Time of Cinema

Three tales of love, ambition, and neurosis unfold in the city that never sleeps. In "Life Lessons" (Martin Scorsese), a tormented painter channels heartbreak into his art. In "Life Without Zoë" (Francis Ford Coppola), a precocious 12-year-old navigates privilege and loneliness in a Manhattan hotel. And in "Oedipus Wrecks" (Woody Allen...

Runtime

2h 4m

Director

Martin Scorsese, Woody Allen

Cast

Nick Nolte, Rosanna Arquette, Patrick O'Neal

While attending a retrospect of his work, a filmmaker recalls his life and his loves: the inspirations for his films.

Runtime

1h 29m

Director

Woody Allen

Cast

Charlotte Rampling, Jessica Harper, Marie-Christine Barrault

In three separate segments, set respectively in 1966, 1911, and 2005, three love stories unfold between three sets of characters, under three different periods of Taiwanese history and governance.

Runtime

2h 10m

Director

Hou Hsiao-hsien

Cast

Shu Qi, Chang Chen, Mei Fang

Eight visually rich vignettes drawn from Kurosawa’s own dreams—fox weddings and vanished orchards, a soldier’s ghosts, a walk through Van Gogh’s canvases, nuclear nightmares, and a water-mill utopia—meditate on childhood, art, mortality, and humanity’s uneasy bond with nature.

Runtime

1h 59m

Director

Akira Kurosawa, Ishirō Honda

Cast

Akira Terao, Mitsuko Baisho, Toshie Negishi

New York, I Love You delves into the intimate lives of New Yorkers as they grapple with, delight in and search for love. Journey from the Diamond District in the heart of Manhattan, through Chinatown and the Upper East Side, towards the Village, into Tribeca, and Brooklyn as lovers of all ages try to find romance in the Big Apple.

Runtime

1h 43m

Director

Natalie Portman, Yvan Attal

Cast

Hayden Christensen, Andy Garcia, Rachel Bilson