Curated category
American independent films
- The TerminatorThe Terminator arrived in American cinemas on the 26th of October 1984, and it began with a nightmare. Director James Cameron had fallen ill in Rome during…
- RoboCopRoboCop arrived in American theaters on the 17th of July 1987, and it was not what anyone expected. The title alone put people off.
- One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (film)One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest arrived in cinemas on the 19th of November 1975 and within months had become one of the highest-grossing films in American…
- Waking LifeWaking Life, Richard Linklater's 2001 animated film, opens with a boy floating upward from a driveway into the sky. It is the first signal that gravity here…
- Synecdoche, New YorkCharlie Kaufman entered the director's chair in 2008 with a $20 million budget for his first feature film. Sony Pictures Classics had initially approached…
- Annie HallAnnie Hall arrives on screen in 1977 with Woody Allen staring directly into the camera, ignoring every convention of moviegoing in the process.
- Ex Machina (film)Alex Garland held a computer in his hands when he was eleven years old. That machine felt like it had its own mind to the young boy.
- Apollo 18 (film)In December 1974, the Apollo Lunar Module Liberty touched down on a dark sector of the Moon. Commander Nathan Walker and Captain Ben Anderson planted an…
- Easy RiderEasy Rider opened on the 14th of July 1969 at the Beekman theater in New York City and broke the house record in its first week.
- Life in a Day (2011 film)Life in a Day began with three questions. "What do you love? What do you fear? What's in your pocket?" Director Kevin Macdonald posed those questions to…
- Hardware WarsHardware Wars is a 1978 short film that asks a simple question: what happens when you point a camera at a steam iron flying through space?
- Harold and MaudeHarold and Maude is a 1971 American romantic black comedy-drama that opens with a young man hanging himself in the family living room.