Film Series
Beyond the Canon
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.
Yvonne Rainer’s fascinating chronicle of the fallout of a breakup from a distinctly female perspective and Mike Leigh’s controversial character study of a misogynistic drifter in London.
Ida Lupino and Terrence Malick turn shocking 1950s true crime sagas into pulp poetry.
A Filipino cinema landmark screens with Werner Herzog’s indelible study of outsiderhood.
This monthly series challenges the white, male bias of the traditional auteurist canon.
This monthly series challenges the white, male bias of the traditional auteurist canon.