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Directed by Park Chan-wook
This ravishing new crime drama presents a gripping and sensual tale of two women – a young Japanese Lady living on a secluded estate, and a Korean woman who is hired to serve as her new handmaiden. The servant is secretly plotting with a con-man to defraud her mistress of a large inheritance.
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Written and Directed by Barry Jenkins
A timeless story of human connection and self-discovery, Moonlight chronicles the life of a young black man from childhood to adulthood as he struggles to find his place in the world while growing up in a rough neighborhood of Miami.
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Directed by Kleber Mendonça Filho
Clara (Sonia Braga) a 65-year-old widow and retired music critic, is the last resident of the Aquarius, one of the few buildings of its age and character that remains in a rapidly changing seaside Recife neighborhood. Now that the other apartments have been swept up by a company with ambitious plans for redevelopment, pressures to move on surround Clara from all sides. The resulting confrontation is mysterious, tingeing even Clara’s most familiar routines with the tension of a thriller.
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A film by Jaco Van Dormael
God exists, and He’s a jerk. He lives in a high-rise apartment in Brussels and never gets out of His pajamas. Ea, his overshadowed daughter, has had enough of her Father’s abuse. During this comical and witty journey they learn to celebrate life and love, and provide us with Jaco Van Dormael’s dark and eccentric answer to the loaded question: what would you do if you knew exactly how much time you had left to live?
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Directed by Paul Verhoeven
The critically acclaimed actress Isabelle Huppert plays Michèle, a seemingly indestructible head of a large company is attacked in her home by an unknown assailant. Michèle resolutely tracks the man down in a curious and thrilling game of cat and mouse – a game that may, at any moment, spiral out of control.
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Written and Directed by Maren Ade
Winfried doesn’t see much of his serious career focused daughter Ines, so when he decides to surprise her with a visit chaos ensues. The father and daughter reach an impasse, and when Winfried agrees to leave, enter the flashy “Toni Erdmann” – Winfried’s smooth-talking alter ego.
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Lights, Camera, Action!
It’s that time of the year again… OSCAR Season! This is your chance to get up to date on a year of Live Action Short Films and see who that little gold man will go to.
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Directed by Asghar Farhadi
Based on Arthur Miller’s classic play Death of a Salesman, this film follows a young couple living in Tehran, who are forced to move into a new apartment after their old flat becomes damaged. Eventually, an incident linked to the previous tenant of their new home dramatically changes the couple’s life.
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Directed by Raoul Peck
In 1979, James Baldwin wrote a letter to his literary agent describing his next project, Remember This House. The book was to be a revolutionary, personal account of the lives and successive assassinations of three of his close friends—Medgar Evers, Malcolm X and Martin Luther King, Jr. At the time of Baldwin’s death in 1987, he left behind only thirty completed pages of his manuscript.
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Directed by Kris Avedisian
When Peter (Jesse Wakeman) finally comes home, he finds himself in a bind. He turns to the only person he can think of to help him out – his next door neighbor and former childhood friend Donald (played by Avedisian). The ever-eccentric Donald hasn’t changed a bit, and what starts as a simple favor turns into a long and unhinged van ride into their past.
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Directed by Brett Haley
Lee Haden (Sam Elliott) is a Western icon with a golden voice, but his best performances are decades behind him. He spends his days reliving old glories and smoking too much weed with his former co-star until a surprise diagnosis brings his priorities into focus. We follow Haden on his journey for one final role to cement his legacy.
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Directed by Dominique Abel & Fiona Gordon
When Fiona’s orderly life is disrupted by a letter of distress from her 88-year-old Aunt Martha (delightfully portrayed by Academy Award®-nominee Emmanuelle Riva) who is living in Paris, Fiona hops on the first plane she can and arrives only to discover that Martha has disappeared. In an avalanche of spectacular disasters, she encounters Dom, the affable but annoying tramp who just won’t leave her alone.
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Directed by Miguel Arteta
Beatriz (Salma Hayek), an immigrant from a poor town in Mexico, has drawn on her innate kindness to build a career as a spiritual health practitioner in Los Angeles. Doug Strutt (John Lithgow) is a cutthroat, self-satisfied billionaire real estate developer. When these two opposites meet at a dinner party their worlds collide and neither will ever be the same.
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Directed by Aisling Walsh
Follow the unlikely romance between crippled housekeeper turned folk artist Maud Lewis (Sally Hawkins) and Everett Lewis (Ethan Hawke), a hardened, reclusive bachelor. Based on a true story.
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Directed by Martin Provost
Two of French cinema’s biggest stars shine in this bittersweet drama about the unlikely friendship that develops between Claire (Catherine Frot), a talented but tightly wound midwife, and Béatrice (Catherine Deneuve), the estranged, free-spirited mistress of Claire’s late father.
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Directed by Kirsten Tan
On a chance encounter, a disenchanted architect bumps into his long-lost elephant on the streets of Bangkok. Excited, he takes his elephant on a journey across Thailand, in search of the farm where they grew up together – only to discover the truth about himself.
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Directed by Nicole Garcia
Based on the international best-selling novel and starring Academy Award winner Marion Cotillard, From the Land of the Moon is the story of a free-spirited woman fighting for passionate dreams of true love against all odds.
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Directed by Roger Sherman
In Search of Israeli Cuisine is a portrait of the Israeli people told through food. Profiling chefs, home cooks, farmers, vintners, and cheese makers drawn from the more than 100 cultures that make up Israel today – Jewish, Arab, Muslim, Christian, Druze a rich, complex and human story emerges. Through scenes that are mostly cinema verité— interviews, farms, markets, restaurants, kitchens, landscapes, and history—audiences will discover that this hot, multi-cultural cuisine has developed only in the last 30 years.
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Directed by Destin Daniel Cretton
Oscar winner Brie Larson bring Jeannette Walls’s best-selling memoir to life as a young women who, influenced by the joyfully wild nature of her deeply dysfunctional father (Woody Harrelson), found the fiery determination to carve out a successful life on her own terms.
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Directed by Valérie Müller and Angelin Preljocaj
A gifted Bolshoi ballerina falls in love with a French dancer who introduces her to contemporary dance and leads her to travel the world.
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Directed by Alexander Janko…
Starring Karen Allen and S. Epatha Merkerson. Hoping to reclaim who she was before marriage and children, an empty nester (Allen) retreats to Cape Cod where she embarks upon a quest to set herself free.
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Directed by Gurinder Chadha
India, 1947: Lord Mountbatten (Downton Abbey’s Hugh Bonneville) is dispatched, along with his wife Edwina, to New Delhi to oversee the country’s transition from British rule to independence. Taking his place in the resplendent mansion known as the Viceroy’s House, Mountbatten arrives hopeful for a peaceful transference of power. But ending centuries of colonial rule in a country divided by deep religious and cultural differences proves no easy undertaking, setting off a seismic struggle that threatens to tear India apart.
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Directed by Jean-Pierre Dardenne & Luc Dardenne
One evening after work hours, a young doctor, allows the door buzzer at the small clinic where she works to go unanswered. It’s only later that she learns that the person ringing was found dead shortly after. Consumed by guilt, she then embarks on an obsessive crusade to discover who the anonymous woman was and to see to it that she is not forgotten.
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Directed by Andy Serkis
Based on the inspiring true love story between Robin and Diana Cavendish (Academy Award nominee Andrew Garfield, Golden Globe winner Claire Foy) – An adventurous couple who refuse to give up in the face of a devastating disease.
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Directed by Agnes Varda and JR
89-year old Agnes Varda, one of the leading figures of the French New Wave, and acclaimed 33 year-old French photographer and muralist JR teamed up to co-direct this enchanting documentary/ road movie. Together they travel around the villages of France in JR’s photo truck meeting locals, learning their stories and producing epic-size portraits. Faces Places documents these heart-warming encounters as well as the unlikely, tender friendship they formed along the way.
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Directed by Stephen Frears
The extraordinary true story of an unexpected friendship in the later years of Queen Victoria’s [Academy Award winner Judi Dench] remarkable rule. When a young clerk, travels from India to participate in the Queen’s Golden Jubilee, he is surprised to find favor with the Queen herself. As the two forge an unlikely and devoted alliance with a loyalty to one another that her household and inner circle all attempt to destroy.
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Directed by Brett Morgen
Her chimpanzee research challenged the male-dominated scientific consensus of her time and revolutionized our understanding of the natural world. Set to a rich orchestral score from legendary composer Philip Glass, the film offers an unprecedented, intimate portrait of Jane Goodall — a trailblazer who defied the odds to become one of the world’s most admired conservationists.
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Written and Directed by Greta Gerwig
In Lady Bird, Greta Gerwig reveals herself to be a bold new cinematic voice with her directorial debut, excavating both the humor and pathos in the turbulent bond between a mother and her teenage daughter.
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Directed by Sean Baker
Set in the shadow of the imagined utopia of Disney World in the budget motel “The Magic Castle,” managed by Bobby (Oscar nominee William Dafoe.) The Florida Project follows six-year-old Moonee (Brooklynn Prince in a stunning breakout turn) and her rebellious mother over the course of a single summer. Racking in multiple awards from the NYFCC and a Golden Globe nominee this could be the best film you see this year!
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Directed By Martin McDonagh
After months have passed without a culprit in her daughter’s murder case, Mildred Hayes (Academy Award winner Frances McDormand) makes a bold move, painting three signs leading into her town with a controversial message directed at William Willoughby (Academy Award nominee Woody Harrelson), the town’s revered chief of police.
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And the Oscar Goes To...
For the 14th consecutive year, Shorts HD and Magnolia Pictures present the Oscar-Nominated Short Films – Live Action, opening on Feb. 9th. This is your annual chance to predict the winners (and have the edge in your Oscar pool)! A perennial hit with audiences around the country and the world, don’t miss this year’s selection of shorts.
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Nominated for Four Oscars!
Directed by Luca Guadagnino
In the summer of 1983, in the north of Italy, Elio Perlman, (Timothée Chalamet) a 17-year-old American spends his days in his family’s 17th century villa lazily transcribing music. One day Oliver (Armie Hammer), a 24-year-old graduate student working on his doctorate arrives as the annual summer intern tasked with helping Elio’s father (Michael Stuhlbarg), an eminent professor specializing in Greco-Roman culture. Soon, Elio and Oliver discover a summer that will alter their lives forever.
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Oscar Nominated for Best Foreign Language Film!
Directed By Ruben Östlund
This Academy Award nominated film follows a prestigious Stockholm museum’s chief art curator as he finds himself in times of both professional and personal crisis as he attempts to set up a controversial new exhibit.
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Nominated for Six Oscars!
Directed By Paul Thomas Anderson
In what he’s stated as his final film, Daniel Day-Lewis leads a talented cast in this multi Academy Award nominated film. Set in 1950’s London, Reynolds Woodcock (Lewis) is a renowned dressmaker whose fastidious life is disrupted by a young, strong-willed woman, Alma (Vicky Krieps), who becomes his muse and lover.
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Directed By Paul McGuigan
What starts as a vibrant affair between a legendary femme fatale and her young lover quickly grows into a deeper relationship. Their passion and lust for life is tested to the limits by events beyond their control.
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2018 Oscar Winner for Best Foreign Language Film!
Directed By Sebastián Lelio
Marina, a transsexual woman who works as a waitress and moonlights as a nightclub singer, is bowled over by the death of her older boyfriend. Instead of being able to mourn her lost love she is confronted with suspicion, prejudice and contempt from her deceased lover’s doctors and family.
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Academy Award Nominee for Best Foreign Film
Directed By Andrey Zvyagintsev
Zhenya and Boris are going through a vicious divorce marked by resentment, frustration and recriminations. Already embarking on new lives, they are impatient to start again, to turn the page – even if it means threatening to abandon their 12-year-old son Alexey. Until, after witnessing one of their fights, Alexey disappears…
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The Hilarious Satire from Armando Iannucci
The one-liners fly as fast as political fortunes fall in this uproarious, wickedly irreverent satire from Armando Iannucci (Veep, In the Loop). Moscow, 1953: when tyrannical dictator Joseph Stalin drops dead, his parasitic cronies square off in a frantic power struggle to be the next Soviet leader. But as they bumble, brawl, and backstab their way to the top, just who is running the government?
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Andrew Botsford of Quogue will once again introduce our summer films each Tuesday night and discuss them afterwards with guest commentators, followed by an informal audience discussion.
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