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For All Mankind

Al Reinert

1989

79 minutes

1.33:1

English

Al Reinert’s visually dazzling documentary For All Mankind is the story of the twenty-four men who traveled to the moon—told in their words, in their voices, using the images of their experiences.

14 Jul 2009

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1 Disc

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Repulsion

Roman Polanski

1965

105 minutes

Black and White

1.85:1

English

Roman Polanski followed up Knife in the Water with this controversial, chilling tale of psychosis. Catherine Deneuve is Carol, a fragile, frigid young beauty cracking up in her London flat when left alone by her vacationing sister. Repulsion is one of cinema’s most shocking psychological thrillers.

28 Jul 2009

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The Human Condition

Masaki Kobayashi

1959

574 minutes

Black and White

2.35:1

Japanese

Masaki Kobayashi’s mammoth humanist drama is one of the most staggering achievements of Japanese cinema. A raw indictment of its nation’s wartime mentality as well as a personal existential tragedy, Kobayashi’s riveting, gorgeously filmed epic is novelistic cinema at its best.

8 Sep 2009

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4 Discs

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Made in U.S.A

Jean-Luc Godard

1966

85 minutes

Color

2.35:1

French

Like a Looney Tunes rendition of The Big Sleep gone New Wave, this chaotic crime thriller and acidly funny critique of consumerism features Anna Karina as the most brightly dressed private investigator in film history, searching for a former lover who might have been assassinated.

21 Jul 2009

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2 or 3 Things I Know About Her

Jean-Luc Godard

1967

87 minutes

Color

2.35:1

French

In 2 or 3 Things I Know About Her, Jean-Luc Godard beckons us ever closer, whispering in our ears as narrator. About what? Money, sex, fashion, the city, love, language, war: in a word, everything.

21 Jul 2009

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Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles

Chantal Akerman

1975

201 minutes

Color

1.66:1

French

Whether seen as an exacting character portrait or one of cinema’s most hypnotic and complete depictions of space and time, Jeanne Dielman is an astonishing, compelling movie experiment, one that has been analyzed and argued over for decades.

25 Aug 2009

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The Last Days of Disco

Whit Stillman

1998

113 minutes

Color

1.78:1

English

The Last Days of Disco is a clever, comic return to the nighttime party scene in early Eighties Manhattan from director Whit Stillman, brimming with his trademark dry humor.

25 Aug 2009

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Homicide

David Mamet

1991

101 minutes

Color

1.85:1

English

In this nightmarish urban odyssey, inner-city police detective Bobby Gold (Joe Mantegna), is following the murder of an elderly Jewish candy-shop owner, which leads him down a path of obscure encounters and clues, as well as profound reckoning with his own self and identity.

8 Sep 2009

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That Hamilton Woman

Alexander Korda

1941

124 minutes

Black and White

1.33:1

English

Set against the backdrop of the Napoleonic Wars of the late eighteenth century, That Hamilton Woman is a gripping account of the scandalous adulterous affair between the British Royal Navy officer Lord Horatio Nelson (Laurence Olivier) and the renowned beauty Lady Emma Hamilton (Vivien Leigh).

8 Sep 2009

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