
Summer Hours
(2008)Family traditions are challenged by new attitudes in this restrained, exquisite film from Olivier Assayas: a filmmaker whose cinema covers a diverse range of genres and milieus, collectively transforming modern anxieties into engrossing drama. With the late Edith Scob, and a blonde-haired Binoche!

Flight of the Red Balloon
(2007)For the second feature to be shot outside of his native Taiwan, Hou Hsiao-hsien ventured to Paris for this lyrical masterpiece. Starring Juliette Binoche, and captured in swooning tracking shots by cinematographer Lee Ping Bing, The Flight of the Red Balloon is a work of warm and delicate wonder.

Christmas at Moose Factory
(1971)Sitting in on an art class for her first short, Indigenous director Alanis Obomsawin celebrates the nascent creativity of Cree children. Accompanying their lovely impressions of wintry landscapes and nativity scenes, the little artists talk in voice-over about their processes, ideas, and dreams.