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Quadrant helmet transports users’ minds into nightmarish AI worlds. A girl becomes Jack the Ripper, unleashing terror in virtual London and reality. A vicious killer enters the Quadrant-verse to stop her in a brutal battle across worlds.Read More »

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Norman Mailer’s first feature filmmaking effort stars the director and his two longtime collaborators Buzz Farbar and Mickey Knox as a trio of gangsters holed up in a ramshackle New York apartment, drinking, braying, and fighting. Mailer once claimed that he viewed making movies as “free psychoanalysis,” and this bristly, stripped-down experiment in improvisation shows a filmmaker baring himself for all to see.Read More »

Pine Barrens is concerned with evoking through film a barren wilderness in south-central New Jersey. The camera is always in motion — tracking, pivoting, and walking through the landscape. Though they are never seen in the film, the voices of the local people, the ‘Pineys,’ are heard relating their feelings about the land, their attitudes about city life, their myths of the area, etc. their voices and the music of ‘Bill Patton’s Pine Barrens Trio’ add a psychological dimension to the landscape.Read More »

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A recently-released convict, yearning for the solitude of his forest cabin, instead has the misfortune of encountering his old flame, a mysterious woman, and her belligerent boyfriend.Read More »

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Ornette: Made In America captures Ornette Coleman’s evolution over three decades. Returning home to Fort Worth, Texas in 1983 as a famed performer and composer, documentary footage, dramatic scenes and some of the first music video-style segments ever made, chronicle his boyhood in segregated Texas and his subsequent emergence as an American cultural pioneer and world-class icon. Among those who contribute to the film include William Burroughs, Brion Gysin, Buckminster Fuller, Don Cherry, Yoko Ono, Charlie Haden, Robert Palmer, Jayne Cortez and John Rockwell.Read More »

A film shot over during a two-night performance by Neil Young at Nashville’s Ryman Auditorium.Read More »

About the obscure country-blues musician and idiosyncratic visual artist Howard “Louie Bluie” Armstrong, member of the last known black string band in America.Read More »

Released after years as a political prisoner, a Cuban rejoins his wife and daughter in Miami.Read More »

An Italian racketeer on the run in London holes up in a disused theatre with a hard-drinking journalist out to get the full story.Read More »