Boyhood: The Moment Seizes You
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Little Odessa: He Ain’t Heavy, He’s My Brother
James Gray’s extraordinary debut feature is a painstakingly distilled tale of crime and family dysfunction, captured with a merciless gaze and a sharp attention to idiosyncratic detail.
American Dream: The Time Is Right
In her second film, Oscar-winning documentarian Barbara Kopple captures the anguish and perils of disunity in the labor movement and the corrosion of union power during the Reagan era.
Five Radical Documentaries by Kazuo Hara and Sachiko Kobayashi: Restlessness Refusing Resolution
The pioneering husband-and-wife duo transformed the field of Japanese nonfiction cinema with their portraits of spectacular, edgy personalities and collectives under duress.
Coup de torchon: “All Crimes Are Collective”
Set in 1930s French West Africa, Bertrand Tavernier’s hard-to-classify adaptation of the Jim Thompson novel Pop. 1280 offers an apocalyptic vision of a society in which institutions have abdicated their moral authority.