Narrative

Available for the first time ever in a new 4K restoration!  Winner of the Grand Prix at the first Tokyo International Film Festival in 1985, Typhoon Club is widely regarded as the seminal film of director Shinji Somai’s career.  The 10th best Japanese film of all time, according to Japan’s Kinema Junpo poll.

Available for the first time ever in a new 4K restoration!  Winner of the Grand Prix at the first Tokyo International Film Festival in 1985, Typhoon Club is widely regarded as the seminal film of director Shinji Somai’s career.  The 10th best Japanese film of all time, according to Japan’s Kinema Junpo poll.

Available for the first time ever in a new 4K restoration!  Winner of the Grand Prix at the first Tokyo International Film Festival in 1985, Typhoon Club is widely regarded as the seminal film of director Shinji Somai’s career.  The 10th best Japanese film of all time, according to Japan’s Kinema Junpo poll.

The search for a missing woman unspools in two unexpectedly interconnected parts in Laura Citarella's "wondrous multipart epic" TRENQUE LAUQUEN, named the best film of the year by Cahiers du Cinéma. 

The search for a missing woman unspools in two unexpectedly interconnected parts in Laura Citarella's "wondrous multipart epic" TRENQUE LAUQUEN, named the best film of the year by Cahiers du Cinéma. 

First time on Blu-ray! Claire Denis' sublime, achingly beautiful 35 Shots of Rum is the story of a father and daughter whose close-knit, tender relationship is strained by the arrival of a handsome suitor.

Winner of a Special Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival, Dos Estaciones follows iron-willed businesswoman María García (Teresa Sánchez), the owner of Dos Estaciones, a once-majestic tequila factory now struggling to stay afloat.

Winner of a Special Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival, Dos Estaciones follows iron-willed businesswoman María García (Teresa Sánchez), the owner of Dos Estaciones, a once-majestic tequila factory now struggling to stay afloat. 

For his 27th feature, Hong holds a mirror up to his own artistic process and asks what exactly it is we’re looking for from a work of art. As his characters discuss their lives and work and the ways they intertwine, Hong sets down a sort of manifesto for his own inimitable oeuvre before exploding it (or perhaps fully realizing it) in a moving final flourish.  The Novelist’s Film is a summation of Hong’s career-long artistic project, even as it signals bold new directions.

For his 27th feature, Hong holds a mirror up to his own artistic process and asks what exactly it is we’re looking for from a work of art. As his characters discuss their lives and work and the ways they intertwine, Hong sets down a sort of manifesto for his own inimitable oeuvre before exploding it (or perhaps fully realizing it) in a moving final flourish.  The Novelist’s Film is a summation of Hong’s career-long artistic project, even as it signals bold new directions.