150 selections from 13 programsChoose something you would not choose yourselfEvery title researched and attributed150 selections from 13 programsChoose something you would not choose yourselfEvery title researched and attributed
Summer edition · issue 01
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A film for every kind of night.
A teacher’s essential watch list, recut as an explorable repertory program. Search by what you know—or let the program choose.
A prisoner from a plague-ravaged future is sent into the past to trace the outbreak, but each displacement leaves authorities—and sometimes the traveler himself—uncertain whether his warning is prophecy or delusion.
After a mysterious black monolith influences humanity's distant ancestors, a mission toward Jupiter places two astronauts beside an increasingly inscrutable computer, opening a journey across technology, evolution, and the unknown.
A bicycle courier wakes from a coma to find London deserted after a contagious rage has swept Britain. Joining a handful of survivors, he crosses an emptied country where human desperation can be as lethal as infection.
On a devastated Earth, a family survives by communicating in sign language and moving without sound, because blind creatures with hypersensitive hearing turn every footstep, breath, and household accident into mortal danger.
Directed by Chris Weitz and Paul Weitz · Coming of Age
A proudly unattached Londoner invents a child to enter single-parent circles, then finds his carefully empty life disrupted by an awkward twelve-year-old and his struggling mother.
A commercial starship crew answers a mysterious signal on the journey home and brings an unknown organism aboard, turning the ship's industrial corridors into a sealed, hostile maze far from any possible help.
Years after surviving the Nostromo, Ripley returns to the moon where the crew first encountered the creatures, joining a squad of heavily armed marines when a distant colony suddenly falls silent.
Directed by Jean-Pierre Jeunet · International Cinema
A shy Parisian waitress discovers a gift for quietly improving strangers’ lives, but her elaborate good deeds become easier than risking the vulnerability of pursuing happiness for herself.
After prison forces a violent white supremacist to confront the damage he has caused, he returns home determined to keep his younger brother from following the same path into hatred.
A neurotic New York comedian looks back on his relationship with an unconventional aspiring singer, tracing the humor and heartbreak of a modern romance.
Directed by Francis Ford Coppola · Essential Directors
Sent upriver during the Vietnam War, a weary Army captain enters an increasingly surreal landscape where military spectacle, moral collapse, and one elusive colonel blur the line between duty and madness.
Directed by Alejandro González Iñárritu · Essential Directors
An actor once famous for playing a superhero stakes his fading reputation on a Broadway production, while backstage pressure, family strain, and a volatile cast test how much of his identity survives beyond celebrity.
Colorado Springs' first Black detective recruits a white colleague for an audacious undercover operation against the Ku Klux Klan, turning an improbable true story into a tense collision of procedure, satire, and danger.
In rain-soaked 2019 Los Angeles, a weary police specialist is ordered to hunt four bioengineered fugitives whose desperate return to Earth forces him to question the boundary between manufactured life and humanity.
Sent to live with his disciplined father in South Central Los Angeles, teenager Tre grows up alongside brothers Ricky and Doughboy, whose diverging ambitions are tested by neighborhood pressures, friendship, and violence.
Directed by John Michael McDonagh · Social Issues/Commentary
After receiving a death threat during confession, a decent parish priest spends a week tending to a bitter coastal community while weighing faith, fear, and the cost of answering for institutions that failed their people.
Newly released from prison, Carlito Brigante is determined to leave New York's underworld behind. Loyalty to an unstable lawyer and old obligations keep pulling him back as he saves for one clean exit.
Humiliated at school and controlled at home, a painfully shy teenager begins discovering telekinetic abilities just as an invitation to the prom offers the fragile possibility of acceptance.
In a near future where no child has been born for eighteen years, a disillusioned bureaucrat is pulled into a dangerous journey carrying a fragile reason for humanity to hope.
Private investigator J. J. Gittes accepts a routine adultery case and is drawn into a widening conspiracy involving Los Angeles water, political power, family secrecy, and a woman he cannot easily read.
In Rio's City of God, an observant boy with a camera watches childhood friendships harden into rival criminal empires, searching for a way to document the violence without being consumed by it.