Catherine Called Birdy
The cozy medieval world (minus the smelly horse droppings and chicken dung) of Karen Cushman’s middle-grade novel has been re-created in this stylized–and deliberately anachronistic–adaptation.
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Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris
A widowed British house cleaner falls in love with a Christian Dior dress and aims to buy one for herself in this sweet, if unsurprising, Cinderella story.
Hello, Bookstore
A tender valentine to quirky, independent bookshops.
The Rose Maker
An engaging, if familiar, cinematic bonbon that owes its appeal to Catherine Frot's winning performance and its unusual subject, the rarified world of rose breeding and flower competitions. Oh, for the revival of Odorama!
Mothering Sunday
A British period drama that subverts the polite conventions of the genre with its frank depiction of sex.
Kurt Vonnegut: Unstuck in Time
Almost four decades in the making, this affectionate film is an illuminating portrait and a touching story of a friendship that developed between the filmmaker and his subject.
Becoming Cousteau
To create this immersive visual portrait, two-time Oscar nominee Liz Garbus drew on almost 550 hours of footage, taken from Jacques-Yves Cousteau’s own, rarely seen films as well as from the Cousteau Society’s archives.