Starring: Dame Darcy

A haunted girl, Clara One-Arm, is tormented by ghosts, dolls, her nurse and raw meat.

Starring: Paul Giamatti, Bryce Dallas Howard, Jeffrey Wright, Bob Balaban, Sarita Choudhury, Cindy Cheung

Co-hosted by writer Edward Douglas

In 2005, M. Night Shyamalan was coming off a number of huge hits for Disney with The Sixth Sense, Unbreakable and Signs, but he decided to do something different, an original fairy tale he could show his young daughters.

In the movie, Paul Giamatti plays Cleveland Heep, caretaker of an apartment complex filled with eccentric characters, who discovers a mermaid named Story (played by a fairly new Bryce Dallas Howard) who needs his help protecting her from a number of fierce creatures. The movie was mostly panned by critics, not helped by the release of a tell-all book about the making of the movie, though it may still be one of Shyamalan’s more original concepts with many out-there ideas that people just didn’t get. It probably didn’t help that the filmmaker cast himself as a Messiah-like character either.

Starring: Brad Pitt, George Clooney, Amy Ryan, Austin Abrams, Poorna Jagannathan, Richard Kind

Hired to cover up a high-profile crime, a fixer soon finds his night spiraling out of control when he’s forced to work with an unexpected counterpart.

Starring: Kay Johnson, Reginald Denny, Lillian Roth, Roland Young, Elsa Peterson

Angela Brooks (Kay Johnson) is dismayed by her philandering husband Bob (Reginald Denny), a man who isn’t even good at hiding his dalliances. After he expresses that he finds her to be an icy scold, she heats things up by adopting a Satanic persona, presenting herself in disguise at a masquerade party aboard a Zeppelin.

Cecil B. DeMille expertly controls the chaos as it ramps up from bawdy boudoir comedy to costumed musical, and finally disaster drama in a pre-code filled with hilarious nuggets and plenty of inspiration for your Halloween regalia this year.

Starring: F. Murray Abraham, Tom Hulce, Elizabeth Berridge, Roy Dotrice, Simon Callow, Christine Ebersole, Jeffrey Jones

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (Tom Hulce) is a remarkably talented young Viennese composer who unwittingly finds a fierce rival in the disciplined and determined Antonio Salieri (F. Murray Abraham). Resenting Mozart for both his hedonistic lifestyle and his undeniable talent, the highly religious Salieri is gradually consumed by his jealousy and becomes obsessed with Mozart’s downfall, leading to a devious scheme that has dire consequences for both men.

Starring: Brad Davis, Franco Nero, Jeanne Moreau, Laurent Malet

Director Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s final film is a deliriously stylized tale of hothouse lust and simmering violence. Set amid an expressionistic soundstage vision of a French sea port, this daring adaptation of a novel by Jean Genet recounts the tragedy of a handsome sailor (Brad Davis) as he is drawn into a vortex of sibling rivalry, murder, and explosive sexuality. Completed just before Fassbinder’s sudden death at age thirty-seven, Querelle finds the director pushing his embrace of artifice and taboo-shattering depiction of queer desire to new extremes.

Starring: Marlon Brando, Karl Malden, Pina Pellicer, Katy Jurado, Ben Johnson, Slim Pickens

I.B. Technicolor print!

After pulling a bank heist in Mexico, the outlaw Rio (Marlon Brando) and his partner, Dad Longworth (Karl Malden), make a run for it, but Dad has bigger plans than freedom. He betrays Rio and absconds with the loot, and Rio ends up in prison. Years pass before Rio finally breaks free to enact his long-plotted revenge. Tracking Dad to California, Rio learns he’s become a sheriff — which is no deterrent — but when Rio falls for Dad’s stepdaughter, Louisa (Pina Pellicer), he has second thoughts.

Starring: Jon Finch, Barry Foster, Barbara Leigh-Hunt, Anna Massey

4K restoration

London is held in the grip of a serial killer whose modus operandi is to murder his victims by strangling them with a necktie. When short-tempered ex-Royal Air Force officer Richard Blaney (Jon Finch) discovers his ex-wife (Barbara Leigh-Hunt) murdered, Blaney becomes a suspect. Forced to go on the run, Blaney attempts to take refuge with his best friend, fruit merchant Bob Rusk (Barry Foster), however Rusk may, in fact, be the necktie murderer himself.

Doc’n Roll Presents – New York Premiere 

What You Could Not Visualise  is an intimate portrait of the legendary 4AD band Rema-Rema. Rema-Rema was part of the initial wave of post punk that formed around 1978-1980 after the demise of punk. No footage exists of the band live and only a handful of photos survive creating a myth around the band that still exists today.

Director Marco Porsia of the highly acclaimed documentary on Swans, Where Does a Body End?, goes on an archeological exploration to resurrect the band’s unique history/story and find the driving forces behind their ground breaking  sound. As 4AD founder Ivo Watts-Russell notes, “One of the great post punk bands was over before it had begun.” This film puts Rema-Rema back in their rightful place in the history of post punk music.