FILM SERIES
Intimate Epics
Some stories are so sweeping and some visions so monumental, they can’t be contained to a mere 90-minute or two-hour running time. Each one an achievement of towering proportions, the films collected here may be sprawling in ambition, but they are rich and resonant in their observation and human insight. While the summer sun is high, join us in the AC and in front of the big screen for cinematic masterpieces from around the globe—all over the three-hour mark—that offer experiences to truly lose yourself in.
Edward Yang’s magnum opus follows a middle-class family in Taipei over the course of a year.
A slow-burn drama from the director of Drive My Car on friendship and midlife awakening.
Cultures collide in this one-of-a-kind explosion of style and detail from Ulrike Ottinger.
Maren Ade crafts a laugh-out-loud comedy of father/daughter bonding and strife.
Raúl Ruiz’s expansive drama navigates a labyrinth of histories, memories, and betrayals.
A lush story of young adulthood, first love, and artistic discovery unfolds across two films.
Robert Altman adapts Raymond Carver’s piercing stories in this interconnected drama.
Andrei Tarkovsky’s transcendent parable about the role of the artist in society.
Kubrick’s rags-to-riches historical drama is a sardonic, decadent masterpiece.
Bela Tarr’s magnum opus travels forwards and backwards in post-Communist rural Hungary.
Jonathan Demme’s adaptation captures the harrowing power of Toni Morrison’s supernatural novel.
Akira Kurosawa makes a glorious return to the samurai epic, captured in blazing color.