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“Surreal and psychedelic...a counterculture gem!” - Jacob Burns Film Center Nothing else has ever looked or felt like director René Laloux’s animated marvel Fantastic Planet, a politically minded and visually inventive work of science fiction. The film is set on a distant…
“Ladies of Leisure was Barbara Stanwyck's first collaboration with Frank Capra, and boy, with every close-up he gives her through the lens of Joseph Walker's camera, you can practically feel Capra basically falling in love with her on the spot...Stanwyck exudes…
After winning a contest, Natalie Clark rides her free stationary bike daily, guided by her stunning and inspiring virtual instructor Lia Sterling. Natalie becomes infatuated with Lia and attempts to befriend the fitness mogul in real life. When Lia steps…
"Hilariously bizarre... like some lost masterpiece from a time-warped alternative dimension." - The Washington Post Arkadin favorite Guy Maddin’s early masterpiece takes place in a 19th-century Alpine village where the wary residents—adult, child and animal—must speak softly and tread lightly…
“Dreamy, epic, perilous and very beautiful” - The Washington Post A wondrous journey, through realms natural and mystical, Flow follows a courageous cat after his home is devastated by a great flood. Teaming up with a capybara, a lemur, a bird, and…
The dead return to life as sadistic bikers in the unhinged, outlaw British flick Psychomania (1973). A violent biker gang known as The Living Dead dabbles in black magic at The Seven Witches, a druid circle of seven standing stones in the…
“A brutal, bleak, grim and incredibly-directed horror film, not for the faint of heart.” - The Cinema Critic In rural Argentina, something strange is spreading among the townsfolk: a nameless ailment that drives its infected to commit extreme acts of violence…
In this "gloriously nuts Indonesian version of The Omen," a diamond mine is at the center of a power struggle between rival villagers Kosim and Dorman, who are the first ones to find it. Though both hope to win the…
It's that time of year again! Every August, Silents, Please! brings you a night packed full of silent cinema's great stone-faced clown, Buster Keaton. This year, we'll be celebrating Old Buster with some of his late-period treasures, along with one…
“One of the greatest of Japanese ghost stories, a horror film of elemental drive, social commentary, feminist rage, and visual grace.” - Sean Axmaker In this poetic and atmospheric horror fable, set in a village in war-torn medieval Japan, a…