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On August 29, 2005, the worst natural disaster in U.S. history hit the Gulf Coast region. Sixteen people, seven dogs, and eight cats took shelter…
MORE ›An upper-crust photographer lugs her large-format camera into the surrealistically posh homes of wealthy Europeans and comes away with astonishing images. Saturated with color and…
MORE ›This 1959 genre classic pits megalomaniacal, LSD-dropping scientist Vincent Price against the underwhelming eponymous monster, a parasitic (rubber) worm that lies dormant in everyone’s spine…
MORE ›An intense, purely observational look at the stark conditions of inmate life in the 1960s at the Bridgewater State Hospital for the criminally insane in Massachusetts.
MORE ›Brimming with symbolic imagery, Titixe is a beautiful and patient montage of a family’s last harvest in Mexico.
MORE ›Meet Jojo, Nathalie, and the other children who attend a one-room school in the rolling French countryside. Their classroom is noticeably quieter than American ones.…
MORE ›The time is August 2005. A teenage New Orleans brass band, playing borrowed and taped-together instruments on the corner of Bourbon and Canal Streets, is…
MORE ›Three students from the South Bronx find respite from their daily struggles when they enroll in a high school poetry class.
MORE ›Following a father’s years-long battle against deportation, To Be Reconciled offers a heart-wrenching portrait of a family living through the anguish of uncertainty with faith and resolve.…
MORE ›At the age of 14, Natalie Chao lost her mother to clinical depression. Traces of her exist in old miniDV camcorder footage, some of which…
MORE ›The filmmaker spends a year filming a family of five in their modest home in rural China. All except the eldest daughter have AIDS. Without…
MORE ›Through clips and conversation, Kirsten Johnson discusses her role as a documentary cinematographer and details the many creative iterations that ultimately led to Cameraperson and The Above.
MORE ›There’s a moment in this extraordinary film by Tamar Yaron when you will realize the horrifying meaning of its title. That moment brings into focus,…
MORE ›Set in an older section of Watts, Los Angeles, To Sleep with Anger tells the fable of a trickster coming to town to steal souls.…
MORE ›Depicting the contemporary lives of several local tobacco farmers, Tobacco Money Feeds My Family makes the convincing case that one cannot truly tell the story…
MORE ›In one of the first films that Richard Leacock wrote, directed, photographed, and edited, the filmmaker achieves an absorbing level of intimacy and immediacy in…
MORE ›In this quietly arresting film, three blind women in Havana, Cuba, share their heartbreaks and hopes, and navigate their profound desire for independence.
MORE ›Inseparable eleven-year-old cousins and best friends, Leh and Bo, face a harsh reality: one will go to a monastery and one will go to school, sequestered from each other and their families. Filmmaker Anna Rodgers spent four years in Laos with the boys as they grew up and apart.
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