King Lear: After the End of the World
Jean-Luc Godard’s first English-language narrative feature is a postapocalyptic fantasy that shifts from antic humor to tragic grandeur while challenging deep-rooted assumptions about what a Shakespearean movie should be.
Frownland: Down the Drain
With an obsessive attention to detail and tiny gestures, Ronald Bronstein’s debut feature film turns the tale of one neurotic Brooklyn man into a furious work of personal cinema.
La notte: Modern Love
A husband and wife in 1960s Milan are isolated from each other and displaced in the modern world in Michelangelo Antonioni’s tale of love and space.
Living in Cinema: Rossellini and Bergman in Italy
The neorealist master and the Hollywood icon forged a brilliant artistic path together, despite the backlash their controversial romance generated.
The Darjeeling Limited: Voyage to India
Pierrot le fou: Self-Portrait in a Shattered Lens
In February 1964, while shooting Band of Outsiders, Jean-Luc Godard announced his plans for a film based on a crime novel, Obsession, by the American writer Lionel White (translated into French as Le démon d’onze heures—literally, “The Eleven
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