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10 itemsHalloween At Home
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As the leaves begin to turn and the supermarket shelves swell with pumpkin spiced goods, it’s time to draw the curtains, crack out the candy stash, and cozy up with one of these bloodcurdlers. Quench your bloodlust vicariously with Cronenberg’s "Rabid" (1977) or "Ganja & Hess" (1973), Bill Gunn’s...
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Not a Film: Films by Jafar Panahi
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Even before it won the 2025 Palme d’Or, Jafar Panahi’s tragicomic revenge thriller “It Was Just an Accident” marked a momentous feat, as the Iranian master’s first film after the unexpected lifting of the 20-year filmmaking ban imposed on him by his government in 2010, when he was accused of maki...
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Lázaro at Night
Directed by Nicolás Pereda | 76 mins | 2024
Three actors compete for a role in the same low-budget movie and for each other’s amorous attentions in this low-key but formally playful existentialist comedy by Nicolás Pereda. Deftly blending fact, fiction, and fable, the Mexican-Canadian director re... -
Mixed Blood
Directed by Paul Morrissey | 99 mins | 1984
Brazilian diva Marília Pêra, fresh from her international breakthrough in Héctor Babenco’s "Pixote," is the queenly matriarch of a dope-dealing dynasty in Morrissey’s marvelous, grimly funny Alphabet City melodrama, concerning a turf war between rival d... -
4 itemsDirected by Ulrike Ottinger
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Ulrike Ottinger might be New German Cinema’s greatest freak. Proudly renouncing the conventions of both popular and art cinema—including the work of her peers, the Werners among them—the films of the lesbian artist-turned-auteur traffic in the flagrant and flamboyant possibilities of a world beyo...
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Made In New York: Best of NYC Indie Animation
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Just as New York has long been the capital of America’s artistically ambitious “Second Cinema,” a scrappy foil to the Los Angelino industry of streamlined entertainment, it is also home to a counter-tradition of independent animation that has nothing to do with what happens out there in Burbank a...
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Dheephan
Directed by Jacques Audiard | 115 mins | 2015
Like his 2009 prison crime saga "A Prophet", Jacques Audiard’s Palme d’Or-winning pressure cooker "Dheepan" centers on a man thrown into a new, insular, and hostile society. Sivadhasan, a Tamil Tiger soldier—played by Antonythasan Jesuthasan, whose ow... -
A Girl Missing
Directed by Kōji Fukada | 111 mins | 2019
As the carer for the elderly Toko, home nurse Ichiko is practically a member of the family, favored especially by the bedridden woman’s granddaughters. But Ichiko’s life—and identity—come unspooled after the abduction of Saki, the younger of the two girls... -
Rodeo
Directed by Lola Quivoron | 106 mins | 2022
“I was born with a bike between my legs.” Motocross-mad Julia—fiercely incarnated by newcomer Julie Ledru, cast from Instagram—butters up a man who thinks she’s a potential buyer for his machine, when in fact, she’s about to ride away with it. Revving m... -
Other People's Children
Directed by Rebecca Zlotowski | 104 mins | 2022
High school teacher Rachel (Virginie Efira) falls in love with Ali, and then with his 4-year-old, Leila— strengthening her desire to have a child of her own. But at 40, she knows that biology is working against her, and that cultivating a relationsh...
