Under the Silver Lake

Director: David Robert Mitchell

2018 / 139min / DCP

Mitchell’s follow-up to his 2014 breakout It Follows polarized audiences and critics alike on its initial release, though its cracked, postmodern vision of our conspiracy-addled present, which stars Andrew Garfield as a feckless 33-year-old Los Angelino whose lone passions are getting stoned and deciphering hidden messages in pop culture artifacts, has since gained it an impassioned and downright obsessive cult following. A down-the-rabbit-hole journey into underground LA—quite literally, at one point—that makes room for zine-publishing kooks, glowering goth rock stars, hobo royalty, an at-large Dog Killer, and an ancient songwriter who claims credit for penning Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9.