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No Place Like Home
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Directed by Perry Henzell | 89 mins | 2006
Perry Henzell’s follow-up to "The Harder They Come" (1972) very nearly never saw the light of day: funding dried up before its completion, and then the footage was lost. Rediscovered by chance in 2006 and restored in 2019—nearly half a... -
Rock 'n' Roll High School
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Directed by Allan Arkush and Joe Dante | 93 mins | 1979
The moptop Ramones liberate a school from killjoy Principal Togar (Mary Woronov) in this sweetly rambunctious romp starring P.J. Soles (Halloween) as lead rebel of the student body. The innocent music-fueled anarchy (direc... -
Room 237
Directed by Rodney Ascher | 103 mins | 2012
Among critics and fans, the films of Stanley Kubrick have inspired interpretations perhaps unique in both their range and florid intensity. (Alongside that of David Lynch, his career might offer the greatest argument for filmmakers saying very little ab... -
Team Picture
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Directed by Kentucker Audley | 61 mins | 2007
Shot in Memphis, Tennessee for a cool $1,500, the amiably ambling "Team Picture" stars Audley—in his debut as feature writer/director—as David, a twentysomething whose total disinterest in anything beyond noodling on his guitar is c... -
Teat Beat of Sex
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Directed by Signe Baumane | 4 mins | 2008
It is a take on sex from a woman’s point of view. Shocking! -
The Amusement Park
Directed by George A. Romero | 53 mins | 1975
The circumstances of this George A. Romero curio are as bizarre as the film itself. Commissioned as an educational video by a Lutheran organization, "The Amusement Park" screened just once at its 1975 premiere and, for over four decades, was considere... -
The Exiles
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Directed by Kent Mackenzie | 72 mins | 1961
The result of an extended collaboration between MacKenzie and his subjects, young Native Americans living in the crumbling slums of Bunker Hill, The Exiles seems to unfold over the course of one bibulous night, by turns melancholy, an... -
The Harder They Come
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Directed by Perry Henzell | 102 mins | 1972
Star Jimmy Cliff holds down both the screen and the soundtrack in this rude-boy cult classic, Jamaica’s first feature film, which draws on the legend of folk hero prison escapee Ivanhoe “Rhygin” Martin. Cliff plays Ivan, a bumpkin nai... -
The Living End
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Directed by Gregg Araki | 85 mins | 1992
A raw, raucous, and at times brutally violent road movie, in which the reckless drifter Luke (mixed martial artist Mike Dytri) links up with cynical film critic Jon (Craig Gilmore), and the duo—both HIV positive, and both in kamikaze mod... -
The Lost Tribes of New York City
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Directed by Michael Capobianco, Andy London, and Carolyn London | 3 mins | 2009
Urban Anthropologists, Andy and Carolyn London interview some of New York City's more overlooked citizens. -
The Opposites Game
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Directed by Lisa LaBracio and Anna Samo | 5 mins | 2019
"What is the opposite of a gun? A classroom erupts into a war of words
as students grapple with this seemingly simple question in Lisa LaBracio
and Anna Samo’s adaptation of Brendan Constantine’s “The Opposites
Game”. Enti... -
There's Too Many of These Crows
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Directed by Morgan Miller | 4 mins | 2016
A hungry poacher and his wife trigger a series of reprisals. A short film about aggression and escalation. -
Ticket of No Return
Leaving January 1
Directed by Ulrike Ottinger | 108 mins | 1979
Ottinger’s collision of Hollywood flamboyancy and a particularly dour documentary aesthetic suits this Janus-faced tale of two female lushes from two very different walks of life, alike in many ways, but incapable of recognizing the... -
Totally F***ed Up
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Directed by Gregg Araki | 79 mins | 1993
The first film of Araki’s “Teenage Apocalypse” trilogy, which the director once described as a “cross between avant-garde experimental cinema and a queer John Hughes flick,” "Totally F***ed Up" focuses on six gay adolescents who, rejecte... -
Warm Reception in L.A.
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Directed by Candy Kugel and Vincent Cafarelli | 5 mins | 1987
A story of an author's struggle for success - the glamor and dreams of Hollywood and the check that's on the way.
