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MovieScala!!!
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Directed by Jane Giles and Ali Catterall | 96 mins | 2023
The Scala, a cherished destination for outré-minded London cinephiles from 1978 to its closure in 1993, which did much to introduce the midnight movie cult and grindhouse fare grue to the British capitol, comes in for a loving tribute in t... -
MovieBrighton Beach
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Directed by Carol Stein and Susan Wittenberg | 56 mins | 1980
Old Brooklyn lives again in Carol Stein and Susan Wittenberg’s good-humored 1980 time-capsule documentary about a melting-pot neighborhood of Jewish Soviet immigrants, Puerto Ricans, and other New Yorkers—right next to Coney Island’s a... -
MovieParanoid Park
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Directed by Gus Van Sant | 84 mins | 2007
Adapting Blake Nelson’s Y.A. novel of the same name, Van Sant renders the youth gathering place of the skate park a voluptuous dreamscape with the help of cinematographers Chris Doyle and Rain Kathy Li. Teenaged skate rat Alex—Gabe Nevins, leading a large... -
The Apple
Directed by Samira Makhmalbaf | 81 mins | 1998
At only 17 years of age Makhmalbaf, the daughter of legendary Iranian filmmaker Mohsen Makhmalbaf, produced this, her debut feature, a docufiction work of extraordinary sensitivity and maturity concerning a social worker’s investigation into the case... -
The Scent of Green Papaya
Directed by Tran Anh Hung | 104 mins | 1993
The first film in Hùng’s acclaimed Vietnam Trilogy is a beautifully detailed, sublimely sensitive, and quietly moving evocation of midcentury Saigon—reconstructed on a French soundstage—depicting 10 years in the intersecting lives of a concert pianist, ... -
Movie + 1 extraFamily Portrait
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Directed by Lucy Kerr | 72 mins | 2023
Deploying masterful Steadicam and ominous sound design, Kerr’s enigmatic and disquieting feature debut takes place one summer day on an idyllic estate in Texas. A large family gathers to take a group picture, only for the matriarch to disappear and the rest ... -
4 itemsLittle Joe Selects
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Published between 2010 and 2021, cult periodical par excellence "Little Joe" put a decidedly queer spin on the conversation surrounding cinema and its history. To accompany the publication of a new collection of some of the finest essays, stories, and interviews from throughout "Little Joe"’s his...
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10 itemsSean Price Williams Selects
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Acclaimed cinematographer (for the Safdie Brothers, Alex Ross Perry, and many others), director (of 2023’s "The Sweet East"), cinephile guru (his 1000 Movies, a list of all-time favorites, has been published by Metrograph Editions), and long-time video store clerk, Sean Price Williams has seen as...
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3 itemsÉric Rohmer x 3
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Éric Rohmer is a filmmaker for all seasons, but there’s a particular pleasure to Rohmer in the summertime. This isn’t just a matter of his films favoring the warm months—of the trio playing in our “Summer of Rohmer,” two could be called partly “summery,” though he scarcely limits himself to filmi...
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All the Colours of the World Are Between Black and White
Directed by Babatunde Apalowo | 93 mins | 2023
A tender, yearning city symphony that shows the quiet blossoming of romantic love between two men in a society—contemporary Nigeria—that spurns such attachments, Apalowo’s feature debut observes motorcycle courier Bambino (Tope Tedela) and photograph... -
Millennium Mambo
Directed by Hou Hsiao-hsien | 107 mins | 2001
A seductive submersion into the techno-scored neon nightlife of Taipei, Hou’s much-misunderstood marvel follows an aimless bar hostess drifting away from her blowhard boyfriend and towards a suave, sensitive gangster. A transfixing trance-out of a mov...
