FILM SERIES
Intimate Epics
Our annual program of international arthouse epics—each one towering in ambition and rich in human insights—returns this September. Join us for a venerated wuxia classic, phantasmagorical space odysseys, Palme d’Or and Golden Lion winners, a war-torn tour de force by one of the medium’s greatest visual poets, and one of the most critically acclaimed releases of 2023. This series contains sweeping, sensory-rich masterworks by Laura Citarella, Lav Diaz, Aleksei German, King Hu, Zacharias Kunuk, Terrence Malick, Andrei Tarkovsky, and Luchino Visconti to lose yourself in during the waning days of summer.
A psychologist voyages into space in this consciousness-bending sci-fi landmark.
King Hu’s martial-arts epic is a blend of wuxia film, ghost story, and Buddhist philosophy.
Terrence Malick crafts a harrowing, hallucinatory adaptation of the famous war novel.
A scientist faces bedlam and brutality on a medieval planet in Aleksei German’s epic swan song.
Luchino Visconti’s lavish masterpiece charts a noble family’s fall in 1860s Sicily.
This mischievous Argentinean mystery is one of the year’s most essential films.
An Inuit oral legend comes to the big screen in this pulse-pounding action drama.
Lav Diaz’s class-conscious exploration of retribution follows a woman framed by her lover.