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Trailblazing: the recently departed Ned Beatty gives a tour de force of soul-stirring restraint in Tom Gilroy's 2000 drama

Animal planet: Dash Shaw’s animated phantasmagoria draws from diverse influences in an attempt to renew a jaded audience’s capacity for awe and terror

Faultlines: William Klein’s revealing portrait of the 1981 French Open is alternately sprawling and incisive

Time was: this raw, no-frills concert documentary leaves a slightly bitter aftertaste, not entirely unlike the vague regret of a Sunday morning coming down

Listening to other women: series featuring new preservations of the videos of Les Insoumuses finally make the collective’s work available to a wide audience

The pleasure of this archival concert film is in watching a symphony of performance and reception, call-and-response

Suzanne Lindon’s debut captures the thrill of first passion and heartbreak, but without sordid clichés

Bridge over troubled water: Hong Sangsoo’s second movie employs a bravura narrative structure that elucidates the solipsistic lives of its protagonists

This mortal coil: the new microbudget “thriller” is a shape-shifting fever dream of a film

Pocket symphony: a 1978 documentary about Don Cherry captures the working life of an artist who never stopped moving