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Movie + 1 extraGazer
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Directed by Ryan J. Sloan | 114 mins | 2024
Sloan’s paranoiac, drum-tight noir thriller stars Ariella Mastroianni as Frankie, a single mother living outside Newark, New Jersey, who, suffering from worsening dyschronometria—a condition that makes it difficult for her to accurately perceive the pas... -
Shanghai Blues
Directed by Tsui Hark | 103 mins | 1984
This kinetic, ultra-stylish screwball comedy/historical romance/backstage musical by the inimitable Tsui—beautifully restored for its 40th anniversary—is one of the most zestily entertaining works of 1980s Hong Kong cinema. Kenny Bee’s nightclub clown and w... -
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Directed by Cate Shortland | 106 mins | 2004
Shortland’s visually arresting debut feature, a standout at the 2004 Cannes Film Festival recently restored in 4K, follows 16-year-old Heidi (Abbie Cornish), in flight from a catastrophic fall out with her mother, as she posts up in the frigid Australi... -
My Heart is That Eternal Rose
Directed by Patrick Tam | 90 mins | 1989
One of the unheralded masterworks of the Hong Kong New Wave, Tam’s high-style “heroic bloodshed” melodrama stars Tony Leung Chiu-Wai, Kenny Bee, and Joey Wong as friends bound by ties both criminal and romantic. With shamelessly pulpy plotting, luxuriously... -
Kaili Blues
Directed by Bi Gan | 113 mins | 2015
Chinese filmmaker Bi Gan’s audacious directorial debut announced a major new talent. Shot in the mining village Kaili, the director’s birthplace, the film follows a country doctor who enters a dreamlike world where the boundaries between past, present, and fu... -
6 itemsSun-Kissed Cinema
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To many, the beach is first and foremost a destination for fancy-free summer fun; a place to unwind and recharge—but not to the filmmakers in this collection. Suspicions accrete at the water’s edge in "Pacifiction" (2022), Albert Serra’s masterful, Tahiti-set tale of postcolonial intrigue, while ...
