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Leaving October 1
Directed by Verena Paravel and Lucien Castaing-Taylor | 90 mins | 2017
Following the epic sweep of Leviathan, Paravel and Castaing-Taylor produced this work of smothering, terrible intimacy, an ice-cold, unsettling study in strange sibling rivalry and disturbing domestic arrangements starring brothers Issei and Jun Sagawa, filmed 30+ years after Issei killed and cannibalized a Paris classmate.
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Caravaggio
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Directed by Derek Jarman | 93 mins | 1986
A brazenly anachronistic and sensual imagining of the life of Renaissance renegade Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (Nigel Terry), seen juggling two lovers (Sean Bean’s Ranuccio and Tilda Swinton’s Lena) while scandalizing the establis... -
Conversation Piece
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Directed by Luchino Visconti | 121 mins | 1974
The solitary existence of an aging art historian (Burt Lancaster) is interrupted when the top floor of his Roman palazzo is invaded by a vulgar marchesa and her entourage, including young gigolo Helmut Berger. -
Did You Wonder Who Fired The Gun?
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Directed by Travis Wilkerson | 90 mins | 2017
A particularly lacerating take on the “home movie,” Wilkerson’s film excavates the buried story of his own great-grandfather’s murder of a Black man in c. 1946 Dothan, Alabama, an inquest that puts him in conflict with contemporary ...