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In this freewheeling comedy, medical transport driver Vic risks his job to shuttle a group of rowdy seniors and a Russian boxer to a funeral, dragging clients like Tracy, a young woman with ALS, along for the ride.Read More »

Gliding through a somnolent suburbia, Tyler Taormina’s hypnotic follow-up to Ham on Rye captures the unexpected magic and surprise interactions of the witching hour. In this Long Island lullaby, filmed during lockdown, skaters soar and lovers slink into the dark, keyed in to the rhythm of the night.Read More »

The video is edited from conversations I recorded in Texas last year with a young Army sergeant who was waiting to return for his second tour in Iraq. Over several days, he told me two different stories and I chopped them up and braided them together into one. The first story takes place in Bavaria and involves a date with a German girl who’s into speed and self-mutilation.Read More »

Vampire Count Orlok expresses interest in a new residence and real estate agent Hutter’s wife.Read More »

A ‘salt of the Earth’ Missouri woman on vacation in Paris slowly gives in to the advances of a pushy–and very much married–French yuppie. Will their unconventional romance last until September, when she must return home?Read More »

Synopsis:
After months of living a solitary existence, Lenny, 34, picks up his kids from school. Every year he spends a couple of weeks with his sons Sage, 9, and Frey, 7. Lenny hosts his kids within a midtown studio apartment in New York. During these two weeks, he must figure out if he wants to act as their father or be their friend. Ultimately, their trip upstate results in complete lawlessness taking over their lives.Read More »

Yerba Buena Center for the Arts writes:
Art Carney won the Best Actor Academy Award for his touching performance in this rarely-screened drama with a mellow 70s vibe. Carney plays Harry, a feisty Manhattan widower who gets evicted from his tiny apartment. Accompanied by beloved cat Tonto, Harry sets out on a long odyssey to Los Angeles, looking for a new beginning and a place to belong.Read More »

Bleak, dark psychological drama set during the tail end of the Korean War. The film won an “out of competition” award at Cannes in May of 1961 but was held from US release for almost three years because of its controversial and what was claimed by some to be anti-American content. It was finally released in the US after Audie Murphy filmed a prologue explaining that the film told the story of one soldier and one platoon. Murphy grew up near Dallas and The Texas Theatre screened War Is Hell. On November 22, 1963, Lee Harvey Oswald walked into the screening a few minutes after the film started and was “removed” by The Dallas Police Department a few minutes later. United Artists released the second James Bond film, From Russia with Love, with War Is Hell as the second feature of a double bill in the US on May 27, 1964.Read More »

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A doctor spins an ever-growing web of lies after a taste of the excitement that he was missing in his conventional life, thanks to a chance meeting with a nightclub singer.Read More »