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Les rendez-vous d’Anna

Chantal Akerman
1978 • 127 minutes • 1.66:1 • France
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In one of Akerman’s most penetrating character studies, Anna, an accomplished filmmaker (played by Aurore Clément), makes her way through a series of European cities to promote her latest movie.

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Je tu il elle

Chantal Akerman
1975 • 86 minutes • 1.33:1 • France
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In her provocative first feature, Chantal Akerman stars as an aimless young woman who leaves self-imposed isolation to embark on a road trip that leads to lonely love affairs with a male truck driver and a former girlfriend.

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La chambre

Chantal Akerman
1972 • 11 minutes • 1.33:1 • Belgium
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In Chantal Akerman’s early short film La chambre, we see the furniture and clutter of one small apartment room become the subject of a moving still life—with Akerman herself staring back at us. This breakthrough formal experiment is the first film the director made in New York.

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Hotel Monterey

Chantal Akerman
1972 • 62 minutes • 1.33:1 • United States
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Under Chantal Akerman’s watchful eye, a cheap Manhattan hotel glows with mystery and unexpected beauty, its corridors, elevators, rooms, windows, and occasional occupants framed like Edward Hopper tableaux.

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News from Home

Chantal Akerman
1976 • 85 minutes • 1.33:1 • United States
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Akerman’s unforgettable time capsule of New York City in the 1970s is also a gorgeous meditation on urban alienation and personal and familial disconnection.

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Crisis

Ingmar Bergman
1946 • 93 minutes • 1.33:1 • Sweden
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In Ingmar Bergman’s feature directing debut, urban beauty-shop proprietress Miss Jenny arrives in an idyllic rural town one morning to whisk away her eighteen-year-old daughter, Nelly, whom she abandoned as a child, from the loving woman who has raised her.

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Port of Call

Ingmar Bergman
1948 • 97 minutes • 1.33:1 • Sweden
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Berit, a suicidal young woman living in a working-class port town, unexpectedly falls for Gösta, a sailor on leave. Haunted by a troubled past and held in a vice grip by her domineering mother, Berit begins to hope that her relationship with Gösta might save her from self-destruction.

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To Joy

Ingmar Bergman
1949 • 99 minutes • 1.33:1 • Sweden
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An orchestra violinist’s dreams of becoming a celebrated soloist and fears of his own mediocrity get in the way of his marriage to the patient, caring Marta in Ingmar Bergman’s heartbreaking To Joy.

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Les misérables

Raymond Bernard
1934 • 279 minutes • 1.33:1 • France
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Hailed by film critics around the world as the greatest screen adapation of Victor Hugo’s mammoth nineteenth-century novel, Raymond Bernard’s dazzling, nearly five-hour Les misérables is a breathtaking tour de force, unfolding with the depth and detail of its source.

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Daisies

Věra Chytilová
1966 • 76 minutes • 1.33:1 • Czechoslovakia
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Daisies is an aesthetically and politically adventurous film that’s widely considered one of the great works of feminist cinema.

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The Rise of Catherine the Great

Paul Czinner
1934 • 95 minutes • 1.33:1 • United Kingdom
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A quick-witted and compelling dramatization of the troubled marriage of Catherine II (played by German actress Elisabeth Bergner, in her English-language debut) to Peter III (a randy Douglas Fairbanks Jr.) and her subsequent ascension to the throne as Empress of Russia.

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The League of Gentlemen

Basil Dearden
1960 • 116 minutes • 1.66:1 • United Kingdom
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A delightful cast of British all-stars, including Richard Attenborough, Bryan Forbes, and Roger Livesey, brings to life this precisely calibrated caper, which was immensely popular and influenced countless Hollywood heist films.

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Victim

Basil Dearden
1961 • 100 minutes • 1.66:1 • United Kingdom
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Basil Dearden’s unmistakably political taboo buster was one of the first films to address homophobia head-on, a cry of protest against British laws forbidding homosexuality.

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Babo 73

Robert Downey Sr.
1964 • 56 minutes • 1.33:1 • United States
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Robert Downey Sr.’s first feature is a rollicking, slapstick, ultra-low-budget 16 mm comedy experiment that introduced a twisted new voice to the New York underground.

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Chafed Elbows

Robert Downey Sr.
1966 • 58 minutes • 1.33:1 • United States
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This riot of bad taste was a breakthrough for Downey, thanks to rave notices. Visualized largely in still 35 mm photographs, it follows a shiftless downtown Manhattanite having his “annual November breakdown.”

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No More Excuses

Robert Downey Sr. and Robert Soukis
1968 • 46 minutes • 1.33:1 • United States
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Downey takes his camera and microphone onto the streets (and into some bedrooms) for a look at Manhattan’s singles scene of the late sixties.

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Two Tons of Turquoise to Taos Tonight

Robert Downey Sr.
1975 • 56 minutes • 1.33:1 • United States
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“A film without a beginning or an end,” in Downey’s words.

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Androcles and the Lion

Chester Erskine
1952 • 98 minutes • 1.33:1 • United Kingdom
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George Bernard Shaw’s breezy, delightful dramatization of this classic fable—about a Christian slave who pulls a thorn from a lion’s paw and is spared from death in the Colosseum as a result of his kind act—was written as a meditation on modern Christian values.

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Gods of the Plague

Rainer Werner Fassbinder
1969 • 92 minutes • 1.33:1 • Germany
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Harry Baer, a Fassbinder discovery, plays a newly released ex-convict who slowly but surely makes his way back into the Munich criminal underworld.

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Beware of a Holy Whore

Rainer Werner Fassbinder
1971 • 104 minutes • 1.33:1 • Germany
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In Fassbinder’s brazen depiction of the alternating currents of lethargy and mayhem inherent in moviemaking, a film crew deals with an aloof star (Eddie Constantine), an abusive director (Lou Castel), and a financially troubled production.

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The American Soldier

Rainer Werner Fassbinder
1970 • 80 minutes • 1.33:1 • Germany
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Fassbinder’s experimental noir is a subversive, self-reflexive gangster movie full of unexpected asides and stylistic flourishes, and featuring an audaciously bonkers final shot and memorable turns from many of the director’s rotating gallery of players.

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Elephant Boy

Robert Flaherty and Zoltán Korda
1937 • 82 minutes • 1.33:1 • United Kingdom
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Elephant Boy served as the breakthrough showcase for the thirteen-year-old Sabu, whose beaming performance as a young mahout leading the British on an expedition made him a major international star.

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The Steel Helmet

Samuel Fuller
1951 • 84 minutes • 1.33:1 • United States
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Despite its relatively low budget, this portrait of Korean War soldiers dealing with moral and racial identity crises remains one of Samuel Fuller’s most gripping, realistic depictions of the blood and guts of war, as well as a reflection of Fuller’s irreducible social conscience.

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Cruel Gun Story

Takumi Furukawa
1964 • 91 minutes • 2.45:1 • Japan
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Fresh out of the slammer, Togawa (Branded to Kill’s Joe Shishido) has no chance to go straight because he is immediately coerced by a wealthy mob boss into organizing the heist of an armored car carrying racetrack receipts.

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Poto and Cabengo

Jean-Pierre Gorin
1980 • 73 minutes • 1.33:1 • United States
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Grace and Virginia are young San Diego twins who speak unlike anyone else. With little exposure to the outside world, the two girls have created a private form of communication that’s an amalgam of the distinctive English dialects they hear at home.

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Routine Pleasures

Jean-Pierre Gorin
1986 • 79 minutes • 1.33:1 • United States
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What do a club devoted to model trains and the legendary film critic and painter Manny Farber have in common? These two lines intersect in Jean-Pierre Gorin’s lovely and distinctly American film.

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My Crasy Life

Jean-Pierre Gorin
1992 • 98 minutes • 1.33:1 • United States
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Jean-Pierre Gorin’s gripping and unique film about a Samoan street gang in Long Beach, California, is, like other works by the filmmaker, a probing look at a closed community with its own rules, rituals, and language.

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Lumière d’été

Jean Grémillon
1943 • 110 minutes • 1.33:1 • France
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A shimmering glass hotel at the top of a remote Provençal mountain provides the setting for a tragicomic tapestry about an obsessive love pentangle, whose principals range from an artist to a hotel manager to a dam worker.

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Remorques

Jean Grémillon
1941 • 84 minutes • 1.33:1 • France
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Jacques Prévert cowrote this atmospheric tale of the romantic trials of a tugboat captain, played by the iconic French star Jean Gabin.

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Le ciel est à vous

Jean Grémillon
1944 • 107 minutes • 1.33:1 • France
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In this uplifting romantic drama, the wife of a mechanic and former fighter pilot falls in love with the idea of flying herself. This soon becomes an obsession, and she undertakes a lofty feat: the longest solo flight ever made by a woman

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The Pearls of the Crown

Sacha Guitry
1937 • 105 minutes • 1.33:1 • France
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Sacha Guitry plays four roles in this whirlwind of pageantry investigating the history of seven pearls, four of which end up on the crown of England and three of which go missing. The Pearls of the Crown rockets through four centuries of European history with imaginative, winking irreverence.

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The Story of a Cheat

Sacha Guitry
1936 • 81 minutes • 1.33:1 • France
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This fleet, witty picaresque about a gambler and petty thief is a whimsical delight. Guitry himself stars as the tricheur looking back fondly on a life of crime, which he narrates with an effervescence matched by that of the film’s skillful editing and cinematography.

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Désiré

Sacha Guitry
1937 • 97 minutes • 1.33:1 • France
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Sacha Guitry exchanges his usual top hat for a uniform in Désiré, playing a cavalier valet embroiled in an awkward flirtation with his new employer, played by the actor-director’s real-life wife, Jacqueline Delubac.

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Quadrille

Sacha Guitry
1938 • 95 minutes • 1.33:1 • France
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A sparkling four-way affair overflowing with dialogue that showcases writer-director Sacha Guitry’s wit, Quadrille stars Guitry as a magazine editor whose longtime girlfriend—to whom he plans to finally propose—is uncontrollably drawn to a handsome American movie star.

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The Joke

Jaromil Jireš
1969 • 81 minutes • 1.33:1 • Czechoslovakia
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Jaromil Jireš’s brilliant adaptation of Milan Kundera’s novel tells the fragmentary tale of a man expelled from the Communist Party because of a political joke.

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Leningrad Cowboys Go America

Aki Kaurismäki
1989 • 79 minutes • 1.85:1 • Finland
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A struggling Siberian rock band leaves the lonely tundra to tour the United States because, as they’re told, “they’ll buy anything there.”

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Leningrad Cowboys Meet Moses

Aki Kaurismäki
1994 • 94 minutes • 1.85:1 • Finland
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Living in Mexico with a top-ten hit under their belts, the Leningrad Cowboys have fallen on hard times. When they head north to rejoin their manager (Kaurismäki mainstay Matti Pellonpää) for a gig in Coney Island, he has turned into a self-proclaimed prophet.

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Total Balalaika Show

Aki Kaurismäki
1994 • 57 minutes • 1.66:1 • Finland
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Aki Kaurismäki’s film of the Leningrad Cowboys’ massive concert in Helsinki’s Senate Square with the 150-member Alexandrov Red Army Chorus and Dance Ensemble is a loving tribute to the rock band he made famous.

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Ariel

Aki Kaurismäki
1988 • 72 minutes • 1.85:1 • Finland
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In Kaurismäki’s drolly existential crime drama, a coal miner attempts to leave behind a provincial life of inertia and economic despair, only to get into ever deeper trouble. Yet a minor-key romance with a hilariously dispassionate meter maid might provide a light at the end of a very dark tunnel.

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Shadows in Paradise

Aki Kaurismäki
1986 • 74 minutes • 1.85:1 • Finland
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Lonely garbageman Nikkander (Matti Pellonpää) finds himself directionless after losing his friend and co-worker to a sudden heart attack; unlikely redemption comes in the form of plain supermarket cashier Ilona (Kati Outinen), with whom he begins a tentative love affair.

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The Match Factory Girl

Aki Kaurismäki
1990 • 69 minutes • 1.85:1 • Finland
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Kati Outinen is memorably impenetrable as Iris, whose grinding days as a cog in a factory wheel, and nights as a neglected daughter living with her parents, ultimately send her over the edge. The Match Factory Girl closes out the “Proletariat Trilogy” with a bang—and a whimper.

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Warrendale

Allan King
1967 • 101 minutes • 1.33:1 • Canada
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For his enthralling first feature, Allan King took his cameras to a home for emotionally disturbed young people. The stunning Warrendale won the Prix d’art et d’essai at Cannes and a special documentary award from the National Society of Film Critics.

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A Married Couple

Allan King
1969 • 96 minutes • 1.33:1 • Canada
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Billy and Antoinette Edwards let it all hang out for Allan King and crew in this jaw-dropping examination of a marriage in trouble, which “makes John Cassavetes’s Faces look like early Doris Day” (Time).

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Come On Children

Allan King
1972 • 95 minutes • 1.66:1 • Canada
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In the early 1970s, ten teenagers (five boys and five girls) leave behind parents, school, and all other authority figures to live on a farm for ten weeks. Come On Children is a swift, vivid rendering of the growing pains of a counterculture.

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Dying at Grace

Allan King
2003 • 143 minutes • 1.66:1 • Canada
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An extraordinary, transformative experience, Allan King’s Dying at Grace is quite simply unprecedented: five terminally ill cancer patients allowed the director access to their final months and days inside the Toronto Grace Health Centre.

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Memory for Max, Claire, Ida and Company

Allan King
2005 • 112 minutes • 1.77:1 • Canada
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For four months, King follows the daily routines of eight patients suffering from dementia and memory loss; the result is searing, compassionate drama that can bring to the viewer a greater understanding of his or her loved ones.

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Who Are You, Polly Maggoo?

William Klein
1966 • 101 minutes • 1.66:1 • France
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Elegant, scathing humor ties together the various strands of this alternately glamorous and grotesque portrait of American in Paris Polly Maggoo, an Alice in Wonderland supermodel who becomes the pinup plaything of media hounds and the fragmented fantasy of haunted Prince Igor.

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Mr. Freedom

William Klein
1969 • 92 minutes • 1.66:1 • France
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Mr. Freedom, a bellowing good-ol’-boy superhero decked out in copious football padding, jets to France to cut off a Commie invasion from Switzerland. Freedom joins forces with Marie Madeleine to combat lefty freethinkers, as well as insidious evildoers Moujik Man and inflatable Red China Man.

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