From witchy Gogol adaptations, sinisterly psychedelic Alice in Wonderland serials and cigarette ads, to surrealist parables, antifascist poems, and even Stephen King (!), Ukrainian animators rebuilt their industry after the second world war and made Kievnauchfilm one of the most distinguished animation studios in the world.
In this taut psychological thriller by Karyn Kusama (JENNIFER’S BODY), the tension is palpable when Will shows up to a dinner party hosted by his ex-wife Eden and new husband David (Michiel Huisman).
Rescheduled from the night of the big snowstorm! Old Dr. Faust attends the opera, a performance of his famous ancestor's pact with the Devil. Actually, the Devil is there too, and has a deal for the old man... here we go again!
Maybe the New Wave’s most anarchic entry, Věra Chytilová’s absurdist farce follows the misadventures of two brash young women. Believing the world to be “spoiled,” they embark on a series of pranks in which nothing—food, clothes, men, war—is taken seriously. Daisies is an aesthetically and politically adventurous film that’s widely considered one of the great works of feminist cinema.
A fading Lothario and bureaucrat plies his rapidly diminishing charms on Prague's young women, and in the process confronts the spectre of Death! A reversal of perspective on their beloved classic Daisies, and teeming with the same frenetic energy, THE VERY LATE AFTERNOON OF THE FAUN saw director Věra Chytilová and writer & designer Ester Krumbachová teaming up once again for an encore of savage feminist comedy!
Sex work is portrayed with radical nonjudgment in Lizzie Borden’s immersive, richly detailed look at the rhythms and rituals of society’s most stigmatized profession.
A shorts and featurettes program of love, death, and the sea! Our headline film, DAINAH LA DAINAH LA METISSE (1931) is an early masterpiece by French master Jean Gremillon. A strange, stylized and alluring film, DAINAH is a jazzy, nightmarish poem about racial tension and sublimated colonial guilt, set amidst the strange parties and magic-laced maskarades on...
Wendy (Michelle Williams), a near-penniless drifter, is traveling to Alaska in search of work, and her only companion is her dog, Lucy. Already perilously close to losing everything, Wendy hits a bigger bump in the road when her old car breaks down in Oregon and she is arrested for shoplifting dog food. When she posts bail and returns to retrieve Lucy, she finds that the dog is gone, prompting a frantic search for her pet. Directed by Kelly Reichardt.
A masterwork of atmospheric gothic ghastliness! Featuring the rarely seen full length cut of this film.
Written and directed by Isabel Sandoval, LINGUA FRANCA follows an undocumented Filipina trans woman Olivia (Isabel Sandoval) after she has secured a job as a live-in caregiver for Olga (Lynn Cohen), an elderly Russian woman in Brooklyn’s Brighton Beach neighborhood.
