01 July 2016

New to the Queue

Too long in the sun ...

The ennui of a new generation discovering zipless sex, "Bang Gang (A Modern Love Story)." 

Todd Solondz brings back Dawn Wiener in the form of Greta Gerwig, in a dour ensemble piece, "Wiener-Dog."

The hard-to-define final film from offbeat director Andrzej Zulawski, "Cosmos."

 An examination of John R. Brinkley, the medical charlatan and pioneer in Mexican border radio, "Nuts!"

A documentary tries to define a musical chameleon through decades of recorded interviews, in "Eat That Question: Frank Zappa in His Own Words."  

The story of a couple meeting is told twice, with two different dynamics and tones, "Right Then, Wrong Now."

It's a rascally kid and a gruff old dude trying to rise above cliche in a film from Taiki Waititi ("What We Do in the Shadows," from New Zealand, "Hunt for the Wilderpeople."

A French road movie inspired by John Ford's "The Searchers," the directorial debut of Jacques Audiard's screenwriter, Thomas Bidegain, "Les Cowboys."

Michel Gondry is back with a quiet little coming-of-age film, "Microbe and Gasoline."

Leslie Stevens, who would go on to write "Gemini Man" and TV episodes of "The Outer Limits," debuted in 1960 with this lost story of two thugs seducing a lusty housewife, "Private Property."
   

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