MV5BMjIxMzBlNDgtMTM0Zi00MmEyLWIxMTAtYTFlNGE4OTMyZWVjL2ltYWdlXkEyXkFqcGdeQXVyNTAyODkwOQ@@._V1_.jpg — The Hourglass Sanatorium (1973)

**Directed by: Wojciech Has**
**Starring: Jan Nowicki, Tadeusz Kondrat, Irena Orska, Halina Kowalska**
**Rated: NR (Suggested R for Some Nudity and Sexual Situations, and Foreboding Images and Themes)**
**Running Time: 2 h 4 m**
**TMM Score: 5 stars out of 5**
**STRENGTHS: Production Design, Writing, Directing, Acting, Editing, Ingenuity**
**WEAKNESSES: May Be Difficult to Follow First Time Through**

The Hourglass Sanatorium (1973)

October 4, 2018

A man named Jozef visits a sanatorium where his father is staying, only to find that within its walls, time doesn’t behave the way it should.

MV5BMTQ1MDA5NjUxN15BMl5BanBnXkFtZTgwNjAwMDg5MzE@._V1_.jpg — Buzzard (2014)

**Directed by: Joel Portykus**
**Starring: Joshua Burge, Joel Potrykus, Joe Anderson**
**Rated: NR (Suggest R for Some Language and a Scene of Mild Violence)**
**Running Time: 1 h 37 m**
**TMM Score: 4.5 stars out of 5**
**STRENGTHS: Acting, Writing, Originality**
**WEAKNESSES: Last Scene (?), Some Makeup**

Buzzard (2014)

September 21, 2018

A slacker goes to extreme lengths to avoid doing any kind of work whatsoever.

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**Directed by: Stanley Kubrick**
**Starring: Ryan O'Neal, Marisa Berenson, Patrick Magee**
**Rated: PG**
**Running Time: 3 h 5 m**
**TMM Score: 4.5 stars out of 5**
**STRENGTHS: Mise-En-Scene, Cinematography, Writing, Acting, Directing**
**WEAKNESSES: Length, Pacing During Second Act**

Barry Lyndon (1975)

September 19, 2018

An Irish scrapper slowly rises through the ranks of English aristocracy.

MV5BMTY3MjM1Mzc4N15BMl5BanBnXkFtZTgwODM0NzAxMDE@._V1_SY1000_CR0,0,675,1000_AL_.jpg — A Clockwork Orange (1971)

**Directed by: Stanley Kubrick**
**Starring: Malcolm McDowell, Patrick Magee, Michael Bates**
**Rated: R**
**Running Time: 2 h 16 m**
**TMM Score: 5 stars out of 5**
**STRENGTHS: Direction, Story, Irony, Writing, Production Design**
**WEAKNESSES: Content, Some Acting (?)**

A Clockwork Orange (1971)

September 18, 2018

After a couple nights of ‘ultra-violence’ Alex DeLarge is sent to prison, where he undergoes an experimental surgery that will curb his more devious impulses.

Spartacus (1960)

September 13, 2018

A slave, Spartacus, leads a rebellion of thousands of slaves across Italy, threatening the power of the Roman Empire.

MV5BMjMzNzkwNjEyOF5BMl5BanBnXkFtZTgwOTY3Njc3NjE@._V1_.jpg — Boogie Nights (1997)

**Directed by: Paul Thomas Anderson**
**Starring: Mark Wahlberg, Heather Graham, Burt Reynolds, Julianne Moore, John C. Reilly, Don Cheadle, William H. Macy, Phillip Seymour Hoffman, Thomas Jane, Alfred Molina**
**Rated: R for Strong Sex Scenes with Explicit Dialogue, Nudity, Drug Use, Language and Violence**
**Running Time: 2 h 35 m**
**TMM Score: 4 stars out of 5**
**STRENGTHS: Writing, Directing, Acting, Story**
**WEAKNESSES: Some Pacing Issues Towards the End**

Boogie Nights (1997)

September 12, 2018

Eddie Adams AKA Dirk Diggler, a teenager living in California in the late seventies and early eighties, gets wrapped up in the porn industry, for better or worse.

Reversal of Fortune (1990)

September 10, 2018

Based on a true story. Sunny von Bulow lies in a coma and her husband Claus has been convicted on two counts of attempted murder. He says he’s innocent and hires Alan Dershowitz for his appeal.

mi3 1.jpg — Sita Sings the Blues (2008)

**Directed by: Nina Paley**
**Starring: Annette Hanshaw, Assem Chhabra, Bhavana Nagulapally**
**Rated: NR**
**Running Time: 1h 22m**
**TMM Score: 3 stars out of 5**
**STRENGTHS: Directorial Conviction, Music, Design**
**WEAKNESSES: Pacing and Simple Animation**

Sita Sings the Blues (2008)

September 7, 2018

Sita and Rama, figures from the Vedas and Upanishads, are banished to a wild land of demons and monsters. When Sita is kidnapped by the king of the Rakshasa, Ravana, Rama must rescue her, but will he believe that she remained faithful during her stay with Ravana.

The-Decline-of-Western-Civilization-III-images-3ebeb533-8c67-40d8-a6b7-f3a97169c4b.jpg — The Decline of Western Civilization Part III (1998)

**Directed by: Penelope Spheeris**
**Starring: Flea**
**Rated: NR (Suggested R for Pervasive Language and Destructive Behavior)**
**Running Time: 1 h 26 m**
**TMM Score: 4.5 stars out of 5**
**STRENGTHS: Story**
**WEAKNESSES: Content**

The Decline of Western Civilization Part III (1998)

August 31, 2018

A documentary following the lives of gutter punks in Los Angeles in the late nineties.

MV5BZGQwODQ0NmYtN2JlYy00YzA2LThlMGEtMDk1MWMwZWM5MGIxXkEyXkFqcGdeQXVyMjI4MjA5MzA@._V1_.jpg — The Decline of Western Civilization Part II: The Metal Years (1988)

**Directed by: Penelope Spheeris**
**Starring: Alice Cooper, Lizzy Borden, Poison, Aerosmith, Kiss, Ozzy Osbourne**
**Rated: R**
**Running Time: 1 h 33 m**
**TMM Score: 4 stars out of 5**
**STRENGTHS: Music, Story**
**WEAKNESSES: Content, Misogyny**

The Decline of Western Civilization Part II: The Metal Years (1988)

August 31, 2018

Filmmaker Penelope Spheeris revisits her Decline of Western Civilization documentary series, this time taking a look at the heavy metal scene in Los Angeles.

Sid & Nancy (1986)

August 30, 2018

The true story of Sid Vicious, bassist for The Sex Pistols, and his girlfriend, Nancy Spungen.

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**Directed by: Jean-Stephane Sauvaire**
**Starring: Joe Cole, Pornchanok Mabklang, Panya Yimmuphai**
**Rated: R**
**Running Time: 1 h 56 m**
**TMM Score: 4 stars out of 5**
**STRENGTHS: Acting, Realism, Writing, Directing, Cinematography**
**WEAKNESSES: Pacing**

A Prayer Before Dawn (2017)

August 29, 2018

The true story of Billy Moore, an English boxer who was incarcerated in a Thai prison and fought in a Muay Thai tournament to prove himself to the other inmates.

MV5BMTY5NzgyMjUwOV5BMl5BanBnXkFtZTgwNjc2NjQzMTE@._V1_.jpg — Female Trouble (1974)

**Directed by: John Waters**
**Starring: Divine, David Lochary, Mary Vivian Pearce, Mink Stole, Edith Massey**
**Rated: NC-17**
**Running Time: 1 h 29 m**
**TMM Score: 3.5 stars out of 5**
**STRENGTHS: Writing, Directing, Eccentricity**
**WEAKNESSES: Content, Acting(?), Cinematography**

Female Trouble (1974)

August 24, 2018

A spoiled high school girl runs away from home and has to turn to a life of crime to support herself.

A Brighter Summer Day (1991)

August 22, 2018

Based on a true story of rival youth gangs in 1960s Taiwan.

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**Directed by: Spike Lee**
**Starring: John David Washington, Adam Driver, Topher Grace, Laura Harrier**
**Rated: : R for Language Throughout, Including Racial Epithets, and for Disturbing/Violent Material and Some Sexual References**
**Running Time: 2 h 15 m**
**TMM Score: 3.5 stars out of 5**
**STRENGTHS: Writing, Acting**
**WEAKNESSES: Pacing, Directing, Heavy-Handedness**

BlacKkKlansman (2018)

August 20, 2018

Based on the true story of Ron Stallworth, an African American police officer in Colorado Springs, who infiltrated the Ku Klux Klan.

(JamieR-AC)__TopsyTurvy(onesheet)1.jpg — Topsy-Turvy (1999)

**Directed by: Mike Leigh**
**Starring: Jim Broadbent, Allan Corduner, Timothy Spall, Lesley Mansville**
**Rated: R for a Scene of Risque Nudity**
**Running Time: 2 h 34 m**
**TMM Score: 4.5 stars out of 5**
**STRENGTHS: Mise-En-Scene, Direction, Acting, Production Design, Characters**
**WEAKNESSES: Length, Cultural Appropriation (?)**

Topsy-Turvy (1999)

August 20, 2018

The two leaders of a Victorian era theatre troupe struggle to come up with any good new material, straining their relationship, until inspiration for something new strikes.

MV5BYjEzMTM2NjAtNWFmZC00MTVlLTgyMmQtMGQyNTFjZDk5N2NmXkEyXkFqcGdeQXVyNzQ1ODk3MTQ@._V1_.jpg — The Thin Red Line (1998)

**Directed by: Terrence Malick**
**Starring: Jim Caviezel, Sean Penn, Nick Nolte, Woody Harrelson**
**Rated: R for Realistic War Violence and Language**
**Running Time: 2 h 50 m**
**TMM Score: 5 stars out of 5**
**STRENGTHS: Cinematography, Directing, Acting, Writing**
**WEAKNESSES: Pacing (?)**

The Thin Red Line (1998)

August 8, 2018

A depiction of the conflict at Guadalcanal during WW2.

Badlands (1973)

July 30, 2018

In the 1950s, a teenage girl becomes romantically involved with an older greaser. When her father finds out and forbids them to see each other again, they kill her father, and then flee across the country, leaving a trail of bodies in their wake.

mishima 1.jpg — Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters (1985)

**Directed by: Paul Schrader**
**Starring: Ken Ogata, Masayuki Shionoya, Hiroshi Mikami**
**Rated: R**
**Running Time: 2h**
**TMM Score: 5 stars out of 5**
**STRENGTHS: Directorial Vision, Cinematography, Production Design, Acting, Score**
**WEAKNESSES: Are you kidding? Who could find a weakness in this film.**

Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters (1985)

July 26, 2018

The great Japanese author and social leader, Yukio Mishima, prepares for his greatest work; of art and of action.

MV5BZTljYmU2NTMtODhhNC00NjlhLWJhZTUtNDllODYyYWM4ZjA5XkEyXkFqcGdeQXVyNjM0ODk5NDY@._V1_SY1000_CR0,0,670,1000_AL_.jpg — Battle of the Sexes (2017)

**Directed by: Jonathan Dayton, Valerie Faris**
**Starring: Emma Stone, Steve Carell, Andrea Riseborough**
**Rated: PG-13 for Some Sexual Content and Partial Nudity**
**Running Time: 2 h 1 m**
**TMM Score: 3.5 stars out of 5**
**STRENGTHS: Acting, Writing, Directing**
**WEAKNESSES: Pacing, Heavy-Handed Themes**

The Battle of the Sexes (2017)

July 20, 2018

Based on the true story of the 1973 tennis match between Billie Jean King and Bobby Riggs. While King comes to terms with her sexuality, Riggs comes to terms with the changing times and truths about himself.

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