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Paul Rudd’s character basically said, “I think you should leave” and just felt like a drawn out sketch from Robinsons’s show. It’s always nice to see a comedy in the theater and hear other people laughing. But goddamnit, modern audiences laugh at the dumbest moments that aren’t even comedy (eg. big bang theory). 

Film was fine. Fun but lacking something.

Effects and character design were creative and comfortable in style and execution. Felt nostalgic in quality and refreshingly original.

Thursday Matinee
70mm film projection @ Vista Hollywood

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Discombobulating editing and storytelling but superb acting.

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4K screening W/ a Q&A between John Carpenter and Bong Joon Ho At David Geffen theater at The Academy Museum.

A great modern rom com! Musically driven, funny, and feels authentically true to life.

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Too much film. Not enough story. 
Some fun bits, but only a bit fun.
Disted and lacking focus. 
Was trying to say something but when it got close to resolve, it tried to say something else. 
Ruffalo played his Poor Things character, having filmed this just 8 months later.

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Lean in to these ridiculous Romance (and other) posters. — What true love looks like.

• The Child
• Adrift
• Revolutionary Road
• Harry & Meghan: A Royal Romance
• Bones and All
• 9½ Weeks
• The Vow
• Me
• Fifty Shades Freed
• One Fine Day

...plus 186 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Space Age Exploration film archive for curriculum and inspiration. 

See the comprehensive spreadheet list here:

• Beginnings of the Space Age: The American Rocketeer
• The Real Right Stuff
• Explorer 1: The Beginning of the Space Age
• Mercury 13
• Apollo: Missions to the Moon
• Chasing the Moon
• Beginnings of the Space Age: Destination Moon
• Expedition Mars: Spirit & Opportunity
• Built for Mars: The Perseverance Rover
• MARS: Inside SpaceX

...plus 59 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Movies with the cheesy trope “God, help us” or “God Help us all.”

• Avatar
• Top Gun
• Independence Day
• Godzilla
• Watchmen
• How to Train Your Dragon 2
• Airheads
• the Titans
• Black Mass
• Crimson Tide

...plus 8 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Global Filmmakers Recommend their Favourite Native Films

From Blackhorse Lowe to Erica Tremblay, and from Turtle Island to the Pacific Islands, filmmakers from across the globe share their favorite indigenous-made films, with shouts to Sterlin Harjo, Lee Tamahori, Alanis Obomsawin and many more.

All-Time Favorite Indigenous-Made Films selected by indigenous filmmakers. All films mentioned by interviewees from a video posted to @Letterboxd Social Media on 11/28/2023.

• 5th World
• Empty Metal
• Fancy Dance
• Fast Horse
• Boy
• Angry Inuk
• Waikiki
• Once Were Warriors
• Cousins
• NiiSoTeWak: Two Bodies, One Heart

...plus 6 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

The weird wild and wacky

• American Movie
• Winnebago Man
• The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters
• I Am Santa Claus
• The American Scream
• The Rock-afire Explosion
• Voyeur

Only a decade away

• Singles
• Muriel's Wedding
• Son in Law
• Can't Hardly Wait
• Dude, Where's My Car?

Full list of HBO documentaries produced and/or distributed by HBO Documentary Films, HBO/Cinemax, HBO Max, HBO Sports, and all international s. 


Added April 2020:
Kill Chain: the Cyber War on America’s Elections (2020)
After Truth: Disinformation and the Cost of Fake News (2020)
Atlanta’s Missing and Murdered: The Lost Children (2020)
The Scheme (2020)
Transhood (2020)
We Are the Dream (2020)
Home Videos (2019)
Sermon On The Mount (2019)
Fists Of Freedom: The Story of the ‘68 Summer Games (1999)

Coming soon:
The Perfect Weapon (2020)

Chronological > alphabetical 

The following are currently in queue to be added to TMDb/Letterboxd:
Legendary Nights: The Tale of Gatti-Ward
Guerra’s ajenas
Healthy Mom, Healthy Baby
Is weight something we inherit?
Latin health access
Nashville takes action
Obesity and type 2 diabetes
Can a lifetime of weight lead to excessive heart disease?
Obesity research  and the national institutes of health
The weight of the nation: 1-4
Stigma the human cost of obesity
State of Play film series
Victor Manuelle: Que Suenen los Tambores
On Freddie roach 1-6
Pedro capo en letra de otro 
Overweight in the workplace: wellness programs
Poverty and obesity: when healthy food isn’t and option
The quest to understand the biology of weight loss
Addiction Film Series (2007)
The Alzheimer's Project Film Series (2009)
Life in Camelot: The Kennedy Years (1988)
YoungArts Masterclass Film Series
Autopsy 2: Voices From the Dead
Autopsy 3: Voices from the Grave
Ask Dr. Baden: An Autopsy Special
Happy to Be Nappy and Other Stories of Me (2004)
Daughter of Suicide (2000)
'Twas the Night (2002)
The Journey of the African-American Athlete (1996)
Sports on the Silver Screen (1997)
The Greatest Summer of My Life: Billy Crystal and the Making of '61*' (2001)
Addicted (1997)
Bush & Bush (2009)
Memphis PD: War on the Streets (1996)
Sonny Liston: The Mysterious Life and Death of a Champion (1995)
Fields of Fire: Sports in the 60s (1995)
20 Years of Comedy on HBO (1995)
Eagle Scout: The Story of Henry Nicols 1995)
Without Pity: A Film About Abilities (1996)
Smoke Alarm: The Unfiltered Truth About Cigarettes (1996)
Rebels with a Cause: The Story of the American Football League (1995)
America Undercover: Shock Video (1993)
Lock-Up: The Prisoners of Rikers Island (1994)
Jim McKay: My World in My Words (2003)
A City on Fire: The Story of the '68 Detroit Tigers (2002)
:03 from Gold (2002)
Telling Nicholas (2002)
Magic and Myth: The Meaning of 'Carnivàle' (2006)
Crónicas anonimas: Contigo en la distancia (2001)
Drinking Apart: Families Under the Influence (2001)
Blaze Battle: The Face-Off 2000 World Championship (2000)
Bill Russell: My Life, My Way (2000)
Lunar Exploration Command Center (2007)
In This Corner: Boxing's Historic Battles (1994)
The Meaning of Endings: David Milch on the Conclusion of Deadwood (2008)
Road to Dallas: Pacquiao vs. Clottey (2010)
The Life of a Coaches Wife (2007)
Back Nine at Cherry Hills: The Legends of the 1960 U.S. Open (2008)
Rebels on the Run: The Rise and Fall of UNLV Basketball (2005)
Children in War (2000)
Broken Child (2000)
Hookers & Johns: Trick or Treat (2000)
Fists of Freedom: The Story of the '68 Summer Games (1999)
Xtreme: Sports to Die For (1999)
When Sharks Attack! (1999)
Three Cats from Miami and Other Pet Practitioners (1998)
Reflections on Ice: A Diary of Ladies Figure Skating (1998)
Dead Blue: Surviving Depression (1998)
A Cinderella Season: The Lady Vols Fight Back (1998)
Rachel's Daughters: Searching for the Causes of Breast Cancer (1997)
Classic Whitney (1997)
Long Shots: The Life and Times of the American Basketball Association (1997)
Talked to Death (1997)
50 Years of Television: A Celebration of the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences Golden Anniversary (1997)
Heart of a Child (1997)
Brett Killed Mom: A Sister's Diary (1996)
The Trial of James Earl Ray (1993)
Days of Grace: The Arthur Ashe Story (1993)
Through a Child's Eyes: September 11, 2001 (2001)
War Stories (2002)
Crank (2003)
Middle School Confessions (2002)
A Kid Called Troy (1993)
Crime and Punishment: The Best of America Undercover (1997)
Buy Me That 3! A Kid's Guide to Food Advertising (1993)
In This Corner... Boxing's Legendary Heavyweights (1993)
Earth and the American Dream (1993)
Guerras Ajenas (2016)
Planeta Petrila (2016)
Making Habla (2005)
Juror #5
Pretty Things (2005)
Howard Cosell: Telling It Like It Is
A Century of Living
The Music In Me (2006)
Smashed: Toxic Tales of Teens and Alcohol (2004)
Anatomy of a Working Stiff (2004)
Coma
Brothers (2006)
Cracked Not Broken (2007)
Death by Hanging (1998)
Vandemonium Plus (1987)
Montgomery Clift: His Place in the Sun (1989)
Crazy About the Movies: Dennis Hopper (1991)
Southern Justice: The Murder of Medgar Evers (1994)
Crazy About the Movies: Ava Gardner (1992)
Mo' Funny: Black Comedy in America (1993)
Marilyn Monroe: Beyond the Legend (1987)
An Act of Conscience (1997)
The McCourts of Limerick (1997)
Men Are from Manhattan... Women Are from Saskatchewan (1997)
It Ain't Love (1997)
The McCourts of New York (1999)
A Comic's Climb at the USCAF (2005)
Monica in Black and White (2002)
Fashion Victim: The Killing of Gianni Versace (2001)
Going Home (2004)
Dangerous Deception: Living on the Down Low (2005)
Orphans of Nkandla (2005)
Antes de que nos olviden (2014)
Holocausto Brasileiro (2016)
Habla
Habla Ya
The Miles Davis Documentary (2016)
Katie Morgan on Sex Toys (2007)
From the Corner (2008)
The Music in Me: The Leopards Take Manhattan - The Little Band That Roared (2008)
HBO's Cinemax Reel Life Series
My Uncle Berns
Atomic Ed & the Black Hole
Verdict: The Wrong Man
The Kidnapping of Ingrid Betancourt
Trinkets and Beads
America Undercover: Women On Trial (1993)
America Undercover: Transplant (1989)
America Undercover: Why Did Johnny Kill? (1988)
America Undercover: Murder or Mercy: Five American Families (1988)
Do the Guilty Go Free? (1988)
Legendary Ladies of Rock & Roll (1988)
AIDS: Everything You and Your Family Needs to Know... But Were Afraid to Ask (1987)
Greatest Sports Upsets (1987)
Vigilante: Right or Wrong (1987)
An American Family Revisited: The Louds 10 Years Later (1983)
History of Tennis (1988)
Yours to Keep (1989)
Pornucopia
Teen Killers: A Second Chance?
Jack Benny: Comedy in Bloom (1992)
Marilyn: The Last Interview (1992)
My Mother's Murder (1992)
Losing It All: The Reality of Alzheimer's Disease (1991)
Influences: George Jones and Randy Travis (1991)
Influences: James Brown and M.C. Hammer (1991)
The One, the Only... Groucho (1991)
The Making of a Champion: Jennifer Capriati (1991)
Guns: A Day in the Death of America (1990)
The Record Breakers of Sports (1990)
Pearl River Studios: China's Filmmakers (1990)
Whodunit? The Greatest Unsolved Mysteries (1979)
Crazy About the Movies: Growing Up in the Movies (1986)
Stepping Out: The Debolts Grow Up (1980)
Some Call Them... Freaks (1981)
Sports Illustrated: The First 25 Years (1981)
Talking Sex... With Your Kids (1982)
Making Love Better (1982)
Five American Guns (1983)
Champions of American Sport (1983)
Vanished: Missing Children (1983)
Schindler: The Real Story (1983)
arbara Mandrell: The Lady Is a Champ (1983)
The Great Standups (1984)
The Comeback of Sugar Ray Leonard (1984)
A Toast to Lenny (1984)
The History of Pro Football (1983)
Merrill Markoe's Guide to Glamorous Living
Daryl Hall & John Oates: Rock 'N Soul International
The Weight of the Nation for Kids: The Great Cafeteria Takeover
The Weight of the Nation for Kids: Kebreeya's Salad Days
The Weight of the Nation for Kids: Quiz Ed!
Witness: Juarez
Witness: Libya
Witness: Rio
Witness: South Sudan

• After Truth: Disinformation and the Cost of Fake News
• Ali & Cavett: The Tale of the Tapes
• Atlanta's Missing and Murdered: The Lost Children
• Autism: The Sequel
• Bully. Coward. Victim. The Story of Roy Cohn
• Burden of Proof
• Kill Chain: The Cyber War on America's Elections
• McMillion$
• Natalie Wood: What Remains Behind
• On the Record

...plus 719 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Nominees for the 35th annual Film Independent SPiRiT AWARDS, airing February 8, 2020 on IFC. 

See “Notes” (👓) for where to watch on streaming services...
HBO (1)
Hulu (7)
Cinemax (1)
Netflix (5)
PBS port (1)
Prime Video (9)
Showtime (1)
Kanopy (4) free with library card
Hoopla (2) free with library card

(26/47 Total Currently Available on streaming services)

For Film Independent who receive screeners:
📀 = DVD Screener (1/47)
💾 = Digital Screener (37/47)
🍿= Arclight Culver City Screenings (41/47)
📺= streaming services only (3/47)
💔= Not accessible for voting (4/47)

(as of 01/23/20)

• A Hidden Life

  In theaters. No streaming yet. 💾🍿

• Clemency

  In theaters. No streaming yet. 💾🍿

• Uncut Gems

  In theaters. No streaming yet. 💾🍿

• Marriage Story

  Netflix 💾🍿

• Honey Boy

  Prime video 💾🍿

• Booksmart

  Hulu 💾🍿

• Parasite

  Rent $4.99. No streaming yet. 📀🍿

• The Farewell

  Rent $3.99. No streaming yet. 💾🍿

• The Lighthouse

  Rent $3.99. No streaming yet. 💾🍿

• The Last Black Man in San Francisco

  Prime Video 💾🍿

...plus 37 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

• The Super Mario Bros. Movie
• Mortal Kombat
• Uncharted
• Pokémon the Movie: Secrets of the Jungle
• Monster Hunter
• Sonic the Hedgehog
• Pokémon the Movie: Mewtwo Strikes Back - Evolution
• Pokémon Detective Pikachu
• The Angry Birds Movie 2
• Tomb Raider

...plus 151 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

(see below in description for 23 more films!)

We may Independence Day, The Matrix, The Phantom Menace. But what about these forgotten 90s sci-fi films? And are any worth seeing?

by Ryan Lambie
Jul 17, 2015

Think back to the science fiction cinema of the 1990s, and some of the decade's biggest box-office hits will immediately spring to mind: The Phantom Menace, Jurassic Park, Independence Day, Men In Black, Armageddon, and Terminator 2 were all in the top 20 most lucrative films of the era.

But what about the sci-fi films of the 1990s that failed to make even close to the same cultural and financial impact of those big hitters? These are the films this list is devoted to - the flops, the straight-to-video releases, the low-budget and critically-derided. We've picked 50 live-action films that fit these criteria, and dug them up to see whether they're still worth watching in the 21st century.

So here's a mix of everything from hidden classics to forgettable dreck, with a few films falling somewhere in between...

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Some additions by s from this article's comments section:
Circuitry Man (1990)
Class of 1999 (1990)
Crossworlds (1993)
Ghost in the Machine (1993)
Mandroid (1993)
A.P.E.X (1994)
Death Machine (1994)
Cube (1997)
Sphere (1998)

and from me and other 90s sci-if lists:
The Dark Backward (1991)
Bad Channels (1992)
Breakfast of Aliens (1993)
Freaked (1993)
Oblivion (1994)
The City of Lost Children (1995)
Waterworld (1995)
Barb Wire (1996)
Escape From L.A. (1996)
Spawn (1997)
Steel (1997)
Starship Troopers (1997)
New Rose Hotel (1998)
Progeny (1999)

See the comprehensive Wikipedia list of 90s Sci Fi!

Click the glasses to read Ryan’s reviews of each film and links to where to watch for free where available.

1. Abraxas, Guardian of the Universe

   This, surely, is the best title of any 90s sci-fi film. Jesse “The Body" Ventura stars as intergalactic cop Abraxas, who ends up fighting his rogue ex-partner Secundus (an equally beefy Sven-Ole Thorsen), who’s gone rogue, fathered a child (by touching a woman’s belly and immediately making her pregnant) and hopes to use the offspring as a means of gaining unlimited powers. Look out for Jim Belushi in a small role as a school principal.

   Is it worth seeing? It’s as batty as it sounds, so yes.

   
   Watch on Amazon Prime!

2. Solar Crisis

   Before its release, Solar Crisis seemed to have plenty going for it: a starry cast, including Peter Boyle, Jack Palance and Charlton Heston, design by Syd Mead and direction from Richard C Sarafian (Vanishing Point). Unfortunately, the result was a hokey mess that clearly had some problems raging behind the scenes - Sarafian ultimately took his name off the movie, leaving it credited to one Alan Smithee instead.

   About a mission to throw a bomb at our tyrannical sun, Solar Crisis suffers from a ponderous pace and a groan-inducing script, and even some decent pre-digital effects couldn't save this one from box-office oblivion.

   Is it worth seeing? The morbidly curious might get some fun out of it, but for a superior sun-bombing experience, see Danny Boyle's Sunshine instead.

3. Dark Angel

   I Come In Peace is a bit like Predator relocated to the streets of Texas. Dolph Lundgren plays a cop on the hunt for vicious drug dealers, only to discover that one of them is an alien that kills its victims with a deadly flying disc. A sci-fi buddy-cop thriller (Lundgren’s partnered with an alien cop name Azeck), it doesn’t win many marks for originality, but the action’s decent, it doesn’t take itself too seriously, and Jan Hammer provides the soundtrack.

   Is it worth seeing? There are worse ways to spend an evening, put it that way.

   
   Watch on STARZ!

4. Hardware

   It's sad to think that, at the dawn of the 1990s, Richard Stanley was being hailed as one of Britain's finest young directors. But as the 2014 documentary Lost Soul reveals, his career was unfairly cut short by the infamously nightmarish production of The Island Of Doctor Moreau. Go back to his debut, Hardware, and you can why see he was such a promising filmmaker. Its story, about a military robot putting itself back together and menacing a post-apocalyptic ghetto, is a familiar one, but Stanley gives it real verve - Hardware has a stylish, artistic edge that most low-budget genre films of the period sorely lacked.

   Is it worth seeing? Oh yes - and so too is Stanley's second film, Dust Devil.

   
   Watch on Hulu!

5. Moon 44

   Before he became famous as Hollywood’s new Master of Disaster (taking over from Irwin Allen), Independence Day and 2012 director Roland Emmerich made this mid-to-low budget sci-fi oddity. About a group of helicopter pilots hired to protect a space mining colony (yes, really), it nominally stars Malcolm McDowell as the villain, but he’s only really in about five scenes. Some quaint special effects and set design are the few memorable things in this oddly tepid debut from a director now known the world over for his flamboyant destruction of civic buildings.

   Is it worth seeing? As a glimpse of Emmerich: the early years, just about.

6. Robot Jox

   Courtesy of Re-Animator director Stuart Gordon, here's America's proto Pacific Rim. In a post-apocalyptic future, wars between nations are settled not by armies and missiles, but by pitting giant robots against each other in gladiatorial matches. Achilles (Gary Graham) is the west's finest robot operator - that is, until he has a Tom Cruise-like crisis of confidence when hundreds of spectators are killed during a particularly ferocious battle. Eventually, he's coaxed out of retirement for one more fight with his arch-nemesis, Alexander (Joe Koslo).

   The script and acting's the wrong side of campy (a tone Gordon reportedly insisted on), but the Japanese-inspired robots look great and the stop-motion animation is quite adorable. Actually shot in 1987 but shelved for three years (hence its inclusion here), Robot Jox was a flop on release, but has garnered a cult following since.

   Is it worth seeing? For a night in, it's absolutely worth a watch.

7. Spaced Invaders

   An ill-advised sci-fi comedy in which aliens land on Earth at Halloween and are mistaken for trick-or-treaters by the inhabitants of a small town. The special effects and designs, which pay loving homage to 50s B-movies, are the main reason to watch Spaced Invaders. The flailing attempts at humour, meanwhile, are something of an acquired taste.

   Is it worth seeing? Not really.

8. Dead Space

   Bryan Cranston! Here's a crap-tacular space-horror from producer Roger Corman, made in the style of his '80s Alien rip-offs like Galaxy Of Terror and Forbidden World. In fact, Dead Space is pretty much a remake of Forbidden World, with yet another monster terrorising the crew of a space craft. A fresh-faced Cranston plays a scientist in a white lab coat, while Marc Singer (The Beastmaster, V) plays the buff hero. Eagle-eyed viewers may also spot the recycled footage from Battle Beyond The Stars.

   Is it worth watching? Obviously, it's utter trash. But Bryan Cranston!

   
   Watch FREE on TubiTV (with ads)!

9. The Guyver

   A live-action version of a cult manga and anime, starring Mark Hamill and directed by Society effects maestro Screaming Mad George? What’s not to like? About a young man who encounters an experimental suit of biological armour, The Guyver lacks the angst and melodrama of its Japanese source, but retains the protracted monster fights. The Guyver bio-armor and the numerous monster antagonists are on the rubbery side to say the least, but that’s all part of the film’s goofy charm. Called Mutronics in some territories, The Guyver got a sequel, Guyver: Dark Hero, in 1994.

   Is it worth seeing? It's spectacularly camp, so yes.

10. Timebomb

    Arriving in the wake of Total Recall, this cut-price thriller sees Michael Biehn's hero realise that he's actually a brainwashed assassin with only vague recollections of his former life. It's Philip K Dick by way of Robert Ludlum, and a poorly-cast Patsy Kensit (she plays a psychiatrist love interest) and some cheesy direction doesn't help the film's cause.

    Is it worth seeing? Nah.

...plus 41 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

• 13th
• 180° South
• A Band Called Death
• Aileen Wuornos: The Selling of a Serial Killer
• Aileen: Life and Death of a Serial Killer
• American Hardcore
• American Movie
• Anvil! The Story of Anvil
• Baraka
• Being Evel

...plus 98 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

23/45 (HALF OF THE) films are on subcription streaming this year! 
—> Click For Nominees One Sheet PDF  <—
STREAMING
Amazon prime video
Eighth Grade <— links to watch content
Hereditary
Leave No Trace
You Were Never Really Here
CINEMAX
Thoroughbreds
HBO
The Tale
En El Séptimo Día
Won’t You Be My Neighbor?
hoopla (free app, no ads)
Burning
Mandy
hulu
Minding The Gap
Sorry To Bother You
The Girls
Kanopy (free app, no ads)
Blame
First Reformed
Madeline’s Madeline
Nancy
Never Goin’ Back
Of Fathers and Sons
NETFLIX
Happy As Lazzaro
Private Life
Shirkers
Roma 
—
FOR RENT
Most services cost $4 — check JustWatch for all pricing, but I’ve done the work to find the cheapest options:
redbox ($1.75ea):
American Animals
Blackkklansman
Blindspotting
Colette
Mid90s
Searching
Suspiria
The Wife
Other services ($4ea):
Monsters and Men
On Her Shoulders
Thunder Road
We The Animals
Wildlife

Other cheaper but more tedious options would be to sign up for NETFLIX DVD for $7/mo and rent DVDs there or check your local library and rent for FREE! 
—

PURCHASE ONLY
Can You Ever Forgive Me?
—
ONLY IN THEATERS
The Favourite
If Beale Street Could Talk
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CATCH A SCREENING
A Bread Factory
—
CURRENTLY UNAVAILABLE 
Hale County This Morning, This Evening
Lemonade
Shoplifters
Socrates
—
TOTAL COST: ($170-$256)

OR....

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FILM INDEPENDENT MEMBER ($95)
So you could spend $200+ to catch many but not all these great independent films before the 34th Spirit Awards on February 23, 2019 OR you could SIGN UP to be a Film Independent Member for only $95/year and get to see all 45 films split between DVD/digital screeners* and access to theatrical screenings to 39** of the 45 films at ArcLight Cinemas in Culver City, CA. As a Film Independent member you have the great honor to VOTE on the winners of these films for each category. hip also comes with tons of other perks like access to over 200 events including free Q&A screenings all year long, networking mixers, filmmaking seminars, discussions, and workshops! 
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*12/07/18 -  DVD/digital screener eligibility for 2019 Spirit Awards included with your hip has now ended. But you’ve still got the ArcLight screenings (Jan. 11-26) and this extensive guide to watch all the films at home before you catch the ceremony on IFC in Feb.
**12/18/18 - Films not screening at Arclight Culver City: En El Séptimo Día (HBO), Thunder Road (rent), Private Life (Netflix), Never Goin’ Back (Kanopy), Blindspotting (rent), & Lemonade (unavailable)

• Eighth Grade
• First Reformed
• If Beale Street Could Talk
• Leave No Trace
• You Were Never Really Here
• Hereditary
• Sorry to Bother You
• The Tale
• We the Animals
• Wildlife

...plus 35 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Films that depict either drug distribution or drug use, whether as a major theme or in a few memorable scenes (according to wikipedia)

Suggestions welcome. 

A work in progress... just finished letter C.

1. 1st of May: All Belongs to You
2. 10 to Midnight
3. 21 Grams
4. 21 Jump Street
5. 22 Jump Street
6. 24 Hour Party People
7. 25th Hour
8. 28 Days Later
9. 28 Weeks Later
10. 30 Minutes or Less

...plus 181 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Trauma triggering posters containing images of the New York World Trade Center Twin Towers pre-9/11.

• Moonstruck
• The Squeeze
• Spider-Man
• King Kong
• Escape from New York
• Invasion U.S.A.
• Supergirl
• The Secret of My Success
• Q
• The Believers

...plus 28 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

From cult films to overlooked indies, a little of everything for this Halloween

Some horror movies have a hard-earned place within the genre canon, to the point that their reputation stretches beyond genre fans and into the general consciousness. People who have never seen A Nightmare on Elm Street know Freddy Krueger. Other movies are fan-favorite classics, like the works of George A. Romero, whose Dawn of the Dead created an enduring legacy for fans of the underground end of horror. Halloween is still captivating audiences 40 years later, clearly.
This Halloween, viewers looking for a scare will likely gravitate towards the more conventional genre choices and the modern films that have defined our current horror renaissance. But for those looking to take a leap on films less associated with the canon, we’ve got you covered.
Some films on the list are well regarded by genre purists, while some others may cause them to call me a crank. Some of these films were mainstream flops, while others were available only on back country drive-ins and dusty video stores. If you want a season full of scares, this list will do well to nourish your hunger for the macabre.

Posted on Polygon by John Wenz | October 27, 2018 4:48 pm

• Carnival of Souls
• The Last Man on Earth
• The Beyond
• April Fool's Day
• Near Dark
• The Exorcist III
• The Reflecting Skin
• Return of the Living Dead III
• Ginger Snaps
• The Endless

All the films playing Cinecon 54 at The Egyptian Theater in Los Angeles, CA August 30 - September 3, 2018.

Mentone shorts and television promos and productions not listed.

• Helen's Babies
• Sweet and Low-Down
• Scotland Yard
• Blonde Trouble
• Little Orphant Annie
• King Solomon of Broadway
• Playin' Hookey
• The Sting of Stings
• It's Great to Be Alive
• That Certain Feeling

...plus 45 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Real stories. Real People. Not always accurate and sometimes embellished for emotional effect, but always interesting. This is the ultimate list of films based on people and events in human history.

• I'm Not There
• Bird
• Elvis
• Sid and Nancy
• The Buddy Holly Story
• Straight Outta Compton
• Walk the Line
• 8 Mile
• Amadeus
• Bound for Glory

...plus 831 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

A comprehensive list of documentaries that will wow the senses, open the mind, and get you mad, off your ass and out the door with the knowledge and motivation to act against the ailments and atrocities that plague the planet.

• 13th
• Blackfish
• Gasland
• Hooligan Sparrow
• Forks Over Knives
• Oliver Stone's Untold History of the United States
• The Cove
• More Than Honey
• O.J.: Made in America
• Home

...plus 123 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.