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January 2022 Programming on the Criterion Channel Announced

Each month, the programmers at the Criterion Channel produce incredible line-ups for their subscribers. For January, the Channel will feature films from Joseph L. Mankiewicz, Maya Da-Rin, Desiree Akhavan, 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 January 1

Joseph L. Mankiewicz: Talking Pictures

Crafter of some of the most literate and sophisticated films of Hollywood’s golden age, writer-director Joseph L. Mankiewicz left behind a body of work that stands apart for its cutting intelligence, acerbic wit, and unsparing insights into human nature. The rare studio-era director who also scripted many of his films, he had a gift for acid-tongued dialogue that made favorites like A Letter to Three Wives and All About Eve into enduring, endlessly quotable classics of cultured cattiness. He also had an iconoclast’s penchant for tackling taboo subjects, bringing passion and complexity to his treatments of racism (No Way Out) and McCarthyism (People Will Talk). Contributing defining works to nearly every genre—from romance (The Ghost and Mrs. Muir) to musicals (Guys and Dolls) to historical epics (Cleopatra, whose infamously arduous production drove the filmmaker to collapse)—Mankiewicz proved that intellect and entertainment could go hand in hand.

  • Dragonwyck, 1946
  • The Ghost and Mrs. Muir, 1947
  • House of Strangers, 1949
  • A Letter to Three Wives, 1949
  • No Way Out, 1950
  • All About Eve, 1950
  • People Will Talk, 1951
  • 5 Fingers, 1952
  • Guys and Dolls, 1955
  • The Quiet American, 1958
  • Suddenly, Last Summer, 1959
  • Cleopatra, 1963
  • There Was a Crooked Man … , 1970

Sundance Class of ’92: The Year Indie Exploded

Featuring a new introduction by Sundance festival director emeritus John Cooper and John Nein, senior programmer and director of strategic initiatives

1992 was a watershed year for American independent cinema, led by the Sundance Film Festival, where a generation of filmmakers proved that passion and personal vision could overcome any budgetary limitation. It was the year that idiosyncratic gems like In the Soup, The Waterdance, and Gas Food Lodging found acclaim for their bold, offbeat storytelling; the year that the New Queer Cinema (a term popularized at the festival’s Barbed Wire Kisses panel) crystallized with touchstone works by Gregg Araki (The Living End), Derek Jarman (Edward II), and Tom Kalin (Swoon); and it was a banner year for documentaries, with nonfiction triumphs by Errol Morris (A Brief History of Time), Michael Apted (Incident at Oglala), and Camille Billops and James Hatch (Finding Christa) all making waves. Thirty years later, these films remain fresh and exciting landmarks from a time when the possibilities of indie filmmaking seemed limitless.

  • A Brief History of Time, Errol Morris, 1991
  • Color Adjustment, Marlon Riggs, 1991
  • Danzón, María Novaro, 1991
  • Delicatessen, Jean-Pierre Jeunet and Marc Caro, 1991
  • Edward II, Derek Jarman, 1991
  • Finding Christa, Camille Billops and James Hatch, 1991
  • The Hours and Times, Christopher Munch, 1991
  • The Inland Sea, Lucille Carra, 1991
  • Intimate Stranger, Alan Berliner, 1991
  • Johnny Suede, Tom DiCillo, 1991
  • Night on Earth, Jim Jarmusch, 1991
  • Shoot for the Contents, Trinh T. Minh-ha, 1991
  • Brother’s Keeper, Joe Berlinger and Bruce Sinofsky, 1992
  • Deep Blues, Robert Mugge, 1992 +
  • Gas Food Lodging, Allison Anders, 1992
  • Incident at Oglala, Michael Apted, 1992
  • In the Soup, Alexandre Rockwell, 1992
  • Light Sleeper, Paul Schrader, 1992
  • The Living End, Gregg Araki, 1992
  • My Crasy Life, Jean-Pierre Gorin, 1992
  • Poison Ivy, Katt Shea, 1992
  • Some Divine Wind, Roddy Bogawa, 1992
  • Swoon, Tom Kalin, 1992
  • The Tune, Bill Plympton, 1992
  • The Waterdance, Neal Jimenez and Michael Steinberg, 1992
  • Where Are We? Our Trip Through America, Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman, 1992

+ Available April 1

French New Wave

Featuring hours of archival interviews with Jean-Luc Godard, François Truffaut, Claude Chabrol, Agnès Varda, and more

There was cinema before the French New Wave, and there was cinema after. The explosion of creative innovation that emanated from France in the late 1950s and early ’60s forever altered the course of film history by opening up new avenues of stylistic experimentation and trumpeting the concept of the “auteur” director, whose aesthetic vision and thematic obsessions took center stage. Led by a coterie of passionate film critics and cinephiles who took up cameras—including the radical Jean-Luc Godard (Breathless, Pierrot le fou), the romantic François Truffaut (The 400 Blows, Jules and Jim), the restless Agnès Varda (Cléo from 5 to 7, Le bonheur), the experimental Jacques Rivette (Paris Belongs to Us, Céline and Julie Go Boating), the modernist Alain Resnais (Hiroshima mon amour), and the classicist Eric Rohmer (My Night at Maud’s, Claire’s Knee)—the French New Wave inspired filmmakers around the world by liberating cinema from commercial demands and reclaiming it in the name of unfettered personal expression.

  • Le beau Serge, Claude Chabrol, 1958
  • Elevator to the Gallows, Louis Malle, 1958
  • The Lovers, Louis Malle, 1958
  • The 400 Blows, François Truffaut, 1959
  • Hiroshima mon amour, Alain Resnais, 1959
  • Les cousins, Claude Chabrol, 1959
  • Breathless, Jean-Luc Godard, 1960
  • Shoot the Piano Player, François Truffaut, 1960
  • Zazie dans le métro, Louis Malle, 1960
  • Lola, Jacques Demy, 1961
  • Chronicle of a Summer, Jean Rouch and Edgar Morin, 1961
  • Paris Belongs to Us, Jacques Rivette, 1961
  • A Woman Is a Woman, Jean-Luc Godard, 1961
  • Cléo from 5 to 7, Agnès Varda, 1962
  • Jules and Jim, François Truffaut, 1962
  • Vivre sa vie, Jean-Luc Godard, 1962
  • The Fire Within, Louis Malle, 1963
  • Muriel, or The Time of Return, Alain Resnais, 1963
  • Bay of Angels, Jacques Demy, 1963
  • Contempt, Jean-Luc Godard, 1963
  • Suzanne’s Career, Eric Rohmer, 1963
  • The Soft Skin, François Truffaut, 1964
  • Band of Outsiders, Jean-Luc Godard, 1964
  • The Umbrellas of Cherbourg, Jacques Demy, 1964
  • Le bonheur, Agnès Varda, 1965
  • Pierrot le fou, Jean-Luc Godard, 1965
  • Alphaville, Jean-Luc Godard, 1965
  • Les créatures, Agnès Varda, 1966
  • Masculin féminin, Jean-Luc Godard, 1966
  • The Nun, Jacques Rivette, 1966
  • Weekend, Jean-Luc Godard, 1967
  • La collectionneuse, Eric Rohmer, 1967
  • The Young Girls of Rochefort, Jacques Demy, 1967
  • My Night at Maud’s, Eric Rohmer, 1969
  • Claire’s Knee, Eric Rohmer, 1970
  • Donkey Skin, Jacques Demy, 1970
  • Murmur of the Heart, Louis Malle, 1971
  • Love in the Afternoon, Eric Rohmer, 1972
  • Day for Night, François Truffaut, 1973
  • Céline and Julie Go Boating, Jacques Rivette, 1974
  • Lacombe, Lucien, Louis Malle, 1974
  • Black Moon, Louis Malle, 1975
  • My American Uncle, Alain Resnais, 1980
  • The Last Metro, François Truffaut, 1980

Plus: French New Wave Shorts

  • Presentation, or Charlotte and Her Steak, Eric Rohmer, 1951
  • Les horizons morts, Jacques Demy, 1951
  • Crazeologie, Louis Malle, 1954
  • Le coup du berger, Jacques Rivette, 1956
  • Le sabotier du Val de Loire, Jacques Demy, 1956
  • All the Boys Are Called Patrick, Jean-Luc Godard, 1957
  • Une histoire d’eau, Jean-Luc Godard and François Truffaut, 1958
  • Véronique and Her Dunce, Eric Rohmer, 1958
  • Du côté de la côte, Agnès Varda, 1958
  • L’opéra-Mouffe, Agnès Varda, 1958
  • Ô saisons, ô châteaux, Agnès Varda, 1958
  • Ars, Jacques Demy, 1959
  • Charlotte et son Jules, Jean-Luc Godard, 1959
  • Antoine and Colette, François Truffaut, 1962
  • Les fiancés du pont Macdonald, Agnès Varda, 1962
  • La luxure, Jacques Demy, 1962
  • La Jetée, Chris Marker, 1963
  • The Bakery Girl of Monceau, Eric Rohmer, 1963
  • Nadja in Paris, Eric Rohmer, 1964
  • Salut les Cubains, Agnès Varda, 1964
  • A Modern Coed, Eric Rohmer, 1966
  • Uncle Yanco, Agnès Varda, 1968
  • Black Panthers, Agnès Varda, 1970
  • Réponse de femmes, Agnès Varda, 1975
  • Plaisir d’amour en Iran, Agnès Varda, 1977

Starring Sterling Hayden

Featuring Pharos of Chaos, a 1983 documentary portrait of Hayden

A sailor and fisherman who fell into movies by accident, Sterling Hayden never lost the rugged, no-nonsense naturalism that was at the center of his appeal. A commanding, outsized screen presence thanks to his strapping, six-foot-five-inch frame and distinctive baritone voice, Hayden brought innate strength and gravitas to classic noirs (The Asphalt Jungle, The Killing) and westerns (Johnny Guitar, Terror in a Texas Town) alike. Memorably cast later in his career as the Hemingwayesque alcoholic writer whose disappearance is at the center of Robert Altman’s The Long Goodbye, Hayden radiated the kind of maverick cool that can’t be learned—it just is.

  • The Asphalt Jungle, John Huston, 1950
  • Denver & Rio Grande, Byron Haskin, 1952
  • Crime Wave, André De Toth, 1953
  • Johnny Guitar, Nicholas Ray, 1954
  • The Eternal Sea, John H. Auer, 1955
  • The Last Command, Frank Lloyd, 1955
  • The Killing, Stanley Kubrick, 1956
  • Crime of Passion, Gerd Oswald, 1957
  • Terror in a Texas Town, Joseph H. Lewis, 1958
  • The Long Goodbye, Robert Altman, 1973

EXCLUSIVE STREAMING PREMIERES

Saturday, January 1

Radio On

A rare road movie from England, Christopher Petit’s mesmerizing debut feature has taken its place as a cult classic and one of the most singular films of the 1970s. Robert (David Beames), the film’s enigmatic protagonist, embarks on a road trip from London to Bristol to investigate the recent death of his brother. As Robert drives west, the radio newscasts he hears and the strangers he meets address the dire political and economic state of late-seventies Britain. A remarkable collection of art rock, punk, and new wave—David Bowie, Devo, Kraftwerk, Robert Fripp, Ian Dury, and more—soundtracks Robert’s journey, and the austere urban and rural landscapes he passes through are strikingly rendered in black and white by cinematographer Martin Shäfer (a frequent Wim Wenders collaborator). Petit deftly melds these stylistic, narrative, and documentary elements, resulting in an experience that is eerie, reflective, and hypnotic all at once.

Wednesday, January 5

The Fever

This spellbinding narrative feature debut from Maya Da-Rin is an entrancing, enigmatic meditation on the material, spiritual, and dream lives of Brazil’s Indigenous people. Justino (Regis Myrupu, winner of the Best Actor prize at the Locarno Film Festival) is a forty-five-year-old member of the Desana people who works as a security guard at a cargo port in Manaus, an industrial city surrounded by the Amazon rainforest. Since the death of his wife, his main company is his youngest daughter (Rosa Peixoto), a nurse who will soon be leaving him to study medicine in Brasilia. As the days go by, Justino is overcome by a strong, unexplained fever. During the day, he fights to stay awake at work. At night, a mysterious creature follows his footsteps. Torn between the oppression of life in the city and the distance of his native village, Justino can no longer endure an existence without place.

CRITERION EDITIONS

Premiering December 1

The Last Days of Disco: Criterion Collection Edition #485

Kate Beckinsale and Chloë Sevigny star in Whit Stillman’s affectionate yet unsentimental look back at the early-eighties Manhattan party scene.

SUPPLEMENTAL FEATURES: Audio commentary by Stillman, Sevigny, and Chris Eigeman; deleted scenes; an audio recording of Stillman reading from his book The Last Days of Disco, with Cocktails at Petrossian Afterwards; and more.

All About Eve: Criterion Collection Edition #1003

Bette Davis delivers writer-director Joseph L. Mankiewicz’s stiletto-sharp dialogue with unforgettable relish in the the most devastatingly witty film ever made about the ruthlessness of show business.

SUPPLEMENTAL FEATURES: Two audio commentaries, a feature-length documentary about Mankiewicz, television appearances by Davis and Gary Merrill, an interview with costume historian Larry McQueen, and more.

The Asphalt Jungle: Criterion Collection Edition #847

One of the all-time great heist films offers an uncommonly naturalistic, detailed view of a seamy criminal underworld.

SUPPLEMENTAL FEATURES: Audio commentary by film historian Drew Casper; a documentary about actor Sterling Hayden; interviews with director John Huston, film noir historian Eddie Muller and cinematographer John Bailey; and more.

The Killing: Criterion Collection Edition #575

Stanley Kubrick displays his trademark visual precision and gratifying sense of irony in a cold-blooded noir classic, presented with its predecessor, Killer’s Kiss.

SUPPLEMENTAL FEATURES: Interviews with producer James B. Harris and actor Sterling Hayden, a program with author Robert Polito on writer Jim Thompson, and an appreciation of Killer’s Kiss featuring critic Geoffrey O’Brien.

THREE DIMENSIONS

The Nicholas Brothers

Featuring an introduction by film historian Donald Bogle and programmer Bruce Goldstein

Nobody danced like the Nicholas Brothers. Among the most electrifying performers the screen has ever seen, Fayard and Harold Nicholas combined elegant tap with breathtaking acrobatics in astoundingly innovative routines that they executed with seemingly effortless grace, easily becoming the highlight of any film they appeared in. This trio of splashy Twentieth Century-Fox musicals contains some of the duo’s most extraordinary numbers, including the celebrated staircase routine from Stormy Weather that Fred Astaire hailed as the greatest dance sequence ever captured on film.

  • Down Argentine Way, Irving Cummings, 1940
  • Sun Valley Serenade, H. Bruce Humberstone, 1941
  • Stormy Weather, Andrew L. Stone, 1943

WOMEN FILMMAKERS

Wednesday, January 12

Karaoke Girl

An artful blend of fiction and reality gives rich expression to a young Bangkok sex worker’s innermost hopes, dreams, and feelings.

Wednesday, January 19

What About Me

Richard Hell, Nick Zedd, Johnny Thunders, and Dee Dee Ramone are among the counterculture mainstays who populate Rachel Amodeo’s grimily poetic time capsule of life on the margins of the East Village in the early nineties.

Wednesday, January 26

Directed by Desiree Akhavan

Iranian American writer-director-actor Desiree Akhavan has been hailed for her bold depictions of female sexuality and queer identity, both in her two feature films and in her acclaimed television series The Bisexual. Brash yet empathetic, Akhavan explores the journey of a young queer woman who is concealing her sexuality from her conservative Iranian family in Appropriate Behavior, and brings nuance and humor to a coming-of-age story about the horrors of conversion therapy in The Miseducation of Cameron Post.

  • Appropriate Behavior, 2014
  • The Miseducation of Cameron Post, 2018

More women filmmakers featured in this month’s programming:

  • Documentaries by Lee Grant
  • Documentaries by Maya Da-Rin
  • Du côté de la côte, Agnès Varda, 1958
  • L’opéra-Mouffe, Agnès Varda, 1958
  • Ô saisons, ô châteaux, Agnès Varda, 1958
  • Cléo from 5 to 7, Agnès Varda, 1962
  • Les fiancés du pont Macdonald, Agnès Varda, 1962
  • Salut les Cubains, Agnès Varda, 1964
  • Le bonheur, Agnès Varda, 1965
  • Les créatures, Agnès Varda, 1966
  • Uncle Yanco, Agnès Varda, 1968
  • Black Panthers, Agnès Varda, 1970
  • Réponse de femmes, Agnès Varda, 1975
  • Plaisir d’amour en Iran, Agnès Varda, 1977
  • Danzón, María Novaro, 1991
  • Finding Christa, Camille Billops and James Hatch, 1991
  • The Inland Sea, Lucille Carra, 1991
  • Shoot for the Contents, Trinh T. Minh-ha, 1991
  • Gas Food Lodging, Allison Anders, 1992
  • Poison Ivy, Katt Shea, 1992
  • The Fever, Maya Da-Rin, 2019
  • What We Left Unfinished, Mariam Ghani, 2019

TRUE STORIES

Monday, January 3

Documentaries by Lee Grant

Though Lee Grant is widely known to audiences as a lauded, Academy Award–winning actor, she has also carved out an equally accomplished career as a trailblazing documentary filmmaker. Unafraid to tackle tough, often controversial subjects—the fight for workers’ rights in The Willmar 8, Reagan-era economic inequality in the Oscar-winning Down and Out in America, and the transgender experience in the groundbreaking What Sex Am I?—Grant brings a courageous compassion and unflinching honesty to stories that still feel powerfully urgent.

Preserved and curated by Taylor A. Purdee.

  • ​​The Willmar 8, 1981
  • When Women Kill, 1983
  • What Sex Am I?, 1985
  • Down and Out in America, 1986
  • Battered, 1989
  • A Father … A Son … Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, 2005

Monday, January 10

Documentaries by Maya Da-rin

Presented alongside the streaming premiere of Brazilian filmmaker and visual artist Maya Da-Rin’s mesmerizing narrative feature debut The Fever, these richly sensorial nonfiction works capture the ebb and flow of life along the triple-border region where Brazil, Colombia, and Peru meet. With a mix of ethnographic observation and dreamy impressionism, Da-Rin’s documentaries Margin and Lands meditate on the landscapes, people, and intertwining cultures that comprise this unique, ever-changing urban island in the midst of the Amazon.

  • Margin, 2007
  • Lands, 2009

Monday, January 17

What We Left Unfinished

Mariam Ghani’s study of Afghanistan’s Communist-era film industry is a probing and engrossing case study in censorship, authoritarianism, and political art.

Monday, January 24

Roger & Me

Gadfly documentarian Michael Moore’s scathingly funny debut rewrote the rules of activist filmmaking with its idiosyncratic, rousingly entertaining blend of puckish humor and firebrand populism.

Monday, January 31

The Woodmans

This fascinating portrait of the too-brief life and extraordinary art of enigmatic photographer Francesca Woodman expands the frame to take in her brilliant family.

More documentaries featured in this month’s programming:

  • Chronicle of a Summer, Jean Rouch and Edgar Morin, 1961
  • A Brief History of Time, Errol Morris, 1991
  • Color Adjustment, Marlon Riggs, 1991
  • Finding Christa, Camille Billops and James Hatch, 1991
  • The Inland Sea, Lucille Carra, 1991
  • Intimate Stranger, Alan Berliner, 1991
  • Shoot for the Contents, Trinh T. Minh-ha, 1991
  • Brother’s Keeper, Joe Berlinger and Bruce Sinofsky, 1992
  • Incident at Oglala, Michael Apted, 1992
  • My Crasy Life, Jean-Pierre Gorin, 1992
  • Where Are We? Our Trip Through America, Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman, 1992
  • Antarctica: A Year on Ice, Anthony Powell, 2013

Vintage Binge-Watching

Thursday, January 13

Les Vampires

The undisputed master of the silent-era espionage serial, Louis Feuillade (Fantômas) crafted films with labyrinthine plots and unforgettable characters that influenced countless generations of filmmakers. Comprised of ten episodes and clocking in at nearly seven hours in duration, Les Vampires is an unqualified masterpiece. It follows journalist Philippe Guérande (Édouard Mathé) in his efforts to expose a vast criminal organization known as the Vampires. Joined by a comical sidekick, Mazamette (Marcel Lévesque), and often competing against a rival gang lord (Fernand Herrmann), Guérande dethrones a succession of the Vampires’ Grand Masters. But most evasive of all is the Vampires’ muse, a seductive assassin who performs her job with deadly grace: Irma Vep, played by the unforgettable Musidora.

SATURDAY MATINEES

Saturday, January 1

Chitty Chitty Bang Bang

Fantastical sets, imaginative contraptions, and infectious songs come together in this whimsical musical adventure.

Saturday, January 8

The Chalk Garden

Deborah Kerr is the governess who attempts to reach out to a lonely and troubled teenage girl in this superlative adaptation of the acclaimed play.

Saturday, January 15

Harvey

James Stewart delights in this lighthearted classic about a quixotic man whose best friend is a six-foot-three white bunny rabbit that only he can see.

Saturday, January 22

The Ghost and Mrs. Muir

An independent-minded widow and the spirit of a cantankerous sea captain form an unlikely bond in Joseph L. Mankiewicz’s beloved, sublimely atmospheric romantic fantasy.

Saturday, January 29

Antarctica: A Year on Ice

This visually stunning journey to the end of the world captures both the grandeur of nature and everyday life among the hardy and devoted people who live there year-round.

DOUBLE FEATURES

Friday, January 7

Dangerous Cargo

The Wages of Fear and The Load

Fasten your seatbelts for a pair of white-knuckle road trips through treacherous terrain.

Friday, January 14

Hot Dam!

Wild River and Still Life

Two communities are transformed by ambitious dam-construction projects in these elegiac explorations of the tension between tradition and progress.

Friday, January 21

A Load of Bull

The Moment of Truth and Matador

The violent, passionate world of bullfighting provides the backdrop to these visceral, provocative looks at lives poised on the perpetual edge of death.

Friday, January 28

Best Westerns

Man in the Saddle and The Man from Laramie

The star power of Randolph Scott and James Stewart and the auteur punch of André De Toth and Anthony Mann are on display in two of the finest westerns of the 1950s.

SHORT-FILM PROGRAMS

Tuesday, January 4

Window Watching

Accidence and Rear Window

Blink and you could miss a murder in Alfred Hitchcock’s classic study of voyeurism and an innovative homage.

Tuesday, January 11

Growing Up Gay

-Ship: A Visual Poem and The Long Day Closes

The mundane is rendered miraculous in these richly impressionistic evocations of the inner worlds of young boys grappling with questions of sexuality, identity, and religion.

Tuesday, January 18

After Migration: Calabria

A pair of refugees transcend their difficult histories while settling in a quiet Italian town in this triumphant portrait, featuring stunning, color-drenched cinematography.

Tuesday, January 25

Things We Do For Love

I Am Afraid to Forget Your Face and Manila in the Claws of Light

Two men embark on perilous quests to be reunited with the women they love in these searing journeys through oft-unseen layers of Egyptian and Filipino society.

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

  • -Ship: A Visual Poem, Terrance Day, 2020
  • 5 Fingers, Joseph L. Mankiewicz, 1952
  • After Migration: Calabria, Walé Oyéjidé and Jake Saner, 2019
  • All About Eve, Joseph L. Mankiewicz, 1950
  • Alphaville, Jean-Luc Godard, 1965
  • Antarctica: A Year on Ice, Anthony Powell, 2013
  • Appropriate Behavior, Desiree Akhavan, 2014
  • The Asphalt Jungle, John Huston, 1950 ++
  • Band of Outsiders, Jean-Luc Godard, 1964 ++
  • Battered, Lee Grant, 1989
  • Brother’s Keeper, Joe Berlinger and Bruce Sinofsky, 1992
  • Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, Ken Hughes, 1968
  • Cleopatra, Joseph L. Mankiewicz, 1963
  • Color Adjustment, Marlon Riggs, 1991
  • Crime of Passion, Gerd Oswald, 1957
  • Crime Wave, André De Toth, 1953
  • Danzón, Maria Novaro, 1991
  • Day for Night, François Truffaut, 1973
  • Delicatessen, Jean-Pierre Jeunet and Marc Caro, 1991
  • Denver & Rio Grande, Byron Haskin, 1952
  • Down and Out in America, Lee Grant, 1986
  • Down Argentine Way, Irving Cummings, 1940
  • Dragonwyck, Joseph L. Mankiewicz, 1946
  • Edward II, Derek Jarman, 1991
  • The Eternal Sea, John H. Auer, 1955
  • The Fever, Maya Da-Rin, 2019
  • Gas Food Lodging, Allison Anders, 1992
  • Get on the Bus, Spike Lee, 1996
  • The Ghost and Mrs. Muir, Joseph L. Mankiewicz, 1947
  • Guys and Dolls, Joseph L. Mankiewicz, 1955 ++
  • Harvey, Henry Koster, 1950
  • Holiday Affair, Don Hartman, 1949
  • The Hours and Times, Christopher Münch, 1991
  • House of Strangers, Joseph L. Mankiewicz, 1949
  • I Am Afraid to Forget Your Face, Sameh Alaa, 2020
  • In the Soup, Alexandre Rockwell, 1992
  • Incident at Oglala, Michael Apted, 1992
  • Intimate Stranger, Alan Berliner, 1991
  • Johnny Guitar, Nicholas Ray, 1954
  • Johnny Suede, Tom DiCillo, 1991 ++
  • The Killing, Stanley Kubrick, 1956
  • Lands, Maya Da-Rin, 2009
  • The Last Command, Frank Lloyd, 1955
  • The Last Days of Disco, Whit Stillman, 1998
  • Les Vampires, Louis Feuillade, 1915
  • Light Sleeper, Paul Schrader, 1992
  • The Living End, Gregg Araki, 1992
  • The Load, Ognjen Glavonić, 2018
  • Man in the Saddle, André De Toth, 1951
  • The Man from Laramie, Anthony Mann, 1955
  • Margin, Maya Da-Rin, 2007
  • Matador, Pedro Almodovar, 1986 ++
  • The Nun, Jacques Rivette, 1966
  • The Quiet American, Joseph L. Mankiewicz, 1958
  • People Will Talk, Joseph L. Mankiewicz, 1951
  • Pharos of Chaos, Wolf-Eckart Bühler and Manfred Blank, 1983 ++
  • Poison Ivy, Katt Shea, 1992
  • Radio On, Christopher Petit, 1979
  • Roger and Me, Michael Moore, 1989
  • She Runs, Qiu Yang, 2019
  • Some Divine Wind, Roddy Bogawa, 1992
  • Stormy Weather, Andrew L. Stone, 1943
  • Suddenly, Last Summer, Joseph L. Mankiewicz, 1959
  • Sun Valley Serenade, H. Bruce Humberstone, 1941
  • Sweet Smell of Success, Alexander Mackendrick, 1957
  • Terror in a Texas Town, Joseph H. Lewis, 1958
  • The Tune, Bill Plympton, 1992
  • The Waterdance, Neal Jimenez and Michael Steinberg, 1992
  • What About Me, Rachel Amodeo, 1993
  • What Sex Am I?, Lee Grant, 1985
  • What We Left Unfinished, Mariam Ghani, 2019
  • When Women Kill, Lee Grant, 1983
  • The Willmar 8, Lee Grant, 1981
  • The Woodmans, Scott Willis, 2010

++ Available in the U.S. only

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