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“A bizarre masterpiece that invents a brilliantly skewed perspective and sustains it for a nearly impossible 117 minutes.” –Combustible Celluloid It is 1971, and journalist Raoul Duke barrels toward Las Vegas—accompanied by a trunkful of contraband and his slightly unhinged Samoan attorney, Dr.…
“Deserves to be appreciated as a subversive classic” –Collider In 1974, Tobe Hooper quite literally changed the face of horror with his landmark film The Texas Chain Saw Massacre. Although the hulking Leatherface and his trusty power tool left an…
"3 WOMEN is an intense psychological drama laced with satire... a mind-blowing screen achievement." -The Barb Though perhaps best known for her work in The Shining and Popeye, Shelley Duvall's greatest, most unnerving performance can be found in Robert Altman's…
"A bizarre head-trip festival of occult psychedelia, heatstroke visuals, Age-of-Aquarius nude dancing and violence through poster-paint fake blood splattered about the place." –Peter Bradshaw, Guardian It was the landmark cult film that began the whole Midnight Movie phenomena of the…
“Perhaps the greatest road movie of all time!” –Collider Director George Miller's landmark and influential sci-fi actioner set in a bleak post-apocalyptic Australia became a cult hit and made Mel Gibson a global star. Gibson returns as burned-out adventurer Max…
"THE BEST FILM OF THE 21ST CENTURY... Daniel Day-Lewis gives perhaps the greatest, certainly the most exotic performance of his career... the movie perhaps looks even stranger, starker and more unforgiving now than when it was released in 2007." –Guardian A…
“This ecstatic panorama of furious visions and revolutionary dreams in the vast, violent landscape of rural Brazil...is one of the founding works of modern Brazilian cinema.” –Richard Brody, The New Yorker Glauber Rocha's sophomore feature is a scorched-earth allegory about…
This film is showing twice -- indoors at 7 pm and outdoors at 9 pm. Please select your preferred time when checking out. "Still the Coens’ masterpiece — their funniest movie, and quite possibly their most poignant as well… Once…
“Remains a masterpiece, a timeless contemplation of life's essential mystery and a triumph of bold, innovative style.” –Los Angeles Times One of the 1960s’ great international art-house sensations, Woman in the Dunes (Suna no onna) was for many the grand unveiling of…
"★★★★★ – Freaky and far-out, Michelangelo Antonioni’s fascinating and under-appreciated 1970 film Zabriskie Point mocked and critically patronised at the time... short of travelling by time machine, watching this film is the best way to visit the Los Angeles of…
"Like Terry Gilliam’s Brazil, Georgiy Daneliya’s 1986 film Kin-dza-dza! is, at bottom, biting social satire disguised as dystopian science fiction. Deploying unabashedly absurdist humor, both films decry the alienating effects of bureaucracy, abhor the arbitrary terrors imposed by an authoritarian regime, and exhibit…
As our month-long Lost in the Desert series cruises along, stop off in a dusty little nowhere town and settle in for some gut-wrenching violence in the sweltering Arizona heat. This underrated, underseen, and unclassifiable horror-thriller plays out like a…
"A rivetingly murderous game of cat and mouse that keeps you on the edge of your seat." –Time Out In Steven Spielberg's first full-length movie, Duel, a traveling salesman (Dennis Weaver) is harassed by a menacing 40-ton truck on a…
"Ridley Scott’s dust-caked rush of female empowerment is an absolute thrill, thanks to engrossing performances from Susan Sarandon and Geena Davis, and a sparkling debut script from Callie Khouri." –Times (UK) Two women, a turquoise Thunderbird, the ride of a…
