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A culmination of a decade of production and featuring the brilliant performances of four actresses realized in six episodes with a running time of 14 hours, director Mariano Llinás’ La Flor is a bold cinematic exploration of fiction filmmaking.
Captured live onstage in front of 3,000 fervent fans at NYC’s legendary Beacon Theatre, the Doobie Brothers’ latest offering is a superb production. Come for the music, but stay for - the music.
A over-looked classic comes back to life in this Blu-ray edition.
Exterminate the cockroaches and secure the future !
You haven’t experienced this gruesome classic until you see it on Blu-ray.
Dream No Evil, Dark August and The Child are rescued from late night TV on this Blu-ray set.
In 1970 Woody Guthrie passed on, and all his friends and fellow musicians joined up to form this memorial concert full of his music and stories.
Kevin Costner grows a pair (of gills) after global warming wipes out dry land.
Film noir and slapstick comedy work brilliantly together in this John Farrow classic.
Johnny Thunders retreats to New Orleans to break his heroin addiction, but ends up dead in a cheap hotel.
In a small rural Pennsylvania town, a dedicated crew of film lovers struggle to keep their local drive-in operating.
The great Teruo Ishii directed this hyper splatter masterpiece.
He was the creative driver of the original incarnation of The Guess Who, and the originator of Bachman-Turner Overdrive. For Canadian rock fans, he is an icon, but for American fans, he’s just “oh yeah, that guy.”
If the LAPD is hassling your punk rock show, move it out into the desert and bus the punks out to party in peace.
Turn of the century watch dial painters intentionally consume radium, leading to death and profits for the American Radium Company.
Keoma is a stellar take on the Spaghetti western.
Asbury Park, New Jersey has an almost mythic reputation as the home of the Jersey Sound. This new documentary tells of the cities glory days and the hard times that followed the 1970 riots.
General Magic invented the smart phone in 2002, but just couldn’t get it to market. That’s just how they rolled.
Pahokee produces sugar cane and poverty, but some the brighter students might make it to the big time with a college degree and a new zip code.
A young man searches for the secrets of his family and great Ramen.
John Badham’s 1983 future-tech helicopter thriller, Blue Thunder, with its cautionary tale of militarized police and a surveillance state, still resonates decades later.
What if the miracle of sight came with a curse? The Eye builds its horror from that chilling premise.
With the thirty-fifth anniversary of debut album Whirlpool, UK shoegaze outfit Chapterhouse is back together again and touring the US as part of Slide Away Music Festival.
The Englert theater hosted Little Feat as they embark on their Last Farewell Tour.