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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.

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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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Spotlight: Halloween

A longstanding and distinctive trope of Asian horror is that of the vengeful female – women who were wronged in life and who return after death to exact their revenge. To celebrate Halloween, this Spotlight features some of the most chilling stories of women out to settle the score.

Halloween
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Spotlight: Cities: London

From 1935 to the present, from the south of the city to the north, and spanning genres from horror to science fiction to romantic comedy, we present films made in and about London. Here the city is not just a backdrop, but an integral part of the characters’ lives and the stories that are told about them.

Cities: London
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Spotlight: Girls and Girlhood

What does it mean to be a girl? There may be an infinite number of answers to this question. This week, in celebration of the International Day of the Girl, we look at young female protagonists and the diverse experiences of girlhood that transcend time and geographical borders.

Girls and Girlhood
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Spotlight: Senior Spotlight

This week’s Spotlight highlights films featuring seniors, especially those who experience — and act upon — late-in-life epiphanies. There is always more to life, as these filmmakers demonstrate: from awakenings and transformations to reckonings and reconciliations.

Senior Spotlight
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Spotlight: Actors: Belmondo!

This week we look back at the work of Jean-Paul Belmondo, the iconic actor who played in several of the defining films of the French New Wave and who came to personify the rebellious, rough-edged honesty that it stood for.

Actors: Belmondo!
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Spotlight: Westerns Worldwide

Gunslingers, outlaws, tragic heroes. The Western film genre has both celebrated and interrogated the mythos of the frontier, whether made in Hollywood, Italy, or any number of countries that have elevated the genre in recent years. This list includes some of the best international Western of all time.

Westerns Worldwide
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Spotlight: The India–Korea Connection

India shares its Republic Day with Korea's National Day, but the connection between the two countries dates back to an Indian princess who became a queen during the Joseon Dynasty. This relationship extends to the film world, where Indian filmmakers have found creative ways to retell Korean stories.

The India–Korea Connection
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