DOG lives in Manhattan and he’s tired of being alone. One day he decides to build himself a robot, a companion. Their friendship blossoms, until they become inseparable, to the rhythm of 80’s NYC. One summer night, DOG, with great sadness, is forced to abandon ROBOT at the beach.
Will they ever meet again?
Starring: Hitoshi Omika, Ryô Nishikawa, Ryûji Kosaka, Ayaka Shibutani
In the rural alpine hamlet of Mizubiki, not far from Tokyo, Takumi and his daughter, Hana, lead a modest life gathering water, wood, and wild wasabi for the local udon restaurant. Increasingly, the townsfolk become aware of a talent agency’s plan to build an opulent glamping site nearby, offering city residents a comfortable “escape” to the snowy wilderness. When two company representatives arrive and ask for local guidance, Takumi becomes conflicted in his involvement, as it becomes clear that the project will have a pernicious impact on the community.
Ryusuke Hamaguchi’s follow up to his Academy Award-winning Drive My Car is a foreboding fable on humanity’s mysterious, mystical relationship with nature. As sinister gunshots echo from the forest, both the locals and representatives confront their life choices and the haunting consequences they have.
Starring: Ry Barrett, Andrea Pavlovic, Cameron Love, Reece Presley, Liam Leone, Charlotte Creaghan
When a locket is removed from a collapsed fire tower in the woods that entombs the rotting corpse of Johnny, a vengeful spirit spurred on by a horrific 60-year old crime, his body is resurrected and becomes hellbent on retrieving it. The undead golem hones in on the group of vacationing teens responsible for the theft and proceeds to methodically slaughter them one by one in his mission to get it back — along with anyone in his way.
Starring: Groovin’ Gary, Sean Penn, Crispin Glover
“A rivetingly strange, multi-layered inquiry into celebrity, obsession, and serendipity.” – A.O. Scott- New York Times
In 1979, director Trent Harris stumbled upon an eager stranger in a news station parking lot in Utah. Introducing himself as “Groovin’ Gary,” he showed off his celebrity impersonations and invited Harris to his small town of Beaver, promising a show of the local talent and his own performance as “Olivia Newton-Dawn.” Captivated by this earnest figure, Harris recreated the scenario twice, first with a young (pre-Spicoli) Sean Penn, then a slightly more polished version with Crispin Glover. Almost two decades passed before The Beaver Trilogy was shown to an audience in 2000, quickly gaining cult status for anyone who could track it down. It remains a unique contemplation of sincerity and vulnerability of misfits finding their way in the world.
Starring: Gene Kelly, Frank Sinatra, Jules Munshin, Ann Miller, Betty Garrett, Vera-Ellen
Fun-loving sailors Gabey (Gene Kelly), Chip (Frank Sinatra) and Ozzie (Jules Munshin) have 24 hours of shore leave in New York City, and they want to make every second count. While Chip hooks up with loudmouth cab driver Brunhilde (Betty Garrett) and Ozzie swoons for prim anthropologist Claire (Ann Miller), Gabey falls in love with an actress he sees in an advertisement, Ivy Smith (Vera-Ellen). Leonard Bernstein, with lyricists Betty Comden and Adolph Green, provides the music.
Starring: Christos Stergioglou, Michele Valley, Angeliki Papoulia, Christos Passalis, Mary Tsoni, Anna Kalaitzidou
4K restoration
Graceful, enigmatic, and often frightening, Dogtooth is an ingenious dark comedy that won the Un Certain Regard Prize at the 2009 Cannes Film Festival and an Academy Award nomination for Best Foreign Language Film, propelling Oscar winner Yorgos Lanthimos (Poor Things, The Favourite) to the forefront of contemporary cinema’s most ambitious young filmmakers.
In an effort to protect their three children from the corrupting influence of the outside world, a Greek couple transforms their home into a gated compound of cultural deprivation and strict rules of behavior. But children cannot remain innocent forever. When the father brings home a young woman to satisfy his son’s sexual urges, the family’s engineered “reality” begins to crumble, with devastating consequences. Like the haunting, dystopic visions of Michael Haneke and Gaspar Noé, Dogtooth punctuates its compelling drama with moments of shocking violence, creating a biting social satire that is as profound as it is provocative.
Restored in 4K from the 35mm camera and sound negatives by Boo Productions and mk2 Films at Asterisk* Post and I Hear Voices sound studio. Colour grading by Gregory Arvanitis and Thimios Bakatakis. Digital sound restoration by Landros Ntounis. The restoration process was supervised by the director, Yorgos Lanthimos.
Starring: Angeliki Papoulia, Aris Servetalis, Johnny Vekris
Actors start a unique business where they impersonate deceased people to help their clients through the grieving process.
Starring: Pierre Deladonchamps, Christophe Paou, Patrick d’Assumçao
Summertime. A cruising spot for men, tucked away on the shores of a lake. Franck falls in love with Michel, an attractive, potent and lethally dangerous man. Franck knows this but wants to live out his passion anyway.
Starring: Ricardo Meneses, Beatriz Torcato, Andre Barbosa
A trash collector (Ricardo Meneses) obsesses over a motorcyclist (Andre Barbosa) and embarks on a series of homosexual encounters.
Starring: Sierra McCormick, Jason Butler Harner, Emily Robinson, Dominique Gayle, Nadezhda Amé, Drew Scheid, Anthony Del Negro, Mike Manning
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Abby, on the cusp of turning 15 and at a delicate moment in life, is forced to move in with her father and his younger girlfriend. Feeling lost and confused after the loss of her mother, she strikes up a friendship with the carefree and rebellious Caroline, who introduces her to a world of drinking, drugs and sexual experimentation she had never known.
