Miscellaneous Picks - The Secret Screening

Chris Pine co-stars in THE KIDNAPPING OF ANABELLA, courtesy of Oscilloscope Laboratories

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Zoot Suit, Capisce?

With a deadpan melancholy to rival Aki Kaurismäki's oeuvre, Carolina Cavalli's The Kidnapping of Arabella is so tonally precarious that it could be called an absurdist buddy comedy, a coming-of-age drama, or a psychological portrait of delusional regret. A chance encounter convinces an aimless

Still shot from BARRIO TRISTE, courtesy of Film Movement and EDGLRD

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It's Not a Scoreboard

With the street-level chaos of Kids, the vibey nihilism of Spring Breakers and the analog grime of Trash Humpers, of course Harmony Korine's production shingle (skateboard company?) EDGLRD is behind Barrio Triste. A gang of disaffected teens steals a TV reporter's Betacam to document their

Claudia Chandler with daughter Ashley and classmate watching 3D horror movie on TV in SHERMAN’S MARCH. Courtesy of Music Box Films.

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How the West Was Re-Spliced

Documentary filmmaker Ross McElwee once set out to trace General Sherman's destructive Civil War path to the sea. Then his girlfriend dumped him. Growing richer, smoother and more complex 40 years later, McElwee's hilarious and humane Sherman's March has aged like a fine Carolina

a kinetic fight scene from THE FURIOUS, in which two grappling characters feature legs spinning in the air like helicopter blades

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Violent Fury and Crushing Despair <3

Buster Keaton begat Jackie Chan, who begat The Raid, which begat John Wick. You're now caught up on the kinetic lineage of stunt coordinator-turned-filmmaker Kenji Tanigaki's Hong Kong action brawler The Furious ("Huo zhe yan"), an electrifying cult classic in the making.