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  • Winter Sleep

    Movie

    Directed by Nuri Bilge Ceylan • Drama • 2014 • Turkey • Turkish with English subtitles
    Starring Haluk Bilginer, Melisa Sözen, Demet Akbag

    Directed by cinema master Nuri Bilge Ceylan, this enthralling, brilliantly photographed film won the Palme d'Or at the 2014 Cannes Film Festival and was Turke...

  • Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow

    Movie

    Directed by Vittorio De Sica • Anthology • 1963 • Italy • Italian with English subtitles
    Starring Sophia Loren, Marcello Mastroianni

    Witty and unforgettable, this Academy Award winner for Best Foreign Language Film from master neo-realist filmmaker Vittorio de Sica casts Marcello Mastroianni and...

  • Princess Tam Tam

    Movie

    Directed by Edmond T. Greville • Drama • 1935 • French • French with English subtitles
    Starring Josephine Baker, Albert Préjean, Jean Gallande

    "Princess Tam Tam" is a 1935 French black-and-white film starring Josephine Baker as Alwina, a Tunisian girl who is introduced to Parisian high society a...

  • The Scent of Green Papaya

    Movie

    Directed by Anh Hung Tran • Drama • 1993 • Vietnam, France • Vietnamese with English subtitles
    Starring Nu Yen Khe Tran, Thi Loc Truong, Anh Hoa Nguyen

    An Academy Award nominee for Best Foreign Language Film, Cannes winner ”The Scent of Green Papaya” is set in 1951 Saigon, where 10-year-old Mui...

  • Metropolis

    Movie

    Directed by Fritz Lang • Silent • 1927 • Germany • German with English intertitles
    Starring Rudolf Klein-Rogge, Gustav Froelich, Alfred Abel

    With more than 25 minutes of rediscovered footage, this restoration of “Metropolis” is the definitive edition of Fritz Lang’s influential sci-fi masterpiec...

  • Marius

    Movie

    Directed by Daniel Auteuil • Arthouse • 2014 • France • French with English subtitles
    Starring Daniel Auteuil, Raphaël Personnaz, Jean-Pierre Darroussin

    Actor and director Daniel Auteuil’s sumptuous adaptation of Marcel Pagnol's classic trilogy following the loves and losses of a Marseille port ...

  • Lovers and Lollipops

    Movie

    Directed by Morris Engel, Ruth Orkin • Drama • 1956 • US • English
    Starring Lori March, Gerald O'Loughlin, Cathy Dunn

    A follow-up to the hugely successful "Little Fugitive", Morris Engel and Ruth Orkin's "Lovers and Lollipops" is the enchanting tale of a seven-year-old girl's reaction to her mom...

  • The Last Laugh

    Movie

    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 ...

  • Laila in Haifa

    Movie

    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...

  • The Tenth Man

    Movie

    Directed by Daniel Burman • Drama • 2016 • Argentina • Spanish with English subtitles
    Starring Alan Sabbagh, Julieta Zylberberg, Usher Barilka

    Ari, who has built a successful career in New York, thinks he has left his past behind. But his distant father Usher, who runs a Jewish aid foundation in...

  • A Delicate Balance

    Movie

    Directed by Tony Richardson • Theatre • 1976 • US • English
    Starring Katharine Hepburn, Paul Scofield

    An invasion of friends and family pushes the repressed problems of a complacent marriage to the fore in this exceptional adaptation of Edward Albee's Pulitzer Prize-winning play. Oscar-winners K...

  • The Iceman Cometh

    Movie

    Directed by John Frankenheimer • Theatre • 1973 • US • English
    Starring Lee Marvin, Fredric March, Robert Ryan

    Considered the definitive film version of Eugene O'Neill's play, this simple tale of a birthday celebration at a saloon takes a devastating look at disillusionment and dashed hopes. Lee...

  • The Homecoming

    Movie

    Directed by Peter Hall • Theatre • 1973 • UK, US • English
    Starring Paul Rogers, Ian Holm, Cyril Cusack

    A professor returns home after a long absence to introduce his wife to his father and two brothers, but the family reunion has unexpected and disturbing consequences. Based on one of Harold Pi...

  • T. S. Eliot’s Four Quartets

    Movie

    Directed by Sophie Fiennes • Theatre • 2023 • UK • English
    Starring Ralph Fiennes

    Ralph Fiennes delivers an exquisite performance of T. S. Eliot's poetic masterpiece. During the pandemic, the Oscar nominee set himself the challenge of committing “Four Quartets” to memory, and in 2021 he brought ...

  • The Man in the Glass Booth

    Movie

    Directed by Arthur Hiller • Theatre • 1975 • US • English
    Starring Maximilian Schell, Lois Nettleton, Lawrence Pressman

    Arthur Goldman is a rich Jewish industrialist, living in luxury in a Manhattan high-rise. He banters with his assistant Charlie, often shocking him with his outrageousness and ...

  • The Maids

    Movie

    Directed by Christopher Miles • Theatre • 1975 • US • English
    Starring Glenda Jackson, Susannah York, Vivien Merchant

    Glenda Jackson and Susannah York play Paris maids who tend to a cruel socialite's unending domestic needs. Whenever Madame is away, the sisters obsessively act out a complex role...

  • Three Sisters

    Movie

    Directed by Laurence Olivier, John Sichel • Theatre • 1970 • US, Europe • English
    Starring Jeanne Watts, Joan Plowright, Louise Purnell

    Anton Chekhov's classic play about the lives of three sisters living in exile in a remote Russian village is given the all-star treatment by director and star L...

  • Variety

    Movie

    Directed by Bette Gordon • Arthouse • 1985 • US • English
    Starring Sandy McLeod, Will Patton, Richard Davidson

    Emerging out of the underground NYC arts scene that produced the late 80's boom in American independent cinema, Bette Gordon's "Variety" is a sexually charged tale of a woman's journey ...

  • Luther

    Movie

    Directed by Guy Green • Theatre • 1974 • US • English
    Starring Stacy Keach, Peter Cellier, Judi Dench

    John Osborne's play is a fascinating and powerful psychological study of the Augustinian monk Martin Luther, examining his central role in the birth of Protestantism and revolt against the Roman...

  • Lost in the Stars

    Movie

    Directed by Daniel Mann • Theatre • 1974 • US • English
    Starring Brock Peters, Melba Moore, Raymond St. Jacques

    Daniel Mann ("The Rose Tattoo") transforms Alan Paton's novel of racial oppression “Cry the Beloved Country” into a tragic and beautiful film musical. Gilded by Maxwell Anderson's luci...

  • Butley

    Movie

    Directed by Harold Pinter • Theatre • 1974 • UK, US • English
    Starring Alan Bates, Jessica Tandy, Georgina Hale

    Alan Bates turns his Tony-winning role into one of his greatest film performances as a self-made train wreck of an English Literature professor who experiences a truly awful day. Accla...

  • In Celebration

    Movie

    Directed by Lindsay Anderson • Theatre • 1975 • UK, US • English
    Starring Alan Bates, Brian Cox, Gabrielle Daye

    Lindsay Anderson turns his acclaimed Royal Court Theater run into a riveting cinematic interpretation of David Storey's ferocious play. In their tiny Yorkshire house, God-fearing and h...

  • Galileo

    Movie

    Directed by Joseph Losey • Theatre • 1974 • US • English
    Starring Topol, Edward Fox, Colin Blakely

    Topol ("Fiddler on the Roof") and a cast of British theatrical aristocracy ground Bertolt Brecht's famous interpretation of the troubled life and anxious times of 17th century physicist and astrono...

  • Jacques Brel is Alive and Well and Living in Paris

    Movie

    Directed by Denis Heroux • Theatre • 1975 • US • English
    Starring Elly Stone, Mort Shuman, Jacques Brel

    Eschewing conventional narrative, “Jacques Brel is Alive and Well and Living in Paris” transforms Mort Shuman and Eric Blau's beloved 35-song stage revue into an infectious movie musical that ...