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Ouroboros
Directed by Basma Alsharif | 77 mins | 2017
Shot in Gaza, Los Angeles, the Mojave Desert, and Brittany, Alsharif’s experimental “homage to the Gaza Strip”—her first film made with actors—is an elliptical, globe-trotting love story, a collection of beguiling reverse-motion imagery, and a tribute “... -
Summer at Sea
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Sand and surf provide a sun-kissed setting for characters to lose their worries, inhibitions, and sometimes minds in this summertime series of beach-related films. The collection spans tortured romances to campy beach romps to Brighton Beach memories, showing the tidal pull of the ocean for filmm...
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Visionary Auteurs: Five Decades of mk2
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Founded in 1974 by Bucharest-born Marin Karmitz, mk2 has through its 50 years been involved in the production, distribution, and exhibition of films by a line-up of directors that reads like a who’s who of French and international cinema, including Bruno Dumont, Gus Van Sant, Xavier Dolan, Samira...
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Family Portrait
Movie + 1 extra
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 ... -
Scala!!!
Movie
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...