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“ONE OF THE MOST BRUTAL, SICK, UNPLEASANT, AND STOMACH-CHURNING FILMS TO BE MADE. That it is artfully shot, well-acted, philosophically poignant, and mannered only seems to add to the discomfort levels. There are no films like this one, and, should…
This screening is sold out. “A horror film that will haunt your waking hours for weeks. Every frame of It Follows is stamped with nameless dread.” -Total Film After a devastatingly bad date, suburban everyteen Jay finds herself trapped in a race…
"This is Pasolini via early John Waters, including a lengthy scene of joyous coprophagia... Shit-eating aside, the sex acts are unsimulated, with a Christ-shaped dildo memorably venturing where angels fear to tread, and plenty of bondage and threesomes and so…
"Provocative, highly controversial...arguably most finely wrought work. It brings together politics, sexuality, society, art, and the irredeemable inauthenticity of bourgeois life." -Guardian With Teorema (a.k.a. Theorem), a coolly cryptic exploration of bourgeois spiritual emptiness, Pier Paolo Pasolini moved beyond the poetic, proletarian…
"This is Pasolini via early John Waters, including a lengthy scene of joyous coprophagia... Shit-eating aside, the sex acts are unsimulated, with a Christ-shaped dildo memorably venturing where angels fear to tread, and plenty of bondage and threesomes and so…
"Aggressive, confrontational, and scolding...punishes the audience for its casual bloodlust by giving it all the sickening torture and mayhem it could possibly desire.” -Scott Tobias, The AV Club Michael Haneke, the austere Austrian, takes on America with an English language…
The first annual Amateur Movie Day is an international event dedicated to promoting nonprofessional filmmaking preserved by archives and collectors. Before YouTube, user generated content, and fan films, enthusiastic if self-trained filmmakers were working with friends and by themselves to…
“Haunting, beauteous... meditates on mankind's place in the cosmos, the wonders of God, and the timeless immanence of evil.” -The New York Times This mesmeric parable of societal collapse is an enigma of transcendent visual, philosophical, and mystical resonance. Adapted…
“The best Leprechaun movie...elevates bad movies into an art form” -Variety Arkadin continues its annual tradition of defiling St. Patty's Day with some bloody Leprechaun action! After bringing you a double feature of the OG and second entries in 2023…
“The most beautiful and terrible film — sublime visually — beyond all experience, beyond all hope.” - Thea Porter It’s been called “harrowing” (The Guardian), “seriously disturbing” (Blu-ray.com) and “part documentary, part primal scream” (Screen Slate). More than half a century later, it remains…