Cannes Conversations — Wim Wenders on ANSELM
To kick off our mini-season of conversations taped on location at the 2023 Cannes film festival, host Rico Gagliano meets up with legendary director Wim Wenders (Buena Vista Social Club; Paris, Texas)...
8 Kesä 202312min
FERRIS BUELLER to WOLF OF WALL STREET — Cinema's top music supervisors break down their greatest hits
We wrap up our season on great needle drops with an interview mixtape. Host Rico Gagliano talks to three legendary music supervisors about their iconic pairings of music and image...a bunch of which l...
11 Touko 202343min
BLACKBOARD JUNGLE — Hollywood's first rumble with rock ‘n’ roll
In his gritty ’55 flick BLACKBOARD JUNGLE, director Richard Brooks introduced a wide audience to Sidney Poitier, the harsh world of inner-city schools...and a genre of music called "rock ‘n’ roll." H...
4 Touko 202333min
CHUNGKING EXPRESS — Wong Kar Wai puts "Dreams" on the menu
Shot on a shoestring in six wild weeks, CHUNGKING EXPRESS is the movie that put legendary Hong Kong filmmaker Wong Kar Wai on the international map—along with his star, pop diva Faye Wong...and her Ca...
27 Huhti 202334min
CLOSE — Lukas Dhont's Quietly Powerful Coming-of-Age Movie
In his Oscar-nominated CLOSE, filmmaker Lukas Dhont uses the sparest dialogue, the gentlest music, and the most pastoral of images...to tell a shattering story about the brutal ways society turns boys...
20 Huhti 202318min
THE HARDER THEY COME — Reggae catches fire on film
In 1972, director Perry Henzell set a gritty crime thriller in Jamaica's exploding, politically charged music scene, and came up with THE HARDER THEY COME—the cult-movie spark that started reggae mus...
13 Huhti 202340min
DONNIE DARKO — Richard Kelly makes the ultimate ‘80s mixtape
In 2001, writer/director Richard Kelly's genre-busting rookie feature DONNIE DARKO crashed and burned at the box office. But it almost immediately rose from the ashes to become one of the first cult h...
6 Huhti 202343min
2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY — Stanley Kubrick finds heavenly music on vinyl
In 1968, Stanley Kubrick’s sci-fi epic 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY pushed movies light years into the future. It pioneered the use of special effects, makeup, sound design…and needle drops. For the season ...
30 Maalis 202342min
