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Spotlight: Trainspotting

Films about trains date from the earliest days of the medium, with Auguste Lumière’s 1895 short documentary, Arrival of a Train at La Ciotat. In these films, the setting of the train serves as both a world unto itself as well as a means of transportation from one place to another, literally and otherwise.

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Spotlight: Hit the Road

Summer is here, and with it, a Spotlight on a favorite summer pastime: road trips. With films from every decade starting in the 1950s, ride along on different journeys made in films from across the globe.

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Spotlight: Food, Glorious Food!

One of the irreducible necessities of life, food commands an enormous share of human attention. This week’s films all explore the experience of food – from growing it, to cooking it, to eating it -- and how its tastes and textures can have powerful impacts on our lives.

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Spotlight: Actors: Jean-Louis Trintignant

The career of French actor Jean-Louis Trintignant spanned seven decades and included an astonishing 124 films, from his breakout role in And God Created Woman in 1956, to the career-capping Amour, for which he won a César for Best Actor in 2013, with several of the great auteur films of the 20th century along the way.

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Spotlight: Nonlinearity

According to Einstein, “the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion," and these filmmakers would agree. Transcending the plot structure of beginning, middle and end, this week’s films all feature storytelling that warps the conventions of time.

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Spotlight: Lives of Musicians

How do the lives of artists inform their art? These films focus on musicians from around the world at various points in their careers, showing how the joy and suffering in their personal lives and in the world around them impact the music they create.

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Spotlight: Immersed in the Elements

The subjects of this week’s spotlight find themselves living in the wild, whether by choice or not. Deserts, oceans, forests, and mountains—the untamed elements of nature provide the backdrop not just for tales of isolation and survival, but also for stories of connection and belonging.

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Spotlight: Animal Characters

This Spotlight focuses on movies featuring animal characters, including live action and animation, and ranging from documentaries to realist drama to fantasy. These films provide a unique perspective on our world, showing how animals interact with each other and with human society.

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Spotlight: Divorce Italian Style

On the occasion of the International Day of Families, we’re focusing on Italian cinema of the 1960s that reflects the transformation of society brought about by the post-war economic boom (aka the “Economic Miracle”). These films tackle subjects including women’s entrance into the workforce, divorce, abortion, sex work, and the social shift toward individuality as a result of capitalist consumerism.

Divorce Italian Style
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