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Spotlight: Temperatures are Rising

Summer is almost here, with its long days and hot nights. The stage is set for everything from a steamy romance at the beach to a showdown between rival yakuza gangs, from menages à trois, to murderous strangers on the prowl…

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Spotlight: Directors: Jacques Demy et ses amis

The bard of the French New Wave, and the creative and life partner of Agnès Varda, Jacques Demy is perhaps best known for his musicals, including the iconic The Umbrellas of Cherbourg, which blend romance, fantasy, and magic with a dose of melancholy reality.

Directors: Jacques Demy et ses amis
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Spotlight: Directors: Rainer Werner Fassbinder and New German Cinema

As a leading figure in New German Cinema, Rainer Werner Fassbinder was a part of a generation that proclaimed in 1962, “The old cinema is dead. We believe in a new cinema.” In celebration of his birthday, we present a collection of films from this radical movement that sought to confront the social and artistic concerns of its time.

Directors: Rainer Werner Fassbinder and New German Cinema
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Spotlight: Films from and about Palestine

This week we offer a series of movies from and about Palestine by directors who range from long-established master Elia Suleiman to newcomer Farah Nabulsi, whose short film The Present was recently nominated for an Academy Award.

Films from and about Palestine
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Spotlight: Korean Thrillers (Beyond Bong)

Bong Joon-ho’s 2019 film Parasite achieved huge critical and popular success and brought renewed attention to the director’s earlier work. This week’s Spotlight highlights masterful genre-bending thrillers from South Korean directors who are not Bong, including his contemporaries, rivals, and influences.

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Spotlight: Films in Portuguese

From Brazil and Angola to Mozambique and Portugal, Portuguese is spoken by over 265 million people, and is the most widely spoken language in the southern hemisphere. In honor of World Portuguese Language Day, this spotlight celebrates Lusophone films from around the world.

Films in Portuguese
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Spotlight: Pioneers and Stalwarts of Indian Cinema

In honor of Satyajit Ray's hundredth birthday, this spotlight features the legendary director’s greatest works in conversation with the films of directors whom he promoted. Together these pioneering auteurs have made India one of the cinema capitals of the world.

Pioneers and Stalwarts of Indian Cinema
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Spotlight: Oscar Omissions, Outsiders, and Outcasts

Some great films win Academy Awards, and many, many don’t. As we look forward to the 2021 ceremony, let’s take a moment to honor some of the films that received the love of critics and audiences but — perhaps surprisingly — not of Oscar himself.

Oscar Omissions, Outsiders, and Outcasts
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Spotlight: Beauty and Horror

We are drawn to beauty -- but at what cost? Often in film, beauty either provokes violence or conceals a sinister intent. These films explore how an attraction to aesthetic beauty can wound either its possessor or beholder, in ways that range from the subtly psychic to spectacularly physical.

Beauty and Horror
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