One of the world’s great cinematic artists, Jafar Panahi has been carefully crafting self-reflexive works about artistic, personal, and political freedom for the past three decades, despite his oppression at the hands of the Iranian government. Now, as the international film community vehemently denounces his summer 2022 arrest and continued imprisonment for his vocal support […]
A collective of Palestinian and Israeli activist/filmmakers chronicle the Israeli military’s incremental expulsion of the West Bank community of Masafer Yatta — home to 20 ancient Palestinian villages — in this tightly focused, urgent documentary. Over a period of five years (2019–23), Masafer Yatta resident and Palestinian journalist Basel Adra shoots video of home, school, […]
Oscar-winning filmmaker Jordan Peele reimagines the summer movie with Nope, an expansive pop epic of uncanny science fiction. Following their father’s shocking death, Hollywood animal wrangler OJ (Daniel Kaluuya) and his sister Emerald (Keke Palmer) begin observing unexplained phenomena on their vast Southern California ranch that leads them down an obsessive rabbit hole as they […]
Inspired by true-events. Humble Quebec Securities Commission inspector and auditor Eric Asselin is mandated to monitor the activities of financial firm Norbourg. Seduced by the charm and audacity of Norbourg’s slick leader Vincent Lacroix, Asselin leaves his boring commission position and joins the lavish lifestyle as his right-hand man. Together they set up a fraudulent […]
STAFF PICKS – Miguel Morin (cafe-bar) A mixed media odyssey from prolific filmmaker Kōji Shiraishi, NOROI: THE CURSE examines the strange case of Masafumi Kobayashi—a paranormal researcher who disappeared while making a documentary about “ectoplasmic worms.” This is a twisting, turning Analog Horror project that alchemizes urban legends, supernatural hauntings, and true crime shocks into […]
New 4K Restoration Cary Grant teams with director Alfred Hitchcock for the fourth and final time in this superlative espionage caper. After Roger Thornhill, an innocent man, is mistaken for a wanted fugitive he is pursued across North America by a pair of espionage agents trying to kill him, as well as by police who […]
New 4K Restoration Andrei Tarkovsky explained that in Russian the word “nostalghia” conveys “the love for your homeland and the melancholy that arises from being far away.” This debilitating form of homesickness is embodied in the film by Andrei (Oleg Yankovsky, The Mirror), a Russian intellectual doing research in Italy. He becomes obsessed with the […]
New 4K Restoration In 1976, trailblazing director Martha Coolidge (Valley Girl, Rambling Rose) made her feature debut with the startling Not a Pretty Picture, a documentary-fiction hybrid that continues to raise provocative questions about sexual violence and the ethics of its on-screen representation. Coolidge based the film’s fictional sections on her rape at the age […]