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Mumblecore x 5
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By the mid-aughts, the Sundance market had been thoroughly professionalized and corporatized, most of the big-ticket purchases made in Park City the work of canny careerist operators with Hollywood ambitions. But then there was a mutant strain of microbudget movies that had begun to appear around...
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Three by Mia Hansen-Løve
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The daughter of two philosophers, Mia Hansen-Løve came to filmmaking in her mid-twenties by way of acting—notably appearing in two films by Olivier Assayas, who would become her partner—and film criticism, writing for Cahiers du Cinéma. Luminous, layered, and gently provocative, her work probes t...
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L.A. Stories
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So often we see Los Angeles and its surrounds masquerading on screen as other places, but the films in this decades-spanning collection, going from Raymond Chandler to Gregg Araki and beyond, root themselves in the sun-drenched, smoggy sprawl of this most postmodern city—home not just to movie fo...
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Perry Henzell Double Feature
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Born into a prominent Jamaican family but largely disinterested in the privileges this afforded him, Perry Henzell would break new cinematic ground with his seductively gritty, lightning-in-a-bottle debut "The Harder They Come" (1972). The first full-length, fully Jamaican film, it was a huge suc...
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Clockwatchers
Directed by Jill Sprecher | 96 mins | 1997
Like "9 to 5" (1980) before it, this crackling indie comedy introduces a set of disparate women united by the drudgery and casual sexism of office temp work. Augmenting the delightfully funny and subversive script by sisters Karen and Jill Sprecher (who ... -
The Brother From Another Planet
Directed by John Sayles | 109 mins | 1984
New to Earth and fleeing bondage on his own planet, a mute telepath extraterrestrial known only as “The Brother” (Joe Morton)—who has the outward appearance of a twentysomething African American male hits the streets of Harlem—gets a crash course in the b... -
A Ciambra
Directed by Jonas Carpignano | 118 mins | 2017
A robust neorealist spirit courses through the keenly observed films of Italian-American filmmaker Jonas Carpignano. "A Ciambra," executive produced by Martin Scorsese, is the second of his three features set in the Calabrian port town of Gioia Tauro... -
No Sleep Till
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Arriving July 20
Directed by Alexandra Simpson | 93 mins | 2024
The threat of an impending hurricane has sent most of the residents of and visiting tourists to the coastal Florida town of Atlantic Beach scurrying for cover—but Simpson’s ravishing mood piece lingers behind with a handful of hold...