Cinema Studies

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.

In his 33rd feature, Hong Sangsoo spins a bitterly comic fable on the trials of living simply and righteously in our world. As it charts this sincere (perhaps naive) young man?s comeuppance in the face of indifferent realities, What Does That Nature Say to You blossoms into one of Hong?s richest and most revealing character portraits.

Bogancloch is where modern day hermit Jake Williams lives, nestled in a vast highland forest of Scotland. The film portrays his life throughout the seasons, with other people occasionally crossing into his otherwise solitary life. A sequel to Two Years at Sea, the film charts a subtly changing life in a radically changing world.

The feature debut of Portuguese filmmaker Marta Mateus is a forceful collision of documentary reality and myth and announces a rare voice in contemporary cinema, an artist of deep political commitment steeped in the great filmmaking traditions of Portugal, all the while forging a singular new path forward.

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.

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.

An official selection of the Sundance Film Festival, Milisuthando is a poetic, memory-driven exploration of love, intimacy, race, and belonging from a woman who grew up during apartheid but didn't know it was happening until it was over.

A vérité style documentary about two women trying to make it as stand-up comics in New York City. Filmmaker Katherine Matheson followed comics Cheryl Klein and Zora Rasmussen over a four year period as they hustled through clubs, improv spots and late night interviews. Newly restored in 2025.

His most overtly experimental work to date, in water reveals Hong at the height of his allusory powers. The story is simple: three friends set out to make a film, and then they do it. But with bold formal choices and his signature impulse toward the uncanny, Hong evokes infinite mysteries and hints at whole worlds lurking below the surface of everyday reality.

An actress and new mother is haunted by voices as she embarks on inhabiting the role of surrealist writer Suzanne Roussi-Césaire. In the sleepy palm groves of the tropics, a small group of filmmakers and actors confront the history of writer Suzanne Césaire in her youth and then stage scenes from her life, troubling the “paradise” of historical memory. Moving between narrative filmmaking and abstraction, this is a film that leaves room for the unknown. 

Subtitled "A Portuguese Comedy" and deliberately evoking the popular spectacles of yore, the film is both a sensuous and slow-burn circus act and a jewel of ingenious formal ideas and sublime lyricism. Considered by many to be Monteiro's crowning achievement, the film inaugurated a series of late-period romps featuring the endearing and dastardly João de Deus, the man you love to hate.

When Mara reunites with Matt a chance encounter threatens to spin her life in a thrilling new direction. Bonded by their history and shared interests, the two grow closer. When her husband unexpectedly cancels plans to drive Mara to a conference out of town, Matt accompanies her instead and the pressure in their undefined relationship slowly builds.