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…
For this month’s mystery movie, Arkadin brings you a wonderfully deranged documentary — can a film be called a “documentary” when it’s full of nothing but woo-woo hokum? — that you’ll not soon forget. This uncut blast of psychotronic nuttery…
“A living, breathing nightmare committed to celluloid.” – Chris Alexander During a cricket match at an insane asylum between the patients and the local villagers, one of the inmates, Crossley (Alan Bates, in a tour-de-force performance of seething malevolence), tells…
“My films are for everyone. I include myself, for I believe that I am a part of, not apart from humanity; that nothing I may feel, think, perceive, experience, despise, desire, or despair of is really unknowable to any other…
Before we revisit the satirical majesty of Josie and the Pussycats, let’s raise a toast to girls, girls, girls! Girl groups, that is. Female musicians banding together to make a glorious noise. From the Spice Girls to The Supremes, The…
“A misunderstood masterpiece! A fiendishly clever satire ahead of its time an unabashedly feel-good gag-a-minute romp in which the power of pure friendship saves the day.” – Collider In this boldly satirical adaptation of the popular 70’s animated series (itself…
When ten-year-old Eric’s older brother Max drowns, Eric’s mother Briana, takes the death of her favorite son, especially hard and spirals into a dark depression. Eric, already haunted guilt over not saving Max and desperate for attention, begins spending time with the…
“Wow, this is one of the most thrilling discoveries in recent memory… kaleidoscopic cinematic poetry…beautifully sharp monochrome with ominous sounds. Estonian masterpiece. Leida Laius is one of best auteurs nobody knows.” – Tettyo0910, Letterboxd A tragically underseen gem of folk-tale…
“★★★★★ – Fun, scary, and suspenseful from start to finish.” -Cole Smithey Easily the tensest, twistiest, tastiest suspense film from the late-’80s/early-’90s domestic thriller boom, Philip Noyce’s DEAD CALM is a three-hander at sea, a sexy, dangerous shocker set amidst…
