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Mapping Bacurau
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Kleber Mendonça Filho, Juliano Dornelles • 2019 • Brazil • 130 minutes • Por tuguese and English with English subtitles • Opens March 06, 2020
In this wild shape-shifter, a vibrant, richly diverse backcountr y Brazilian town nds its sun-dappled day-to-day disturbed when its inhabitants become the
targets of a group of armed mercenaries. Bacurau is a vividly angr y power-to-the-people fable like no other.
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Blood for Dracula is a modern, daring, and outrageous version that breathes new life into an age-old tale, starring the inimitable Udo Kier, whose Count
comes upon the three beautiful daughters of an aristocratic landowner (Vittorio De Sica), only to be inter fered with by the estate caretaker (Joe
Dallesandro).
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Carlos Diegues • 1980 • Argentina/Brazil/France • 35mm • 110 minutes • Por tuguese with English subtitles
In one of Carlos Diegues’s most popular lms, a motley crew of traveling per formers enter tains a wide range of audiences across Brazil’s nor thwestern
Amazonian landscape. Accordionist Ciço (Fábio Júnior) and his wife Dasdô (Zaira Zambelli) join the rollicking caravan, leading to a string of adventures.
Sergio Corbucci’s delirious action-packed remake of his own lm The Mercenar y pairs spaghetti western stalwar ts Franco Nero and Tomas Milian as an
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James Coburn is an IR A dynamite exper t on the lam who teams up with a Mexican bandit (Rod Steiger); together they become accidental revolutionaries.
Sergio Leone pulls out all the stops for this epic western-cum-war-picture, which features one of Ennio Morricone’s nest scores, spectacularly explosive
Made in response to an actual incident that occurred in Brazil in 1924 when a group of soldiers shot and killed a sacred ox, Ruy Guerra’s Berlinale Silver
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Rober to Santos • 1965 • Brazil • 109 minutes • Por tuguese with English subtitles
Rober to Santos’s Cinema Novo western follows the mythical “hero’s journey ” of Augusto Matraga (Leonardo Villar), a violent farmer who is betrayed by
his wife and nearly killed. After he is rescued by a pair of farmers, Matraga devotes his life to contrition until the oppor tunity for revenge arrives.
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Among the ver y nest lms in the storied career of the great American independent lmmaker John Sayles, Lone Star is an intricately staged, spellbinding
neo-western set in a nely shaded world of psychologically complex characters, and one of cinema’s most searing por traits of border town politics.
While on a weekend camping trip on a remote beach, an unhappy suburban couple show little respect for the environment and encounter the bizarre but
karmic vengeance of the Australian bush in Colin Eggleston’s brutal, unsettling, and nail-bitingly intense environmental horror lm.
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Walter Hill • 1981 • USA/Switzerland/UK • 35mm • 106 minutes
In Walter Hill’s backwoods horror masterpiece, the specter of the Vietnam War looms over a squad of National Guards when their weekend exercise in a
Louisiana swamp turns into a violent sur vival game with a group of Cajuns.
Shot throughout the American West, this sad-toned sci- love stor y tells the stor y of an alien (Je Bridges) who takes the form of the deceased husband
of a young Wisconsinite (Karen Allen), whom he forces to take him to Arizona. All the while, government agents chase them. Starman is alternately a warm
romance and a melancholic ghost stor y with the breezy pacing of a road movie.
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Eduardo Coutinho • 1984 • Brazil • 119 minutes • Por tuguese with English subtitles
In 1964, Eduardo Coutinho was at work on a lm about João Pedro Teixeira, who was murdered by the police as a result of his e or ts to organize farm
workers in nor theast Brazil. Shooting was promptly halted as a result of the militar y coup that same year, but two decades later the director resumed
production, resulting in a prismatically re exive, genre-def ying essay on political commitment and life under dictatorship.
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Directed by Ted Kotche (First Blood) and starring Donald Pleasence, Wake in Fright is a brutal, visceral overlooked gem of the Australian New Wave
about a teacher (Gar y Bond) who arrives in the rough outback mining town of Bundanyabba and ends up going on a days-long, self-destructive bender.
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4K Restoration
Robin Hardy ’s brilliant folk horror classic follows a devoutly Christian policeman, Howie (Edward Woodward), who travels to a remote Scottish island to
investigate a lead on a missing girl. This is a 4K restoration of the most complete version of The Wicker Man.
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