Narrative Films
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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 2024 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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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. |
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THREE MONKEYS [narrative]2024 Cinema Studies Narrative Films Psychology & Psychiatry Family Relations
Winner of the Best Director prize at Cannes, Three Monkeys is a moving, visually unforgettable triumph from the Turkish master Nuri Bilge Ceylan (Once Upon a Time in Anatolia, Thear Tree)
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HERE (narrative)2024 Cinema Studies Family Relations Narrative Films Environmental Studies Science
Director Bas Devos offers another Brussels city symphony. With a quiet grace that’s becoming a trademark, he and his team capture both the longing of contemporary urban life and the potential for enchantment that still exists in spaces shared by strangers from different worlds.
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TYPHOON CLUB (4k restoration)2023 Asian Studies Cinema Studies Media Studies Narrative Films
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.
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P.P. RIDER2023 Cinema Studies Asian Studies Media Studies Narrative Films
From acclaimed Japanese filmmaker Shinji Sômai comes an exuberant farce tinted with deep shades of melancholy and real violence, P.P. Rider is an ode to the dreams of youth against authority. Adapted from a comic strip-like scenario by Leonard and Chieko Schrader, it’s a film of unparalleled freedom, and a testament to Somai’s ability to inject his work with the potent marrow of life.
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TRENQUE LAUQUEN (parts 1 and 2)2023 Cinema Studies Latino Studies Biology Narrative Films Spanish Language Directed by Women LGBTQ
A selection of the New York Film Festival, director Laura Citarella directs a labyrinthine tale of obsessive pursuit and the quest for personal freedom.
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WALK UP2023 Asian Studies Cinema Studies Narrative Films Films of Hong Sangsoo
In his ninth film for Hong Sangsoo, Kwon Haehyo plays Byungsoo, a film director who goes with his daughter to a building owned by an old friend, Hong fills the building spaces with a profusion of everyday details spanning art, love, career, religion, dietary decisions and home renovations.
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THE NOVELIST'S FILM2023 Cinema Studies Asian Studies Narrative Films Films of Hong Sangsoo
Winner of the Grand Jury Prize at the Berlin Film Festival. For his 27th feature, Hong Sangsoo holds a mirror up to his own artistic process and asks what exactly it is we’re looking for from a work of art.
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HUMAN FLOWERS OF FLESH2023 Cinema Studies Cultural Studies Europe Narrative Films Directed by Women
The film follows Ida, who, after a stirring encounter with the French Foreign Legion, sets sail with her own corps of five men, none of whom speak the same language, to trace the route of this fabled troop.
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DRIFT2023 Directed by Women Cinema Studies Narrative Films
In her dynamic and entrancing directorial debut, Helena Wittmann takes us on a transatlantic voyage unlike any other, scrambling our senses and inviting us to surrender to the ocean's ever-undulating surface.
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THE STRANGE LITTLE CAT2023 Cinema Studies Family Relations Narrative Films Sociology
The Strange Little Cat assembles seemingly unspectacular details into an exciting choreography of everyday life, a carefully staged chain reaction of actions and conversations, turning an apartment into a universe.
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IN FRONT OF YOUR FACE2023 Cinema Studies Narrative Films Asian Studies Performing Arts Films of Hong Sangsoo
In her first role for Hong, Lee Hyeyoung, a prominent theater and screen actress in South Korea, makes a captivating return to the big screen. With In Front of Your Face, Hong suggests that perhaps the most important things in this life are also the most immediate.
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THE GIRL AND THE SPIDER2022 Europe Family Relations Cinema Studies Narrative Films
As her roommate Lisa prepares to move out of their apartment, Mara contemplates the end of an era. In The Girl and the Spider, the Zürcher brothers compose a poetic panopticon of forms of human relationships that is at once a study of everyday life, a fairytale and a psychological portrait of a brittle world.
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THE DAY AFTER2018 Asian Studies Cinema Studies Narrative Films Films of Hong Sangsoo
An official selection of the Cannes Film Festival, The Day After begins as a darkly hilarious story of a man embroiled in extramarital entanglements but soon shifts—in a way only Hong can manage—into a heartfelt portrayal of a young woman on a quest for spiritual fulfillment.
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CLAIRE'S CAMERA2017 Asian Studies Cinema Studies Cultural Studies Europe Narrative Films Performing Arts Photography Films of Hong Sangsoo
A refreshingly sunny performance from Isabelle Huppert (The Piano Teacher, Elle) is at the center of this comic charmer from South Korean Master Hong Sangsoo. Intricately plotted with wit and charm to spare, CLAIRE'S CAMERA explores the power of images to transform us.
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THE WOMAN WHO RAN2022 Asian Studies Cinema Studies Narrative Films Women's Studies Films of Hong Sangsoo
THE WOMAN WHO RAN is a subtle, powerful look at dramas small and large faced by women everywhere. With characteristic humor and grace, Hong takes a simple premise and spins a web of interconnecting philosophies and coincidences. Winner of the Silver Bear for Best Director at the Berlin Film Festival.
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INTRODUCTION2022 Media Studies Asian Studies Cinema Studies Family Relations Narrative Films Films of Hong Sangsoo
Winner for Best Screenplay at Berlin Film Festival. For his twenty-fifth feature as director and his first as cinematographer, Hong Sangsoo offers a simple tale of young people on the edge of adulthood. Introduction cuts to the essence of who we are as people, like an unexpected hug on a winter's day.
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