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August Auteurs

August Auteurs

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August Auteurs
  • The Last of England

    Directed by Derek Jarman • Arthouse • 1987 • UK • English
    Starring Tilda Swinton, Spencer Leigh, Nigel Terry

    An apocalyptic roar of a movie, Derek Jarman's “The Last of England” stars Oscar winner Tilda Swinton in his lament for the country he once knew and what he feared it would become. A kale...

  • The Garden

    Directed by Derek Jarman • Arthouse • 1990 • UK • English
    Starring Tilda Swinton, Johnny Mills, Peter Lee-Wilson

    Directed by Derek Jarman and starring Tilda Swinton, this kaleidoscopic film shows the filmmaker’s genius at its most coruscating, featuring an over-the-top Hollywood-style musical nu...

  • Tales from the Gimli Hospital Redux

    Directed by Guy Maddin • Arthouse • 1988 • Canada • English
    Starring Kyle McCulloch, Michael Gottli, Angela Heck

    Guy Maddin’s highly acclaimed first feature is regarded as one of the true cult hits on the midnight movie circuit. Set during a smallpox epidemic in the village of Gimli, Manitoba ne...

  • 3 Faces

    Directed by Jafar Panah • Arthouse • 2019 • Iran • Farsi with English subtitles
    Featuring Behnaz Jafari, Jafar Panahi, Marziyeh Rezaei

    Winner of the Best Screenplay Award and nominated for a Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival, "3 Faces" is Iranian director Jafar Panahi's fourth feature since...

  • Diary of a Chambermaid

    Directed by Luis Buñuel • Drama • 1964 • France • French with English subtitles
    Starring Jeanne Moreau, Georges Géret, Michel Piccoli

    Working as a chambermaid, Célestine (Jeanne Moreau) observes the little failings of each member of the household in Luis Buñuel’s take on Octave Mirbeau’s classic...

  • Mountains May Depart

    Directed by Zhangke Jia • Drama • 2015 • China, France, Japan • English, Cantonese, Mandarin with English subtitles
    Starring Zhao Tao, Zhang Yi, Sylvia Chang

    Mainland master Jia Zhangke scales new heights with "Mountains May Depart". At once an intimate drama and a decades-spanning epic that lea...

  • Confidence

    Directed by István Szabó • Drama • 1980 • Hungary • Hungarian with English subtitles
    Starring Peter Andorai, Ildiko Bansagi

    István Szabó's "Confidence" was nominated for an Academy Award and won Berlinale's Silver Bear for Best Director in 1980. Set in World War II-era Hungary, it follows two un...

  • Colonel Redl

    Directed by István Szabó • Drama • 1984 • Hungary, Germany, Austria • German with English subtitles
    Starring Klaus Maria Brandauer, Armin Muller-Stahl, Gudrun Landgrebe

    Set in the lead up to WWI, István Szabó's Cannes Grand Jury-winning and Academy Award nominated film charts the rise of Alfred ...

  • Kinetta

    Directed by Yorgos Lanthimos • Drama • 2005 • Greece • Greek with English subtitles
    Starring Evangelia Randou, Aris Servetalis, Costas Xikominos

    Three tenuously connected people are motivated by mysterious impulses in a desolate Greek resort town. A plain-clothes cop pursues triple passions for ...

  • Alps

    Directed by Yorgos Lanthimos • Arthouse • 2011 • Greece • Greek with English subtitles
    Starring Ariane Labed, Angeliki Papoulia, Aris Servetalis

    Before "The Favourite", Academy Award nominee Yorgos Lanthimos created this darkly comedic, absurdist vision of (in)human relationships, focusing on a ...

  • A Zed and Two Noughts

    Directed by Peter Greenaway • 1990 • United Kingdom
    Starring Andrea Ferréol, Brian Deacon

    A masterpiece of modern cinema, “A Zed and Two Noughts” is Peter Greenaway’s beautifully disturbing and darkly humorous take on erotic obsession and death. In a horrific automobile-swan accident in front of...

  • Laila in Haifa

    Directed by Amos Gitai • Arthouse • 2020 • Israel, France • English, Arabic, Hebrew with English subtitles
    Starring Maria Zreik, Khawla Ibraheem,Hana Laslo

    With an ensemble cast of both Israeli and Palestinian actors, “Laila in Haifa” explores the interweaving stories of five women set over one ...

  • Pasolini

    Directed by Abel Ferrara • Drama • 2019 • France, Belgium, Italy • English, Italian, French with English subtitles • Mature Content
    Starring Willem Dafoe, Ninetto Davoli , Riccardo Scamarcio

    Abel Ferrara's "Pasolini"​ stars frequent collaborator Willem Dafoe as film director Pier Paolo Pasolini...

  • Alphaville

    Directed by Jean-Luc Godard • Sci-Fi • 1965 • France • French with English subtitles
    Starring Eddie Constantine, Anna Karina, Akim Tamiroff

    Influential director Jean-Luc Godard’s irreverent journey to the mysterious “Alphaville” remains one of the least conventional films of all time. American s...

  • Le Gai Savoir

    Directed by Jean-Luc Godard • Arthouse • 1969 • France • French with English subtitles
    Starring Juliet Berto, Jean-Pierre Leaud, Jean-Luc Godard

    In this classic film from Jean-Luc Godard, two militants have a discourse on language while alone in an abandoned television studio. Referring to spoke...

  • Slack Bay

    Directed by Bruno Dumont • Arthouse • 2017 • France • French with English subtitles
    Starring Fabrice Luchini, Juliette Binoche, Valeria Bruni Tedeschi

    The bourgeois and extremely eccentric Van Peteghem family, among them Juliette Binoche, Fabrice Luchini, and Valeria Bruni Tedeschi, have settled...

  • Li'l Quinquin

    Directed by Bruno Dumont • Comedy • 2014 • France • French with English subtitles
    Starring Alane Delhaye, Lucy Caron, Bernard Pruvost

    Official Selection of the Cannes Film Festival, French auteur Bruno Dumont's comedy "Li'l Quinquin" is an absurdist, metaphysical murder mystery set on the outski...

  • Camille Claudel 1915

    Directed by Bruno Dumont • Drama • 2013 • France • French with English subtitles
    Starring Juliette Binoche, Jean-Luc Vincent, Robert Leroy

    Juliette Binoche gives a mesmerizing performance as sculptor Camille Claudel, Auguste Rodin's protégé and later mistress. Inspired by the correspondence wit...

  • France

    Directed by Bruno Dumont • Comedy • 2021 • France, Germany, Italy, Belgium • French with English subtitles
    Starring Léa Seydoux, Blanche Gardin, Benjamin Biolay

    Léa Seydoux brilliantly holds the center of Bruno Dumont’s Cannes Palme d'Or nominated film, which starts out as a satire of contempora...

  • The Haunted Castle

    Directed by F. W. Murnau • Silent • 1921 • Germany • German with English intertitles
    Starring Arnold Korff, Lotar Mehnert, Paul Hartmann

    F. W. Murnau tested the waters with this moody drama of a storm-bound manor and the grim mystery that lurks within. A hunting party is interrupted by the arri...

  • The Last Laugh

    Directed by F. W. Murnau • Silent • 1924 • Germany • German with English intertitles
    Starring Emil Jannings

    One of the crowning achievements of the German expressionist movement, F. W. Murnau’s “The Last Laugh” stars Emil Jannings as an aging doorman whose happiness crumbles when he is relieved ...

  • Nosferatu

    Directed by F.W. Murnau • Silent • 1922 • Germany • German with English intertitles
    Starring Max Schreck, Alexander Granach, Gustav von Wangenheim

    A cornerstone of horror, F.W. Murnau's "Nosferatu" remains an unsettling and chilling experience steeped in the haunting style of German Expressionis...

  • Faust

    Directed by F.W. Murnau • Silent • 1926 • Germany • German with English intertitles
    Starring Gosta Ekman, Emil Jannings, Camilla Horn

    Mobilizing full studio resources, F.W. Murnau orchestrated a colossal adaptation of Goethe's “Faust” that ranks among the greatest achievements of German silent c...

  • Destiny

    Directed by Fritz Lang • Silent • 1921 • Germany • German with English intertitles
    Starring Rudolf Klein-Rogge, Wilhelm Diegelmann, Hans Sternberg

    This 1921 silent German Expressionist fantasy romance film directed by Fritz Lang follows a young woman who confronts the personification of Death in...