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“THX 1138 feels like a hypnotic dreamscape, so luminously stark, from its white-on-white abstract sets to the wide-eyed, bald, near catatonic residents of this world.” -Washington Post A chilling exploration of the future is also a compelling examination of the present…
"What our nightmares have accustomed us to see in dreams, Stanley Kubrick's A Clockwork Orange shows us in broad daylight. It is one of the most unsettling films in the whole of cinema." -London Evening Standard Being the adventures of…
"THE LOBSTER is often startlingly funny in the way it proposes its surreal conceits, and then upsettingly grim in the way it follows through on them. It’s not quite that suicide, mutilation and murder are treated as jokes, but more…
"A stop-motion masterpiece over 7 years in the making...Stop what you’re doing and watch this beautiful passion project." -Polygon Produced over the course of seven years by self-taught filmmaker Takahide Hori, JUNK HEAD is a lovingly crafted, painstakingly animated stop-motion…
“A+. THE ANIMATRIX is a keeper! it reaches the excitement of Spirited Away...a joy for the animation fan to watch” -The Anime Guide From the creators of The Matrix, this groundbreaking collection of nine short films from seven of the…
“One of the greatest science fiction films of all time... a dazzling combination of radical political messaging, kick-ass action sequences and a brilliant premise.” -Rolling Stone The Wachowskis' mind-bending, bullet-dodging existentialist action movie posits that observable reality is really a…
“Taut, powerful... The Handmaid's Tale casts a spell, even as it spells out its dire warning.” -The Seattle Times Before it served as the basis of for the acclaimed Hulu series, Margaret Atwood's seminal feminist dystopian novel was controversially adapted…
“A cold, distant vision of the terrors that might result from a world without print... has a powerful emotional impact” -Richard Schickel, Time Ray Bradbury's best-selling science fiction masterpiece about a future without books takes on a chillingly realistic dimension…
“ONE OF THE GREATEST FILMS YOU’VE NEVER SEEN in an urban steampunk dystopia... sci-fi fantasy reinvents the language of film!” -Anton Bitel, BFI Writer/director Esteban Sapir offers a cautionary tale of media control in this highly stylized thriller that draws…
"One of the 1980s greatest sci-fi films—or greatest films, period." -Dennis Harvey Visually spectacular, intensely action-packed and powerfully prophetic since its debut, BLADE RUNNER is a masterpiece of sci-fi filmmaking and an hugely influential vision of a neon-noir dystopian future.…
“This influential vision of an overpopulated future has a horrific plausibility that's hard to shake off.” -Urban Cinefile SOYLENT GREEN is landmark screen science-fiction, a riveting entertainment and a cautionary tale that holds a mirror to a tomorrow rife with…
The first and perhaps still the most faithful adaptation of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry's classic novella, THE LITTLE PRINCE was a Soviet-Lithuanian production that captures the sparkling balance of melancholy and whimsy in this classic tale. This simple story tells of…
“Busy, boundless and brilliantly bonkers...a madcap Marxist adventure comedy!” -Irish Times Directed by The Coup's Boots Riley, SORRY TO BOTHER YOU is a contemporary satirical classic, a Marxist takedown of capitalist exploitation wrapped in a workplace comedy with a massive…
“One of the most misunderstood movies ever! A ruthlessly funny and keenly self-aware sendup of right-wing militarism” -The Atlantic From the bridge of the Fleet Battlestation Ticonderoga, with its sweeping galactic views, to the desolate terrain of planet Klendathu, teeming…
