America – The Public Cinema

Peak Season

An emotionally adrift young woman forges an unexpected friendship with a wilderness guide when she and her fiancé take a summer holiday.

A nightmare comedy about a school counselor whose compassion, generosity and dedication destroy the lives of everyone around him.

A writer moves to the Midwest with her novelist husband and they soon find themselves caught in a love triangle with their pious housekeeper.

A Haitian demolition worker is tasked with dismantling his rapidly gentrifying neighborhood.

Meg is trying to readjust to normalcy after surviving a traumatic kidnapping, but her sense of reality soon starts to deteriorate.

An 8-film program of shorts spanning four decades of Jennings's career.

After receiving a grim diagnosis, middle-aged literature professor Lousy Carter reevaluates the relationships in his life.

A typically difficult-to-classify multimedia piece by Monk.

Historian John Mueller has called it “one of the most beautiful dance films ever made.”