Mar 27 US release: She Dances
"A struggling father attempts to reconnect with his daughter while serving as her chaperone at a dance competition." Ethan Hawke Variety: "stilted writing and direction lead to awkward dialogue and interactions"
Ascenseur pour l'echafaud : ripped
MUBI The Settlers
NETFLIX Secret Mall Apartment, The Rip (Joel)
Nuremberg (Ian Farthing, Michael Hart. DW: script uneven)
Hamnet
Secret Agent
Dead Man's Wire (Gus Van Sant)
Merrily We Roll Along
DEAD MAN'S WIRE (105m) IV 2:05 4:35 7:05
Gus Van Sant: On February 8, 1977, Tony Kiritsis storms into the office of Richard Hall, president of Meridian Mortgage Company, and holds him hostage with a sawed-off shotgun.
The Perfect Neighbor (2025 doc)
Using bodycam footage from dozens of police visits, The Perfect Neighbor bears witness to a tight-knit community navigating one neighbor’s relentless harassment. But her hostility takes a sinister turn when it escalates into a fatal crime.
Happy Holidays
Sinners (Crave rent via Prime)
Weapons: school children all disappear at 2:17am (Crave rent via Prime)
COMING!!!
WILD HORSE NINE Nov 6
d. Martin McDonagh. Just before Chilean coup. Starring John Malkovich, Sam Rockwell, Steve Buscemi, Mariana di Girólamo, Ailín Salas, with Tom Waits, and Parker Posey. In theaters November 6th.
THE ADVENTURES OF CLIFF BOOTH
David Fincher directs Tarantino script, sequel to Once Upon A Time In Hollywood. Filmed from July 2025 to January 2026, to be released in select theatres and on Netflix in 2026.
THE WAY OF THE WIND
Terence Malick's Jesus movie *may* be coming in May. Cannes? Filming wrapped in 2019, but with over three THOUSAND hours of footage, it's taking a while to edit. Mark Rylance as 28 different versions of Satan, unless the whole role gets cut.
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Notorious
Train Dreams
NETFLIX
logger, building of American West, Malick-ish. Sing Sing writers
Demy, The Young Girls of Rochefort (Catherine Deneuve and Gene Kelly)
Ballad of a Small Player - Colin Farrell, UK gambler on the run in Macau
NY doc
The Stranger (PN undercover cop moody dark Aussie)
The Teachers' Lounge (Karen Cooper)
Poison
The Rat Catcher
The Swan
The Wonder
Relay (rec Joel Stephanson, same director as Hell Or High Water)
Black Bag : director Steven Soderbergh and the screenwriter David Koepp, a delectably witty espionage thriller with a slippery yet sincere marital drama at its core
The Phoenician Scheme, Wes Anderson
APPLE
Still: A Michael J. Fox Movie
The Lost Bus
Wolfwalkers
Slow Horses
Mr Scorsese (Oct 17)
The Velvet Underground (Todd Haynes doc)
Bono: Stories of Surrender
Sharper (2023, Julianne Moore, John Lithgow)
Coda (2021, "only hearing child of a deaf family, who expect her to work full-time at the family's struggling fishing business. Ruby hopes to study music at Berklee
The History of Sound (Mel) MUBI 7 DAYS FREE
FRIEND RECS
All We Imagine As Light PN | Criterion 7 days free, Apple $3.99 | S&S #1 for 2024
The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial (2023, Friedkin) - streaming only AL
Chelsea Walls Brett Alan Dewing
Meek's Cutoff AL
Black Bag (stylish Steven Soderbergh screwball spy thriller) - Prime DW
John Coltrane, A Love Supreme - Netflix
Karaoke RK
Barbie PN
Hard Truths (Mike Leigh) PN
My Old Ass ("packs a punch") Daniel Reville
La Chimera Matt Page
Corpo Celeste Matt Page
Fallen Leaves (Kaurimaski) Michael Hart quirky, sad yet funny, movie references & always a live band
HAVE
Julia (Rudi saw it summer 2025)
The 4:30 Movie [Hoopla, Apple]
The Naked City
Spencer
SEE WITH CAROLE
Flora and Son (writer/director of Once and Sing Street)
Liberty Heights (Barry Levinson, Baltimore, great early-Fifties pop soundtrack)
Vengeance Most Fowl [streaming]
MONTAGE
The Eternal Zero
Gun Crazy
The Irishman - freeze frame, death dates of characters
I'm Still Here (Brazil military dictatorship 1964 /1971 / 1996 / 2014)
Fargo
SERIES
Chernobyl
Adolescence [set in Liverpool] Katie & Carole, etc
The Lowdown, with Ethan Hawke "a noir for our era" | New Yorker, Sep 22, 2025 [on FX]
Station Eleven
True Detective Season One, as well as Season Four w/ Jodie Foster (Katie rec)
Slow Horses
RECENT
Exhibiting Forgiveness
NOW PLAYING
Doubters To Believers (Klopp) Netflix
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American Fiction [Prime Apple Amazon]
Blitz (Steve McQueen, Saoirse Ronan) [Apple] DW didn't like it
My Old Ass (PRIME)
The Old Oak (2023, Hoopla)
Promised Land (Amazon Apple Hoopla)
Oh, Canada [Schrader. Draft dodger?]
The Shadowless Tower [Apple $6.99]
Sam Mendes, Empire Awards speech, 2013
I want to thank Stanley Kubrick for the war room in “Dr. Strangelove,” Billy Wilder for C. C. Baxter in “The Apartment,” Kurosawa for the death of the king at the end of “Throne of Blood,” Martin Scorsese for panning a camera down an empty corridor in “Taxi Driver,” Joel and Ethan Coen for the last scene between Marge and Norm in bed at the end of “Fargo,” Paul Thomas Anderson for the deafening of H. W. Plainview in “There Will Be Blood,” Bergman for the visit of Bibi Andersson to Liv Ullmann in the dead of night in “Persona,” Francis Coppola for the killing of Fredo Corleone in “The Godfather II,” David Fincher for the first scene in “The Social Network,” Bob Fosse for the audition sequence at the beginning of “All That Jazz,” Quentin Tarantino for Christopher Walken’s speech about the watch in “Pulp Fiction,” Woody Allen for the fireworks over “Manhattan,” Clint Eastwood for making it rain at the end of “Unforgiven,” Michael Powell for the moment Moira Shearer steps into the ballet of “The Red Shoes,” David Lynch for the car journey with Frank Booth in “Blue Velvet,” Mike Nichols for Benjamin in the swimming pool in “The Graduate,” François Truffaut for the moment the boy looks into the lens at the end of “400 Blows,” and Wim Wenders for the moment Harry Dean Stanton sees Nastassja Kinski after all those years at the end of “Paris, Texas.”
MUBI [7 days free via Apple TV+]
Pacifiction (diplomat, French Polynesia
The Settlers (Chile)
FIND
The Last Film Show (India, Julie Sutherland rec)
Looking for Eric (Ken Loach) depressed postman's conversations with Eric Cantona
Porcelain War (Rosie rec, Ukrainian pottery)
A Midnight Clear (Ethan Hawke)
GONE
Blinded By The Light (2019) (Apple TV+ buy $12.99) *
Broken Circle Breakdown (DW: "mega sad". Belgian, bluegrass music)
Christ Stopped at Eboli (rec Anthony Forkush)
Cold Case Hammarskjold HOOPLA MUBI
The Gods of Times Square
Living
Maestro (Daniel Revill #8, 2023)
Marlowe
The Mass Is Ended *
Memory
Norah's Will (Mexico, rec Geoff Cowper)
One Life
The Road Dance (rec Michael Hart, Scottish small town w/ music)
Society of the Snow
The Taste of Things
*
The Mass Is Ended (1985, Italy, Nanni Maretti)
"A young priest, Don Giulio, struggles to maintain his faith. Having been a radical college student in the 1960s, Don Giulio has now rejected his long hair and liberal ideals in favor of the church. He has himself transferred to his home parish, only to discover the church empty and the town indifferent. Meanwhile, Don Giulio’s friends from his radical days begin popping up with their lives in serious disarray. Don Giulio seeks solace with his beloved family, but his family too is in chaos. The director's follow-up, The Son's Room, was a stunner." VIFF
The Promised Land
an old-fashioned epic, a settler Western unfolding on the barren heaths of Denmark rather than the American frontier. Mads Mikkelsen is a longtime soldier seeking the favor of the Danish crown by cultivating a harsh landscape. Kahlen cobbles together a ragtag crew of waifs and cast-offs, and goes to bitter battle with a preening local lord.
The Settlers
In 1893, Segundo, a Chilean mestizo, an English army captain, and an American mercenary embark on an expedition on horseback to reclaim the lands that the State has granted to José Menéndez. What appears to be an administrative expedition turns into a violent hunt for Onas, the natives of the Tierra del Fuego archipelago.
The Shadowless Tower
This quiet but sweeping drama, a winsome tribute to the old quarters of Beijing, their narrow streets and hole-in-the-wall eateries. a rumpled, middle-aged food critic, is the soulful center of the film, while Huang Yao gamely plays the young photographer who coaxes him out of his stasis.
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