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42 Grams

Documentary · Food & Wine

Chef Jake Bickelhaupt goes from running an illegal restaurant in his home to being a culinary celebrity in less than a year.

The Bloody Brood

Cult · Horror

Two years before directing the 3-D cult favorite The Mask (1961), Julian Roffman made his feature directorial debut with this early canuxploitation film, The Bloody Brood (1959).

The Cheat

Silent

A society woman falls victim to a Burmese ivory trader (Sessue Hayakawa) who intends to brand her for his own. A visually powerful today as when it was made. U.S. 1915. 59 min. B/W.

The Comeback

Cult · Horror · Thriller

Pop star Jack Jones (best remembered for the theme from The Love Boat) plays a singer who is haunted by the death of his estranged wife, and led into a confrontation with the killer, in THE COMEBACK. A sleek and entertaining slasher film from director Pete Walker, it is a bloody illustration of the …

The Connection

Drama · Jazz

In a downtown loft, a group of junkies gather to wait for their connection... while a clueless documentarian attempts to film them. Clarke's film was banned on release and remains powerful and transgressive.

Girl Gang

Cult · Drama · Crime

By the late 1940s, exploitation producers such as George Weiss (Test Tube Babies, Glen or Glenda?) drifted away from the pseudo-educational framework of the genre and began producing risqué crime melodramas. No films better represent the “mainstreaming” of exploitation than GIRL G…

Girl on a Motorcycle

Culture · Youth Film · Romance

A wildly sexy time capsule from the swinging sixties, THE GIRL ON A MOTORCYCLE (1968) stars Alain Delon (Le samoura) and Marianne Faithfull—two actors at the height of their impressive cool—as lovers with a taste for the open road.

The Haunted Castle (Restored Authorized Edition)

Horror · Silent

Before plumbing the depths of horror and despair with such films as Faust and The Last Laugh, Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau tested the waters with this moody drama of a storm-bound manor and the grim mystery that lurks within.

I Am Chris Farley

Documentary · Biography

Chris Farley lived his life full speed and committed to make everyone around him laugh out loud. His hilarious, touching and wildly entertaining story - from his early days in Madison, Wisconsin, through his work at the legendary Second City to his rapid rise to the top of the comedy world on &ldquo…

The Long Goodbye

Crime · Thriller

Elliott Gould (Busting) gives one of his best performances as a quirky, mischievous Philip Marlowe in Robert Altman's (Thieves Like Us) fascinating and original send-up of Raymond Chandler's classic detective story.

Millennium Mambo

Cannes Film Festival

A stylish and seductive submersion into the techno-scored neon nightlife of Taipei, Hou’s much-misunderstood marvel stars Shu Qi (The Assassin) as an aimless bar hostess drifting away from her blowhard boyfriend and towards Jack Kao’s suave, sensitive gangster. Structured as a flashback …

Primitive London

Cult · Documentary · Culture

An outrageous jolt of British exploitation, PRIMITIVE?LONDON (1965) is an exposé of the hidden desires and bizarre vices that percolate behind the exterior of English life.

The Quare Fellow

Drama · Culture · World Cinema

Legendary Irish playwright Brendan Behan's insider's look at life on death row is a film "studded with gem-like performances" (Hollywood Reporter) that packs "a harsh Irish eloquence and a brutal dramatic punch" (New York Times).

The Queen

Cannes Film Festival · LGBTQ · Documentary

More than 40 years before RuPaul's Drag Race, this ground-breaking documentary about the 1967 Miss All-American Camp Beauty Pageant introduced audiences to the world of competitive drag, as well as LGBTQ icons Flawless Sabrina and Crystal LaBeija.

Rude Boy

Drama · Music

Set against a background of riots, anti-racist demos, and police hostility, this unforgettable film portraits the UK at a moment when subcultural shock troops met those of a rising right wing in the streets. Merging documentary and fiction, Rude Boy follows a roadie for The Clash—the most fier…

Scavenger Hunt

Comedy

It’s a mad, mad mob of maniacs in a wild and hilarious $200,000,000 winner-takes-all Scavenger Hunt! The nutty and newly-departed millionaire’s will was specific: his fifteen would-be heirs are to participate in a highly-unusual Scavenger Hunt and whoever finds all the items first, wins …

Shoes

Drama · Silent

In Lois Weber's feminist masterpiece, teenaged shopgirl Eva is on her feet all day to support her family. As the soles of her boots disintegrate, her desperation grows.

The Trap Door

A Nietzschian parable on the fate of innocence, The Trap Door follows the mishaps of Jeremy (John Ahearn) as he is fired by his boss (Jenny Holzer), gets laughed out of court by Judge Gary Indiana, loses his girlfriend to sleazy Richard Prince, is hustled by prospective employer (Bill Rice) and maul…

Tierney Gearon: The Mother Project

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Winnebago Man

Documentary · Comedy

A search for the legendary RV salesman whose hilarious, foul-mouthed outbursts were caught on video and became an online phenomenon. Winnebago Man is a laugh-out-loud look at viral culture and an unexpectedly poignant tale of one man's response to unintended fame.