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1) Naked lunch
Series
Criterion collection volume 220
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Language
English
Formats
Description
Part-time pest-control man and full-time drug addict Bill Lee (Weller) seeks escape from his troubled existence in 1953 New York and flees to Interzone (a hallucinatory version of Tangiers) where reality and fantasy have merged. It's a strange, surreal landscape inhabited by mugwumps, half-alien, half-insect creatures, man-sized centipedes, carnivorous typewriters and bizarre humans. Compelled to make sense of this alien territory, he writes a book...
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
Français
Description
Focusing on the relationship between Hubert Minel, a 16-year-old Quebecois living in suburban Montreal, and his single mother Chantale, the film beautifully captures the anxieties of a mother-son relationship. While he gauges her with contempt, only seeing her out-of-date sweater and kitschy decor, the ingrained mechanisms (i.e. manipulation and guilt) of their relationship beautifully (and tragically) unravel on the big screen.
Publisher
RLJE Films, Shudder
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Mimi and Luke unwittingly resurrect an ancient alien overlord who was entombed on Earth millions of years ago after a failed attempt to destroy the universe. They nickname the evil creature Psycho Goreman (or PG for short) and use the magical amulet they discovered to force him to obey their childish whims. It isn₂t long before PG's reappearance draws the attention of intergalactic friends and foes from across the cosmos, and a rogues' gallery of...
6) Antiviral
Publisher
IFC Films
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
Celebrity obsession has reached an all-time high, with the public now clamoring to be infected with the same diseases their idols carry. At the Lucas Clinic, Syd March sells injections of live viruses to those fans who can afford it. But Syd also has a black market trade in illness, selling viruses smuggled in his own body to piracy groups. After super sensation Hannah Geist reveals a new disease she carries, Syd is quick to capitalize on the opportunity...
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Accused of abusing her position of authority with seventeen-year-old Clive and another student, Veronica is imprisoned, despite the accusation being an elaborate hoax instigated by a bus driver. Convinced that she deserves to be punished for crimes she committed at an earlier age, Veronica rebuffs her father's attempts to secure her early release, and both have to work through these complicated emotions with the help of Father Greg, who may know more...
Publisher
Vertical Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Following the death of her father, ex-military specialist Clair Hamilton returns from the Middle East to claim her inheritance only to find that her thirteen-year-old son, Charlie, has been kidnapped. Desperate to save her son. Clair embarks on a perilous journey deep into the Alaska Mountains to hunt down the mysterious leader of the gang who is holding him for ransom.
10) The void
Publisher
Screen Media
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Officer Carter stumbles upon a crawling man in need of help in the forest. A trip to the desolate and nearly closed hospital kicks off the beginning of the end for several hospital patrons. Carter's estranged wife Allison is the head nurse along with Dr. Powell when Carter brings in the drifter. The father and son tracking the drifter burst onto the scene to demand that the man be handed over.
11) Born to be blue
Series
Publisher
IFC Films
Language
English
Formats
Description
Jazz legend Chet Baker's tumultuous life is thrillingly re-imagined with wit, verve, and style to burn. In the 1950s, Baker was one of the most famous trumpeters in the world, renowned as both a pioneer of the West Coast jazz scene and an icon of cool.
12) Flashback
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Fredrick Fitzell is living his best life, until he starts having horrific visions of Cindy, a girl who vanished in high school. After reaching out to old friends with whom he used to take a mystery drug called Mercury, Fredrick realizes the only way to stop the visions lies deep within his own memories, so he embarks on a terrifying mental odyssey to learn the truth.
13) Spiral
Publisher
RLJE Films
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Formats
Description
A same-sex couple moves to a small town so they can enjoy a better quality of life as they raise their sixteen-year-old daughter. But nothing is as it seems in their picturesque neighborhood. And when they see that the folks next door are throwing a very strange party, being the new family in town suddenly feels extremely dangerous.
14) Crash
Series
Criterion collection volume 1059
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"For this icily erotic fusion of flesh and machine, David Cronenberg adapted J. G. Ballard's future-shock novel of the 1970s into one of the most singular and provocative films of the 1990s. A traffic collision involving a disaffected commercial producer, James (James Spader), and an enigmatic doctor, Helen (Holly Hunter), brings them, along with James's wife, Catherine (Deborah Kara Unger, in a sublimely detached performance), together in a crucible...
15) Videodrome
Series
Criterion collection volume 248
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Language
English
Formats
Description
When Max Renn goes looking for edgy new shows for his sleazy cable TV station, he stumbles across the pirate broadcast of a hyperviolent torture show called Videodrome. As he struggles to unearth the origins of the program, he embarks on a hallucinatory journey into a shadow world of right-wing conspiracies, sadomasochistic sex games, and bodily transformation.
16) Possessor
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
From the visionary mind of writer/director Brandon Cronenberg, POSSESSOR is an arresting sci-fi thriller about elite, corporate assassin Tasya Vos. Using brain-implanttechnology, Vos takes control of other people's bodies to execute high profile targets. Asshe sinks deeper into her latest assignment Vos becomes trapped inside a mind thatthreatens to obliterate her.
17) My Winnipeg
Series
Criterion collection volume 741
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"The geographical dead center of North America and the beloved birthplace of Guy Maddin, Winnipeg is the frosty and mysterious star of Maddin's "docu-fantasia." A work of memory and imagination, Maddin's film burrows into what the filmmaker calls "the heart of the heart" of the continent, conjuring a city as delightful as it is fearsome, populated by sleepwalkers and hockey aficionados. Take part in Winnipeg's annual epic scavenger hunt! Pay your...
18) Incendies
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
Français
Description
After the death of their mother, a set of twins make a life-altering discovery. The pair travels to the Middle East on a mission to uncover the truth about the father they thought was dead who is still very much alive, and the brother they never knew existed. Along the way they will piece together the story of the woman who brought them into the world, discovering a tragic fate as well as the courage of an exceptional woman.
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