Two Plains & a Fancy
Leaving Soon
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1h 29m
Leaving May 1
Directed by Lev Kalman and Whitney Horn | 89 mins | 2018
A dandy, a mystic, and a geologist adrift in the Colorado desert: here Kalman and Horn take what sounds like it could be a set-up for a joke and turn it into a wry and layered period piece. Urbanites set out for unfamiliar territory in search of unknown pleasures, in an era removed from our own—in this case, the 1890s.
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Jazz Christmas
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Directed by Lev Kalman and Whitney Horn | 9 mins | 2007
The decadent gathering of this early Kalman and Horn short does not take place on Christmas but rather New Year's Eve, 1927, nor does it feature any jazz proper—but it does have characters performing a riff on The Strokes’ “Ne... -
Dry Ground Burning
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Directed by Joana Pimenta and Adirley Queirós | 154 mins | 2022
In the Bolsonaro-era Brasilia of this incendiary two-hander—the second collaboration between directors Queirós and Pimenta—political resistance takes the form of an all-women gang who steal and refine oil before sellin... -
Film Socialisme
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Directed by Jean-Luc Godard | 101 mins | 2010
An essay on Mediterranean culture and history in triptych form that locates a new, scintillating kind of beauty in the digital image, "Film Socialisme" moves from a cruise ship of venal bourgeois passengers to a portrait of political st...
