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Before “Emilia Pérez” made history with 13 nominations at the 2025 Oscars — tying with “Gone with the Wind,” “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” and “Oppenheimer” for the second-most nods of all time — the film‘s producers have backed a slew of indie hits.
Now, the filmography from producers Pascal Caucheteux and Grégoire Sorlat and their banner Why Not Productions is getting its due on the big screen. IndieWire can announce that with support from Netflix, the top Why Not Productions features will return to theaters. That includes Gregg Araki’s iconic 1995 NC-17 crime film “The Doom Generation,” Claire Denis’ “White Material,” and Lynne Ramsay’s “You Were Never Really Here.”
Araki will appear for a Q&A with “The Doom Generation” at the Egyptian on Thursday, February 6 following the 7:30 p.m. show.
Additional directors featured in the program include Ken Loach, Arnaud Desplechin, and Cristian Mungiu. The program also will have two beloved and rarely screened early films by Desplechin, with his breakthrough feature “My Sex Life… or How I Got Into an Argument” and a 35mm print of “Kings and Queen.”
The retrospective will take place from February 1 through 12 at the Paris Theater in New York, and from February 6 through 10 at the Egyptian Theatre in Los Angeles. Both theaters are owned and operated by Netflix, which released Jacques Audiard’s “Emilia Pérez,” also produced by Caucheteux and Sorlat.
“With their latest triumph ‘Emilia Pérez,’ producers Pascal Caucheteux and Grégoire Sorlat continue their legacy of over 30 years of supporting provocative, auteur-driven cinema via their company Why Not Productions,” a press statement for the program reads. “With a roster of films directed by internationally acclaimed artists like Clarie Denis, Ken Loach, Arnaud Desplechin, Lynne Ramsay, Cristian Mungiu, and Gregg Araki that have collected over a dozen major awards at the Cannes Film Festival, Why Not Productions has had an undeniably global impact on the art of cinema. In celebration of Jacques Audiard’s audacious fever dream ‘Emilia Pérez’ joining this sterling roster, we are proud to present this series of films made possible by Why Not.”
“Emilia Pérez” writer/director Audiard told IndieWire that the musical crime drama featuring the gender transition of a drug dealer has been years in the making.
“‘Emilia Pérez’ is not a movie I could have made 10 years ago,” Audiard said, “because it’s a movie that tackles contemporary issues. And Emilia Pérez transitions, and along with her, the movie transitions. It switches forms. It goes from a narco movie to a tele-novella to a musical. There’s that revolution as well.”
Audiard, who is 72, added, “I loved every minute of making this movie, but it exhausted me. It really did. I’m no longer a spring chicken. At my age, we stop kidding around, and we just do what truly matters, what is essential.”
Check out the full lineup for the Why Not Productions retrospective below and purchase tickets for both theaters here at the Paris and at the Egyptian.
“The Doom Generation” (Araki)
“White Material” (Denis)
“Kings and Queen” (Desplechin)
“You Were Never Really Here” (Ramsay)
“My Sex Life… or How I Got Into an Argument” (Desplechin)
“I, Daniel Blake” (Loach)
“Beyond the Hills” (Mungiu)
“In the Soup” (Rockwell)
“Loveless” (Zvyagintsev)
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