With this exquisite ghost story, Mizoguchi created a touchstone of his art, his long takes and sweeping camera guiding the viewer through a delirious narrative. Moving between the terrestrial and the otherworldly, Ugetsu reveals essential truths about the ravages of war, the plight of women, and the pride of men.

One of the preeminent works of the Hong Kong New Wave, Boat People is a shattering look at the circumstances that drove hundreds of thousands of Vietnamese refugees to flee in the wake of the Vietnam War. Transcending polemic, director Ann Hui takes a deeply humanistic approach to a harrowing and urgent subject.

With this exquisite ghost story, Mizoguchi created a touchstone of his art, his long takes and sweeping camera guiding the viewer through a delirious narrative. Moving between the terrestrial and the otherworldly, Ugetsu reveals essential truths about the ravages of war, the plight of women, and the pride of men.

David Lean's masterpiece stands as both the finest example of the studio-era epic, and its swan song. Perhaps even more impressive than the scale of the film is its refusal to pander to hagiography; Lawrence emerges not a hero, but a series of contradictions which complicate the usually black and white moral atmosphere of the epic.

This documentary made five years after the death of Sergei Parajanov takes us into the world of the versatile Armenian film director. Besides gaining insight into his vision through archive footage and documents, the film also presents personal reminiscences of this extraordinary artist from his friends, acquaintances and admirers.