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Mary Cassatt: Painting the Modern Woman
March 2, 2023
Mary Cassatt made a career painting the lives of the women around her. Her radical images showed them as intellectual, curious and engaging, which was a major shift in the way women appeared in art.
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HOPPER: AN AMERICAN LOVE STORY
February 15, 2023
Hopper's work is the most recognizable art in America. Countless painters, photographers, filmmakers and musicians have been influenced by his art - but who was he, and how did a struggling illustrator create such a bounty of notable work?
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THE UNREDACTED (Q+A)
February 6, 2023
A group of men trained by al-Qaeda are transferred from Guantanamo to the world’s first rehabilitation center for “terrorists” located in Saudi Arabia. Filmed over three years, with unprecedented access, this film is a complex and nuanced exploration of the men we have heard so much about but never heard from.
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CHASING THE LINE (Q+A)
February 6, 2023
For the downhill race at the Winter Olympics 1976 in Innsbruck, there could only be one favorite: Franz Klammer. The charismatic Austrian racer carried the hopes of the whole nation on his shoulders. With the public's pressure reaching astronomical proportions, his sponsor wanting to change his equipment at the last minute for promotional reasons, the weather conditions worsening by the day, the mountain turning out to be defiant and rival racers on his heels, Franz needs to face the ultimate challenge: He has to find the strength to conquer the mountain on his own. But in order to do that, he needs the love of his life, Eva, to give him the courage to free himself from all restraints in order to perform the race of a lifetime.
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CAROLE KING HOME AGAIN: LIVE IN CENTRAL PARK
January 23, 2023
The brand new feature-length concert documentary “Home Again: Carole King Live In Central Park,” which presents musical icon Carole King’s triumphant May 26, 1973 homecoming concert on The Great Lawn of New York City’s Central Park before an estimated audience of 100,000. Directed by George Scott and produced by Lou Adler and John McDermott, the film presents the complete multi-camera 16mm footage filmed and recorded by Adler in 1973 but never before rele
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BREATHLESS
January 9, 2023
A small-time thief steals a car and impulsively murders a motorcycle policeman. Wanted by the authorities, he reunites with a hip American journalism student and attempts to persuade her to run away with him to Italy.
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UPHEAVAL
December 23, 2022
Looking back at his legacy in a new light, one of Israel's most venerated but complex and controversial leaders receives an incisive portrait. Menachem Begin was a proud pillar of the State of Israel, fiercely devoted to the Jewish people. Jailed in a Soviet gulag for pre-war Zionist activities and scarred by loss in the Holocaust, he founded the right-wing Likud party, and was vilified as a fascist and terrorist by critics.
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WHITE NOISE
November 28, 2022
At once hilarious and horrifying, lyrical and absurd, ordinary and apocalyptic, WHITE NOISE dramatizes a contemporary American family’s attempts to deal with the mundane conflicts of everyday life while grappling with the universal mysteries of love, death, and the possibility of happiness in an uncertain world.
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WOMEN TALKING
November 28, 2022
Do nothing. Stay and fight. Or leave. In 2010, the women of an isolated religious community grapple with reconciling a brutal reality with their faith.
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TURN EVERY PAGE
November 28, 2022
TURN EVERY PAGE explores the remarkable fifty-year relationship between two literary legends, writer Robert Caro and his editor Robert Gottlieb, as they race to complete their life’s work.
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