“An absorbing portrait of an unfinished era.”
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“[A] fabulously lush film.” —Japan on Film
Set around the turn of the twentieth century in Tokyo’s red light district Yoshiwara, master director Hideo Gosha continued his 1980’s focus on tenacious women with this mesmerizing chronicle of steadfast sex workers. Bolstered by gorgeous production design and an incredible ensemble cast, Gosha brings his brash and bold style to this “fabulously lush film." (Japan on Film)
“A great gangster epic, possessing tragic dimension as well as scope and passion.” —Los Angeles Times
Acclaimed genre auteur Hideo Gosha (Samurai Wolf, Violent Streets, Tokyo Bordello) broke new ground with this sophisticated tale of an uber-fierce yakuza boss as seen through the eyes of his resilient adopted daughter. Adapting a hit novel Gosha juxtaposed the fiery machismo of his roughneck antihero, played with savage intensity by the brilliant Tatsuya Nakadai, against the strong and often wily women in his life.
“A tender treasure of a film.” —Lukas Dhont (Director of CLOSE)
“A gentle, unassuming film about the pain and misdirection that can arise from young love,” (RogerEbert.com), Hiroshi Okuyama’s sophomore feature MY SUNSHINE is a heartwarming coming of age drama buoyed by its picturesque cinematography and beautiful score.
“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).