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April 2021 Programming on the Criterion Channel Announced

Each month, the programmers at the Criterion Channel produce incredible line-ups for their subscribers. For April, the Channel will feature films from Lotte Reiniger, Koji Fukada, Isabel Sandoval, and more!

Below you’ll find the programming schedule for the month, along with a complete list of titles that Criterion has in store for us. Don’t forget to check the Criterion Channel’s main page regularly though, as they occasionally will drop surprises that aren’t included in the official press release.

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FEATURED SERIES

Premiering April 1

The Maestro: Scores by Ennio Morricone

With more than four hundred scores for cinema and television to his credit, Italian maestro Ennio Morricone (1928–2020) left behind a monumental legacy as one of the greatest and most prolific film composers in history, instantly enhancing whatever project he touched. His sublime melodies and adventurous sonic palette—which made memorable use of whipcracks and whistles, gunshots and harmonicas, church bells and animal noises—lent grandeur to art-house masterworks (The Battle of Algiers, Days of Heaven), spaghetti-western classics (The Big Gundown; Duck, You Sucker), stylish giallo slashers (A Quiet Place in the Country, The Bird with the Crystal Plumage), and exploitation fare (Night Train Murders, Hitch-Hike) alike. Bringing together some of the composer’s most celebrated scores alongside lesser-known rarities, this Morricone sampler is as much a treat for the ears as it is for the eyes.

  • Fists in the Pocket, Marco Bellocchio, 1965
  • The Battle of Algiers, Gillo Pontecorvo, 1966
  • The Big Gundown, Sergio Sollima, 1966
  • Death Rides a Horse, Giulio Petroni, 1967
  • Teorema, Pier Paolo Pasolini, 1968
  • The Mercenary, Sergio Corbucci, 1968
  • A Quiet Place in the Country, Elio Petri, 1968
  • Machine Gun McCain, Giuliano Montaldo, 1969
  • Burn!, Gillo Pontecorvo, 1969
  • Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion, Elio Petri, 1970
  • Companeros, Sergio Corbucci, 1970
  • The Bird with the Crystal Plumage, Dario Argento, 1970
  • The Automobile, Alfredo Giannetti, 1971
  • Duck, You Sucker, Sergio Leone, 1971
  • Arabian Nights, Pier Paolo Pasolini, 1974
  • The Human Factor, Edward Dmytryk, 1975
  • Night Train Murders, Aldo Lado, 1975
  • Hitch-Hike, Pasquale Festa Campanile, 1977
  • Days of Heaven, Terrence Malick, 1978
  • The Professional, Georges Lautner, 1981
  • The Mission, Roland Joffé, 1986
  • Ripley’s Game, Liliana Cavani, 2002

More titles to be announced!

Close to Home: How to Make a Movie Without Leaving the House

Countless filmmakers have turned to their everyday lives for inspiration, but a few directors take it even further: shooting on location in their very own living spaces. Recent global circumstances may have conspired to make a fad of this eccentric approach to moviemaking, but it’s nothing new. From cinema’s earliest days, filmmakers have shot close to home—capturing their babies at the dining table or their partners in the garden—out of economic necessity, the desire to make something more immediately personal, or simply because their outsider visions were too weird to be realized anywhere else. Selected by guest programmers Nellie Killian and C. Mason Wells, this series offers a diverse array of examples of this endlessly fascinating subgenre, exploring how shooting at home can affect everything from performance to composition to mood, creating new cinematic spaces where personal truths and imaginative fictions mingle in an often uneasy coexistence. Seen together, they offer a very different notion of what constitutes a “home movie.”

  • Bad Girls Go to Hell, Doris Wishman, 1965
  • Portrait of Jason, Shirley Clarke, 1967
  • Faces, John Cassavetes, 1968
  • Multiple Maniacs, John Waters, 1970
  • Pink Narcissus, James Bidgood, 1971
  • Italianamerican, Martin Scorsese, 1974
  • That’s Life!, Blake Edwards, 1986
  • The Garden, Derek Jarman, 1990
  • Oxhide, Liu Jiayin, 2005
  • Momma’s Man, Azazel Jacobs, 2008
  • Oxhide II, Liu Jiayin, 2009
  • This Is Not a Film, Jafar Panahi, 2011
  • The Mend, John Magary, 2014

Shorts

  • Meshes of the Afternoon, Maya Deren and Alexander Hammid, 1943
  • Saute ma ville, Chantal Akerman, 1968
  • La chambre, Chantal Akerman, 1972
  • A Loft, Ken Jacobs, 2010
  • And Nothing Happened, Naima Ramos-Chapman, 2016
  • Words, Planets, Laida Lertxundi, 2018
  • The Big Trim, John Magary, 2021

Shadow Play: The Animated Films of Lotte Reiniger

The foremost pioneer of silhouette animation, German filmmaker Lotte Reiniger brought enchanting storybook worlds to life through her intricate cutouts and groundbreaking use of a proto-multiplane camera that she developed a decade before the technique was made famous by Walt Disney and Ub Iwerks. Her gorgeous One Thousand and One Nights–inspired adventure The Adventures of Prince Achmed—thought to be the oldest surviving feature-length animated film—is presented alongside a selection of her more than sixty shorts. Drawing inspiration from fairy tales, classic children’s books, operas, and biblical stories, these dazzling jewels transport viewers to fantastical realms of the imagination as only animation can.

Features

  • The Adventures of Prince Achmed, 1926

Shorts

  • The Secret of the Marquise, 1922
  • The Flying Coffer, 1922
  • Dr. Dolittle: A Trip to Africa, 1923
  • Dr. Dolittle: The Lion’s Den, 1923
  • Harlequin, 1931
  • The Stolen Heart, 1934
  • Papageno, 1935
  • The Magic Horse, 1953
  • Aladdin and the Magic Lamp, 1954
  • The Caliph Stork, 1954
  • The Star of Bethlehem, 1956
  • The Lost Son, 1974

The Best of the Marx Brothers

Having honed their whirlwind brand of anarchic absurdity on the vaudeville stage, the Marx Brothers exploded onto the screen in the late 1920s and proceeded to wreak mayhem bordering on the surreal for the next two decades. The quip-spouting eyebrow-waggler Groucho, skirt-chasing silent clown (and harp virtuoso) Harpo, and ivory-tickling swindler Chico—joined in their earliest films by resident straight man Zeppo—combined genius wordplay, antic slapstick, and outlandish musical numbers to create barely controlled comic chaos that blew any semblance of narrative logic to smithereens. Poking irreverent fun at the pomposities of politics, academia, and high society in classics like Horse Feathers, Duck Soup, and A Night at the Opera, the Marx Brothers brought an improvisatory, anything-goes invention to screen comedy that remains as close to pure Dada as mainstream entertainment has ever come.

  • Animal Crackers, Victor Heerman, 1930
  • Monkey Business, Norman Z. McLeod, 1931
  • Horse Feathers, Norman Z. McLeod, 1932
  • Duck Soup, Leo McCarey, 1933
  • A Night at the Opera, Sam Wood, 1935
  • A Day at the Races, Sam Wood, 1937
  • Room Service, William A. Seiter, 1938
  • At the Circus, Edward Buzzell, 1939
  • Go West, Edward Buzzell, 1940
  • The Big Store, Charles Reisner, 1941

The Gamblers

Place your bets on some of the greatest films ever made about the pulse-racing highs and gutter-dwelling lows of the gambling world. Rife with high-stakes drama—in which fortunes and lives can be made or broken by a single roll of the dice, turn of the cards, or spin of the roulette wheel—the gambling film has long been a potent vehicle for filmmakers to explore the seductively seedy edges of society and the riskiest extremes of human behavior. Featuring hard-boiled noir gems (Dark City, The Las Vegas Story), gritty New Hollywood character studies (The Hustler, The Gambler), and 1990s indie sleepers (Hard Eight, Croupier), this winning hand of gambling classics is a royal flush.

  • Any Number Can Play, Mervyn LeRoy, 1949
  • Dark City, William Dieterle, 1950
  • The Las Vegas Story, Robert Stevenson, 1952
  • Bob le flambeur, Jean-Pierre Melville, 1956
  • The Hustler, Robert Rossen, 1961
  • Bay of Angels, Jacques Demy, 1963
  • Pale Flower, Masahiro Shinoda, 1964
  • 5 Card Stud, Henry Hathaway, 1968
  • McCabe & Mrs. Miller, Robert Altman, 1971
  • California Split, Robert Altman, 1974
  • The Gambler, Karel Reisz, 1974
  • The Killing of a Chinese Bookie, John Cassavetes, 1976
  • Atlantic City, Louis Malle, 1980
  • Tricheurs, Barbet Schroeder, 1984
  • House of Games, David Mamet, 1987
  • Queen of Diamonds, Nina Menkes, 1991
  • Hard Eight, Paul Thomas Anderson, 1996
  • Croupier, Mike Hodges, 1998

CRITERION COLLECTION EDITIONS

Premiering April 1

Buena Vista Social Club: Criterion Collection Edition #866

Traveling from the streets of Havana to the stage of Carnegie Hall, Wim Wenders’ revelatory documentary captures a forgotten generation of Cuban musicians as they enjoy an unexpected encounter with world fame.

SUPPLEMENTAL FEATURES: Audio commentary by Wenders, an interview with musician Compay Segundo, additional scenes, and more.

To Sleep with Anger: Criterion Collection Edition #963

Charles Burnett’s 1990 masterpiece is a portrait of family resilience steeped in the traditions of African American mysticism and folklore.

SUPPLEMENTAL FEATURES: A program featuring interviews with the cast and crew, a conversation between Burnett and filmmaker Robert Townsend, and more.

Man Push Cart: Criterion Collection Edition #1066

A modest miracle of twenty-first-century neorealism, the acclaimed debut feature by Ramin Bahrani speaks quietly but profoundly to the experiences of those living on the margins of the American dream.

SUPPLEMENTAL FEATURES: Audio commentary featuring Bahrani; a conversation on the making of the film; Backgammon, a 1998 short film by Bahrani; and more.

Chop Shop: Criterion Collection Edition #1067

A deeply human story of a fierce but fragile sibling bond tested by hardscrabble reality, Ramin Bahrani’s Chop Shop tempers its sobering authenticity with flights of lyricism and hope.

SUPPLEMENTAL FEATURES: Audio commentary featuring Bahrani, a conversation between Bahrani and writer and scholar Suketu Mehta, rehearsal footage, and more.

The Leopard: Criterion Collection Edition #235

Luchino Visconti’s ravishing period masterpiece stars Burt Lancaster as an aging Sicilian prince watching his culture and fortune wane in the face of the Risorgimento.

SUPPLEMENTARY FEATURES: The 161-minute U.S.-release version; audio commentary by film scholar Peter Cowie; the documentary A Dying Breed: The Making of The Leopard; and more.

Moonrise: Criterion Collection Edition #921

A lyrical small-town fable about violence and redemption, Moonrise is the final triumph of Frank Borzage, one of Hollywood’s most neglected masters.

SUPPLEMENTAL FEATURES: A new conversation between author Hervé Dumont and film historian Peter Cowie.

EXCLUSIVE STREAMING PREMIERES

Thursday, April 1

A Girl Missing

Koji Fukada’s follow-up to his prize-winning Harmonium is an arresting thriller that unfolds as a time-shifting puzzle to be pieced together, bit by tantalizing bit. Ichiko (Mariko Tsutsui) is an in-home nurse who has worked for the elder matriarch of the Oishi family for years and regards them as her own kin. When a teenage daughter of the Oishi clan is kidnapped—and the perpetrator is revealed to be none other than Ichiko’s nephew—Ichiko’s life begins to unravel. Built around a riveting performance from Tsutsui, A Girl Missing is a gripping tale of guilt, revenge, and a woman coming undone from one of Japan’s leading filmmakers.

Thursday, April 8

Raining in the Mountain

This dazzling blend of caper intrigue, spectacular pageantry, and stunningly choreographed action from legendary director King Hu (A Touch of Zen) represents the peak of the wuxia specialist’s infusion of Buddhist principles into martial-arts cinema. During the Ming dynasty, a Buddhist abbot charged with protecting a sacred scroll prepares to name his successor. An aristocrat and a general arrive at his secluded mountaintop monastery promising to help in his search, but are in fact scheming to secure the scroll for themselves. As they set about recommending corrupt successors, rival bands of martial artists lie in wait to steal the precious artifact, and the monastery is soon transformed into an epic battleground, with each player caught in a web of conspiracy and betrayal.

TRUE STORIES

Monday, April 5

Mayor

How do you run a city when you don’t have a country? This portrait of the mayor of the Palestinian city of Ramallah captures one man’s dignity amidst the absurdity of endless occupation.

Monday, April 12

Did You Wonder Who Fired the Gun?

Director Travis Wilkerson reckons with the ugly truth of his own family’s history in this shattering journey into the heart of American racial violence.

Monday, April 19

The World of Gilbert & George

See Thatcher-era Britain through the beautiful, humorous, shocking, and absurd lens of art-star provocateurs Gilbert & George.

Monday, April 26

Araya

Margot Benacerraf’s breathtaking portrait of everyday life on the coast of Venezuela is a landmark of both neorealist and feminist South American cinema.

More documentaries featured in this month’s programming:

  • Portrait of Jason, Shirley Clarke, 1967
  • Italianamerican, Martin Scorsese, 1974
  • Buena Vista Social Club, Wim Wenders, 1999
  • Winged Migration, Jacques Cluzaud, Michel Debats, Jacques Perrin, 2001
  • This Is Not a Film, Jafar Panahi, 2011
  • Chef Flynn, Cameron Yates, 2018
  • New Homeland, Barbara Kopple, 2018

WOMEN FILMMAKERS

Wednesday, April 7

Smooth Talk

Starring Laura Dern in her breakout role, Joyce Chopra’s narrative debut captures the thrill and terror of adolescent sexual exploration in a coming-of-age story that morphs into something altogether more troubling and profound.

Directed by Isabel Sandoval

Featuring a new introduction by the filmmaker

“I’m drawn to women with secrets,” says Filipina director Isabel Sandoval (Lingua Franca), a rising star of independent filmmaking who toys with genre conventions in her subversive portraits of women whose personal journeys are tangled up in complex sociopolitical realities. A true auteur, Sandoval wrote, produced, directed, and starred in her feature debut, Señorita, the gripping, noir-tinged story of a trans woman’s struggles to quit sex work and start a new life. Individual and social crises again collide in Apparition, an intense psychological drama set in a Filipino convent being gradually consumed by the encroaching political unrest of the Marcos era.

  • Señorita, 2011
  • Apparition, 2012

Wednesday, April 28

Yellow Fever

Kenyan filmmaker Ng’endo Mukii’s innovative, visually arresting short explores the insidious impact of Western beauty standards on African women’s self-perceptions.

More women filmmakers featured in this month’s programming:

  • Shadow Play: The Animated Films of Lotte Reiniger (14 films)
  • Meshes of the Afternoon, Maya Deren and Alexander Hammid, 1943
  • Araya, Margot Benacerraf, 1959
  • Bad Girls Go to Hell, Doris Wishman, 1965
  • Portrait of Jason, Shirley Clarke, 1967
  • Saute ma ville, Chantal Akerman, 1968
  • La chambre, Chantal Akerman, 1972
  • Queen of Diamonds, Nina Menkes, 1991
  • Little Women, Gillian Armstrong, 1994
  • Ripley’s Game, Liliana Cavani, 2002
  • Oxhide, Liu Jiayin, 2005
  • Oxhide II, Liu Jiayin, 2009
  • And Nothing Happened, Naima Ramos-Chapman, 2016
  • Rupture, Yassmina Karajah, 2017
  • New Homeland, Barbara Kopple, 2018
  • Hair Wolf, Mariama Diallo, 2018
  • Words, Planets, Laida Lertxundi, 2018

SATURDAY MATINEES

Saturday, April 3

Little Women

Australian New Wave luminary Gillian Armstrong comes to Hollywood with an all-star cast for this beloved adaptation of Louisa May Alcott’s evergreen classic.

Saturday April 10

Saturday Matinee: Chef Flynn

A teenage chef takes the culinary world by storm in this inside look at a young man’s fearless pursuit of his passion.

Saturday, April 17

Saturday Matinee: Winged Migration

Jacques Perrin’s awe-inspiring documentary captures the wonders and mysteries of birds in flight as never before.

Saturday, April 24

Saturday Matinee: Androcles and the Lion

George Bernard Shaw pens this breezy, delightful dramatization of a 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.

SHORT FILM PROGRAMS

Tuesday, April 6

Short + Feature: From the Salon to the Boardroom

Hair Wolf and Putney Swope

A pair of fiendishly subversive racial satires tackle anti-Blackness and white privilege with audacious imagination.

Tuesday, April 13

Short + Feature: Water Worlds

Tabula Rasa and L’Atalante

Let your imagination swim in the waters of two aqueous odysseys set in magical floating worlds.

Tuesday, April 20

Short + Feature: Childhood Interrupted

Rupture and New Homeland

The impact of the global refugee crisis on children hits home in these affecting studies of trauma, displacement, and assimilation by Yassmina Karajah and Barbara Kopple.

Tuesday, April 27

Short + Feature: Manic Killer Nightmare Girls

Ramona and Dementia

Two women embark on violent journeys through mysterious nocturnal worlds in a pair of disturbing, noir-tinged odysseys.

DOUBLE FEATURES

Friday, April 2

Double Feature: Feelin’ Feisty

The Man Who Cheated Himself and Tomorrow Is Another Day

Felix E. Feist, one of the unsung masters of the B noir, brings a slam-bang stylistic punch to this pair of evocatively gritty crime thrillers.

Friday April 9

Double Feature: Can You Dig It?

Shaft and Shaft’s Big Score!

Richard Roundtree swaggers onto the screen as private eye John Shaft in the groundbreaking first two entries in the genre-defining Blaxploitation series

Friday, April 16

Double Feature: Stranger Danger

Picnic and To Sleep with Anger

Mysterious strangers cast beguiling spells—and cause disturbing disruptions—in the lives of everyone they encounter in these simmering dramas directed by Joshua Logan and Charles Burnett.

Friday, April 23

Double Feature: East Meets West Texas

Blood Simple and A Woman, a Gun and a Noodle Shop

The Coen brothers’ crackerjack debut gets an audacious period remake courtesy of Chinese master Zhang Yimou.

Friday, April 30

Double Feature: Addiction and Anxiety in Fog City

Days of Wine and Roses and Experiment in Terror

Director Blake Edwards, star Lee Remick, composer Henry Mancini, and the city of San Francisco make for a cinematic dream team in a pair of films—both released in 1962—that showcase the best of each.

PLUS: NOW PLAYING IN 30 YEARS OF THE FILM FOUNDATION

In November, we kicked off our thirtieth-anniversary celebration for film-preservation powerhouse The Film Foundation, founded by Martin Scorsese in 1990. The stunning restorations joining the lineup this month include classics by John Ford and Luchino Visconti, noir discoveries from Max Ophüls and Abraham Polonsky, and one of Abbott and Costello’s most uproarious comedies.

  • Sons of the Desert, William A. Seiter, 1933
  • How Green Was My Valley, John Ford, 1941
  • Force of Evil, Abraham Polonsky, 1948
  • Caught, Max Ophüls, 1949
  • The Leopard, Luchino Visconti, 1963

Complete list of films premiering on the Criterion Channel this month:

  • 5 Card Stud, Henry Hathaway, 1968
  • The Adventures of Prince Achmed, Lotte Reiniger, 1926
  • Aladdin and the Magic Lamp, Lotte Reiniger, 1954
  • And Nothing Happened, Naima Ramos Chapman, 2016
  • Animal Crackers, Victor Heerman, 1930
  • Any Number Can Play, Mervyn LeRoy, 1949
  • Apparition, Isabel Sandoval, 2012
  • Arabian Nights, Pier Paolo Pasolini, 1974
  • Araya, Margot Benacerraf, 1959
  • At the Circus, Edward Buzzell, 1939
  • Atlantic City, Louis Malle, 1980 *
  • The Automobile, Alfredo Giannetti, 1971
  • Bad Girls Go to Hell, Doris Wishman, 1965
  • The Big Gundown, Sergio Sollima, 1967
  • The Big Store, Charles Reisner, 1941
  • The Big Trim, John Magary, 2020
  • The Bird with the Crystal Plumage, Dario Argento, 1970
  • Bob le flambeur, Jean-Pierre Melville, 1956
  • Buena Vista Social Club, Wim Wenders, 1999
  • Burn!, Gillo Pontecorvo, 1969
  • California Split, Robert Altman, 1974
  • The Caliph Stork, Lotte Reiniger, 1954
  • Caught, Max Ophüls, 1949 *
  • Chef Flynn, Cameron Yates, 2018 *
  • Chop Shop, Ramin Bahrani, 2007
  • Companeros, Sergio Corbucci, 1970
  • Contempt, Jean-Luc Godard, 1963 *
  • Croupier, Mike Hodges, 1998
  • Dark City, William Dieterle, 1950
  • A Day at the Races, Sam Wood, 1937
  • Days of Heaven, Terrence Malick, 1978
  • Days of Wine and Roses, Blake Edwards, 1962
  • Death Rides a Horse, Giulio Petroni, 1967
  • Did You Wonder Who Fired the Gun?, Travis Wilkerson, 2017
  • Dr. Dolittle: A Trip to Africa, Lotte Reiniger, 1928
  • Dr. Dolittle: Lion’s Den, 1928
  • Duck Soup, Leo McCarey, 1933
  • Duck, You Sucker, Sergio Leone, 1971
  • El Condor, John Guillermin, 1970
  • Experiment in Terror, Blake Edwards, 1962
  • The Flying Coffer, Lotte Reiniger, 1922
  • Force of Evil, Abraham Polonsky, 1948 *
  • The Gambler, Karel Reisz, 1974
  • The Garden, Derek Jarman, 1990
  • Gilda, Charles Vidor, 1946
  • A Girl Missing, Kōji Fukada, 2019
  • Go West, Edward Buzzell, 1940
  • Grand Illusion, Jean Renoir, 1937
  • Hair Wolf, Mariama Diallo, 2018
  • Hard Eight, Paul Thomas Anderson, 1996
  • Harlequin, Lotte Reiniger, 1931
  • Hitch-Hike, Pasquale Festa Campanile, 1977
  • Horse Feathers, Norman Z. McLeod, 1932
  • House of Games, David Mamet, 1987
  • How Green Was My Valley, John Ford, 1941
  • The Human Factor, Edward Dmytryk, 1975
  • The Hustler, Robert Rossen, 1961
  • Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion, Elio Petri, 1970
  • The Las Vegas Story, Robert Stevenson, 1952
  • The Leopard, Luchino Visconti, 1963
  • Little Women, Gillian Armstrong, 1994
  • A Loft, Ken Jacobs, 2010
  • The Lost Son, Lotte Reiniger, 1974
  • Machine Gun McCain, Giuliano Montaldo, 1969
  • The Magic Horse, Lotte Reiniger, 1974
  • Man Push Cart, Ramin Bahrani, 2005
  • The Man Who Cheated Himself, Felix E. Feist, 1950
  • Mayor, David Osit, 2020
  • McCabe & Mrs. Miller, Robert Altman, 1971
  • The Mend, John Magary, 2014
  • The Mercenary, Sergio Corbucci, 1968
  • Meshes of the Afternoon, Maya Deren, Alexandr Hackenschmied, 1943
  • The Mission, Roland Joffé, 1986
  • Momma’s Man, Azazel Jacobs, 2008
  • Monkey Business, Norman Z. McLeod, 1931
  • Moonrise, Frank Borzage, 1948
  • New Homeland, Barbara Kopple, 2018
  • A Night at the Opera, Sam Wood, 1935
  • Night Train Murders, Aldo Lado, 1975
  • Oxhide, Liu Jiayin, 2005
  • Oxhide II, Liu Jiayin, 2009
  • Papageno, Lotte Reiniger, 1935
  • Picnic, Joshua Logan, 1955
  • Pink Narcissus, James Bidgood, 1971
  • The Professional, Georges Lautner, 1981
  • A Quiet Place in the Country, Elio Petri, 1968
  • Raining in the Mountain, King Hu, 1979
  • Ripley’s Game, Liliana Cavani, 2002
  • Room Service, William A. Seiter, 1938
  • Rupture, Yassmina Karajah, 2017
  • The Secret of the Marquise, Lotte Reiniger, 1922
  • Señorita, Isabel Sandoval, 2011
  • Shaft, Gordon Parks, 1971
  • Shaft’s Big Score!, Gordon Parks, 1972
  • Smooth Talk, Joyce Chopra, 1985
  • Sons of the Desert, William A. Seiter, 1933 *
  • The Star of Bethlehem, Lotte Reiniger, 1956
  • The Stolen Heart, Lotte Reiniger, 1934
  • Tabula Rasa, Matthew Rankin, 2011
  • That’s Life!, Blake Edwards, 1986
  • To Sleep with Anger, Charles Burnett, 1990
  • The Third Man, Carol Reed, 1949
  • This Is Not a Film, Jafar Panahi, Mojtaba Mirtahmasb, 2011 *
  • Winged Migration, Jacques Cluzaud, Michel Debats, Jacques Perrin, 2001 *
  • A Woman, a Gun and a Noodle Shop, Zhang Yimou, 2009 *
  • Words, Planets, Laida Lertxundi, 2018
  • The World of Gilbert & George, Gilbert & George Passmore, 1981
  • Yellow Fever, Ng’endo Mukii, 2012

*Available in the U.S. only

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