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  • Ticket of No Return
  • Om Dar-B-Dar
  • Swing Girls
  • A Different Man

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  • A Different Man

    ★★★★★

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  • A Different Man

    A Different Man

    ★★★★★

    This is a cruel joke. It hurt to watch. Aaron Schimberg has caught lightning in a bottle. Envy, jealousy, and distinctly masculine self-loathing. This is one special movie.

  • Nosferatu

    Nosferatu

    ★★★★

    Fav Eggers yet! This is perhaps his most commercial film yet. Sex, blood, dreams, gothic castles, and lots of rats. This film was born to run.

    The performances are great and the terror is palpable. The story works well and the atmosphere is chilling. There's tasty film references littered throughout the film, from Possession to Diabeł to The Phantom Carriage. And those slow camera pans just heighten the tension so much. It's a good time. Go watch!

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  • Nainsukh

    Nainsukh

    the first image of the film (also the last) is nainsukh seated on the ghats of haridwar. a man appears and places before nainsukh a manuscript (bahi/record book) with some written text and a painting of shiva, parvati, and bhagirath (from the story of ganga's descent from heaven to earth). the manuscript pictured here is the breakthrough discovery of b.n. goswamy, which allowed him to accurately date nainsukh's life (watch goswamy tell the story here). we watch as nainsukh completes…

  • Deadly Sweet

    Deadly Sweet

    absolutely bonkers, like an anarchic czech comedy with nouvelle vague cool. kitsch, psychedelic, lots of fun.