Restorations

Reis and Cordeiro's final film, is their most unclassifiable endeavor. The film is a work of abstraction drawing on a diverse range of texts ranging from Michel de Montaigne to Carl Sagan. In Cordeiro's words, "Rosa de Areia is a film for those who can see and listen as if for the first time; as if it was the first film that came from the earth and spoke about it."

A film of long shadows and smoke in twilight, Tras-os-Montes is an intensive labor of recollection, an epic of a land and a way of life on the edge of oblivion, and a major turning point in the history of Portuguese cinema.

Through a series of non-linear scenes resembling reminiscences and rituals, with voiceovers adapted from poems by Rainer Maria Rilke, Reis and Cordeiro link individual experience to the collective toils of people throughout the ages, and the collective to the earth and its history, all wrapped up in the cycles of life and death and renewal.

Shinji Somai's follow-up to his acclaimed Moving is a comic spectacle of movement and play and a stirring contemplation on time's ravages and delights. Evoking other preteen anarchist masterpieces like Typhoon Club and P.P. Rider, the film is another testament to Somai's singular ability to enter into the unruly world of children

Presenting seven restord features of French New Wave director Luc Moullet.  While little known in the US, Luc Moullet has endured as a ?modest master? of French cinema since the late 1950s, admired by fellow filmmakers like Jean-Luc Godard and Jacques Rivette. 

A loving, slapstick sendup of the French passion for cycling that doubles as an ode to 19th century French symbolist poet Alfred Jarry from director Luc Moullet.

French new wave director Luc Moullet 's film is actually a comedy of unemployment, which is defined as possibly the worst, or maybe the best, thing that ever happened to this film's group of protagonists.

Luc Moullet begins this film with a simple (if unorthodox) meal of a banana, tuna fish and a plain omelet then traces the path that each ingredient took to arrive at his plate.

From French New Wave dorector Luc Moullet an co-directed with Antonietta Pizzorno, this "sex film" is a clinical exploration of a couple working through a series of problems (intimate and otherwise) which have arisen in their relationship.

Jean-Pierre Leaud and Rachel Kesterber star in the greatest French Western ever made. Swinging wildly between a slapstick insanity and a delirious experimentation, Moullet tackles favorite themes-time, landscape, exhaustion-with relish.

The Smugglers is a defiantly amateurish non-adventure adventure film concerning three people off in the wilds with no skills whatsoever. Presented in a new 4k restoration from director Luc Moullet.

Luc Moullet remains one of the most essential yet unheralded figures the French new wave. Presented in a new 4k restoration, Moullet's brilliant, sarcastic first feature stands as the finest period document of French cinephilia, and features cameos by Samuel Fuller, Claude Chabrol, Andre Techine and Eric Rohmer.

Since its premiere at Cannes in Un Certain Regard in 1993, Moving has been one Shinji Somai’s most beloved films. In this poignant family drama, Somai transcends the tropes of stories of children dealing with divorce to bring us a film filled with indelible images about an unforgettable teenage girl who encounters the unknown and refuses to succumb to it.

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. A work of raw, elemental power, it follows an ensemble of junior high students in a provincial town, beset by a summer-y malaise as a typhoon looms. The 10th best Japanese film of all time, according to Japan’s Kinema Junpo poll.