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2 or 3 Things I Know About Her

Jean-Luc Godard
1967 • 87 minutes • 2.35:1 • France
Spine: #482 Editions: DVD, Hulu Plus

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.

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Repulsion

Roman Polanski
1965 • 105 minutes • 1.85:1 • United Kingdom
Spine: #483 Editions: DVD, Blu-ray

Roman Polanski followed up Knife in the Water with this controversial 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.

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Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles

Chantal Akerman
1975 • 201 minutes • 1.66:1 • Belgium
Spine: #484 Editions: DVD, Hulu Plus

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.

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The Last Days of Disco

Whit Stillman
1998 • 113 minutes • 1.78:1 • United States
Spine: #485 Editions: DVD, Blu-ray

The Last Days of Disco, from director Whit Stillman, is a cleverly comic look at the early 1980s Manhattan party scene from the vantage point of the late nineties.

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Homicide

David Mamet
1991 • 101 minutes • 1.85:1 • United States
Spine: #486 Edition: DVD

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 a profound reckoning with his own self and identity.

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That Hamilton Woman

Alexander Korda
1941 • 125 minutes • 1.33:1 • United Kingdom
Spine: #487 Editions: DVD, Hulu Plus

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 Emma, Lady Hamilton (Vivien Leigh).

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Howards End

James Ivory
1992 • 142 minutes • 2.35:1 • United Kingdom
Spine: #488 Editions: DVD, Blu-ray, Hulu Plus

The pinnacle of the decades-long collaboration between producer Ismail Merchant and director James Ivory, Howards End is a luminous vision of E. M. Forster’s cutting 1910 novel about class divisions in Edwardian England.

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Monsoon Wedding

Mira Nair
2001 • 114 minutes • 1.85:1 • India
Spine: #489 Editions: DVD, Blu-ray

Cultures and families clash in Mira Nair’s exuberant Monsoon Wedding, a mix of comedy and chaotic melodrama concerning the preparations for the arranged marriage of a modern upper-middle-class Indian family’s only daughter.

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Wings of Desire

Wim Wenders
1987 • 127 minutes • 1.66:1 • Germany
Spine: #490 Editions: DVD, Blu-ray, Hulu Plus, iTunes

Bruno Ganz is Damiel, an angel perched atop buildings high over Berlin who can hear the thoughts—fears, hopes, dreams—of all the people living below. Wings of Desire forever made the name Wim Wenders synonymous with film art.

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Z

Costa-Gavras
1969 • 127 minutes • 1.66:1 • France
Spine: #491 Editions: DVD, Hulu Plus

A pulse-pounding political thriller, Greek expatriate director Costa-Gavras’s Z was one of the cinematic sensations of the late sixties, and is a technically audacious and emotionally gripping masterpiece.

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A Christmas Tale

Arnaud Desplechin
2008 • 152 minutes • 2.35:1 • France
Spine: #492 Editions: DVD, Blu-ray

In Arnaud Desplechin’s beguiling A Christmas Tale, Catherine Deneuve brings her legendary poise to the role of Junon, matriarch of the troubled Vuillard family, who come together at Christmas after she learns she needs a bone marrow transplant from a blood relative.

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Gomorrah

Matteo Garrone
2008 • 137 minutes • 2.35:1 • Italy
Spine: #493 Editions: DVD, Blu-ray

In this tour de force adaptation of Roberto Saviano’s best-selling exposé of Naples’ Mafia underworld, director Matteo Garrone links five disparate tales in which men and children are caught up in a corrupt system that extends from the housing projects to the world of haute couture.

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Downhill Racer

Michael Ritchie
1969 • 101 minutes • 1.78:1 • United States
Spine: #494 Edition: DVD

In a beautifully understated performance, Redford is David Chappellet, a ruthlessly ambitious skier competing for Olympic gold with an underdog American team in Europe, and Gene Hackman provides tough support as the coach who tries to temper the upstart’s narcissistic drive for glory.

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The Golden Age of Television
478 minutes • 1.33:1 • United States
Spine: #495 Edition: DVD

These astonishingly choreographed, brilliantly acted, and socially progressive “teleplays” constituted an artistic high for the medium, bringing Broadway-quality drama to all of America. These award-winning programs feature such stars as Paul Newman and Mickey Rooney.

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Che

Steven Soderbergh
2008 • 261 minutes • United States
Spine: #496 Editions: DVD, Blu-ray

Daring in its refusal to make the socialist leader into an easy martyr or hero, Che paints a vivid, naturalistic portrait of the man himself (Benicio del Toro), from his overthrow of the Batista dictatorship to his 1964 United Nations trip to the end of his short life.

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Roberto Rossellini’s
War Trilogy

Roberto Rossellini
Spine: #500 Edition: DVD

Roberto Rossellini is one of the most influential filmmakers of all time. And it was with his trilogy of films made during and after World War II—Rome Open City, Paisan, and Germany Year Zero—that he left his first transformative mark on cinema.

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Paris, Texas

Wim Wenders
1984 • 147 minutes • 1.78:1 • Germany
Spine: #501 Editions: DVD, Blu-ray, Hulu Plus, iTunes

New German Cinema pioneer Wim Wenders (Wings of Desire) brings his keen eye for landscape to the American Southwest in Paris, Texas, a profoundly moving character study written by Pulitzer Prize–winning playwright Sam Shepard.

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Revanche

Götz Spielmann
2008 • 122 minutes • 1.85:1 • Austria
Spine: #502 Editions: DVD, Blu-ray, Hulu Plus

A gripping thriller and a tragic drama of nearly Greek proportions, Revanche is the stunning, Oscar-nominated international breakthrough of Austrian filmmaker Götz Spielmann, a tense, existential, and surprising portrait of vengeance and redemption.

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Lola Montès

Max Ophuls
1955 • 115 minutes • 2.55:1 • France
Spine: #503 Editions: DVD, Blu-ray, Hulu Plus

Max Ophuls’s final film, Lola Montès is at once a magnificent romantic melodrama, a meditation on the lurid fascination with celebrity, and a one-of-a-kind movie spectacle.

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Hunger

Steve McQueen
2008 • 96 minutes • 2.35:1 • United Kingdom
Spine: #504 Editions: DVD, Blu-ray

Featuring an intense performance by Michael Fassbender, Hunger, about IRA member Bobby Sands’s 1981 prison hunger strike, is an unflinching, transcendent depiction of what a human being is willing to endure to be heard.

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Make Way for Tomorrow

Leo McCarey
1937 • 92 minutes • 1.33:1 • United States
Spine: #505 Edition: DVD

Leo McCarey’s Make Way for Tomorrow is one of the great unsung Hollywood masterpieces, an enormously moving Depression-era depiction of the frustrations of family, aging, and the generation gap.

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Dillinger Is Dead

Marco Ferreri
1969 • 95 minutes • 1.66:1 • Italy
Spine: #506 Editions: DVD, Hulu Plus

In this magnificently inscrutable late-sixties masterpiece, Marco Ferreri, one of European cinema’s most idiosyncratic auteurs, takes us through the looking glass to one seemingly routine night in the life of an Italian gas mask designer, played by Michel Piccoli.

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Bigger Than Life

Nicholas Ray
1956 • 95 minutes • 2.35:1 • United States
Spine: #507 Editions: DVD, Blu-ray

When a suburban teacher and father (James Mason) is prescribed cortisone for a painful, possibly fatal affliction, he grows dangerously addicted to the experimental drug. This Eisenhower-era throat-grabber, shot in expressive CinemaScope, is an excoriating take on the nuclear family.

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Letters from Fontainhas:
Three Films by Pedro Costa

Pedro Costa
Portugal
Spine: #508 Edition: DVD

These are the three films that put Portuguese director Pedro Costa on the map: spare, painterly portraits of battered, largely immigrant lives in the slums of Fontainhas, a neighborhood on the outskirts of Lisbon.

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Vivre sa vie

Jean-Luc Godard
1962 • 83 minutes • 1.33:1 • France
Spine: #512 Editions: DVD, Blu-ray, Hulu Plus

Vivre sa vie was a turning point for Jean-Luc Godard and remains one of his most dynamic films, combining brilliant visual design with a tragic character study. Anna Karina plays Nana, a young Parisian who aspires to be an actress but instead ends up a prostitute.

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