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On the Wandering Paths — Available Tuesday, November 12, 2024
Directed by Denis Imbert • Drama • 2024 • 95 minutes • Distrib Films

A celebrated writer with a penchant for extreme experiences and solo treks, Pierre (Jean Dujardin), is a survivor of his own life. He has always done everything on his terms. One drunken evening, he climbs the facade of a building and falls several stories. The accident leaves him in a deep coma. When he emerges from it, Pierre is barely able to stand. But against everyone’s advice, he decides to …

Carlos Saura Photographer — Available Wednesday, November 13, 2024
Directed by Jörg Adolph, Gereon Wetzel • Documentary • With Carlos Saura • 2017 • 52 minutes • Pragda Films

As a young man, the legendary Spanish filmmaker Carlos Saura did not quite know what he would like to become: motorcycle racer, flamenco dancer, or photographer. 60 years, 40 films, and numerous film awards later, his passion for photography runs like a thread through his life. The documentary follows publishers Gerhard Steidl and Hans Meinke as they set out to release the largely unknown photo oeuvre …

Jama Masjid Street Journal — Available Wednesday, November 13, 2024
Directed by Mira Nair • Documentary • 1979 • 20 minutes • Icarus Films

Mira Nair's (Monsoon Wedding, Salaam Bombay!) personal record of street life around the Jama Masjid, or Great Mosque, in the old city of Delhi, India. Director Nair discusses her thoughts on confronting people uncertain what to make of her, a woman alone behind a camera, as she captures the flavor of "ordinary" Delhi, where ancient customs and traditional occupations continue to be practiced in the …

Cat City — Available Thursday, November 14, 2024
Directed by Ben Kolak • Documentary • 2023 • 78 minutes • First Run Features

Cat City chronicles Chicago's love/hate relationship with feral cats. It tells the story of Chicago's outdoor cats and the communities who look after them. What is the right way to care for feral cats and who gets to decide? A ground-breaking 2007 ordinance protects feral cats in Chicago that have been trapped, neutered and returned ("TNR") to their neighborhoods. Dubbed community cats, they control …

Free Puppies! — Available Thursday, November 14, 2024
Directed by Samantha Wishman, Christina Thomas • Documentary • 2022 • 70 minutes • First Run Features

FREE PUPPIES! tells the story of a chronically overlooked crisis that’s dogging the rural American South. Directors Samantha Wishman and Christina Thomas narrow their focus on Dade County in northwest Georgia, where an intrepid group of local women have stepped up to compensate for the lack of an operating animal shelter – rescuing countless dogs and taking matters into their own hands. "Truly, truly …

Elegant Beast — Available Friday, November 15, 2024
Directed by Yuzo Kawashima • Drama • With Ayako Wakao, Eiji Funakoshi, Yûko Hamada • 1962 • 96 minutes • MVD Entertainment Group

In their humble two-room apartment, the Maeda family seem ever so self-effacing - but their modest façade hides another truth. Daughter Tomoko is the mistress of a bestselling author with well-lined pockets. Son Minoru embezzles funds with his lover Yukie (Ayako Wakao, Red Angel), who has her own hidden agenda. And father Tokizo is a former military man who will never return to poverty.

Terrorists in Retirement — Available Tuesday, November 19, 2024
Directed by Mosco Boucault • Documentary • 1983 • 71 minutes • Icarus Films

Too controversial to be shown on French TV when first released – after its premiere at the Cannes Film Festival, in 1983 – TERRORISTS IN RETIREMENT is the story of men and women from Armenia, Poland, and Romania, mostly Jews, who fought the German occupation of Paris during World War II. Most infamously, there were 21 members of the Manouchian Group, who were part of the FTP-MOI (Francs-tireurs et …

A Real Job — Available Wednesday, November 20, 2024
Directed by Thomas Lilti • Drama • With Vincent Lacoste, François Cluzet, Adèle Exarchopoulos • 2024 • 102 minutes • Distrib Films

In A Real Job, director Thomas Lilti (Hippocrates, The Freshman) turns his humanistic eye to an overlooked subject: the personal and professional lives of school teachers. Lacking scholarship support and in need of money, PhD student Benjamin (Vincent Lacoste) takes a job as a math teacher at the suburban Victor Hugo School. With no prior training or experience, Benjamin soon finds himself in over …

Stuntwomen — Available Wednesday, November 20, 2024
Directed by Elena Avdija • Documentary • 2022 • 84 minutes • Andana Films

STUNTWOMEN portrays three women stunts in changing times and offers a look at how relationships of power and hierarchy between genders are anchored in bodies and shape in the world of cinema. The #metoo movement initiated in Hollywood in 2017 offers a new momentum to the denunciations of sexist relations specific to the film industry. However, the cinematographic representations of women are too entrenched …

Lyd — Available Thursday, November 21, 2024
Directed by Rami Younis and Sarah Ema Friedland • Documentary • 2024 • 79 minutes • Icarus Films

The film Lyd (the Arabic name of Lod, a city now in Israel) is about a 5,000-year-old bustling Palestinian town that was taken over when Israel was established in 1948. An exploration of what it once was, and what it is now, in the context of the continuing conflicts and the war in Gaza, Lyd’s excavation of one community’s complex history offers us not only lessons, but possible futures. As the film …

RECENTLY ADDED: Titles added in the last two weeks

— Added Friday, November 8, 2024
Directed by Ji Huang, Ryûji Otsuka • Drama • With Honggui Yao • 2022 • 148 minutes • KimStim

20 year-old Lynn is told she needs English classes, flight attendant school, and a go getter-attitude. She perseveres along this path of upward mobility until she finds out she’s pregnant. Indecisive and running out of time, she tells her boyfriend she’s had an abortion and instead returns to her feuding parents and their failing clinic to try and figure out (if she can) what’s next. Built from interviews … More

— Added Wednesday, November 6, 2024
Directed by Sigrid Faltin • Documentary • 2008 • 52 minutes • First Hand Films

"La Paloma" was born in the 1860s as a Cuban Habanera, composed by the Basque Sebastian Iradier. His simple love song took off on a flight around the world and became an immediate hit in Mexico. "La Paloma" brought tears to the eyes of the unfortunate Hapsburg Emperor Maximilian on the Mexican throne, while liberals mocked him in a satirical version. As a marching song La Paloma arrived in Europe … More

— Added Wednesday, November 6, 2024
Directed by Kenneth Thomas • Documentary • With John Darnielle, Wayne Coyne, Ty Segall, Matt Groening • 108 minutes • MVD Entertainment Group

Indie rock, psychedelic, folk, krautrock, weirdo Finnish prog rock, Japanese noise, glitchy black metal... Aquarius Records discovered and promoted all of this and more, years before it became cool, enriching countless peoples' lives. Explore the life and death of this globally revered, 50-year-old institution as it tries to survive in an ever-changing world of dot-coms and downloads.

— Added Friday, November 1, 2024
Directed by Wong Hing Fan • Drama • With Aaron Kwok, Miriam Yeung, Alex Man • 2022 • 115 minutes • Orchid Tree Media

Legendary actor Aaron Kwok gives a powerful performance in this multi-award winning film as a fallen financial consultant, now homeless, forced to sleep at 24 hour fast food restaurants. There he encounters a motley crew of similarly down-on-their-luck patrons whom he starts to bond with over their ordeals in the city streets. Nominated for Best Film and Best Actor along with 7 other Hong Kong Film … More

— Added Thursday, October 31, 2024
Directed by Marc Schmidt • Documentary • 2023 • 82 minutes • Andana Films

How many hours did you sleep last night? Do you count things for no reason? Have your thoughts ever been controlled by someone outside of you? Prevention plays a growing role in mental health. Instead of curing people, the objective is to prevent disorders by collecting enormous amounts of data. If only night wouldn’t fall questions this development. In three interwoven stories - in The Netherlands, … More

— Added Thursday, October 31, 2024
Directed by Heather Ross • Documentary • With Michaela Watkins, James Urbaniak, Matt Walsh, Patton Oswalt, Paul Sheer • 2020 • 88 minutes • Utopia Select LLC

Comedy guru Del Close, mentor to everyone from Bill Murray to Tina Fey, sets out to write his autobiography for D.C. Comics. As he leads us through sewers, mental wards, and his peculiar talent for making everyone famous but himself, Close emerges as a personification of the creative impulse itself. He's a muse with BO and dirty needles, offering transcendence despite (or because of) the trail of … More

— Added Friday, October 25, 2024
Directed by Paolo Taviani, Vittorio Taviani • Drama • With Marcello Mastroianni, Stanko Molnar • 1974 • 115 minutes • MVD Entertainment Group

After the fall of Napoleon, the Restoration begins. Fulvio (Marcello Mastroianni, La dolce vita), an aristocrat who has dedicated his life to the revolution has become disillusioned but his cowardice keeps him from joining his comrades. As he struggles to manage his evasion and lies he gets swept up in a suicidal uprising in Southern Italy.