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The World Before Your Feet / Free Solo
On this show I want to cover two films about people trying to do something no one else has done; both of them played...
The Biggest Little Farm
A documentary tells of a couple’s struggle to create and maintain an organic farm that is totally in harmony with nature. It might just...
The Souvenir / Be Natural
English director Joanna Hogg presents the pain of a young woman filmmaker’s destructive relationship with an addict in The Souvenir, while Pamela B. Green’s...
Long Day’s Journey Into Night / The Mustang
Chinese director Bi Gan explores guilt and memory through the mechanism of a dream; while Laure de Clermont-Tonnerre tells of a violent prison inmate...
Le Trou
Jacques Becker’s final film is an intensely focused drama about a seemingly impossible prison escape, based on real events. Four men sharing a cell...
On the Bowery
Lionel Rogosin’s 1956 portrait of the Skid Row neighborhood in lower Manhattan was a startling new development in American cinema. On the Bowery is...