This radically influential portrait of American dreams and disillusionment from Direct Cinema pioneers David Maysles, Albert Maysles, and Charlotte Zwerin captures, with indelible humanity, the worlds of four dogged door-to-door Bible salesmen as they travel from Boston to Florida.

John Waters’ gloriously grotesque second feature is replete with all manner of depravity, from robbery to murder to one of cinema’s most memorably blasphemous moments. Multiple Maniacs is an anarchic masterwork from an artist who has doggedly tested the limits of good taste for decades.

"I don’t think I’ve discovered anything as surprising or enriching as [these] films, which are ‘documentaries’ in the tradition of Humphrey Jennings, as opposed to cinéma vérité." Kent Jones“An anthropologist who speaks with the voice of a poet.” Martin Scorsese

After Heaven Knows What, filmmakers Josh and Benny Safdie return to the mean streets of New York City with Good Time, a hypnotic crime thriller that explores with bracing immediacy the tragic sway of family and fate.

This programme focusses on landscapes and the way Perconte engages with territories. Each of the films presented in this screening is part of a series and is inscribed in a wider gesture of what could be called “performing landscapes".

One of Bresson’s most admired works, Pickpocket is a perfect distillation of his mature style. The film straightforwardly chronicles the life of a petty thief, without any attempt to explain why Michel feels compelled to steal. With its mixture of the criminal and the ineffable, Pickpocket is one of the director’s most influential works.