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Three by João Pedro Rodrigues
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By turns playful, provocative, and committed to the pursuit of strange pleasures, the films of João Pedro Rodrigues have established the shapeshifting Portuguese director as a singular figure in contemporary queer cinema. The Lisbon-born filmmaker studied biology before embarking upon his directo...
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Mommy Issues
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From Norma Bates to Natalia Akerman, mothers have loomed large in the history (and herstory) of cinema; whether warm or wicked, nurturing or nagging, their presence is primal, poignant, and freighted with psychic baggage for filmmaker and audience alike. By way of tribute to their earthly burden,...
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Short Films by Ari Marcopoulos
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A program of selected short films by Ari Marcopoulos, a photographer, filmmaker, and tireless chronicler of subcultures in New York City and points further afield. Includes "Roma," a portrait of daily life in the Italian capital; "Sketches for #PUNK," intercutting choreographer Nora Chipaumire’s ...
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Personal Archives of Home
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This program of short works—including experimental works from a first-person perspective, documentary pieces, found footage decoupages, or combinations of all of the above—considers the manner in which migration impacts and reshapes cultural identity and memory, offering a diversity of rumination...
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A Kind of Loving
Directed by John Schlesinger | 113 mins | 1962
Set against the factories and watering holes of Lancashire, the fiction feature debut of "Midnight Cowboy" director Schlesinger stars the brooding Alan Bates as a young draughtsman whose affair with an office secretary (June Ritchie) results in a the... -
The Leather Boys
Directed by Sidney J. Furie | 107 mins | 1964
Long before he directed the Diana Ross vehicle "Lady Sings the Blues" and cult horror classic "The Entity," versatile Canadian filmmaker Furie helmed this Cockney tale of motorized delinquency and Ton-Up rocker subculture, starring Colin Campbell and ... -
Old Enough
Directed by Marisa Silver | 92 mins | 1984
Eleven-year-old Lonnie (Sarah Boyd) is a Lower East Side kid who comes from money, while her teenaged pal Karen (Rainbow Harvest) doesn’t come from much of anything at all. At first these opposites attract, but then budding hormones and first crushes fur...