Ari Aster joins us on January 3 for his most fully realized vision yet: a gonzo dark comedy that gets uncomfortably close to a man who's falling into a million pieces as he desperately tries to get back home.

Christopher Nolan’s surprise box-office behemoth starring Cillian Murphy, the rare blockbuster devoted to psychological warfare and the weight of history, will be presented in 70mm.

Martin Scorsese’s first feature designed for family audiences is a love letter to the art form that uses the new technology of digital 3-D filmmaking to celebrate the birth of movies. See it in 3-D January 5–7. Author Brian Selznick, who wrote the book on which the film is based, will appear in person on January 5!

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.

Classically structured, insightful, merciless, and jam-packed with finely tuned characters, Election remains one of Alexander Payne’s purest and funniest commentaries on human fallibility. 

Martin Scorsese’s first feature designed for family audiences is a love letter to the art form that uses the new technology of digital 3-D filmmaking to celebrate the birth of movies. See it in 3-D January 5–7. Author Brian Selznick, who wrote the book on which the film is based, will appear in person on January 5!

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.

Packed in equal measure with brilliant comic set pieces and wistful dialogues between people desperate for connection, Alexander Payne's Sideways remains one of the 21st century’s most gratifying surprise hits. Screening 1/6 on 35mm.

Martin Scorsese’s first feature designed for family audiences is a love letter to the art form that uses the new technology of digital 3-D filmmaking to celebrate the birth of movies. See it in 3-D January 5–7. Author Brian Selznick, who wrote the book on which the film is based, will appear in person on January 5!

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.

The most riveting hour of television in 2023, “Connor’s Wedding” unfolds in what feels like real time. On January 7, Emmy Award–winning director Mark Mylod will appear in person to talk about this episode, which altered the course of the series.