While grieving for the loss of their mother, the Connolly sisters suddenly find they have a crime to cover up, leading them deep into the underbelly of their salty Maine fishing village. – JustWatch
Director: Bridget Savage Cole, Danielle Krudy
Cast: Morgan Saylor, Sophie Lowe, Margo Martindale, June Squibb, Annette O’Toole, Ebon Moss-Bachrach
Country: United States
Distributor: Amazon Studios
Rating: R
Runtime: 1 hour, 30 minutes
Platform: Amazon Prime
Josh is joined by first time guest Brad McDermott and frequent contributor Michael Hutchins for an informal conversation about May’s new and expiring titles.
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Two strangers dressed as minstrels (Arletty and Alain Cuny) arrive at a castle in advance of court festivities—and are revealed to be emissaries of the devil, dispatched to spread heartbreak and suffering. Their plans, however, are thwarted by an unexpected intrusion: human love. – The Criterion Collection
Director: Marcel Carné
Cast: Arletty, Alain Cuny
Country: France
Distributor: Janus Films
Rating: Not Rated
Runtime: 2 hours, 2 minutes
Platform: The Criterion Channel
Special Programming: Classic Cinema
Post apocalypse Europe, two years after zombies have overrun Earth, only two citadels of civilization remain in the East German towns of Weimar and Jena. In Weimar, newly infected zombies are shot on site without mercy. The Jena authorities take a more humane approach by trying to find a cure for plague victims. Vivi and Eva, in search of a more humane world are stranded in the no-mans land of the Black Forest where they have to rely on each other and nature in order to survive. But their survival has also unleashed demons from their past that they must confront. – Shudder
Director: Carolina Hellsgård
Cast: Swantje Kohlhof, Maja Lehrer, Trine Dyrholm, Yûho Yamashita
Country: Germany
Distributor: Juno Films
Rating: Not Rated
Runtime: 1 hour, 30 minutes
Platform: Shudder
Special Programming: Midnight Movies
A decade in the making, Mariano Llinás’s La Flor is an unrepeatable labor of love and madness that redefines the concept of binge viewing. The director himself shows up at the start to preview the six episodes that await, each starring the same four remarkable actresses: Elisa Carricajo, Valeria Correa, Pilar Gamboa, and Laura Paredes. Overflowing with nested subplots and whiplash digressions, La Flor shape-shifts from a B-movie to a musical to a spy thriller to a category-defying metafiction—all of them without endings—to a remake of a very well-known French classic and, finally, to an enigmatic period piece that lacks a beginning (granted, all notions of beginnings and endings become fuzzy after 14 hours). An adventure in scale and duration, La Flor is a wildly entertaining exploration of the possibilities of fiction that lands somewhere close to its outer limits. – Film Society of Lincoln Center
Director: Mariano Llinás
Cast: Elisa Carricajo, Valeria Correa, Pilar Gamboa, Laura Paredes
Country: Argentina
Distributor: Grasshopper Film
Rating: Not Rated
Runtime: 5 hours, 23 minutes
Platform: Video-On-Demand
Special Programming: Long-Form Cinema
A groundbreaking summer camp galvanizes a group of teens with disabilities to help build a movement, forging a new path toward greater equality. – Netflix
Director: Nicole Newnham , James Lebrecht
Cast: Larry Allison, Judith Heumann, James Lebrecht
Country: United States
Distributor: Netflix
Rating: R
Runtime: 1 hour, 46 minutes
Platform: Netflix
Special Programming: Documentary Cinema
A film director and her muse who was a student activist in the 1970s, a waitress who keeps changing jobs, an actor and an actress, all live loosely connected to each other by almost invisible threads. The narrative sheds its skin several times to reveal layer upon layer of the complexities that make up the characters’ lives. – Telescope Film
Director: Anocha Suwichakornpong
Cast: Arak Amornsupasiri, Atchara Suwan, Visra Vichit-Vadakan, Intira Jaroenpura
Country: Thailand, France, Qatar
Distributor: Kimstim Films
Rating: Not Rated
Runtime: 1 hour, 47 minutes
Platform: OVID
Olivia captures the awakening passions of an English adolescent sent away for a year to a small finishing school outside Paris. The innocent but watchful Olivia develops an infatuation for her headmistress, Mlle. Julie, and through this screen of love observes the tense romance between Mlle. Julie and the other head of the school, Mlle. Cara, in its final months. – Telescope Film
Director: Jacqueline Audry
Cast: Edwige Feuillère, Simone Simon, Marie-Claire Olivia, Yvonne de Bray
Country: France
Distributor: Icarus Films
Rating: Not Rated
Runtime: 1 hour, 32 minutes
Platform: OVID
Special Programming: Classic Cinema
15-year-old Mia faces an overwhelming transformation which puts her entire existence into question. Her body is changing radically, and despite desperate attempts to halt the process, Mia is soon forced to accept that nature is far more powerful than she is. – Telescope Film
Director: Lisa Brühlmann
Cast: Luna Wedler, Zoë Pastelle Holthuizen, Regula Grauwiller, Georg Scharegg
Country: Switzerland
Distributor: Uncork’d Entertainment
Rating: Not Rated
Runtime: 1 hour, 37 minutes
Platform: Shudder
Special Programming: Midnight Movies
A decade in the making, Mariano Llinás’s La Flor is an unrepeatable labor of love and madness that redefines the concept of binge viewing. The director himself shows up at the start to preview the six episodes that await, each starring the same four remarkable actresses: Elisa Carricajo, Valeria Correa, Pilar Gamboa, and Laura Paredes. Overflowing with nested subplots and whiplash digressions, La Flor shape-shifts from a B-movie to a musical to a spy thriller to a category-defying metafiction—all of them without endings—to a remake of a very well-known French classic and, finally, to an enigmatic period piece that lacks a beginning (granted, all notions of beginnings and endings become fuzzy after 14 hours). An adventure in scale and duration, La Flor is a wildly entertaining exploration of the possibilities of fiction that lands somewhere close to its outer limits. – Film Society of Lincoln Center
Director: Mariano Llinás
Cast: Elisa Carricajo, Valeria Correa, Pilar Gamboa, Laura Paredes
Country: Argentina
Distributor: Grasshopper Film
Rating: Not Rated
Runtime: 5 hours, 44 minutes
Platform: Video-On-Demand
Special Programming: Long-Form Cinema
