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. . . And the Pursuit of Happiness

Louis Malle
1986 • 81 minutes • 1.33:1 • France
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In 1986, Louis Malle set out to investigate the ever-widening range of immigrant experience in America. Interviewing a variety of newcomers in middle- and working-class communities from coast to coast, Malle paints a generous, humane portrait of their individual struggles.

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The Age of the Medici

Roberto Rossellini
1973 • 255 minutes • 1.33:1 • Italy
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Rossellini’s three-part series is like a Renaissance painting come to life: a portrait of fifteenth-century Florence, ruled by the Medici political dynasty. With a lovely score from composer Manuel de Sica, this grand yet intimate work is a storybook conjuring of a way of life and thought.

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All Night Long

Basil Dearden
1962 • 91 minutes • 1.66:1 • United Kingdom
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Othello is translated to the world of sixties London jazz clubs in Basil Dearden’s smoky and sensational All Night Long. This daring psychodrama also features on-screen appearances by jazz legends Charles Mingus, Dave Brubeck, Tubby Hayes, and Johnny Dankworth.

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El amor brujo

Carlos Saura
1986 • 103 minutes • 1.66:1 • Spain
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A modern take on composer Manuel de Falla’s gypsy ballet, dressed up in pink sunsets and hellishly red fires. El amor brujo, set in a dusty Andalusian village, is a seductive melodrama of a man (Antonio Gades) whose beloved is haunted by the ghost of another.

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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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Apart from You

Mikio Naruse
1933 • 60 minutes • 1.33:1 • Japan
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In this gently devastating drama, a critical breakthrough for Naruse, he contrasts the life of an aging geisha, whose angry teenage son is ashamed of her profession, with that of her youthful counterpart, a lovely young girl resentful of her family for forcing her into a life of ignominy.

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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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The Ascent

Larisa Shepitko
1976 • 111 minutes • 1.33:1 • Soviet Union
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Larisa Shepitko’s overwhelming final film, set during World War II, won the Golden Bear at the 1977 Berlin Film Festival and has been hailed around the world as the finest Soviet film of its decade.

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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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The Baron of Arizona

Samuel Fuller
1950 • 97 minutes • 1.33:1 • United States
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Vincent Price portrays legendary swindler James Addison Reavis, who in 1880 concocted an elaborate hoax to name himself the “Baron” of Arizona, and therefore inherit all the land in the state. Samuel Fuller adapts this tall tale to film with fleet, elegant storytelling and a sly sense of humor.

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Beyond the Law

Norman Mailer
1968 • 97 minutes • 1.33:1 • United States
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Mailer’s belief that we’re all capable of being either police or criminals was the impetus for his second feature, which takes place over the course of one feverish night in a Manhattan police precinct and neighboring bar.

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Black River

Masaki Kobayashi
1956 • 110 minutes • 1.33:1 • Japan
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Perhaps Masaki Kobayashi’s most sordid film, Black River examines the rampant corruption on and around U.S. military bases in Japan following World War II.

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Black Sun

Koreyoshi Kurahara
1964 • 95 minutes • 2.25:1 • Japan
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You’ve probably never seen anything quite like this manic, oddball, anti–buddy picture about a young, jazz-obsessed Japanese drifter and a black American GI on the lam in Tokyo.

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Blaise Pascal

Roberto Rossellini
1972 • 129 minutes • 1.33:1 • Italy
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In this evocative, atmospheric biography, Roberto Rossellini brings to life philosopher and mathematician Blaise Pascal, who, amid religious persecution and ignorance, believed in a harmony between God and science.

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Blood Wedding

Carlos Saura
1981 • 71 minutes • 1.33:1 • Spain
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Carlos Saura began what would become his trilogy with this depiction of a single dress rehearsal for choreographer Antonio Gades’s adaptation of poet/playwright Federico García Lorca’s tale of passionate revenge.

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Caesar and Cleopatra

Gabriel Pascal
1945 • 128 minutes • 1.33:1 • United Kingdom
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Vivien Leigh and Claude Rains pop off the screen in vivid Technicolor in Gabriel Pascal’s version of Shaw’s 1901 play about love and politics in ancient Rome and Egypt.

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Calcutta

Louis Malle
1969 • 99 minutes • 1.33:1 • France
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When he was cutting Phantom India, Louis Malle found that the footage shot in Calcutta was so diverse, intense, and unforgettable that it deserved its own film. The result, released theatrically, is at times shocking—a chaotic portrait of a city engulfed in social and political turmoil.

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Capricious Summer

Jiří Menzel
1968 • 76 minutes • 1.33:1 • Czechoslovakia
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Two years after his worldwide hit Closely Watched Trains, Jiří Menzel directed this amusing idyll about three middle-aged men whose mellow summer is interrupted by the arrival of a circus performer and his beautiful assistant.

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Carmen

Carlos Saura
1983 • 101 minutes • 1.66:1 • Spain
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Saura’s biggest international box-office success was this self-reflexive meditation on both Bizet’s popular opera Carmen and the original novella by Prosper Mérimée. Antonio Gades plays a choreographer who gets involved with his neophyte lead dancer, and grows dangerously jealous.

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Cartesius

Roberto Rossellini
1974 • 162 minutes • 1.33:1 • Italy
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As profoundly simple as its hero’s famous statement “I think, therefore I am,” Roberto Rossellini’s Cartesius is an intimate, psychological study of obsession and existential crisis.

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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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Chains

Raffaello Matarazzo
1949 • 94 minutes • 1.33:1 • Italy
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After years of making mostly comedies and literary adaptations, Raffaello Matarazzo turned to melodrama with this intense tale of a tight-knit working-class family shattered by temptation.

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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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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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A Colt Is My Passport

Takashi Nomura
1967 • 84 minutes • 2.35:1 • Japan
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One of Japanese cinema’s supreme emulations of American noir, Takashi Nomura’s A Colt Is My Passport is a down-and-dirty but gorgeously photographed yakuza film starring Joe Shishido as a hard-boiled hit man caught between rival gangs.

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