Liza Minnelli in Liza: A Truly Terrific Absolutely True Story
Streaming on May 1
A Hard Day
Kim Seong-hun, South Korea, 2014
A pitch-black comedy with style to burn, “A Hard Day” depicts a day in the life of homicide detective Gun-soo that goes from bad to worse to cursed. After hitting a man on the way back from his mother’s funeral, he hides the body in her coffin. Things spiral as a colleague advances on the accident case, and a witness, Detective Park, wants the body, and his threats begin to escalate.
Streaming on May 8
Liza: A Truly Terrific Absolutely True Story
Bruce David Klein, US, 2025
This exhilarating film explores the dazzling and complex Liza Minnelli, as she rose to stardom in the 1970s, just after the death of her mother Judy Garland. Battling personal and professional obstacles, the film illuminates the contradictions of Liza: privilege and struggle, unreal expectations and towering talent. Liza, Joel Grey, Mia Farrow, Ben Vereen are among the many who tell the story.
Goodbye to Language
Jean-Luc Godard, France, Switzerland, 2014
Winner of the Jury Prize at the 2014 Cannes Film Festival, Jean-Luc Godard’s triumphant masterpiece uses technology to mind-bending effect. A meditation on history and illusion, the film follows a couple whose relationship breaks down along with images of romantic love and being-in-the-world, and in its second half takes a dog's-eye view of the world.
Streaming on May 15
Electra, My Love
Miklós Jancsó, Hungary, 1974
Miklós Jancsó’s richly inventive adaptation of a Greek myth is a visually striking, avant-garde retelling that blends political allegory with mesmerizing long takes. Set in a vast landscape, the film follows Electra as she seeks vengeance against tyrannical rule. Through stylized choreography and surreal elements, Jancsó crafts a hypnotic meditation on power, oppression, and revolution.
Winter Wind
Miklós Jancsó, Hungary, France, 1974
Political cinema master Miklós Jancsó offers an incisive exploration of social and historical themes in this film consisting almost entirely of 12 fluid long takes. In the mid-1930s, a group of Croatian anarchists, led by the grim revolutionary ascetic Marko Lazar, escape a bungled ambush in Yugoslavia to cross dense forests at that country's border in an effort to seek refuge in Hungary.
Streaming on May 22
Girl on the Bridge
Patrice Leconte, France, 1999
Patrice Leconte's intoxicating "Girl on the Bridge" follows the whirlwind courtship of carnival knife thrower Gabor (Daniel Auteuil) and lonesome wanderer Adele (Vanessa Paradis). Adele unexpectedly becomes Gabor's new assistant, and target, for his act across Europe, their love growing with each death-defying act. Living so close to the edge, how long can the luck of these lovers hold out?
Half a Chance
Patrice Leconte, France, 1998
Screen legends Jean-Paul Belmondo and Alain Delon get roped into saving Alice (Vanessa Paradis) in this action-comedy from Patrice Leconte. Upon learning one could be her father, Alice seeks them on the Côte d’Azur, but faces Russian mobsters after stealing a car with $50M. Luckily, these men are an ex-Legionnaire and a master thief. Together, they’ll have half a chance to stay alive.
Streaming on May 29
The Mill and the Cross
Lech Majewski, Poland, Sweden, 2011
Lech Majewski’s deeply immersive "The Mill and the Cross" transports viewers into Pieter Bruegel the Elder’s masterpiece "The Procession to Calvary." Blending meticulous period detail with groundbreaking digital effects, the film reconstructs 16th-century Flanders in breathtaking realism, portraying the daily lives of its inhabitants while capturing the socio-political turmoil of the era.