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Raising Victor Vargas
Movie
Directed by Peter Sollett • 2002 • United States
Starring Victor Rasuk, Judy Marte, Melonie DiazVividly set amid New York City’s Dominican community, this warm, naturalistic slice-of-life is one of the brightest gems of early-2000s American independent cinema. Growing up on the Lower East Side,...
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Between the Lines
Movie + 1 extra
Directed by Joan Micklin Silver • 1977 • United States
Starring John Heard, Lindsay Crouse, Jeff GoldblumInspired by director Joan Micklin Silver’s time working at New York’s storied alt weekly the “Village Voice,” this unsung gem of 1970s slice-of-life seriocomedy offers an incisive, bitterswe...
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Eternity’s Pillar
1 season
Throughout the mid-1980s, viewers tuning in late at night to Los Angeles’s KTTV Channel 11 could catch a broadcast unlike any other: ETERNITY’S PILLAR, a journey through the astral plane created and hosted by jazz visionary and spiritual guru Alice Coltrane Turiyasangitananda. Blending music, med...
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Drylongso
Movie + 8 extras
Directed by Cauleen Smith • 1998 • United States
Starring Toby Smith, April Barnett, Will PowerA rediscovered treasure of 1990s DIY filmmaking, Cauleen Smith’s DRYLONGSO embeds an incisive look at racial injustice within a lovingly handmade buddy movie/murder mystery/romance. Alarmed by the rat...
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Say Anything . . .
Movie
Directed by Cameron Crowe • 1989 • United States
Starring John Cusack, Ione Skye, John MahoneyCameron Crowe made his auspicious directorial debut with this beloved teenage romantic comedy, which breathed new life into the high-school movie with its refreshingly authentic characters and irresist...
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THX 1138
Movie
Directed by George Lucas • 1971 • United States
Starring Robert Duvall, Donald Pleasence, Don Pedro ColleyBefore STAR WARS, director George Lucas created this haunting vision of the future starring Academy Award winner Robert Duvall. In the twenty-fifth century, humans exist in a computer-contr...
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Singles
Movie
Directed by Cameron Crowe • 1992 • United States
Starring Bridget Fonda, Campbell Scott, Kyra SedgwickSix young Seattle urbanites just starting their lives—with bills to pay, budding careers, heightened social awareness, and restless hearts—share their dreams, their music, and the common courty...
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Hale County This Morning, This Evening
Movie
Directed by RaMell Ross • 2018 • United States
Starring Quincy Bryant, Daniel CollinsAn inspired and intimate portrait of a place and its people, RaMell Ross’s HALE COUNTY THIS MORNING, THIS EVENING looks at the lives of Daniel Collins and Quincy Bryant, two young African American men from rura...
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The Childhood of a Leader
Movie
Directed by Brady Corbet • 2015 • United States, United Kingdom, Hungary
Starring Robert Pattinson, Bérénice Bejo, Liam CunninghamA child’s angelic face conceals a budding sociopath in the audacious, senses- shattering feature debut from actor-turned-filmmaker Brady Corbet (THE BRUTALIST). A po...
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Desperate Living
Movie
Directed by John Waters • 1977 • United States
Starring Liz Renay, Mink Stole, Susan LoweDescribed by John Waters as “a lesbian melodrama about revolution,” the third installment in the director’s Trash Trilogy, following FEMALE TROUBLE and PINK FLAMINGOS, is a demented fairy tale wherein a scr...
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Donnie Darko
Movie
Directed by Richard Kelly • 2001 • United States
Starring Jake Gyllenhaal, Jena Malone, James DuvalDescribed by director Richard Kelly as “‘The Catcher in the Rye’ as told by Philip K. Dick,” this cult classic is a mind-altering experience whose metaphysical enigmas are still being unraveled. T...
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Out of the Blue
Movie + 2 extras
Directed by Dennis Hopper • 1980 • United States
Starring Linda Manz, Dennis Hopper, Sharon FarrellDennis Hopper’s hurricane-force domestic tragedy is the ’80s answer to EASY RIDER, following troubled youth subculture to its frightening, screaming, self-annihilating extreme. Just out of prison ...
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The Linguini Incident
Movie
Directed by Richard Shepard • 1991 • United States
Starring David Bowie, Rosanna Arquette, Marlee MatlinA brilliantly bizarro, lost-and-found gem of early-1990s independent cinema, this surreal screwball caper casts none other than David Bowie and Rosanna Arquette as Monte and Lucy, a pair of s...
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Heathers
Movie
Directed by Michael Lehmann • 1988 • United States
Starring Winona Ryder, Christian Slater, Kim WalkerThe ’80s teen comedy gets a deliciously warped and wicked twist in this acidic, ultraquotable cult classic. In one of her definitive roles, Winona Ryder stars as Veronica Sawyer, who becomes pa...
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Queen of Earth
Movie
Directed by Alex Ross Perry • 2015 • United States
Starring Elisabeth Moss, Katherine Waterston, Kentucker AudleyElisabeth Moss delivers a fearless performance in this tour-de-force portrait of psychological breakdown directed by her frequent collaborator Alex Ross Perry. She stars as Catherine...
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Blaze
Movie
Directed by Ethan Hawke • 2018 • United States
Starring Ben Dickey, Alia Shawkat, Josh HamiltonHe was the greatest country singer you’ve (probably) never heard of: a genius, a loser, a philosopher, a drunk, a poet, a rebel, and a ramblin’ man who lived each day of his too-short life on his own ...
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Fear City
Movie
Directed by Abel Ferrara • 1984 • United States
Starring Tom Berenger, Melanie Griffith, Billy Dee WilliamsCult auteur Abel Ferrara offers a bracing plunge into the sordid neon underbelly of 1980s Times Square in this stylishly pulpy neonoir sleazefest. There’s a psychopath loose on the streets...
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Nowhere
Movie + 2 extras
Directed by Gregg Araki • 1997 • United States
Starring James Duval, Rachel True, Nathan BextonYou can practically smell the pheromones wafting off this kaleidoscopic odyssey, which finds director Gregg Araki crossing soap-operatic elements with blasts of science fiction, indie-kid cool, and sh...
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Girlfight
Movie + 4 extras
Directed by Karyn Kusama • 2000 • United States
Starring Michelle Rodriguez, Jaime Tirelli, Paul CalderonBullied by her father at home and feeling adrift at school, Diana Guzman (Michelle Rodriguez) finds refuge in an unexpected pocket of her native Brooklyn—a timeworn boxing gym, where she lea...
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Melvin Goes to Dinner
Movie
Directed by Bob Odenkirk • 2003 • United States
Starring Michael Blieden, Stephanie Courtney, Matt PricePerhaps the finest conversation movie this side of MY DINNER WITH ANDRÉ, Bob Odenkirk’s directorial debut invites you along for a stimulating evening of hilarious, engrossing, and disarmingly...
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Vengeance Is Mine
Movie
Directed by Michael Roemer • 1984 • United States
Starring Brooke Adams, Jon DeVries, Ari MeyersLike director Michael Roemer’s prior features—the powerful civil-rights-era landmark NOTHING BUT A MAN and the offbeat mob comedy THE PLOT AGAINST HARRY—this continuously surprising, cuttingly incisi...
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The World’s Greatest Sinner
Movie
Directed by Timothy Carey • 1962 • United States
Starring Timothy Carey, Gil Barreto, Betty RowlandTimothy Carey—the unforgettable character actor whose weird, wiggy energy brought a manic edge to classics like THE KILLING and PATHS OF GLORY—wrote, produced, directed, and starred in this outrag...
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Regrouping
Movie
Directed by Lizzie Borden • 1976 • United States
Starring Kathryn Bigelow, Ariel Bock, Marion CajoriWhile Lizzie Borden’s features BORN IN FAMES and WORKING GIRLS have taken their place as landmarks of feminist cinema, her debut—the fascinating experimental documentary REGROUPING—has gone large...
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Frances Ha
Movie + 3 extras
Directed by Noah Baumbach • 2013 • United States
Starring Greta Gerwig, Mickey SumnerGreta Gerwig is radiant as Frances, a woman in her late twenties in contemporary New York trying to sort out her ambitions, her finances, and, above all, her intimate but shifting bond with her best friend, Sop...