New Releases

THE LOST LEONARDO tells the inside story behind the “Salvator Mundi,” the most expensive painting ever sold at $450 million, claimed to be a long-lost masterpiece by Leonardo da Vinci.

Redemption is the long game in Paul Schrader’s latest, fresh from its Venice premiere. The revenge thriller tells the story of an ex-military interrogator turned gambler who’s haunted by the ghosts of his past decisions, and features riveting performances from stars Oscar Isaac, Tiffany Haddish, Tye Sheridan and Willem Dafoe.

“It might be the wildest movie I’ve ever made, and that’s saying something,” says totally normal Nicolas Cage, who joins forces with prolific Japanese provocateur Sion Sono (LOVE EXPOSURE) for this gonzo marriage made in midnight movie heaven.

Jessica Chastain stars as flamboyant televangelist Tammy Faye Bakker in this humanizing portrait of the rise and fall of the Bakker network empire. Directed by Michael Showalter (THE BIG SICK).

Ethiopian legend has it that khat, a stimulant leaf, was found by Sufi Imams in search of eternity. Inspired by this myth, Jessica Beshir’s debut feature weaves a tapestry of intimate stories of people caught between violent government repression, khat-induced fantasies and treacherous journeys beyond their borders.

Annie Clark’s musical persona, St. Vincent, is a shapeshifting anomaly of sounds, styles, and acclaimed artistic ingenuity. But what about Clark offstage? Carrie Brownstein (Sleater-Kinney, Portlandia) conducts this meta-comical investigation.

A Swiss private banker arrives in Buenos Aires with his wife to replace a mysteriously missing colleague and placate their moneyed clientele. Moving through the smoke-filled lounges and lush gardens of a society under intense surveillance, he finds himself untangling a sinister web of colonialism and high finance.

TITANE: A metal highly resistant to heat and corrosion, with high tensile strength alloys, often used in medical prostheses due to its pronounced biocompatibility. Directed by Julia Ducournau (RAW). Winner: Palme d'Or, Cannes 2021.

Leo and María — played by writer-director Amalia Ulman and her real-life mother, Ale — are constantly transacting deals, large and small, in order to scrape by. EL PLANETA is a delightful and slyly dark breakthrough for multidisciplinary artist Ulman, whose film reminds us that every day, every gesture in our contemporary world is a performance.

A childless couple in rural Iceland make an alarming discovery one day in their sheep barn. They soon face the consequences of defying the will of nature, in this dark and atmospheric folktale, the striking debut feature from director Valdimar Jóhannsson.

Lines between reality and fiction start to blur when a couple retreats to Fårö, the island that inspired Ingmar Bergman, to write screenplays for their upcoming films. A masterful blend of the personal and the meta-cinematic, Mia Hansen-Løve’s meditation on the reconciliation of love and the creative process is cinephile catnip.

In 2018, the world was riveted by the rescue of the Wild Boars soccer team, a group of young boys in northern Thailand who were trapped when a yearly flooding of their local cave system came unexpectedly early. Oscar-winning directors E. Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin (FREE SOLO) expertly detail the superhuman effort involved in the rescue.

With a treasure trove of never-before-seen performances and a rich collection of recordings, Warhol films, and other experimental art, filmmaker Todd Haynes creates an immersive dive into the iconic band that became a cultural touchstone — literary yet realistic, and rooted in high art and street culture.