“An absorbing portrait of an unfinished era.”
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“Picaresque, funny, cautionary and hugely enjoyable.” —Variety
Before Dirk Diggler, there was John C. Holmes, the legendary adult actor who turned “Johnny Wadd” into a franchise and himself into a myth. WADD: The Life & Times of John C. Holmes plunges into the heady 1970's and 1980's LA porn scene - the non-stop sex, the coke-fueled nights, the seedy characters, and the fatal orbit of club kingpin Eddie Nash that culminated in the Wonderland murders.
“Glisteningly atmospheric and elegantly non-linear.” —Variety
Featuring legendary Taiwanese actor Lee Kang-sheng, STRANGER EYES is a timely update to the surveillance thriller as a meditation on voyeurism in the digital age and the contradictory desires around being seen. Singaporean filmmaker Yeo Siew Hua’s latest feature “transmogrifies what looks at first like a creepy crime thriller into something much more tricksy, potent and ultimately puzzling, yet still rooted in recognizable human fragility,” (The Hollywood Reporter)
“An arthouse breakthrough for Switzerland's gifted Zürcher brothers.” —Variety
The latest film from acclaimed writer and director Ramon Zürcher (The Strange Little Cat, The Girl and The Spider), The Sparrow in the Chimney is a “darkly engrossing psychodrama of pent-up domestic tensions.” (Variety) With “deep, bold dives into the nightmarish and the surreal” and a venomously comedic touch, this is the “rare film that feels like a catharsis for protagonist and director both,” (The Film Stage).
“May be the best horror film of the year (in any language).” —Forbes
Across time and space, three unconnected women are bound together by an inescapable terror. Director Pedro Martín-Calero's THE WAILING is “an unsettling, cryptic and disturbing film… a powerful feature debut about violence against women, about all that feeds into it and causes it” (Cineuropa).
“Powerfully raw, ultra-realistic.” —Variety
Led by Lili Taylor, Bruklin Harris, Anna Grace and recent Academy Award-nominee Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor (KING RICHARD) and featuring energetic, all-female soundtrack featuring 1990s musical icons Queen Latifah, PJ Harvey, Roxanne Shante, Salt-N-Pepa, the newly restored award-winning Sundance indie, GIRLS TOWN, is one of the first films of its kind to frankly address sexual violence as women experience it.
“Funky, evocative....mesmerizes from start to finish” —The Contending
Petersen Vargas’s propulsive, erotic drama, SOME NIGHTS I FEEL LIKE WALKING, artfully utilizes a roadtrip structure to disguise what becomes “a beautiful rumination on the significance of chosen family in the queer community, and the lengths we sometimes have to go to to achieve it.” (Frameline)
“One of the most thoughtful, truthful and tactful depictions of the pandemic ever put to screen.” —The Wrap
From acclaimed director Lou Ye (Suzhou River, Summer Palace), AN UNFINISHED FILM combines fiction and documentary footage to create “an utterly unique and very important movie about Covid, the crisis that affected all of us.” (The Guardian).
“A feverish op-art dream that turns on us at every corner.” —Slant Magazine
An outrageous, rabble-rousing contribution to the Roman Porno redux series, ANTIPORNO is an expectation-defying, antic study in blighted eroticism, damaged psyches, and shifting power dynamics, set against outlandishly theatrical backdrops; “a feverish op-art dream that turns on us at every corner.” (Slant Magazine)
“Pleasures of the flesh and pains of the soul potently combine in AROUSED BY GYMNOPEDIES.” —Variety
A modern take on the “Roman Porno” genre from director Isao Yukisada, AROUSED BY GYMNOPEDIES is an “engaging and ultimately touching portrait of love, loneliness and loss of youth” (Variety).
“A stellar work of genius on every level” —Film Threat
Gritty, mean and intense from the get-go, TATSUMI recalls the explosive “true document” yakuza films of celebrated director Kinji Fukasaku while adding a fresh perspective to its violent proceedings.
“[A] taut, haunting character study.” —RogerEbert.com
Executive produced by Naomi Osaka and co-produced by Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne, Leonardo van Dijl's NYTimes Critic's Pick, JULIE KEEPS QUIET, is a "tense, absorbing movie of silences and absences... a gripping study in dysfunction and repression." (The Guardian)
“Truly impressive...the shocking ending, conclud[es] the movie in outstanding fashion.” —Asian Movie Pulse
After his wife dies, Joe struggles to raise his now non-verbal daughter Sophia on his own in the Malaysian countryside. Desperate for work Joe finds a job as a handyman for a mysterious woman who claims she can help Sophia speak again. But as her unorthodox treatment progresses, Joe and Sophia begin experiencing terrifying visions that threaten their grip on reality.