Film Series
Beyond the Canon 2018
It is no secret that the cinema canon has historically skewed toward lionizing the white, male auteur. This monthly series seeks to question that history and broaden horizons by pairing one much-loved, highly regarded, canonized classic with a thematically or stylistically-related—and equally brilliant—work by a filmmaker traditionally excluded from that discussion.
Bleak, brusque and quietly heartbreaking, Wanda is the antithesis of the New Hollywood glamour that Bonnie and Clyde represented.
The Gene Kelly classic is paired with Akerman’s feminist ode to classic MGM musicals.
Kubrick’s angry-young-man ultra-mod dystopia is paired with the explosive Afrofeminist Les Saignantes.
Two explosive noir masterpieces with complex racial undercurrents.
A 90s New Queer Cinema landmark screens alongside the classic 1934 race melodrama.
John Ford’s landmark western and a riveting Inuit reimagining of it.
Scorsese’s boxing opera goes toe-to-toe with a powerful portrait of a Latina fighter.
Sidney Lumet’s 70s NYC classic screens with F. Gary Gray’s black women-powered heist thriller.
You’ll want to skip lunch before this gruesome twosome of cannibal shockers.
Paul Robeson and Robert Mitchum in two sinister sagas of good versus evil.
Barbara Loden’s bracing independent touchstone and Arthur Penn’s New Hollywood classic.