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In commemoration of the centenary of the “father of African cinema,” Senegalese novelist/filmmaker Ousmane Sembène — both a sharp critic of modern Africa and passionate advocate for its autonomy, whose filmography spans 40 years — we offer these new restorations of three revolutionary films from the 1970s.
In Dakar, a French delegation is shown the door and local government officials claim autonomy — but is some light embezzlement and a backdoor deal with the French to blame for El Hadji’s newfound impotence on the night he’s to be wed to a third bride? Sembène’s satire of an inept patriarchy lopes along to the breezy sounds of the wedding band until truth exacts its retribution.
Banned in Senegal upon its original release, CEDDO is an ambitious, multilayered historical epic that explores the combustible interstices between a pre-colonial village’s Muslim majority and its outsiders, followers of an Indigenous religion who act upon the suspicion that they’re being targeted for religious conversion.
Awash in a salacious sea of carnage, colors and sounds, filmmaker Panos Cosmatos grinds up beloved genre tropes into a fine pulp — and sculpts them into something altogether otherworldly in this tale of revenge anchored by another gloriously unhinged performance from Nicolas Cage.
This satirical swipe at celebrity and groupthink from writer-director Kristoffer Borgli (SICK OF MYSELF) stars Nicolas Cage as an inconspicuous academic who is thrust into the limelight after he starts inexplicably appearing in people’s dreams.
Twenty years after their notorious tabloid romance gripped the nation, a married couple with a large age gap (Julianne Moore, Charles Melton) buckles under the pressure when an actress (Natalie Portman) arrives to do research for a film about their past. Director Todd Haynes (CAROL, FAR FROM HEAVEN) has constructed an American tale of astonishing richness and depth, which touches the pressure and pleasure points of a culture obsessed equally with celebrity and trauma.
Fed up with his job, a bank clerk elicits a co-worker in a scam that would cost imprisonment but result in an early retirement upon release. A heist picture unlike any other, THE DELINQUENTS upends genre expectations with a gentle yet deftly constructed existentialist fable.
Filmy spores fall from space over San Francisco, and the city blossoms with beautiful new flora. People take the flowers home, and as they sleep, the plants creep over them, devouring their bodies and stealing their identities — their emotions, their uniqueness, their souls. New 4K DCP Restoration