Back to the Future
Powered by Oscar-winning special effects, a catchy pop song by Huey Lewis & the News, and a mind-bending riff on the Oedipal complex, this Reagan-era blockbuster has stood the test of time.
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Powered by Oscar-winning special effects, a catchy pop song by Huey Lewis & the News, and a mind-bending riff on the Oedipal complex, this Reagan-era blockbuster has stood the test of time.
Fassbinder's final completed film, an adaptation of Jean Genet’s novel Querelle de Brest, packs his sexual energy and ambivalence into a powder keg, with Brad Davis as a classic Genet character.
Among the most charming and vividly realized animated features of Disney’s post–Golden Age, this hit adaptation of a series of books by Margery Sharp follows the adventures of the Rescue Aid Society, a group of mice helping international victims in peril.
This absorbing, intensely physical drama set at a rundown motel in the Mojave Desert is based on the play by Sam Shepard, also stars as a rodeo stunt rider trying to convince his ex-girlfriend (Kim Basinger) that they should rekindle their flame.
Powered by Oscar-winning special effects, a catchy pop song by Huey Lewis & the News, and a mind-bending riff on the Oedipal complex, this Reagan-era blockbuster has stood the test of time.
John Sturges’s lean-and-mean CinemaScope color noir featuring a beguiling Spencer Tracy as a no-nonsense man investigating a suspected killing in a tiny California desert town plays 6/10 on 35mm.
Spielberg's operatic tale of a group of humans (including Dreyfuss’s suburban everydad) preparing to make contact with mysterious outer-space visitors is an emotionally stirring, visually jaw-dropping journey.
On 6/11, Kent Jones introduces one of the best films produced during Hollywood’s brief embrace of Technicolor 3-D, Roy Ward Baker’s sunbaked potboiler.
Experimental filmmaker Barbara Hammer spent her career charting unknown pathways by inventing a language of cinematic lesbianism, not least of all with this exceptional 1992 work of nonfiction.
Wes Anderson and Owen Wilson have been devoted fans of groundbreaking documentarians Albert and David Maysles for their entire careers together. This program features three Maysles films that evoke the period or locations depicted in Asteroid City.
Portuguese filmmaker João Pedro Rodrigues dives deep into social and erotic alienation, and finds in queerness an embrace of our most feral human impulses.
Wes Anderson's new film in a special free sneak preview.