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Dream House: : Cinefantastique Spotlight Podcast 2:38.1

Dream House: : Cinefantastique Spotlight Podcast 2:38.1

Not Your Average Fix'r Up'r: Daniel Craig stands at the precipice of his fracturing sanity in DREAM HOUSE.
Winner of this year’s Ironic Film Title ribbon (SARAH PALIN: THE UNDEFEATED was disqualified for failure to complete a term — talk about ironic) DREAM HOUSE marks director Jim Sheridan’s attempt to explore the world of the psychological [...]

Jeff Nichols on Take Shelter: Borderland Film Podcast

Jeff Nichols on Take Shelter: Borderland Film Podcast

Cloudy with a Chance of Impending Doom: Michael Shannon tries to weather the storm in TAKE SHELTER.
Roland Emmerich can bite me. The guy’s been making disaster films since time can remember, yet for all his besetting humans with floods, fires, and earthquakes (and the occasional alien invasion), he’s never managed to [...]

Kuroneko (

Kuroneko (”The Black Cat”) on screen

[ July 1, 2011; 10:00 am; August 4, 2011 10:00 am to August 5, 2011 10:00 am. October 29, 2011; 10:00 am; March 17, 2012; 10:00 am; ] Specialty distributor Janus Films has struck new 35mm prints of Kaneto Shindo’s legendary film, KURONEKO (”The Black Cat,” 1968), a follow-up to the writer-director’s  wonderfully creepy ONIBABA (”Demon Woman,” 1964). KURONEKO has long been one of the most hard-to-find Japanese horror classics; it is known stateside mostly by reputation, but that reputation is a strong one: [...]

'Redline' - Futurtistic Anime Screening

‘Redline’ – Futurtistic Anime Screening

[ October 8, 2011 5:00 pm to October 14, 2011 5:00 pm. ] VIZ Cinema, the nation’s only movie theatre dedicated to Japanese film, will be featuring the North American premiere of the anime feature REDLINE.