This week, we’re joined by pioneering Saudi filmmaker Haifaa Al Mansour for a conversation about her new film, UNIDENTIFIED — a tense and haunting mystery thriller set within the hidden world of modern Saudi women. At the center of the film is Noelle Al...
In THE CURRENTS, acclaimed Argentine-Swiss filmmaker Milagros Mumenthaler invites us into the mystery of a woman suddenly, inexplicably, set adrift. There is a moment early in the film when Lina, an Argentinian designer visiting Switzerland, stands at a window...
A hundred episodes ago, we started with a simple belief: that movies still matter most when they are shared. Not just streamed, not just consumed, but experienced — in the dark, on a big screen, with other people, in the places where cinema still feels alive. Since...
What does it mean to love a place that is changing before your eyes? That question sits at the heart of TIME AND WATER, a beautiful and deeply moving new documentary from Academy Award-nominated director Sara Dosa. The film follows Icelandic writer Andri...
In American culture, Leonard Bernstein occupies a strange—and almost impossible—space. A conductor. A composer. A teacher. A celebrity. An activist. The son of Jewish immigrants, Bernstein rose to become one of the most influential musical figures of the twentieth...
