MOVIES TO SEE

NOW PLAYING

Saturday Night

Blitz (Steve McQueen, Saoirse Ronan)

? A Real Pain 

HAVE

Get Out Of The Car - Thom Andersen short, downloaded

Third Murder - JP

The Naked City

Civil War - Prime [Diane Tucker, Kenton Klassen]

My Old Ass (PRIME)

Daniel Reville: Really good film about learning to live in the moment, even when staring down an unknown future that’s already in motion, in spite of all of your best intensions.

It really packs a punch at the end, and it earns every right to do so. Just a really great film all around.

COMING

Dec 6 | Oh, Canada (Schrader, Canada draft dodger, DM 0330 + Dec multiple)

Dec 25 | A Complete Unknown

March | Eephus (Sunday league ballpark to be demolished. Cannes contender. DM1016)

The 4:30 Movie (Rio)

Exhibiting Forgiveness 

Kim's Video (NYC video store sold to foreign country, now returned to NYC)

FIND

Ghostlight (VIFF)

The Last Film Show (India, Julie Sutherland rec)

The Promised Land (Apple TV+ $5.99)

The Shadowless Tower (Apple TV+ $6.99)

SEE WITH CAROLE

Game Night (comedic take on The Game)

GONE

American Fiction

Barbie

Blinded By The Light (2019) (Apple TV+ buy $12.99) *

Civil War

Cold Case Hammarskjold

Ghostlight

The Gods of Times Square

Godzilla Minus One Minus / Godzilla Minus One Color 

Maestro (Daniel Revill #8, 2023)

The Mass Is Ended *

Memory

One Life

Pacifiction

Past Lives (Daniel Revill #1, 2023)

The Settlers *

Society of the Snow

The Taste of Things

NETFLIX  

The Pale Blue Eye 

Poison

The Rat Catcher 

The Swan

The Wonder

Series

True Detective Season One, as well as Season Four w/ Jodie Foster (Katie rec)

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INFO

The 4:30 Movie (Kevin Smith, 2024)

A group of teens in the 1980s spend the day theatre-hopping.

Blinded By The Light

comedic drama, Luton, 1987-88. Pakistani immigrant boy oppressed by his father’s rigid rules and cowed by the aggressions of local neo-Nazi youths. When Javed listens to Bruce Springsteen, the lyrics swirl around him on screen and he is transformed. 

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.