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Digital color grading tools have vastly expanded the possibilities in how filmmakers manipulate color palettes, and the look of films and video have changed rapidly as a result. We'll look at the early days of this technology with Amelie.

Driven to the point of extinction in the 19th century, the buffalo is proving more resilient than once feared. Tasha Hubbard's rhapsodic doc weaves personal reflection, animated tales, observational reportage and gorgeous nature footage.

Three sisters -- Carrie Coon, Elizabeth Olson, and Natasha Lyonne -- congregate to attend the final few days of their father's life. They bring with them years of barely-repressed jealousy and resentment, as well as wildly different personalities.

Malick's meditation on life, death and the whole damn thing is a sublime and beautiful, maddening and inspiring film, winner of the top prize a t Cannes, revered and reviled in roughly equal measure.

Satyajit Ray's first film opened eyes in the West. It's a naturalistic portrait of the childhood of a Brahman child, Apu, growing up in a village far from twentieth century technology in West Bengal.

A prize-winner at Sundance, Shuchi Talati’s sensitive debut feature is an unusual coming-of-age drama for its nuanced and sympathetic portrait of mother-daughter dynamics in a sexually repressive culture; it doesn’t go where you expect.