In Who We Are: A Chronicle of Racism in America Jeffery Robinson faces his largest audience, asking all of us to examine who we are, where we come from, and who we want to be. Anchored by Robinson’s 2018 performance at NYC’s historic Town Hall Theater, the film interweaves historical and present-day archival footage, Robinson’s personal story, and observational and interview footage capturing Robinson’s meetings with Black change-makers and eyewitnesses to history.

In Anselm, Wim Wenders creates a portrait of Anselm Kiefer, one of the most innovative and important painters and sculptors of our time. Shot in 6K-resolution, the film presents a cinematic experience of the artist’s work which explores human existence and the cyclical nature of history, inspired by literature, poetry, philosophy, science, mythology and religion. For over two years, Wenders traced Kiefer’s path from his native Germany to his current home in France, connecting the stages of his life to the essential places of his career that spans more than five decades.

Romeo and Juliet risk everything to be together. In defiance of their feuding families, they chase a future of joy and passion as violence erupts around them. This bold new film brings to life the remarkable backstage spaces of the National Theatre in which desire, dreams and destiny collide to make Shakespeare’s romantic tragedy sing in an entirely new way. Jessie Buckley (Wild Rose, Judy) and Josh O’Connor (The Crown, God’s Own Country) play Juliet and Romeo. The award-winning cast includes Tamsin Greig, Fisayo Akinade, Adrian Lester, Lucian Msamati, and Deborah Findlay.

Claude Lelouch, 1966
102 minutes; French with English subtitles

“Style is everything in Lelouch's romantic melodrama, one of the 1960s most popular international hits, due to the music and chemistry between the glamorous Anouk Aimée and the sexy Trintignant, both at their peak.” —Emanuel Levy

After an accidental meeting a widow (Anouk Aimée) and widower (Jean-Louis Trintignant) find their relationship developing into love, though their past tragedies are difficult to overcome.

Richard Curtis, 2009
R; 117 minutes
 
In 1966, BBC radio broadcasts less than an hour of pop music a day, forcing pirate DJs to take up the slack from boats anchored outside British waters. Quentin (Bill Nighy) is the commander of such a pirate station, overseeing a host of seedy, lusty, and dope-smoking DJs, including the Count (Philip Seymour Hoffman) and Dave (Nick Frost), who makes it his personal mission to see to it that Quentin's newly arrived godson (Tom Sturridge) loses his virginity.

Jean-Pierre Jeunet's modern-day fairytale Amélie (2001), re-released by Sony Pictures, quickly made the eponymous Parisian waitress a cultural icon. The film launched the career of Audrey Tautou, who portrays Amélie Poulain as a Nutella-eyed innocent with puckish charm in this award-winning whimsical romance.

R; 121 minutes; French with English subtitles

“The kind of ravishing, rousing epic we don’t really get much of anymore.” —Bilge Ebiri, New York Magazine/Vulture

In 1755, poor soldier Ludvig Kahlen (Mads Mikkelsen) arrives on the barren Jutland moors with a single goal: to follow the king’s call to cultivate the land and gain wealth and honor for himself. However, ruthless landowner Frederik De Schinkel (Simon Bennebjerg) believes the moor belongs to him.

127 minutes; German with English subtitles