Cinema Studies
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THE FILMS OF LUC MOULLET2025 Art History Cinema Studies Europe Media Studies Performing Arts
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.
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UP AND DOWN2025 Art History Cinema Studies Europe
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.
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THE COMEDY OF WORK2025 Art History Cinema Studies Europe Performing Arts
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.
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ANATOMY OF A RELATIONSHIP2025 Art History Cinema Studies Family Relations Human Sexuality Performing Arts
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.
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A GIRL IS A GUN2025 Art History Cinema Studies Europe Narrative Films Performing Arts
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.
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THE SMUGGLERS2025 Art History Cinema Studies Europe Narrative Films
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.
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BRIGITTE AND BRIGITTE2025 Cinema Studies Europe Narrative Films Performing Arts
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.
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MILISUTHANDO2025 African Studies Cinema Studies Cultural Studies Directed by Women Family Relations Political Science Sociology Women's Studies World History
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.
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STOLEN PHOTO2025 American History Cinema Studies Economics Latin-American Studies Political Science Sociology World History Health Business Stolen Photo tells the story of striking banana workers in Colombia one hundred years ago. A US-owned fruit company refused to negotiate. A massacre ensued... learn how the company and the Colombian military used a photograph to identify workers, and how the violence of December 1928 mutated into oblivion. |
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COMEDIENNE2025 Art History Cinema Studies Cultural Studies Directed by Women Family Relations Media Studies Women's Studies
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.
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IN WATER2024 Cinema Studies Films of Hong Sangsoo
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.
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THE BALLAD OF SUZANNE CESAIRE2025 Cinema Studies Cultural Studies Directed by Women Literature Narrative Films Sociology Women's Studies
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.
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RECOLLECTIONS OF THE YELLOW HOUSE2025 Art History Cinema Studies Europe Narrative Films Performing Arts
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.
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MATT and MARA2025 Cinema Studies Family Relations Literature
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.
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A TRAVELER'S NEEDS2025 Cinema Studies Cultural Studies Family Relations Films of Hong Sangsoo 2024
A comedy of improbable encounters and unlikely language lessons, A Traveler’s Needs marks the third collaboration between Hong and Isabelle Huppert (following 2012’s In Another Country and 2017’s Claire’s Camera). An Official Selection of the New York Film Festival.
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MOVING (4k restoration)2024 Cinema Studies Asian Studies Children & Young Adult Family Relations Narrative Films Performing Arts
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.
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IN ANOTHER COUNTRY2025 Cinema Studies Films of Hong Sangsoo Narrative Films Performing Arts
A comedy of behaviors and a study in variations, Hong Sangsoo’s first film with Isabelle Huppert ranks among his breeziest and most mindbending endeavors. In Another Country inaugurated one of the most fruitful actor-director collaborations in contemporary cinema.
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MUSIC2024 Music Directed by Women Narrative Films Literature Cinema Studies
Freely inspired by the story of Oedipus, Angela Schanelec's latest is as terrifying as myth and as gentle as a folk song. An official selection of the New York Film Festival.
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HaHaHaCinema Studies Films of Hong Sangsoo
Moonkyeong decides to move to Canada where he meets Joongsik only to learn they have a rather unusual connection. Directed by Hong Sangsoo
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IN OUR DAY2024 Aging / Gerontology Asian Studies Cinema Studies Cultural Studies Family Relations Films of Hong Sangsoo Narrative Films Performing Arts With his 30th feature film, Hong demonstrates a new level of mastery of his art, using long, deceptively elaborate shots to articulate the simplest of pleasures: an inter-species encounter, the discovery of a new drink, a game of rock paper scissors. Kim and Ki lead an outstanding cast of the most natural of performers. In Our Day is a film to drink of deeply, to share with friends, and afterward, to reflect on what matters most. |