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The camera examines an old book about cinema through a small hole similar to a camera obscura. The camera repeats a zoom in/out, analogous to the movement of turning pages, but the text remains illegible. (S.K.)
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A man on the verge of a promotion takes a mysterious hallucinogenic drug that begins to tear down his reality and expose his life for what it really is.
The Wave
An account of the life and work of legendary Japanese actor Toshirō Mifune (1920-97), the most prominent actor of the Golden Age of Japanese cinema.
Mifune: The Last Samurai
A cafe owner discovers that the TV in his cafe suddenly shows images from the future, but only two minutes into the future.
Beyond the Infinite Two Minutes
The career of screenwriter Dalton Trumbo is halted by a witch hunt in the late 1940s when he defies the anti-communist HUAC committee and is blacklisted.
Trumbo
An intimate documentary delving into Rian Johnson's process as he comes in as a director new to the Star Wars universe.
The Director and the Jedi
Middle-aged widow Beatrice Hunsdorfer and her daughters Ruth and Matilda are struggling to survive in a society they barely understand. Beatrice dreams of opening an elegant tea room but does not have the wherewithal to achieve her lofty goal. Epileptic Ruth is a rebellious adolescent, while shy but highly intelligent and idealistic Matilda seeks solace in her pets and school projects, including one designed to show how small amounts of radium affect marigolds.
The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds
The story lives forever in this feature-length documentary that charts the making of Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker.
The Skywalker Legacy
Young writer Richard Collier is met on the opening night of his first play by an old lady who begs him to "Come back to me". Mystified, he tries to find out about her, and learns that she is a famous stage actress from the early twentieth century. Becoming more and more obsessed with her, by self-hypnosis he manages to travel back in time—where he meets her.
Somewhere in Time
The story of a young boy in the Midwest is told simultaneously with a tale about a young girl in New York from fifty years ago as they both seek the same mysterious connection.
Wonderstruck
A look behind the lens of Christopher Nolan's space epic.