#910 – Freaks, 1932, Tod Browning
A circus’ beautiful trapeze artist agrees to marry the leader of side-show performers, but his deformed friends discover she is only marrying him for his inheritance.
#911: Wolf Children
#911 – Wolf Children, (おおかみこどもの雨と雪), 2012, Mamoru Hosoda
After her werewolf lover unexpectedly dies in an accident, a woman must find a way to raise the son and daughter that she had with him. However, their inheritance of their father’s traits prove to be a challenge for her.
#912: Happy As Lazzaro
#912 – Happy As Lazzaro, (Lazzaro felice), 2018, Alice Rohrwacher
Purehearted teen Lazzaro is content living as a sharecropper in rural Italy, but an unlikely friendship with the marquise’s son will change his world.
#913: Out 1
#913 – Out 1, (Out 1, noli me tangere), 1971, Jacques Rivette
While two dueling theater groups rehearse plays by Aeschylus, two solitary individuals wander the Parisian streets hustling the populace for cash and unravel a conspiracy.
#914: [REC]
#914 – [REC], 2007, Jaume Balagueró & Paco Plaza
A television reporter and cameraman follow emergency workers into a dark apartment building and are quickly locked inside with something terrifying.
#915: Oki’s Movie
#915 – Oki’s Movie, (옥희의 영화), 2010, Hong Sang-soo
A love story between a middle aged professor, a young female student who prepares a movie and a student/filmmaker who drinks too much.
#916: Somewhere
#916 – Somewhere, 2010, Sofia Coppola
After withdrawing to the Chateau Marmont, a passionless Hollywood actor reexamines his life when his eleven-year-old daughter surprises him with a visit.
#917: Flowers of Shanghai
#917 – Flowers of Shanghai, (海上花), 1998, Hou Hsiao-hsien
Women struggle in a Shanghai brothel where everything only appears to be beautiful.
#918: Good Morning
#918 – Good Morning, (お早よう), 1959, Yasujirō Ozu
A lighthearted take on director Yasujiro Ozu’s perennial theme of the challenges of intergenerational relationships, Good Morning tells the story of two young boys who stop speaking in protest after their parents refuse to buy a television set. Ozu weaves a wealth of subtle gags through a family portrait as rich as those of his dramatic films, mocking the foibles of the adult world through the eyes of his child protagonists. Shot in stunning color and set in a suburb of Tokyo where housewives gossip about the neighbors’ new washing machine and unemployed husbands look for work as door-to-door salesmen, this charming comedy refashions Ozu’s own silent classic I Was Born, But… to gently satirize consumerism in postwar Japan.
#919: Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Proxy War
#919 – Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Proxy War, (仁義なき戦い 代理戦争), 1973, Kinji Fukasaku
Shozo Hirono has managed to separate from the Yamamori family and create his own small family, and extend his circle of acquaintances. These new friendships include a powerful underboss of the Muraoka family, Noboru Uchimoto.
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