The feature debut of director / writer Justin Simien, is a sharp, smart, ambitious satire of race, racism, privilege, prejudice, and power at an Ivy League college.
Colin Firth is the man who would be King George VI and Geoffrey Rush is the eccentric speech therapist who helps the royal overcome his stammer in this based-on-a-true-story drama that won Academy Awards, including best picture, best director Tom Hooper, and best actor Firth.
The third film from director Jeff Nichols is a story of childhood adventure steeped in the rural culture of life on the Mississippi and the mythology of Huckleberry Finn, but this boy’s adventure is also tangled in the world of adults and family bonds.
Gus Van Sant directs this drama about the first openly gay man elected to public office in the U.S., with a focus on the human behind the legacy. It won an Oscar for its screenplay.
Charles Burnett explores the collision of rural Southern Black culture and folk superstitions with middle class African-American urban life in this landmark American indie drama.
J.C. Chandor’s fictionalized take on the financial crash of 2008 explores the banalituyu of greed with stars Kevin Spacey, Zachary Quinto, Demi Moore, and Stanley Tucci.
