In Theaters May 29. In the award-winning Hannah Arendt, the sublime Barbara Sukowa reteams with director Margarethe von Trotta (Vision, Rosa Luxemburg) for a brilliant new biopic of the influential German-Jewish philosopher and political theorist. More...

NOW ON DVD. Tatsumi celebrates the life and work of Japanese comics artist Yoshihiro Tatsumi—a manga pioneer who elevated the genre to a new level of creative expression and adult realism. Filmmaker Eric Khoo’s inventive animated drama brings the Tatsumi’s memoir A Drifting Life and five of his classic stories to life. More...

NOW PLAYING. ONE TRACK HEART follows the journey of Long Island musician Jeffrey Kagel to the foothills of the Himalayas and back, through struggles with depression and drug abuse, to his eventual emergence as Krishna Das, world-renowned spiritual teacher and chant master. More...

NOW PLAYING. Former Mayor Ed Koch was the quintessential New Yorker. Ferocious, charismatic, and hilariously blunt, Koch, who died in February at the age of 88, ruled New York from 1978 to 1989—a down-and-dirty decade of grit, graffiti, near-bankruptcy and rampant crime. More...

NOW ON DVD. Winner of the Best Animated Feature Film award at the 2012 European Film Awards, this dark-hearted Czech film traces the haunted memories and mysterious visions of a troubled train dispatcher through the shifting cultural and political landscape at the close of the Cold War. Inspired by classic film noir and rendered in mesmerizing black-and-white rotoscope. More...

NOW PLAYING. A fascinating profile of Gregory Crewdson, whose riveting photographs are elaborately staged, elegant narratives compressed into a single, large-scale image, set in small towns or meticulously recreated interior spaces, built on the kind of sound stages associated with big-budget movies. More...

COMING TO DVD JUNE 18, 2013. A sweet and hilarious fusion of gay romantic comedy, Jewish family drama and French bedroom farce, Mikael Buch’s Let My People Go! follows the travails and daydreams of the lovelorn Ruben, a French-Jewish gay mailman living in Finland. More...

NOW ON DVD Margaret Atwood’s visionary work Payback: Debt and the Shadow Side of Wealth is the basis for Jennifer Baichwal’s riveting and poetic documentary on “debt” in its various forms—societal, personal, environmental, spiritual, criminal, and of course, economic. More...

NOW ON DVD. Winner of the Special Grand Jury Prize at the Cannes Film Festival, 2011, Elena is a modern twist on a classic noir thriller by Russian maestro Andrey Zvyagintsev (The Return). More...

NOW ON DVD. Award-winning filmmaker Yung Chang (Up the Yangtze) returns to China for another riveting documentary on that country’s ever-changing economic landscape—this time through the lens of sports. More...

NOW ON DVD. In his warm and witty follow-up to the 2010 sleeper hit Mid-August Lunch, writer-director-actor Gianni Di Gregorio has created another sparkling comic ode to the ladies in his life. More...

NOW ON DVD. A sharp and deeply funny masterpiece from acclaimed Korean director Hong Sang-soo, about a married man in his early forties who impulsively flees to Paris and stumbles into the emotional lives of two very different but beautiful Korean expats. More...

NOW ON DVD A documentary portrait of the author of the legendary best-seller Growing Up Absurd who was also a poet, pacifist, visionary, out queer (and devoted, married family man) and a moral compass for many in the growing counterculture in the 1960s. More...

NOW ON DVD. Another existential dazzler from one of cinema’s most stunning and austere filmmakers. A lonely railway worker's life is suddenly thrown into chaos after he stumbles upon a deadly business transaction that leaves him with a money-stuffed suitcase and a guilty conscience for a crime he didn’t commit. More...

NOW ON DVD. From the director of Since Otar Left and the star of Antichrist comes a lyrical, beautiful, deeply moving drama about loss, recovery and starting over, set amid the stunning landscape rural Australia. More...

NOW ON DVD AND BLU-RAY. A fascinating, funny and often poignant portrait of a most unique individual: octogenarian New York Times fashion photographer Bill Cunningham, a man who moves among the high society of Manhattan but whose only wealth is his own humanity and unassuming grace. More...

NOW ON DVD. An entertaining and revelatory “secret history” of Feminist Art, !Women Art Revolution deftly illuminates this under-explored movement through conversations, archival footage and works of visionary artists, historians, curators and critics. More...

NOW ON DVD. Oscar winner Kevin Kline and the luminous Sandrine Bonnaire square off in this stylish and sophisticated dramedy of newfound passions and mid-life triumphs, set on the postcard-perfect isle of Corsica. More...

NOW AVAILABLE ON DVD. Conceived by co-executive producer Paul Holland, and directed by Emmy-Award-winning filmmakers Dan Geller and Dayna Goldfine, SOMETHING VENTURED tells the story of the creation of an industry that went on to become the single greatest engine of innovation and economic growth in the 20th century. More...

NOW ON DVD. Winner of the Grand Jury Prize at the 1991 Sundance Film Festival, Todd Haynes’ controversial masterpiece Poison is returning to movie screens for a 20th Anniversary Re-release in a new 35mm print. More...

NOW ON DVD. The story of twelfth-century Benedictine abbess Hildegard von Bingen—a Christian mystic, author, counselor, naturalist, scientist, philosopher, physician, herbalist, poet, channeller, visionary, composer and polymath—directed by New German Cinema legend Margarethe von Trotta and starring Barbara Sukowa. More...

NOW ON DVD. Each year in China more than 130 million migrant workers travel home for the New Year's holiday—the one time they’ll reunite with family all year. The mass exodus constitutes the world’s largest human migration. Amid this chaos, director Lixin Fan focuses on one couple who embark upon a two-day journey to see their children. More...

NOW ON DVD FROM THE KIMSTIM COLLECTION. A collection of short films from Jamie Travis, whose darkly ironic comedies have established him as filmmaker with a distinctive cinematic vision. More...

NOW ON DVD FROM THE KIMSTIM COLLECTION. A smart, sexy and thrilling updating of one of Agatha Christie’s best works. More...

NOW ON DVD. In The Sun Behind the Clouds, Tibetan filmmaker, Tenzing Sonam, and his partner, Ritu Sarin, take a uniquely Tibetan perspective on the trials and tribulations of the Dalai Lama and his people as they continue their struggle for freedom in the face of determined suppression by one of the world’s biggest and most powerful nations. More...

NOW ON DVD. From the director of the Oscar-nominated My Country, My Country, The Oath is a spectacularly gripping documentary that unspools like a great political thriller. It’s the crosscut tale of two men whose fateful meeting propelled them on divergent courses with Al-Qaeda, Osama bin Laden, 9/11, Guantanamo Bay Prison and the U.S. Supreme Court. More...

NOW ON DVD. A searing portrait of one of Nazi Germany’s most notorious filmmakers: Veit Harlan, director of the anti-Semitic propaganda film Jew Süss. An eye-opening examination of World War II film history as well as the story of a German family from the Third Reich to the present, one that is marked by reckoning, denial and liberation.
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NOW ON DVD. This international smash hit from the makers of Gomorrah is an utterly charming tale of good food, feisty ladies and unlikely friendships during a very Roman holiday. More...

NOW ON DVD. The first stop-motion animated feature selected to Cannes, A Town Called Panic follows the wacky, hilarious and often surreal adventures of three toy figures who share a rambling house in a rural town which never fails to attract the weirdest events... More...

NOW ON DVD. After 30 years of Taliban and wartime rule, pop culture is creeping back into Afghanistan in the form of Afghan Star, an enormously popular American Idol–type contest. Filmmaker Havana Marking follows the dramatic stories of four of the contestants over three months, from regional auditions to the finals in Kabul, giving us a new, and more human, look at this troubled part of the world. More...

NOW ON DVD. How far would you travel to heal someone you love? An intensely personal yet epic spiritual journey, The Horse Boy follows one Texas couple and their autistic son as they trek on horseback through Outer Mongolia in a desperate attempt to treat his condition with shamanic healing. More...

NOW ON DVD. From the director of Manufactured Landscapes. Accidents, chance, fate and the elusive quest to make sense out of tragedy underpin director Jennifer Baichwal’s captivating new work, an elegant cinematic meditation on the metaphysical effects of being struck by lightning. More...

NOW ON DVD. Filmmaker Astra Taylor (ZIZEK!) accompanies some of today’s most influential thinkers on a series of unique excursions through places and spaces that hold particular resonance for them and their ideas. More...

NOW ON DVD. After his critically acclaimed mood pieces Distant and Climates, Turkey’s leading filmmaker moves in a more plot-driven direction while retaining his mastery of ambience and nuance. Winner of the Best Director prize at Cannes, Three Monkeys tells a twisty, noirish tale set in motion by a hit-and-run accident. More...

NOW ON DVD. Winner of the Prix Un Certain Regard at the 2008 Cannes Film Festival, acclaimed Kazakh documentarian Sergey Dvortsevoy’s first narrative feature is a gorgeous mélange of tender comedy, ethnographic drama and wildlife extravaganza. More...

NOW ON DVD. A ravishing fusion of cinema, song, dance and instrumental numbers, Fados completes the musical trilogy of award-winning Carlos Saura (Flamenco, 1995; Tango, 1998). Using Lisbon as a backdrop, he explores Portugal’s most emblematic musical genre (fado) and its haunting spirit of saudade (melancholy). More...

NOW ON DVD. One of the greatest survival stories of all time is finally told by the survivors themselves, brilliantly crafted by their childhood friend and master filmmaker, Gonzalo Arijon. If this is a story that you think you know, think again. More...

NOW ON DVD. Academy Award nominee and Sundance Grand Jury Prize winner, TROUBLE THE WATER takes you inside Hurricane Katrina in a way never before seen on screen. Tia Lessin and Carl Deal tell the story of an aspiring rap artist and her husband who survive the storm and then seize a chance for a new beginning. More...

NOW ON DVD. Jennifer Venditti's award-winning documentary is a provocative coming-of-age story—an odyssey into the soul of an American teenager. More...

NOW ON DVD. The award-winning documentary in which the Three Gorges Dam forms an unsettling backdrop to a richly detailed narrative of life inside contemporary China.
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NOW ON DVD. A documentary portrait of one of the most extraordinary and unconventional relationships of the past century, between British writer Christopher Isherwood and American portrait artist Don Bachardy. More...

NOW ON DVD. Winner of the Camera d’Or at this year’s Cannes Film Festival, JELLYFISH tells the story of three very different Tel Aviv women whose intersecting stories weave an unlikely portrait of modern Israeli life. More...

NOW ON DVD AND BLU-RAY. An award-winning feature documentary on the work of internationally renowned artist Edward Burtynsky. The film follows him as he travels through China photographing the evidence and effects of that country’s massive industrial revolution. More...

NOW ON DVD. An impressionistic and meditative chronicle of a year in and around the Grand Chartreuse, a monastery in the French Alps. Working alone without crew or artificial lighting, director Philip Gröning records the monks’ daily lives, prayers, rituals and rare outdoor excursions. A tranquil contemplation about the possibility of transcendence for all. More...

NOW ON DVD. A moving and complex portrait of an artist, her inspirations and unconventional family relationships. The mixture of art and family can almost be too close for comfort, but like much of Gearon‘s photographs there is subversive beauty that arises out of the incongruity between ordinary moments and madness. More...

NOW ON DVD. Winner of the prestigious Fipresci Award at the 2006 Cannes Film Festival, CLIMATES is internationally acclaimed writer-director Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s sublime follow-up to his Cannes multi-award winner DISTANT. More...

NOW ON DVD. The breathtakingly beautiful, long-awaited second feature by the Quay Brothers, master animators turned manipulators of live actors in uncanny puppet-show environments. In a world of minutely artificed trompe l’oeil, opera singer Malvina is spirited away to a remote island by her menacing admirer Dr. Droz. More...

NOW ON DVD. The latest provocation from surrealist master Jan Svankmajer (LITTLE OTIK) is a “philosophical horror film,” loosely based on two short stories by Edgar Allan Poe and inspired by the works of the Marquis de Sade. More...

NOW ON DVD. Oscar nominee-Best Documentary Feature. An extraordinarily intimate portrait of Iraqis living under U.S. occupation, principally Dr. Riyadh, an Iraqi medical doctor, father of six and Sunni political candidate. Unfolding like a narrative drama, MY COUNTRY, MY COUNTRY follows the agonizing predicament of one man caught in the tragic contradictions of the U.S. occupation of Iraq and its project to spread democracy in the Middle East. More...

NOW ON DVD. The true story of Germany’s most famous anti-Nazi heroine is brought to thrilling life in the multi-award winning drama SOPHIE SCHOLL-THE FINAL DAYS. Academy Award Nominee for Best Foreign Language Film, SOPHIE SCHOLL stars Julia Jentsch in a luminous performance as the young coed-turned-fearless activist. More...

NOW ON DVD. This entrancing ode to the revolutionary twentieth-century dance troupes known collectively as the Ballets Russes treats modern audiences to a rare glimpse of the singularly remarkable merger of performers, choreographers, composers and designers who transformed the art of dance for generations to come. More...

NOW ON DVD. The author of works on subjects as wide-ranging as Alfred Hitchcock, 9/11, opera, Christianity, Lenin and David Lynch, Slovenian philosopher Slavoj Zizek is one of the most important--and outrageous--cultural theorists working today. This captivating, erudite documentary explores the eccentric personality and esoteric work of this incomparable academic and writer who has been called “the Elvis of cultural theory”. More...

NOW ON DVD. This stunning film by Jia Zhangke (called “the world's greatest filmmaker under 40” by The Village Voice) is set in a Beijing theme park where lavish shows are performed amid scaled-down replicas of the Taj Mahal, the Eiffel Tower, St. Mark’s Square, the Pyramids and even the Twin Towers. More...

NOW ON DVD. This enthralling, insightful, uplifting and often hilarious documentary journeys to the heart of the largest gathering of humanity on Earth: the Kumbh Mela. More...

NOW ON DVD. One of Himalayan Buddhism’s most revered lamas, Khyentse Norbu weaves parallel fable-like tales about two men who seek to escape their mundane lives. This is the first feature film ever shot in the tiny Kingdom of Bhutan. More...

Now on DVD, THE CORPORATION is a timely, critical inquiry that invites CEOs, whistle-blowers, brokers, gurus, spies, players, pawns and pundits on a graphic and engaging quest to reveal the corporation's inner workings, curious history, controversial impacts and possible futures. More...

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Now on DVD, Julie Bertuccelli's exquisite SINCE OTAR LEFT (winner of the prestigious Critics' Week Grand Prize at the Cannes Film Festival) is a bittersweet tale of deception and affection. More...

NOW ON DVD. A cannily droll mix of social commentary and modern fable which follows the adventures of young James, a devout wide-eyed Christian attempting a pilgrimage from his African village to the Holy Land. More...

Winner of the 2002 Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, NOWHERE IN AFRICA is now available on DVD. More...