Charulata

Satyajit Ray  ·  India  ·  1964
117 mins  · ​ HD B&W  ·  G  ·  ​In Bengali with English subtitles

A rarely seen classic of world cinema, this deft and moving adaptation of a novella by Rabindranath Tagore traces one woman's romantic and intellectual yearnings in late 19th-century India.
“Not to have seen the cinema of Ray means existing in a world without seeing the sun or the moon.” - Kurosawa Akira 
Satyajit Ray & Charulata, Close Up 2015 pdf – download here.

Le cercle rouge

Jean-Pierre Melville  ·  France/Italy  ·  1970 
140 mins  ·  HD  ·  PG  ·  In French with English subtitles
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"Melville is the high priest of tough-guy mysticism, inventor of the attitudinous thriller associated with Godard, Tarantino and Wong Kar-Wai… Alain Delon is the epitome of cool." – J Hoberman, Village Voice.
"Paris has never looked better or (with the help of a great jazz score) sounded finer. It’s all unutterably cool and quite unmissable." – Daily Telegraph
Le cercle rouge, AFS 2005 pdf – download here

Viva Maria!

Louis Malle  ·  France  ·  1965
122 mins  ·  HD  ·  PG  ·  ​

Starring Brigitte Bardot and Jeanne Moreau as a pair of feisty vaudeville dancers and Mexican revolutionaries, Louis Malle’s campy comedy-adventure is an under-appreciated jeu d’esprit gleaming with screenwriter Jean-Claude Carrière’s surrealist gags and anticlerical hijinks.
Viva Maria! Close Up 2013 pdf – download here

A Flickering Truth

Pietra Brettkelly  ·  New Zealand  ·  ​2015
91 mins  ·  HD   ·  In Dari with English subtitles
 
One man’s journey to restore thousands of hours of film heritage in post-Taliban Afghanistan uncovers the very nearly forgotten history of his ravaged country. “A poetic tribute to a fragile cinema culture and its committed guardians” – Variety
A Flickering Truth, Close Up 2017 pdf – here

Tanna

Bentley Dean, Martin Butler  ·  Australia/Vanuatu
2015  ·  104 mins  ·  HD  ·  M violence & offensive language  ·  ​In Nauvhal with English subtitles

Two Australian documentary filmmakers collaborate with villagers in the Vanuatu highlands who’d never seen a movie to create this luminous tale of forbidden love and continuously evolving tradition.
Tanna, Close Up 2019 pdf – download here