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Spotlight: Directors: Lina Wertmuller

Provocative, outrageous, and larger-than-life, the films of this week’s spotlight comprise the early work of filmmaker Lina Wertmuller, the first woman nominated for a Best Director Oscar (for Seven Beauties). This week we offer a tribute to the Italian iconoclast’s controversial work.

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Spotlight: Directors: Yasujiro Ozu

Honoring the anniversary of both his birth and his death on December 12th, this week’s spotlight is a curation of the filmography of Yasujiro Ozu that highlights not only his famed melodramas but also his delightful comedies and thrilling yakuza films.

Directors: Yasujiro Ozu
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Spotlight: Time Travel

Limited by our linear experience of time, we cannot foresee the future or rewrite the past. In our finite lifetimes, there are people whose paths we'll cross, and there are those we'll never know -- but with our imagination, the possibilities are endless. These time travel films take the imagined and make it real.

Time Travel
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Spotlight: The Greek Weird Wave

Catapulted by Greece’s recent financial crisis, this week's spotlight highlights the Greek Weird Wave, a movement focused on Greece’s decade-long financial, social, and political turmoil. Through their unsettling realism, these films seek to uncover the macabre and bizarre within everyday life.

The Greek Weird Wave
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Spotlight: Favorite Series of 2021

As the holiday season begins, we offer our favorite series of 2021 for your bingeing pleasure. Some of these series launched this year; others kept going strong; and a few came to a close. From fantasy to gritty reality, from Israel to Iceland, from detectives and cleaners to monsters and zombies, this lineup has something for everyone.

Favorite Series of 2021
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Spotlight: Golden Horse Awards

As the Golden Horse Awards draw near, we present a slate of films from the Taiwanese New Wave that were nominated for or won the award for Best Feature Film. Together, they represent an era of cinema known for its realistic portrayals of quotidian life in Taiwan.

Golden Horse Awards
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Spotlight: Body Horror Anime

Feast your eyes as this week's spotlight brings together the human and the grotesque through the boundless medium of animation. These anime films and series nauseate and fascinate while exploring themes of corruption, agency, and power through body horror.

Body Horror Anime
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Spotlight: Chance Encounters

Sometimes, all it takes for everything to change is being in the right place at the right time. This week, we explore chance encounters in film—the moments of fateful coincidence that turn ordinary lives upside down, for better or for worse.

Chance Encounters
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Spotlight: Animal Planet: Great Animal Documentaries

As global leaders meet for the 2021 United Nations Climate Change Conference, and shape the fate of our planet, we offer this slate of great documentary films about the animals -- wild and domestic -- that share this planet with us.

Animal Planet: Great Animal Documentaries
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