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Children and parents. In New York City, Stephen and Danny live well: they’re smooth, cool, in love, and good at what they do. Stephen’s Midwestern parents pay them a surprise visit. Meanwhile, Jenny and Matt tell their parents they are engaged: Matt’s parents, Midwestern paramilitary fanatics, take it as a sign to gather their group to invade New York. Jenny’s father is the local Mob boss who employs Stephen and Danny as enforcers. He’s unhappy that Jenny is marrying someone who is neither Sicilian nor Catholic. Stephen’s parents know he’s gay, they just don’t know what his job is. Here come the parents; will the children survive? All roads lead to the engagement party.Read More »

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Documentary about the 25th and last bombing mission of a B17, the “Memphis Belle”. The “Memphis Belle” took part in a great bombing raid on sub-pens in Wilhelmshafen, Germany. On their way they encounterd heavy AA fire and interceptors.Read More »

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This is a BR rip of Gregg Araki’s latest film, his follow up to the great Mysterious Skin (2004), which was probably the best (and best reviewed) film of Araki’s career, after an uneven run of making strange, campy, low-budget films such as The Doom Generation (1995) and Nowhere (1997). Now Araki does something completely different, creating the indie answer to mainstream “pot comedies” such as Harold and Kumar Go To White Castle and the Cheech and Chong films. Read More »

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If you have ever wanted to know what it feels like to be a hormonal 14-year-old boy with homosexual leanings, this puts you there. Loosely composed of tender narrative episodes and hallucinatory waking dreamscapes, it follows Logan, an androgynous California loner whose head is perpetually in the clouds. Much of the time our heads are in the clouds with him, following his fevered masturbatory fantasies, his obsession with mountain lions and his tentative friendship with an older boy named Rodeo. An element of jeopardy creeps in when Logan tries to engage Rodeo on a sexual level by calling him for phone sex in the guise of a woman.Read More »

A three part archival film documentary that traces the evolution of African American dance. Pt. 1: First half of the 20th Century; Pt. 2: Savoy Ballroom of Harlem; Pt. 3: Postwar era.

“The Spirit Moves”: Rescuing the Essence of DanceRead More »

When Fred Staples is recruited onto the board of a high-powered New York corporation, he finds his ethics and ambition at odds.Read More »

One of Will’s most complex films in terms of its visual choreography and editing.
Abstract visual poem celebrating the freedom of bodies moving through water. A filmmaker unconcerned with plot films the practice of an olympic swimming team and creates a visually stunning work.Read More »

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Inspired by the first-person documentaries of Ross McElwee, DEAR JESSE is gay filmmaker Tim Kirkman’s filmed “letter” to the notoriously anti-gay Senator Jesse Helms. Shot during the 1996 senatorial campaign, the film features interviews with opponents and supporters, as well as writers Allan Gurganus and Lee Smith. The film also features a brief interview with Matthew Shepard, the young man whose murder in Laramie, Wyoming, called attention to antigay violence.Read More »

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For over 100 years, Hollywood cinema has crafted the ultimate “villain”-the Indian, as they were labeled in early Westerns. Confined almost exclusively to this genre, the Western became a vehicle for American racism, obscuring the genocide upon which the United States was built. For more than four decades, these films glorified “Manifest Destiny” and the conquest of so-called “wild” lands, with little regard for those who stood in the way. It wasn’t until the Vietnam War, the civil rights movement, and the protest movements of the 1960s and 1970s that a shift occurred. A new wave of films, such as Little Big Man and Soldier Blue, emerged, offering more authentic portrayals of Native Americans and acknowledging the horrific massacres they endured.Read More »