Hidden Gems

Here you can find recommendations for some great recents that have not been given enough attention.

The Temple Woods Gang

Streaming for Free on Le Cinéma Club this week In the opening of Rabah Ameur-Zaïmeche’s 2002 heist noir, The Temple Woods Gang, a shot pans through the beige-coloured condominiums of the Temple Woods housing project, each fenestrated with a contingent of small, rectangular windows. The shot ultimately lands on a distant sight of an amusement…

The Invisible Zoo

A boisterous rainforest in stillness, shrouded by the screeching of insects dominating the soundscape; a torrential rain intrudes upon the stasis and soon evanesces in the middle of the frame, bringing and taking away a temporary grace of sunlight. This opening spectacle in Ramuald Karmakar’s The Invisible Zoo assumes a non-intrusive position of observing a…

Henry Fonda for President

Images from movies are always those of myth extracted and sublimated from truth, and the power of this realist art to make fiction seem as if it were part of reality is its ultimate testament. Alexander Horwath’s essay film Henry Fonda for President is free on Le Cinema Club this week, and it has been…

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