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  • Scala!!!

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    Directed by Jane Giles and Ali Catterall | 96 mins | 2023
    The Scala, a cherished destination for outré-minded London cinephiles from 1978 to its closure in 1993, which did much to introduce the midnight movie cult and grindhouse fare grue to the British capitol, comes in for a loving tribute in t...

  • Family Portrait
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    Family Portrait

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    Directed by Lucy Kerr | 72 mins | 2023
    Deploying masterful Steadicam and ominous sound design, Kerr’s enigmatic and disquieting feature debut takes place one summer day on an idyllic estate in Texas. A large family gathers to take a group picture, only for the matriarch to disappear and the rest ...

  • Blow for Blow

    Directed by Marin Marmitz | 89 mins | 1972
    The last of mk2 founder Karmitz’s three features as a director was this fiery documentary-style fiction about overworked and underpaid female workers at a textile mill who, pushed to the breaking point by their boss, decide to take him hostage and occupy...

  • Hale County This Morning, This Evening

    Directed by RaMell Ross | 76 mins | 2018

    The results of five years of living among African American families in rural Hale County, Alabama—also the setting of Walker Evans and James Agee’s photo-essay Let Us Now Praise Famous Men—Ross’s debut feature documentary is a lyrical and loving treatment...

  • Boyfriends and Girlfriends

    Directed by Éric Rohmer | 103 mins | 1987
    Rohmer uses the amorous misadventures of two girlfriends in the Paris suburbs to test the old proverb “les amis de mes amis sont mes amis” (“the friends of my friends are my friends”) in the final episode of his “Comedies and Proverbs” series. Taking an i...

  • Paranoid Park

    Directed by Gus Van Sant | 84 mins | 2007
    Adapting Blake Nelson’s Y.A. novel of the same name, Van Sant renders the youth gathering place of the skate park a voluptuous dreamscape with the help of cinematographers Chris Doyle and Rain Kathy Li. Teenaged skate rat Alex—Gabe Nevins, leading a large...

  • Daughters of Darkness

    Directed by Harry Kümel | 87 mins | 1971
    Profoundly inspired by the spirit of Belgian Surrealist and Symbolist painting, Kümel’s darkly poetic horror film begins with a young newlywed couple waylaid at a grand hotel en route to England, where they fall under the spell of the elegant Hungarian Cou...

  • Summer at Sea

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    Sand and surf provide a sun-kissed setting for characters to lose their worries, inhibitions, and sometimes minds in this summertime series of beach-related films. The collection spans tortured romances to campy beach romps to Brighton Beach memories, showing the tidal pull of the ocean for filmm...

  • Sean Price Williams Selects

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    Acclaimed cinematographer (for the Safdie Brothers, Alex Ross Perry, and many others), director (of 2023’s "The Sweet East"), cinephile guru (his 1000 Movies, a list of all-time favorites, has been published by Metrograph Editions), and long-time video store clerk, Sean Price Williams has seen as...