Weekly Pick

Week of June 23rd - Autopsy

Week of June 23rd - Autopsy
DIRECTOR
Armando Crispino
STARRING
Mimsy Farmer, Barry Primus, Angela Goodwin, Gaby Wagner, Ray Lovelock, Carlo Cataneo
When the city of Rome is rocked by a wave of violent suicides, a young forensic pathologist (Mimsy Farmer of Four Flies On Grey Velvet)), wracked by hallucinations of the living dead, and a priest (Barry Primus of New York, New York), running from his dark past, begin an investigation. Together they uncover a deadly secret...and a chilling slab of unspeakable horror.

Week of June 16th - Save the Green Planet

Week of June 16th - Save the Green Planet
DIRECTOR
Jang Joon-Hwan
STARRING
Shin Ha-gyun, Hwang Jung-min, Baik Yun-shik
Hopped up on conspiracy theories and sci-fi, Lee, blue collar sack, is on a mission to save the world. Andromedan aliens have infiltrated human society and are planning to destroy the planet at the next lunar eclipse.

Week of June 9th - Frontier(s)

Week of June 9th - Frontier(s)
DIRECTOR
Xavier Gens
STARRING
Karina Testa, Aurelien Wiik, Patrick Ligardes, David Saracino, Maud Forget
A gang of small-time crooks botch a robbery and are on the run from the law. With the police on their tails, they take refuge in a seedy hostel owned by degenerate rednecks who have a lot more than cattle on their minds.

Week of June 2nd - Cure

Week of June 2nd - Cure
DIRECTOR
Kiyoshi Kurosawa
STARRING
Koji Yakusho
In the tradition of Seven and Silence Of The Lambs comes this genuinely spine-tingling horror/thriller from one of Japan's most talked about filmmakers, Kiyoshi Kurosawa. Set in and around a bleak, decaying Tokyo, a series of murders have been committed by average, ordinary people who claim to have had no control over their horrifying actions.

Week of May 26th - Django

Week of May 26th - Django
DIRECTOR
Sergio Corbucci
STARRING
Franco Nero, Angel Alvarez, Eduardo Fajardo, Jose Bodalo
Franco Nero stars as Django, a lone stranger who roams the West dragging a coffin filled with chaos towards a destiny ruled by vengeance. Co-writer/director Sergio Corbucci (The Great Silence, Companeros) packs his landmark classic with indelible images, unforgettable performances, and some of the most shocking brutality of any "Spaghetti Western" ever made.

Week of May 19th - Danger: Diabolik

Week of May 19th - Danger: Diabolik
DIRECTOR
Mario Bava
STARRING
John Phillip Law, Adolfo Celi, Marisa Mell, Terry Thomas, Michel Piccoli
The suave, psychedelic-era thief called Diabolik (John Phillip Law) can't get enough of life’s good-or glittery things. Not when there are currency shipments to steal from under the noses of snooty government officials and priceless jewels to lift from the boudoirs of the super rich.

Week of May 12th - Bad Boy Bubby

Week of May 12th - Bad Boy Bubby
DIRECTOR
Rolf de Heer
STARRING
Claire Benito, Ralph Cotterill, Nicholas Hope, Carmel Johnson
L.A. Weekly called it "disturbing and compelling," and it was awarded The Grand Special Jury Prize at the Venice Film Festival. Despite a limited release in America, it would shock and delight audiences to become one of the most daring and controversial cult films of the past decade.

Week of May 5th - Cemetery Man

Week of May 5th - Cemetery Man
DIRECTOR
Michele Soavi
STARRING
Rupert Everett, Anna Falchi
Rupert Everett (My Best Friend's Wedding) stars as Francesco Dellamorte, a cemetery watchman whose job it is to slaughter the living dead when they rise hungry from their graves. But following a tragic tryst with a lusty young widow (stunning Anna Falchi in one of three sexy roles), Francisco begins to ponder the mysteries of existence.

Week of April 28th - The Orphanage

Week of April 28th - The Orphanage
DIRECTOR
Juan Antonio Bayona
STARRING
Geraldine Chaplin, Belen Rueda, Fernando Cayo, Roger Princep, Montserrat Carulla
Award-winning visionary Guillermo del Toro (Pan's Labyrinth, Hellboy) and acclaimed director J.A. Bayona present a "positively terrifying" (John Anderson, Newsday) new vision of the classic ghost story

Week of April 21st - The Isle

Week of April 21st - The Isle
DIRECTOR
Kim Ki-duk
STARRING
Kim Yu-seok
Recalling both the erotic tension and the surrealist imagery of Woman of the Dunes, Kim Ki-duk's film is set near a remote lake where men come far and wide to fish on anchored rafts. Running a little bait-and-tackle shop is the earthy -- almost feral -- young lass Hee-jin (Seoh Jung), who sometimes sells herself for a price to horny fishermen.