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Acasă, My Home
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Collective
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La strada
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Flowers of Shanghai
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Zappa
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Edo Avant Garde
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Ikarie XB-1
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Acasă, My Home
Radu Ciorniciuc
Romania, Germany, Finland, 2020A family living freely in marshlands outside Bucharest is forcibly relocated to the city in this intimate documentary on the cost of social integration. Winner of a Special Jury Award for Cinematography at Sundance. “Lyrical and provocative” (Hollywood Reporter).
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Atlantis
Valentyn Vasyanovych
Ukraine, 2019Available January 29
Unfolding as a series of carefully constructed tableaus set in a near-future Eastern Ukraine, Atlantis presents a magnificent cinematic accounting of the costs of war. “Sensitively observed and meticulously crafted. . . . A remarkable piece of filmmaking” (Screen).
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Collective
Alexander Nanau
Romania, Luxembourg, 2019A shattering exposé of systemic corruption, this documentary about the aftermath of a Bucharest nightclub fire “doesn’t just open your eyes but tears you apart by exposing a moral rift with resonance far beyond the film’s home country” (Variety).
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Coup 53
Taghi Amirani
United Kingdom, 2019Cowritten and edited by Oscar winner Walter Murch, this documentary is a fascinating investigation into the 1953 Anglo-American coup d’état in Iran that displaced democratically elected prime minister Mohammad Mossaddegh and installed the despotic Mohammad Reza Pahlavi as shah. “Passionate and fearless” (Hollywood Reporter).
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Edo Avant Garde
Linda Hoaglund
Japan, United States, 2019This beautiful examination of the tradition of Japanese folding screen and scroll painting explores the sensuous style and innovative methods of Edo period painting and reveals its influence on Western art.
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Flowers of Shanghai
Hou Hsiao-hsien
Taiwan, 1998Digital Restoration
Tony Leung stars in Hou Hsiao-hsien’s quietly sumptuous tale of brothel life in nineteenth-century Shanghai. “‘Surrender’ is the key to this visually ravishing masterpiece” (Phillip Lopate).
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From the East
Chantal Akerman
France, Belgium, Portugal, 1993New Digital Restoration
Shortly after the fall of the Berlin Wall, Chantal Akerman journeyed across Eastern Europe recording the still palpable presence of the Soviet Union ahead of its inevitable dissolution. “A travelogue through history . . . a purely cinematic monument in time and space” (Village Voice).
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Identifying Features
Fernanda Valadez
Mexico, Spain, 2020An elegantly constructed anti-macho western. “Fernanda Valadez finds a personal tragedy within a national one—the murder or disappearance of thousands of people, the mass collateral damage of the ongoing drug war” (Carlos Aguilar, AV Club).
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Ikarie XB-1
Jindrich Polák
Czechoslovakia, 1963Digital Restoration of the Full-Length Version
Based on a novel by Stanislaw Lem, this austere, sublime space odyssey “profoundly influenced the genre and showed that science-fiction movies weren’t only about special effects; they were also high art” (The Guardian).
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Intervista
Federico Fellini
Italy, 1987Digital Restoration
Fellini turns the camera on himself in this pseudo-documentary, which uses a Japanese TV crew’s visit to the Cinecittà studio as the pretext for a series of glimpses into the filmmaker’s methods and thoughts.
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Irmi
Veronica Selver, Susan Fanshel
United States, 2020This beautiful documentary portrait of German Jewish émigrée Irmi Selver (1906–2004), based on her memoirs (read by Hanna Schygulla), takes us on a unique journey through a life marked by love, unimaginable loss, and strength of spirit.
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La strada
Federico Fellini
Italy, 1954Digital Restoration
Fellini’s muse, Giulietta Masina, modeled her timeless character Gelsomina after Charlie Chaplin’s Little Tramp. She stars with a brutish Anthony Quinn in this classic that Martin Scorsese called “the cornerstone of Fellini’s work.” This presentation includes an insightful introduction by Russell Merritt.
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Mandabi
Ousmane Sembène
Senegal, 1968A comic fable about a middle-aged man in Dakar whose life changes when he receives a money order from Paris. African master Ousmane Sembène’s approach is “spare, laconic, slightly ironic, and never patronizing” (New York Times).
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Mayor
David Osit
United States, United Kingdom, 2020This at times absurdist, always eye-opening documentary about the mayor of Ramallah, a Palestinian city surrounded by Israeli settlements, is “the best new film about the Israeli- Palestinian conflict” (Indiewire). “Gripping and surprisingly witty” (Variety).
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Nationtime
William Greaves
United States, 1972New 4K Restoration
Closing January 31William Greaves’s documentary captures the energy and urgency of the 1972 National Black Political Convention, where some ten thousand Black politicians, artists, activists, and journalists—including Jesse Jackson, Bobby Seale, Betty Shabazz, Dick Gregory, and others—assembled to create a unified Black political agenda.
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Oliver Sacks: His Own Life
Ric Burns
United States, 2019“At once tender and thrilling” (Variety), this moving and insightful portrait of neurologist and author Oliver Sacks centers on intimate interviews from his final months, as he faced death and looked back on his extraordinary life.
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Paris Calligrammes
Ulrike Ottinger
Germany, France, 2020Ottinger’s latest film describes her experiences as a young artist living in Paris in the 1960s, evoking a place and time of intellectual, artistic, and political ferment.
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The End of the Ottoman Empire
Mathilde Damoisel, Sylvie Jézéquel
France, Switzerland, 2016Closing January 31
This fascinating documentary offers an overview of the Ottoman Empire and its decline, the essential backstory of our world today.
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The Hand
Wong Kar Wai
Hong Kong, 20044K Digital Restoration
Wong’s little-seen contribution to the omnibus film Eros (expanded to feature length) showcases the relationship between a smitten young tailor (Chang Chen) and a jaded courtesan (Gong Li). “Visually exquisite and highly erotic” (Jonathan Rosenbaum).
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The Mirror
Andrei Tarkovsky
USSR, 1974Available February 5
Juxtaposing fragments of childhood memory with the collective memories and nightmares of the twentieth century, Andrei Tarkovsky invented “a new language, true to the nature of film . . . life as a dream” (Ingmar Bergman).
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You Will Die at Twenty
Amjad Abu Alala
Sudan, France, Egypt, Germany, Norway, Qatar, 2019In this visually entrancing film, a young man faced with a prophecy of an early death tries to experience a normal adolescence. “Beautifully composed . . . the film lovingly depicts the remote east-central region of Sudan as a quasi-magical place of sand, sky, and the colors of the Nile” (Variety).
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Zappa
Alex Winter
United States, 2020With newly preserved archival recordings, home movies, and extensive interviews, Alex Winter’s intimate and comprehensive documentary is a definitive portrait of the great twentieth-century composer, rock star, entrepreneur, social critic, and political activist Frank Zappa.
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