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AFTER 11 years of marriage, Charlie Smith (Jack Nicholson) is fed up with living in a dreary trailer with his pretty, bubble-brained, Texas-born wife, Marcy (Valerie Perrine), and with his job as a member of the United States Border Patrol stationed in Los Angeles. During the day, Charlie makes token arrests of docile, mostly frightened, illegal Mexican immigrants, who supply L.A.’s small businesses with below-minimum-wage labor, and then goes home to drink beer and listen to Marcy, who dreams of living in splendor in her very own duplex.Read More »

The Volcano Manifesto brings together three recent films—My Caldera (2022), Mines to Caves (2023), and The Deep West Assembly (2024)—in an astonishingly ambitious, densely woven meditation on geological and cinematic time.Read More »

Goodbye Horses: The Many Lives of Q Lazzarus is a gift to biographical independent cinema and the women’s movement plus the cause for diversity and community. It’s truly a global music film on top of being a story of one person or many- her family, friends, her colleagues, the director plays a part- oh- It’s fresh in my mind but honestly it’s such a wild experience which spans the 20th and 21st centuries and there is so much music and pathos packed into it. I would simply say that each part or scene tells a unique story and then all fit together and form a sensible narrative that makes a compelling portrait of someone we just discovered.Read More »

Something bad happened to Agnes. But life goes on – for everyone around her, at least.Read More »

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Prometheus, on an Odyssean journey, crosses the Brooklyn Bridge in search of the characters of his imagination. After meeting the Muse, he proceeds to the “forest.” There, under an apple tree, he communes with his selves, represented by celebrated personages from the New York “underground scene” who appear as modern correlatives to the figures of Greek mythology. The filmmaker, who narrates the situations with a translation of Aeschylus’ Prometheus Bound , finds the personalities of his characters to have a timeless universality.Read More »

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“We’ve met before, haven’t we?” A mesmerizing meditation on the mysterious nature of identity, Lost Highway, David Lynch’s seventh feature film, is one of the filmmaker’s most potent cinematic dreamscapes. Starring Patricia Arquette and Bill Pullman, the film expands the horizons of the medium, taking its audience on a journey through the unknown and the unknowable. As this postmodern noir detours into the realm of science fiction, it becomes apparent that the only certainty is uncertainty.Read More »

Experimental film consisting of images of young women handling automatic handguns and rifles.Read More »

Brooklyn plumbers Mario and Luigi (the Mario Bros) get the shock of their lives when they discover a parallel world populated by the intelligent descendants of dinosaurs. It seems they weren’t destroyed by a meteor millions of years ago but hurled into another dimension and, now, the evil King Koopa has plans to rule our world. It’s up to our unlikely heroes to battle Koopa and his Goomba guards, free the plucky archaeologist Princess Daisy and save mankind in this adventure of a lifetime.Read More »

‘Horoscope’ is one of the short movies made by underground filmmaker Richard Kern. All of Kern’s movies are unusual: intentionally transgressive, and often violent. But ‘Horoscope’ is unusual by Kern’s standards because it’s LESS unusual than usual, for him. There’s very little transgression, and the mood is (by Kern’s standards) sweet-natured. Typically, Kern’s eroticises the female body: on the rare occasions when his films feature erotic male images (as in ‘Submit to Me’), those images are usually briefer and less intense than female-centred images in the same film. ‘Horoscope’, unusually (perhaps uniquely) for Kern, features more male than female nudity.Read More »