![]() ![]() ![]() She gets her period for the first time, falls in love with another girl, has her heart broken, and, inevitably, learns to stand up for herself and what she wants. A shy girl with a troubled mother and loving but boy-crazy older sister, Nora must contend with the many tribulations of early teenage years largely by herself. (BLU-RAY)ĭescribed as “seductive and well-acted” (The Guardian), Cocoon tells the coming-of-age transformation of Nora, a 14-year-old from Berlin, over the course of one blisteringly hot summer. Filmed in Italy at the height of the country’s sci-fi craze, this independent classic stars Golden Age-star Claude Rains (Casablanca, The Invisible Man, Notorious), Bill Carter, Umberto Orsini, Maya Brent, Jaqueline Derval and Renzo Palmer. A host of familiar faces – Bob Denver, Tony Dow, Jerry Mathers, Don Adams, Edd “Kookie” Byrnes, Pee-Wee Herman and more – joins the fun in the California sun! (BLU-RAY)īATTLE OF THE WORLDS (1961) (FILM DETECTIVE SPECIAL EDITION)Ī runaway asteroid dubbed “The Outsider” mysteriously begins orbiting the Earth and threatens it with lethal flying saucers. Break Dancing may have replaced The Twist in the intervening years, but Frankie and Annette still know how to have a good time – and they teach their own ’80’s new-wave children a thing or two in the process. ![]() ![]() Veteran beach-movie favorites Frankie Avalon and Annette Funicello return the screen in this hip, hilarious update of their surf-and-sand adventures. Are we the sum of the images we compile and display of ourselves, or are we something richer, and deeper? (DVD) Through images deadpan, strange and surreal, Greek writer-director Christos Nikou posits a beguiling reflection on memory, identity, and loss, exploring how a society might handle an irreversible epidemic through one man’s story of self-discovery. Prescribed daily tasks on cassette tapes so he can create new memories and document them on camera, Aris slides back into ordinary life, meeting Anna (Sofia Georgovasili), a woman who is also in recovery. (DVD)Īmidst a worldwide pandemic that causes sudden amnesia, middle-aged Aris (Aris Servetalis) finds himself enrolled in a recovery program designed to help unclaimed patients build new identities. In the aftermath of an unimaginable tragedy, a basketball title has the ability to breathe new life back into this small town. Watch as two cousins lead their local High School team toward a shot at their first state championship in over 30 years. For hundreds of years two distinct traditions have defined their community-fishing and basketball. Metlakatla is Alaska’s last Native Indian reserve. While linking these seemingly disparate histories of violence, the film confirms Reyes as one of the most potent voices in American independent cinema. Provocative, unique, and strikingly cinematic, 499 mixes non-fictional and performative elements with elements of the road movie to show how past traumas continue to affect contemporary reality. As the anachronistic fictional character interacts with real-life victims of Mexico’s failed drug wars and indigenous communities in resistance, the filmmaker portrays the country’s current humanitarian crisis as part of a vicious and unfinished colonial project, still in motion, nearly five hundred years later. Through the eyes of a ghostly conquistador, the film recreates Hérnan Cortés’ epic journey from the coasts of Veracruz to the Aztec capital of Tenochtitlan, the site of contemporary Mexico City. To reflect on the 500-year anniversary of the Spanish conquest of Mexico in 2021, director Reyes offers a bold hybrid cinema experience exploring the brutal legacy of colonialism in contemporary Mexico. ![]()
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