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dir. Deborah Shaffer and Stewart Bird, 1979, 89m

Founded in Chicago in 1905, the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) took to organizing unskilled workers into one big union and changed the course of American history. This compelling documentary of the IWW (or “The Wobblies” as they were known) tells the story of workers in factories, sawmills, wheat fields, forests, mines and on the docks as they organize and demand better wages, healthcare, overtime pay and safer working conditions. In some respects, men and women, Black and white, skilled and unskilled workers joining a union and speaking their minds seems so long ago, but in other ways, the film mirrors today’s headlines, depicting a nation torn by corporate greed.

dir. Brian Trenchard-Smith, 1978, 86m

Take the thrill of insane stunts and the excitement of rock ’n’ roll, fuse them together and you get Stunt Rock! The madness starts when real-life Australian stuntman Grant Page (Mad Max) goes to L.A. and meets up with a theatrical rock band called Sorcery, and Page impresses the rockers so much with his daredevil antics that they hire him for their act. While his first stunt lands him in the hospital, the reckless Page defies his doctors’ orders, escaping out of the ward’s fifth-story window to get back to the band. Page soon finds himself the focus of the ladies, attracting both a newspaper reporter (Margaret Gerard, The Siege of Firebase Gloria) and a television star (Monique van de Ven, Turkish Delight), much to the annoyance of her manager (Richard Blackburn, Eating Raoul). Featuring non-stop action, a killer soundtrack and pedal-to-the-metal direction by Ozploitation king Brian Trenchard-Smith (The Man from Hong Kong, The Quest), Stunt Rock is an adrenaline-fueled cult classic that’s a death wish at 120 decibels!

dir. John Yost, 2022, 84m

The governments of the world cannot hide anymore that alien contact is happening. This is a film of what, why, and how it is occurring. Most importantly, it offers an answer to the question: Where do we go from here?

Featuring a special guest appearance by Whitley Streiber.

dir. Albert S. Rogell, 1930, 74m

An exotic adventure set among ivory traders and military officers in Colonial East Africa, MAMBA stars Jean Hersholt as a corrupt land-owner who battles a German officer (Ralph Forbes) over the honor of a young woman (Eleanor Boardman). But the romantic triangle is shattered when the indigenous population mounts an epic assault upon its oppressors. Billed as the first feature-length all-talking Technicolor drama, MAMBA was an bold attempt by the low-budget Tiffany Productions to compete with the major studios. For decades it was considered a lost film, until an original print was discovered in Australia.

dir. Christopher Frank, 1984, 110m

Set in Saint Tropez during mid-summer, this darkly biting coming-of-age story is a tale of obsession and sexual desire. A young woman (Valerie Kaprisky) vacations in an upscale beach resort with her mother, where it becomes clear that a layer of secrets and jealousy lay beneath the sundrenched paradise.

dir. Rebecca Tickell and Josh Tickell, 2021, 79m

THE REVOLUTION GENERATION is an exploration of the world-changing activism and potential of the largest youth generation in history. The film shows examples of young leaders working to revolutionize systems that have failed their generation. It paints a powerful and hopeful picture of how today’s youth can solve global political and environmental crises.

dir. Carlo Campogalliani, 1960, 85m

Marvel at great feats of strength and seduction in the pulse-quickening sword-and-sandal epic, Son of Samson. During the Persian rule over Egypt, the mighty Maciste (bodybuilder Mark Forest, Goliath and the Dragon) travels to the city of Tanis where the evil Queen Smedes (Folies Bergère dancer Chelo Alonso, Sheba and the Gladiator) rules with an iron fist and spreads misery across the land. Possessing legendary brawn and courage, Maciste leads a mass revolt against the queen and her tyrannical reign of terror. Director Carlo Campogalliani (Goliath and the Barbarians, Sword of the Conqueror) delivers the peplum genre goods in this breathtaking Color-and-Scope adventure, also known as Maciste in the Valley of the Kings.

dir. Rachid Bouchareb, 2010, 139m

From award winning writer-director Rachid Bouchareb (Days of Glory) comes the story of three brothers who fight for Algeria’s independence from France after World War II. After losing their family home in Algeria, three brothers are

scattered across the globe. Messaoud joins the French army fighting in Indochina; Abdelkader becomes a leader of the Algerian independence movement; Said moves to Paris to make his fortune in the shady clubs and boxing halls of Pigalle. Gradually, their interconnecting destinies reunite them in the French capital, where freedom is a battle to be fought and won.

dir. Rachid Bouchareb, 2014, 118m

Forest Whitaker stars as William Garnett, an ex-con starting life over as a recently converted Muslim. With the help of his determined parole officer (Brenda Blethyn), he gets a job, meets an interesting woman, and keeps his head down. But the town sheriff, Bill Agati (Harvey Keitel), can’t leave him alone since Garnett was responsible for killing his deputy. As Agati puts pressure on him, and his old partners in crime hassle him, Garnett slowly starts to unravel. When his former life catches up with him, Garnett has to make peace with his past and face the future head on, with a gun.

dir. Theodore Braun, 2022, 99m

When conductor Gustavo Dudamel’s international tours are disrupted by deadly protests across his native Venezuela, one of the world’s finest and most beloved musicians faces a daunting set of challenges—to his commitment to the mentor who changed his life, to friends and musicians he’s led since his teens, and to his belief in art’s transformative capacity. Viva Maestro!, the uplifting and timely new documentary from acclaimed director Ted Braun (Betting on Zero), follows Dudamel around the world as he responds to unexpected and imposing obstacles with stirring music-making that celebrates the power of art to renew and unite.

dir. Vincent Kelner, 2021, 85m

Every year, nearly 800 pilot whales are slaughtered on the Faroe Islands despite the protests of animal rights activists. The fjord’s water, surrounded by stunning green mountains, is turning blood red. It is the “Grind” season again – Faroe Islanders’ ritual slaughter of pilot whales. Two proud Faroese whalers are on one side, two young and passionate Sea Shepherd activists on the other. A Taste of Whale invites you to see past preconceived positions and question what meat-eating is truly about.

dir. Renan Ozturk and Freddie Wilkinson, 2021, 100m

Climbers/filmmakers Renan Ozturk and Freddie Wilkinson retrace the steps of pioneering mountaineer, cartographer and aerial photographer Bradford Washburn (1910-2007), who put up many of the first ascents in Alaska. Taking inspiration from Washburn’s iconic aerial photographs of Denali National Park, Ozturk and Wilkinson attempt the unprecedented traverse of the Moose’s Tooth massif.

dir. Ben Wheatley, 2013, 90m

Ben Wheatley (SIGHTSEERS, HIGH-RISE, REBECCA) directs this hallucinogenic drama set amid the Civil War in 17th-century England. When a group of deserters flee from battle through an overgrown field, they are captured by an alchemist, and are forced to help him search to find a hidden treasure that he believes is buried there.

dir. Joshua Oppenheimer, 2012, 117m

From executive producer Errol Morris comes a controversial Academy Award-nominated documentary directed by Joshua Oppenheimer. As a means of confronting the atrocities of war, Indonesian death-squad leaders are challenged to re-enact their mass-killings, in whichever cinematic genres they wish, including Hollywood crime scenarios and lavish musical numbers.

dir. Meir Zarchi, 1978, 101m

Camille Keaton (What Have You Done to Solange?, Tragic Ceremony) stars as Jennifer Hills, a young and beautiful career woman who rents a backwoods cabin to write her first novel. Attacked by a group of local lowlifes and left for dead, she devises a horrific plan to inflict revenge in some of the most unforgettable scenes ever shot on film.

dir. Meir Zarchi, 2018, 148m

In 1978, Meir Zarchi’s notorious revenge thriller, I SPIT ON YOUR GRAVE (aka Day of the Woman) shocked the world with the story of a beautiful career woman assaulted and left for dead. Now, Camille Keaton as Jennifer Hills, cinema’s most lethal lady, is forced to go back to where it all began and face the wrath of the families of those she left for dead.

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dir. Sam Quah, 2019, 112m

A remake of the Indian-Malaysian film Drishyam, this Chinese box-office blockbuster is a Hollywood-esque cat-and-mouse crime thriller. Working family man and self-described movie-geek Li (Xiao Yang) is thrown into a battle of wits with the law after his daughter accidentally kills, and his wife hurriedly buries, a fellow student who had sexually molested her. The dead boy’s father is an ambitious politician, and his mother (Twin Peaks’ Joan Chen) is La Wen, a steely eyed, morally corrupt police chief. Utilizing his encyclopedic knowledge of crime cinema, Li concocts a complicated alibi but for La Wen, the crime is personal, and she smells a coverup. Sheep Without a Shepherd is an inventive, twistily-plotted tale of blackmail, murder and justice, with the two families caught up in a deadly game.

dir. Aleksei Yuryevich German, 2013, 177m

When legendary Russian auteur Aleksei German died in 2013, he left behind this extraordinary final film, a phantasmagoric adaptation of the revered sci-fi novel by the Strugatsky brothers (authors of the source novel for Tarkovsky’sStalker). Hard to be a God began percolating in German’s consciousness in themid-1960s, and would actively consume him for the last 15 years of his life. Hebrought the film close enough to completion for his wife and son to apply thefinishing touches immediately after his passing. Taking place on the planetArkanar, which is in the midst of its own Middle Ages, the film focuses on DonRumata (Leonid Yarmolnik), one of a group of Earth scientists who have beensent to Arkanar with the proviso that they must not interfere in the planet’s politicalor historical development. Treated by the planet’s natives as a kind of divinity,Don Rumata is both godlike and impotent in the face of its chaos and brutality.

dir. Ivan Noel, 2014, 105m

A secluded colony of child vampires come under attack from vengeful villagers in this darkly funny horror tale by Argentinean filmmaker Ivan Noel. A journalist visits a secluded orphanage where children suffer from an unknown skin disease. She soon learns that they are in fact not children, but vampires aging from 4 to 120 years old and who have been bitten at an early age and forever remain in that physical state. They are led and protected by a strange and deeply religious ex-nurse whose destiny in life is to find these ‘lost souls’ and raise them in her sanctuary. Through religious teachings, nocturnal rituals and the occasional visit to local towns for fresh human blood, she keeps them safe – that is until a cultish band of men from a nearby village plot to destroy the refuge. Now the children, headed by the 90-year-old grandson of Count Dracula, must defend their way of life.

dir. Robert Siodmak, 1957, 104m

The murder of a Hamburg barmaid seems an open-and-shut case until a recently demobilized Nazi soldier, reassigned to the police force, suspects it’s the work of a serial killer. His efforts to bring the murderer to justice run afoul of the Reich, which fears the culprit is Aryan—not the foreigner, gypsy or Jew they would prefer. Director Robert Siodmak, the greatest practitioner of Hollywood noir (Criss Cross, The Killers, Phantom Lady, et al.), returned to Germany in the 1950s to finish his career. This was the most powerful film of those later years, a subtle yet scathing payback to the Nazis that chased him from his homeland. Based on the true story of murderer Bruno Lüdke, Siodmak creates a tense policier that’zs also a psychological drama exploring how some of those who did not flee the Reich struggled to maintain their integrity and morality in the face of overwhelming corruption and evil. — Eddie Muller, Film Noir Foundation

dir. Andre Hunebelle, 1964, 118m

Kerwin Matthews returns as OSS-117 in the 1964 film Banco à Bangkok pour OSS 117 (OSS 117: PANIC IN BANGKOK) which co-starred Robert Hossein (Cemetery Without Crosses) and Pier Angeli (The Silver Chalice). Agent OSS 117 is sent to Thailand to unravel the mysteries behind the man called Dr. Sinn in this restored film.

dir. Ernesto Aguilar, 2014, 70m

This bizarre, micro-budgeted sci-fi/horror film reminiscent of the 1980s classic LIQUID SKY, focuses on a young woman who goes to a job interview, only to be held captive by two mysterious cult followers and kept prisoner there to serve the alien leader — incarnated by a deformed, armless mannequin in a robe who communicates telepathically with a voice that sounds like it’s coming from an old ham radio. The girl is forced to serve as a prostitute for the pleasure of the cult’s many male followers, and one of them — an elderly burn victim who wears a black hood — impregnates her, so the cult keeps her there to carry the baby to term, at which point she also becomes the mannequin alien cult leader’s chosen follower. A fascinating and weirdly engrossing tale.

dir. Gerry O’Hara, 1963, 77m

London is in full ’60s swing in THAT KIND OF GIRL, a shamelessly entertaining exploitation film that revels in sexual titillation while moralizing about the dangers of STDs. Retitled Teenage Tramp in the U.S., it follows blonde bombshell au pair Eva (Margaret Rose Keil) as she is pursued by a variety of tongue-lolling men, from an aging playboy to a protesting college kid. She twists the night away with them in a variety of dingy clubs and striptease palaces, until a checkup reveals that she has contracted VD. Shocked and awed, Eva tries to mend her ways, and tells each of her nighttime amours the truth, with explosive results. From the “Ban the Bomb” marches to crisp campuses and conservatively domestic homes, THAT KIND OF GIRL is an evocative and overheated vision of 60s London that has to be seen to be believed.

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