Notes on the Popular Arts
An exploration of American escapism through dream sequences. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2012.
Equus
A psychiatrist, Martin Dysart, investigates the savage blinding of six horses with a metal spike in a stable in Hampshire, England. The atrocity was committed by an unassuming seventeen-year-old stable…
José
José lives with his mother in Guatemala: a tough life in one of the world’s most dangerous, religious, and impoverished countries. José is her youngest and favorite child, and her…
Golden Orchestra
When Chizuru joins as a teacher at Umega High School, she hears an amateur orchestra perform. Reminiscing her old days of playing the violin, she decides to enroll in one.
War
FBI agent Jack Crawford is out for revenge when his partner is killed and all clues point to the mysterious assassin Rogue. But when Rogue turns up years later to…
Out of Sight
Meet Jack Foley, a smooth criminal who bends the law and is determined to make one last heist. Karen Sisco is a federal marshal who chooses all the right moves…
Silent Parade
Physicist Manabu Yukawa returns to Japan from America. Detective Kaoru Utsumi visits him and talks about a case. The case is about a popular girl in a town who disappeared…
That Old Dream That Moves
A chronicle of queer lust set against a greasy metallic environment of the last days of a factory that is about to shut down. Among the workers forced to idle…
Porky’s Super Service
Porky owns a full-service gas station; he deals with a wide variety of problems, like a bump that migrates to different parts of the car. But his real nemesis is…
The Smiling Lieutenant
An amorous lieutenant is forced to marry a socially awkward princess, though he tries to keep his violin-playing girlfriend on the side.
Mike Birbiglia: The Old Man and the Pool
Comedian Mike Birbiglia dives headlong into mortality, medical tests, nature’s pillows and an overchlorinated YMCA pool in this candid one-man show.
Appetites
Daisy is the all-American girl next door with a hunger for true love and an appetite for murder. Then one day Daisy meets the man of her dreams, only to…
Blind Spot
Tragedy befalls Congresswoman Nell Harrington and her family when her son-in-law dies in a car accident, and Harrington’s pregnant daughter, Phoebe, is propelled into a downward spiral. Things gets worse…