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In this comedy drama, a butler and a crap-shooting chauffeur find themselves having the run of their employer’s mansion after he goes on a ten-day vacation. They decide to avail themselves of their master’s luxuries and soon find themselves in over their heads.Read More »
Art Spiegelman’s Pulitzer Prize-winning graphic novel MAUS is a landmark in reckoning with the Holocaust and breakthrough in serious comic art — but his full achievements are more remarkable and eclectic. Winner of the Grand Jury Prize at DOC NYC 2024, ART SPIEGELMAN: DISASTER IS MY MUSE provides intimate access to the man and mind who revolutionized the art form of comics. Spiegelman proves an eloquent guide through his provocative work, along with contemporaries and younger cartoonists inspired by Spiegelman’s unflinching confrontation of personally traumatic themes.Read More »
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A documentary Jerry Lewis’ unreleased Holocaust film The Day the Clown Cried, and features never-before-seen footage of the legendary lost film.Read More »
Spurred by a provocative family memory and a lifetime of separation from the country her mother left behind, a young filmmaker delves into her mother and grandmother’s complicated pasts and her own fractured Iranian identity.Read More »
College students’ disturbing actions on Halloween night lead to extreme consequences at a sorority house, revealed through leaked evidence showing a series of horrific events.Read More »
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From 1978 to 1982 Glenn O’Brien hosted an insane punk rock New York City cable TV show called TV Party. Co-hosted by Chris Stein, from Blondie, and directed by filmmaker Amos Poe, the hour long show took television where it had never gone before: to the edge of civility and “sub-realism” as Glenn would put it. Walter Stedin and his band provided a musical accompaniment to the madness at hand, and many artists and musicians, from Jean-Michael Basquiat to David Byrne to Arto Lindsay were regular guests. It was the cocktail party that could be a political party.Read More »
When she agrees to pose nude in a prominent men’s magazine, beautiful nurse Jackie (Jaime Lyn Bauer) couldn’t possibly have predicted that she’d attract the unwelcome attention of madman with two things: bloodlust and a straight razor. Before long, other babes who’ve bared it all in the magazine become the deranged killer’s next targets. Can anyone stop him before he slays all the centerfolds? John Peyser directs this classic exploitation film.Read More »
Art and activism collide in this empowering documentary, which examines the injustices of America’s prison-industrial complex and the power of house music as a catalyst for human connection, transformation, and liberation. A collaboration between filmmaker Phil Collins and the Black, Latino, and queer artists, activists, and formerly incarcerated people who, in 2018, created a temporary space in downtown Manhattan that served as both a hub for prison-abolition organizing and a venue for exhilarating dance parties, BRING DOWN THE WALLS proposes a vision of social justice in which collective action and communal celebration are inextricably entwined.Read More »
A chambermaid impersonates the fictional subject of a composite photo that won a beauty contest, with whom a famed aviator falls in love.Read More »