, 2020

Rancho Notorious, Fritz Lang, 1952

Ryuichi Sakamoto: Coda, Stephen Nomura Schible, 2017

A Separation, Asghar Farhadi, 2011

Shadow Animals, Jerry Carlsson, 2017

The Sheltering Sky, Bernardo Bertolucci, 1990

Sleepwalk, Sara Driver, 1986

The Slow Escape, Sativa Peterson, 1998

Soleil Ô, Med Hondo, 1967

Speaking Parts, Atom Egoyan, 1989**

Station West, Sidney Lanfield, 1948

The Squid and the Whale, Noah Baumbach, 2005**

The Sweet Hereafter, Atom Egoyan, 1997

Tchoupitoulas, Bill Ross IV, Turner Ross, 2012

Tony Takitani, Jun Ichikawa, 2004

Transeltown, Myra Paci, 1992

untitled video, Sujin Lee, 2013 (?)

The Violent Men, Rudolph Maté, 1955

The Walking Hills, John Sturges, 1949

When Pigs Fly, Sara Driver, 1993

The White Balloon, Jafar Panahi, 1995

Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Mike Nichols, 1966

Women Without Men, Shirin Neshat, 2009

You Are Not I, Sara Driver, 1981

Young Ahmed, Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Luc Dardenne, 2019**

**Available in the U.S. only

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