99 Moons
Leaving Soon
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1h 52m
Leaving August 1
Directed by Jan Gassmann | 112 mins | 2022
Repressed pleasures and the blurred lines between lust and love are interrogated in this heady sexual odyssey, which charts the on-and-off relationship of eight-plus years between Frank (Dominik Fellmann), a DJ, and Bigna (Valentina Di Pace), a disaster-prevention scientist. The clash of demeanor and desires between these two young millennials, both played by first-timers, produces an addictive spark.
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Directed by Alexis Hithe | 12 mins | 2022
A five-film shorts program curated by LA Rebellion affiliated-filmmaker Zeinabu irene Davis, including works by Pierre Desir ("The Gods and the Thief"), Julie Dash ("Four Women"), Portia Cobb ("Don’t Hurry Back: A Diaspora Fable"), and o... -
Cheatin'
Leaving August 1
Directed by Bill Plympton | 77 mins | 2013
A lurid film noir opera that eschews intelligible dialogue, "Cheatin’" follows a couple, Jake and Ella, from the first blush of attraction at a carnival meet-cute to the cusp of marital disintegration.“My second non-dialogue film and...
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Cobra Verde
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Directed by Werner Herzog | 110 mins | 1997
The last film to emerge from the long, tumultuous five-movie collaboration/death struggle between Herzog and Klaus Kinski, "Cobra Verde" features Kinski as a disgraced, priapic plantation worker sent to almost certain death by his empl...
