From tense courtroom dramas, to sultry psychological thrillers, to award-winning documentaries, Kanopy has plenty of great new films that you can watch for free with your Livingston Library card. Check out the recommended titles below, or browse Kanopy’s complete collection of newly-added movies here. (Descriptions provided by Kanopy.)
Anatomy of a Fall (2023, directed by Justine Triet)
Sandra (Sandra Hüller), her husband Samuel (Samuel Theis), and their son Daniel (Mil Machado-Graner) live a secluded life in a remote town in the French Alps. When Samuel is found dead, the police question if he was murdered or committed suicide and Sandra becomes the main suspect. What follows is an investigation into the circumstances of Samuel’s death and an unsettling journey into the depths of Sandra and Samuel’s conflicted relationship.
Afire (2023, directed by Christian Petzold)
While vacationing by the Baltic Sea, writer Leon (Thomas Schubert) and photographer Felix (Langston Uibel) are surprised by the presence of Nadja (Paula Beer), a mysterious young woman staying as a guest at Felix’s family’s holiday home. Nadja distracts Leon from finishing his latest novel and with brutal honesty, forces him to confront his caustic temperament and self-absorption.
The Royal Hotel (2023, directed by Kitty Green)
Americans Hanna (Julia Garner) and Liv (Jessica Henwick) are best friends backpacking in Australia. After they run out of money, they take a temporary live-in job behind the bar of a pub called ‘The Royal Hotel’ in a remote Outback mining town. Soon, Hanna and Liv find themselves trapped in an unnerving situation that grows rapidly out of their control.
When Evil Lurks (2023, directed by Demián Runga)
In a remote village, two brothers find a demon-infected man just about to give birth to evil itself. They decide to get rid of the man but merely succeed in helping him to deliver the inferno.
Eileen (2023, directed by William Oldroyd)
Eileen (Thomasin McKenzie) is a peculiar young woman whose dreary life stretches on toward unending misery. In 1960s Boston, Eileen shuffles between her father’s emotionally haunted home and the prison where she works. When an intoxicating woman (Anne Hathaway) joins the prison staff, Eileen is taken. Just as the possibility of friendship (or maybe more) takes hold, her newfound confidant entangles her in a shocking crime.
20 Days in Mariupol (2023, directed by Mstyslav Chernov)
The award-winning film from the last international journalists inside the Russian siege of Mariupol. An extraordinary account, seen through the lens of the AP’s Mstyslav Chernov and two colleagues documenting the atrocities and their own escape.
Lynch / Oz (2023, directed by Alexandre O. Philippe)
The themes, images, and cultural vernacular of Victor Fleming’s The Wizard of Oz continue to haunt David Lynch’s filmography. Arguably, no filmmaker has so consistently drawn inspiration—consciously or unconsciously—from a single work. Through six distinct perspectives, Alexandre O. Philippe’s Lynch / Oz helps us reexperience and reinterpret The Wizard of Oz by way of David Lynch, delivering new appreciations of both.
Kim’s Video (2023, directed by David Redmon and Ashley Sabin)
Physical media reigns supreme in Kim’s Video, a tribute to the iconic video store in NYC that inspired a generation of cinephiles before it mysteriously closed its doors and sent its legendary film archive to a small Sicilian village for “safekeeping.” What starts as an homage to cinema quickly becomes a rescue mission to ensure the eternal preservation of the beloved video collection.
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