Film Series
Beyond the Canon 2019
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.
Jane Campion’s subversive feminist thriller screens with Alan J. Pakula’s paranoid 1970s classic.
Touchstones of transgender representation from 1960s Japan and the 1990s multiplex.
Mesmerizing and mysterious visions of female adolescence.
Chaplin’s silent comedy classic and a brilliantly inventive homage to it set in 1980s New York.
On-screen exorcisms from Richard Pryor and Bob Fosse.
Godard’s New Wave landmark screens with Senegalese master Djibril Diop Mambéty’s cinematic odyssey.
A consciousness-bending double bill from two icons of the American avant-garde.
The first film made by a Saudi woman director and a Wim Wenders road movie classic.
Valie Export’s avant-garde sci-fi provocation screens with a 1970s science fiction classic.
Female friendship and male misbehavior in 1970s New York.
This monthly series challenges the white, male bias of the traditional auteurist canon.