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Leaving Soon
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Leaving July 1
Directed by Henry Jaglom | 92 mins | 1976
Dennis Hopper, in the depths of his decade-long exile from Hollywood, channels his livewire, damaged intensity into the role of Jack Falen, a soldier returned from Vietnam and on a mission to restore the body of his friend to his hometown by way of the Amtrak. Jaglom’s provocatively fractured second feature marks one of cinema’s first reckonings with the psychological impacts of the war stateside.
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Typhoon Club
Directed by Shinji Sômai | 115 mins | 1985
Emotionally raw, enormously tender and, finally, tentatively hopeful, Sômai’s breakthrough film—winner of the Grand Prix at the first Tokyo International Film Festival—observes a group of provincial junior high students who find themselves forced to tak... -
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Leaving July 1
Directed by Óliver Laxe | 78 mins | 2010
Born from a filmmaking workshop the director conducted with underprivileged children in Tangier, Laxe’s feature debut takes this real-life scenario as its premise but lights off into uncharted terrain when the pupils, rankling at his oblivi...