Catalog

A defining cult classic of the early 2000s, Donnie Darko blends sci-fi, teen alienation, and existential mystery into a haunting vision of suburban America. Its bold style, unforgettable imagery, and hypnotic atmosphere have made it one of modern cinema’s most influential films.

The film that made the world fall for Japanese cinema — Suo's ballroom comedy swept the Japanese Academy Prizes and earned a Hollywood remake, but the original step was never matched.

The film that announced African cinema to the world — Sembène's first feature, and the wellspring everything after flows from.

Godard's giddy collision with the musical — Anna Karina, Technicolor, and the New Wave at its most in love with cinema.

Eight Oscars, and the rare prestige picture that made eighteenth-century envy feel like a knife in the ribs.

Storaro's lighting and Bertolucci's camera taught a generation of filmmakers how to see; Coppola and Scorsese never stopped studying it.

One of three films ever to sweep all five major Oscars, and Nicholson at the height of his powers.

Edward Yang's final film won him Best Director at Cannes and tops critics' lists of the greatest work of its century.

Jarmusch reinvented the Western as a black-and-white fever dream, with a Neil Young guitar score and Johnny Depp adrift between worlds.

Seventeen years, a rotating cast from Iggy Pop to Bill Murray, and Jarmusch's funniest meditation on small talk and caffeine.

Three drifters, Robby Müller's luminous Louisiana, and the deadpan grammar that made Jarmusch the patron saint of American independent film.

Memphis as purgatory, Elvis as ghost — Jarmusch braids three stories into one of the great films about American myth.

Five cabs, five cities, one night — Jarmusch's portrait of strangers passing through, scored by Tom Waits.

Shot in single static takes for almost nothing, it rewrote the rules for what an American independent film could be.

The original midnight movie — its New York all-nighters invented cult cinema as we know it.

The film that started a riot at its Acapulco premiere and launched Jodorowsky's war on cinematic good taste.

Jodorowsky's hallucinatory assault on power and enlightenment — bankrolled by Lennon, banned, bootlegged, worshipped for decades.

Godard smuggled science fiction into a Paris hotel and made one of the strangest films about machines and feeling ever shot.

The film where Godard blew up narrative for good — colour, violence, and Belmondo running out of road.

The jump cut heard around the world — Godard's debut detonated continuity editing and opened the French New Wave.

Godard, Bardot, Fritz Lang as himself, and Coutard's CinemaScope — the most beautiful film ever made about a film falling apart.

Kurosawa reimagined King Lear as a samurai apocalypse — colour, scale, and grief on a scale he never matched again.

The first and most seductive Ripley, with a young Alain Delon — the film that taught the thriller how to be beautiful.

Satrapi's hand-drawn memoir of revolution won the Cannes Jury Prize and an Oscar nod, animation as testimony.

Buñuel's Oscar-winning demolition of the dinner party — surrealism aimed straight at the people who commissioned it.

Buñuel and Deneuve made the most elegant film ever shot about desire and double lives; the Golden Lion followed.

Coppola made it between the two Godfathers, Walter Murch redefined film sound, and the paranoia has only sharpened.

The Palme d'Or winner where Wenders, Shepard, and Ry Cooder's slide guitar turned the American desert into pure longing.

Voted the greatest British film of all time — Welles in the doorway, the zither, the shadows of postwar Vienna.

Welles invented the essay film here, a sleight-of-hand about forgery that keeps fooling the people who study it.