Collections/January 2025

Three by Paolo Sorrentino

Extravagant, dazzlingly stylish visions of decadence and decay, the films of Italian auteur Paolo Sorrentino train a cunning eye on the worlds of wealth, celebrity, and power to reveal the moral rot lurking below their seductively glittering surfaces. All made in collaboration with his regular leading man Toni Servillo, who perfectly embodies the charm, vanity, and soul-sick emptiness of corrupt men, these opulently operatic spectacles—including the sprawling, AcademyAward–winning The Great Beauty —mark the filmmaker as heir to Fellini’s cinema of grandiose melancholy and cutting social observation.

3 films — 1 on the Channel, 2 unavailable