Recommended Film Screenings
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New York’s Times Square has been Giulianied and Eisnered out of existence, but during the city’s post-’70s decay, it was the porn-bedecked hub of modern disillusionment and mean-streets social Darwinism. In this skuzzy valentine to NYC’s ...
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Arguably the greatest film by legendary vérité documentarians the Maysles Brothers, Grey Gardens focuses on Big Edie Beale and her daughter, Little Edie. Having achieved tabloid notoriety as Jackie Onassis' aunt and first cousin, respectively, the duo—trapped in their squalid, decaying Hamptons mansion—came under the Maysles peering, sympathetic lens. Far more than a freak show (though charges of exploitation continue), Grey Gardens is an elegant, intricately edited portrait of two people trapped in a house they haunt ...
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A shaggy-dog story in more ways than one, Aki Kaurismäki’s loose-limbed existential comedy The Man Without A Past champions the drifters, bums, and outcasts who wind up deposited like refuse in a Helsinski squatters’ camp. With a loping ...
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When The Rocky Horror Picture Show was released on video for the first time in 1990, some considered it the end of a vibrant cinematic subculture. But watching the film at home, away from the running commentary of Rocky Horror ...
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YouTube’s skewed signal-to-noise ratio ensures that civilization still needs the discerning eye of TV Carnage. With his cult-favorite mix-tape compilations of cable-access embarrassments, bizarre instructional videos, out-of-context soap opera freak-outs, and memorable moments in tabloid journalism, head programmer Pinky ...
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Inspired by Shakespeare’s The Tempest, the 1956 sci-fi drama Forbidden Planet stars Leslie Nielsen as a commander whose crew, while investigating the mysterious disappearance of a group of scientists from a faraway planet, discovers a doctor and his daughter ...
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Though not as charming as The Dark Crystal, Jim Henson’s follow-up feature, Labyrinth, is more polished visually and conceptually while still retaining a homemade, handcrafted, meticulously realized charm. A 14-year-old Jennifer Connelly stars as a self-absorbed teenager immersed in ...
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feature Weekend Agenda: Nov. 20-22
November 20, 2009 | 9:52am -
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feature If they could settle down, then they would settle down: Range Life brings touring films to Dobie
November 18, 2009 | 12:40pm -
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feature Meta interview: John Krasinski answers questions about questions and interviews about Brief Interviews With Hideous Men
November 13, 2009 | 12:00am -
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feature See Wes Anderson's The Fantastic Mr. Fox for free
November 12, 2009 | 2:57pm -
