Lina Rodriguez
October 2023
The writer-director ofSo Much TendernessandThis Time Tomorrowshares her love for the magnetic monstrousness of Gene Tierney inLeave Her to Heaven, praises the visual grammar ofPortrait of a Lady on Fire, and talks about “impossible love” inFlowers of ShanghaiandExotica.
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Wanda
Barbara Loden
1970 • United States • 1h 43m
Leave Her to Heaven
John M. Stahl
1945 • United States • 1h 50m
Portrait of a Lady on Fire
Céline Sciamma
2019 • France • 2h 1m
Unavailable
Bo Widerberg’s New Swedish Cinema
Box Set
Eight Hours Don’t Make a Day
Rainer Werner Fassbinder
1972 • Germany • 42m
Unavailable
Flowers of Shanghai
Hou Hsiao-hsien
1998 • Taiwan • 1h 53m
Exotica
Atom Egoyan
1994 • Canada • 1h 43m