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April 18

Sinners

Trying to leave their troubled lives behind, twin brothers (played by Michael B. Jordan) return to their hometown in 1932 to start again, only to discover that an even greater evil is waiting to welcome them back.
posted by kitten kaboodle at 7:49 PM - 38 comments

The Amateur

A CIA cryptographer manages to blackmail his agency into training him to let him go after a group of terrorists who killed his wife.
posted by TheophileEscargot at 9:02 AM - 3 comments

Bring Them Down

An Irish shepherding family thrust into battle on several fronts: internal strife, hostility within the family, rivalry with another farmer. Paternalism, heritage, and the generational trauma cycle through the cultural prism of Ir... [more inside]
posted by ftm at 6:47 AM - 0 comments

April 17

Four Sided Triangle

[TRAILER] Two brilliant scientists unlock the secret to duplicating life, only to find their actions have deadly consequences. When they use their invention to clone the woman they both love, a dangerous love triangle ensues. An early sci-fi/horror thriller from Hammer Film Productions. [more inside]
posted by DirtyOldTown at 11:24 AM - 2 comments

April 16

Brewster McCloud

An introverted loner living in the bowels of the Astrodome plots to develop - with the aid of a mysterious guardian angel - a pair of wings that will help him fly. [more inside]
posted by Lemkin at 5:42 PM - 6 comments

Mädchen in Uniform

An early (but definitely not the first) and explicit lesbian romance, between a 14-year-old girl and her kind teacher at an all-girl boarding school. With an all-woman cast, it’s natural, modern, absorbing and sensual. The film was an international success in 1931, and was later banned by Joseph Goebbels and the Nazis. 9/10. [more inside]
posted by growabrain at 1:34 AM - 1 comment

Feathers

An award-winning debut feature by young Egyptian film-maker Omar El Zohairy, a bizarre and miraculous story like no other I’ve ever seen, not even by Michael Haneke or Yorgos Lanthimos. The trailer. [more inside]
posted by growabrain at 12:58 AM - 1 comment

April 14

Fat City

[TRAILER] Washed-up boxer Tully (Stacy Keach) is inspired to restart his career after seeing potential in a teenager, Ernie (Jeff Bridges), whom he spars with at a gym. While Tully battles his past demons, including issues with alcohol, Ernie faces his own challenges. Pressured into marriage and sudden fatherhood by his girlfriend (Candy Clark), Ernie can shrug off his personal problems when he enters the ring. As both fighters continue with their bouts, Tully's star falls while Ernie's is on the rise. Fat City is a bleak, mordant, slice of life boxing drama that doesn't pull its punches. [more inside]
posted by DirtyOldTown at 10:37 AM - 5 comments

Belladonna of Sadness

Brutally assaulted by the feudal Lord and his grotesque court and abandoned by her betrothed Jean, the beautiful peasant Jeanne is offered immense power by a mysterious entity. [more inside]
posted by Alvy Ampersand at 10:00 AM - 2 comments

Rawhead Rex

An ancient creature called Rawhead is awakened from its slumber near an Irish village and goes on a rampage killing anyone in sight. [more inside]
posted by kittens for breakfast at 8:42 AM - 14 comments

April 13

The Daytrippers

When she discovers a love letter written to her husband by an unknown paramour, the distraught Eliza turns to her tight-knit Long Island family for advice. [more inside]
posted by phunniemee at 3:37 PM - 1 comment

Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse

A chronicle of the production problems—including bad weather, actors' health, war near the filming locations, and more—which plagued the filming of Apocalypse Now, increasing costs and nearly destroying the life and career of Francis Ford Coppola. [more inside]
posted by adamrice at 11:58 AM - 4 comments

The Thief Collector

In 1985, Willem de Kooning's "Woman-Ochre," one of the most valuable paintings of the 20th century, was cut from its frame at the University of Arizona Museum of Art. 32 years later, the painting was found hanging in a New Mexico home. [more inside]
posted by adamrice at 11:51 AM - 0 comments

Dunston Checks In

A young boy befriends a larcenous orangutan in a luxury hotel.
posted by TheophileEscargot at 1:07 AM - 2 comments

April 11

Overnight

Alternately hilarious and horrifying, Overnight chronicles one man's misadventures of making a Hollywood movie. It starts out as a rags to riches story as Troy Duffy, a Boston-bred bartender, sells his first screenplay for The Boondock Saints. [more inside]
posted by Halloween Jack at 10:46 PM - 9 comments

One to One: John & Yoko

Set in 1972 New York, this documentary explores John and Yoko's world amid a turbulent era. Centered on the One to One charity concert for special needs children, it features unseen archives, home movies, and restored footage.
posted by TheophileEscargot at 9:17 PM - 3 comments

The Return

After 20 years Odysseus finally returns to Ithaca, where he finds his wife held prisoner by suitors vying to be king and his son facing death at their hands. To win back his family and all he has lost, Odysseus must rediscover his strength.
posted by TheophileEscargot at 2:39 PM - 5 comments

Phase IV

[TRAILER] Acclaimed graphic designer Saul Bass (known for, among other things designing the logos for AT&T, Quaker Oats, and United Airlines and creating the title sequences for several Alfred Hitchcock films) directed this sci-fi yarn about a cosmic event that speeds up the evolution of ants, putting ants and mankind on a collision course. [more inside]
posted by DirtyOldTown at 1:31 PM - 7 comments

The Executioner ("El verdugo")

Naïve funeral worker Nino Manfredi meets the daughter of a state executioner. Both are social outcasts because of their dreaded associations with death, so they are pushed toward each other, to marry and start a family. In order to win the right for a new government apartment, meek Manfredi is being lured to take over his father-in-law’s job, and the time eventually comes when he has to perform a gruesome killing by garroting his first ‘customer’. [more inside]
posted by growabrain at 12:20 AM - 0 comments

April 10

Murina (“Moray Eel”)

This debut feature film by Croatian Antoneta Alamat Kusijanović was exec-produced by Martin Scorsese, and won the Caméra d'Or at the 2021 Cannes Festival. Powerful, feminist story of a strong-willed 17 yo daughter, who rebels against the primitive patriarchy on the beautiful Adriatic island where she live. Her fisherman father especially is an abusive, controlling prick, trying to keep his growing mermaid daughter in her place. [more inside]
posted by growabrain at 1:21 AM - 0 comments

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