Béla Tarr's gravely haunting, challenging existential meditation is set in a bleak and wintry Hungarian village which is visited by a distinctly odd traveling circus. With it's strange exhibits of... more
As a rural South Korean town in the mid-1980s was rocked by the brutal and unprecedented efforts of a serial murderer, the instinctive but overmatched local cop (Song Kang-ho) in charge finds his... more
Critically acclaimed effort from Wong Kar-Wai ("Chungking Express"), set in Hong Kong in 1962 and centering on newspaper reporter Tony Leung and executive assistant Maggie Cheung, two married people... more
Diego Luna, Gael Garcia Bernal, Maribel Verdu. An erotic odyssey begins when a working class teen and his rich friend set off on a road trip across Mexico with a sensuous and troubled housewife 10... more
Nianzhen Wu, Issey Ogata. Edward Yang's epic covering the one-year examination of daily life in Taipei for a family of five (parents, two children and a grandmother) that begins with a wedding and... more
A world-weary artist (Alejandro Ferretis) departs his home in Mexico City for the rural country to prepare for his suicide. After arriving in a remote canyon, he finds lodging in the rickety home of... more
Widely hailed by critics as 2009's best film, Summer Hours is the great contemporary French filmmaker Olivier Assayas's most personal film to date. Three siblings, played by Juliette Binoche, Charles... more
Academy Award winning Austrian director Michael Haneke shifted his focus from the social to the psychological for this riveting study of female sexuality and the dynamics of control, an adaptation of... more
A master of intensely emotional human dramas, director Lee Chang-dong (POETRY) is a leading light of contemporary Korean cinema, and his place on the international stage was cemented by this stirring... more
Gael García Bernal, Emilio Echevarría, Goya Toledo. Acclaimed director Alejandro González Iñárritu brings forth a blistering debut film to the screen about three strangers who collide in violent ways... more
The most personal film by Guillermo del Toro (CRONOS) is also among his most frightening and emotionally layered. Set during the final week of the Spanish Civil War, THE DEVIL'S BACKBONE tells the... more
The release of Lucrecia Martel's LA CIENAGA HERALDED the arrival of an astonishingly vital and original voice in Argentine cinema. With a radical take on narrative, disturbing yet beautiful... more
With rousing martial-arts action and wild comedy, Hong Kong auteur Johnnie Tos most personal film is a thrilling love letter to both the cinema of Akira Kurosawa and the art of judo. |One of the most... more
Criterion white material in WHITE MATERIAL, the great contemporary French filmmaker Claire Denis (CHOCOLAT, BEAU TRAVAIL), known for her restless, intimate dramas, introduces an unforgettably crazed... more
A tormented overweight girl whose sister is a teenage beauty struggles with her demons while her family vacations at a deary seaside town—and a handsome Italian law student romances her sister.... more
One of the world's most influential and provocative filmmakers, the Academy Award-winning Austrian director Michael Haneke (Amour) diagnoses the social maladies of contemporary Europe with... more
Winner of four Cesar awards, including best picture and director, Abdellatif Kechiche's the Secret of the Grain is a stirring drama about the daily joys and struggles of a bustling French-Arab... more
Swedish master Jan Troell (The Emigrants, the New Land) returns triumphantly with Everlasting Moments, a vivid, heartrending story of a woman liberated through art at the beginning of the twentieth... more
Cultures and families clash in Mira Nair's exuberant Monsoon Wedding, a mix of comedy and chaotic melodrama concerning the preparations for the arranged marriage of a modern upper-middle-class Indian... more
A gripping thriller and a tragic drama of nearly Greek proportions, Revanche is the stunning, Oscar-nominated international breakthrough of Austrian filmmaker Götz Spielmann. In a ragged section of... more
In Arnaud Desplechin's beguiling a Christmas Tale (Un conte de Noël), Catherine Deneuve brings her legendary poise to the role of Junon, matriarch of the troubled Vuillard family, who come together... more