With director Justine Triet in person! Triet’s sly and formidable Palme d’Or winner takes the form of both courtroom procedural and marriage postmortem, with an astonishingly modulated performance at its center by the great Sandra Hüller.

Alexander Payne’s debut, starring Laura Dern as a poor, drug-addicted mother of four unable to care for her children who finds herself pregnant yet again, instantly announced a striking new dark-comic voice to American cinema.

This poignant and incisive character study of an ordinary Midwestern businessman on a journey of self-discovery stars Jack Nicholson in one of his most purely touching performances.

There’s nothing quite like a movie by Aki Kaurismäki, who has been honing to perfection sweetly melancholic stories of lonely eccentrics for decades. His latest is one of his purest, sweetest doses.

Glazer has made a film about the Holocaust unlike any other, using obliqueness and the abstraction of terror to speak to the ways in which we all shield our eyes from evil.

Dir. Alexander Payne. 2011, 115 mins. DCP. With George Clooney, Shailene Woodley, Judy Greer, Matthew Lillard, Robert Forster. Payne’s eagerly awaited follow-up to Sideways is a smart and moving dramatic comedy with a remarkable ensemble ...

Hlynur Pálmason's film, shortlisted for the International Film Oscar, is a psychological epic in which morality, spirituality, tradition, and brute force collide amidst the majesty and terror of the natural world. Screening 1/7.

Dir. Alexander Payne. 2013, 115 mins. DCP. With Bruce Dern, June Squibb, Will Forte. Payne’s black-and-white, jewel-like family drama bears traces of the writer-director's more acerbic earlier films, but pushes his filmography into more introspective, ...

Payne’s speculative science-fiction comedy is premised on a fascinating and plausible scientific theory: if we were all five inches tall, the world’s resources would go a long way.

Cristian Mungiu adds another searing drama about feral humanity caught in the jaws of outmoded traditions, and the violent persistence of prejudice and superstition in the modern world.

David Fincher deconstructs the myth of the movie hit man with sardonic relish in this teasingly self-reflexive tour de force.

Killers of the Flower Moon is a staggering, summative tale of American violence that finds Martin Scorsese at the height of his storytelling powers. On 1/13, the screening is followed by a Followed by a Q&A with editor Thelma Schoonmaker, executive producer Marianne Bower, and casting director Ellen Lewis.

Financial problems force a 16-year-old girl who is deaf to leave her progressive Athens school and return to the island where her father lives with his second wife and her son. Once there, she discovers that she must contend with the prejudice and intolerance of her peers and neighbors.

An epicurean feast for the senses set in late nineteenth century that’s also a profoundly moving film about how we create meaning and sustain happiness, The Taste of Things, starring Juliette Binoche and Benoît Magimel was the deserved winner of the Best Director prize for Tran Anh Hung at the Cannes Film Festival.

The Peasants was shot in live-action before being turned into painted animation by a group of 100+ painters over a period of more than two years.

A mesmerizing fever dream of a movie, this compelling and moody masterpiece from Catalan filmmaker Alberto Serra is both drenched in atmosphere and provocative in its wide-ranging ideas about the legacies of the colonialist European mindset.

Incorporating elements of mythic fairy tale, pastoral romance, documentary, and even musical, Scarlet is a singular work of magic realism.

Swiss filmmaker Schäublin has created a film about time itself: what it means historically, emotionally, mechanically, set in the late 19th century Switzerland.

In the marvelous breakthrough from Cambodian-French director Davy Chou, Ji-Min Park stars as an impulsive French woman in her twenties named Freddie, vacationing in South Korea; while there she decides on a whim to try and locate the birth parents she never knew.

Wang Bing has been constructing epic documentary portraits of the economic condition of China throughout the volatile and transformative twenty-first century.

Anderson’s aesthetic control, rapturous beauty, and complex storytelling approach have never been more impressively wrought than in this wildly complex reimagination of the 1950s as a world of the mind.

Elegantly directed on location and classically constructed, Ferrari continues Mann’s ongoing project of depicting men in crisis and shows an important American cinematic artist working at the top of his powers.

The Grand Jury Prize winner at the 2023 Sundance Film Festival is a work of emotional complexity from one of the most exciting new American filmmakers in years.

The 8:00 p.m. Back Street screens as part of a double feature with Of Human Bondage (7:15 p.m.). Snubbed: Irene Dunne  Dir. John M. Stahl. 1932, U.S. 93 mins. 4K DCP. With Irene Dunne, John Boles, George ...

Snubbed: Bette Davis  Dir. John Cromwell. 1934, U.S. 83 mins. Digital projection. With Bette Davis, Leslie Howard, Frances Dee. Though it only took a portion of W. Somerset Maugham’s beloved 1915 best-selling novel, Cromwell’s vivid ...

Snubbed: Irene Dunne  Dir. John M. Stahl. 1932, U.S. 93 mins. 4K DCP. With Irene Dunne, John Boles, George Meeker, ZaSu Pitts, Jane Darwell. This formidable pre-Code tearjerker from melodrama titan Stahl has such a ...

Over the course of many months of filming, and through interactions with a multitude of women, Claire Simon captures a spectrum of fears, desires, and struggles, and a representation of women at all stages of life. Simon's extraordinary documentary screens 1/28.

Yorgos Lanthimos's bold, intricately designed fairy tale, recapitulating and reimagining the Frankenstein myth as a story of feminist awakening, screens 1/28.

The film gathered a strong cult following for its absolute weirdness and groundbreaking, if dated, visual effects, which include a full CGI human avatar, a cybersex scene, and depictions of a virtual reality world that influenced the look of future productions.