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Directed by Werner Herzog

In the final Herzog/Kinski pairing, the actor is at his most magnetically crazed playing Francisco Manoel da Silva, aka Cobra Verde, a Brazilian bandit who becomes involved in the West African slave trade.

Last chance - ends tonight!

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Directed by Various dirs.

Q&A with Soft Network’s Chelsea Spengemann & Sara VanDerBeek and filmmaker Eve Fowler

Includes Cecile Emeke’s The Ancestors Came, Sky Hopinka’s I’ll Remember You as You Were, Not as What You’ll Become, Adam Pendleton’s Ishmael in the Garden: A Portrait of Ishmael Houston-Jones, Eve Fowler’s what it which it as it if it is to be, Part II, Barbara Hammer’s Jane Brakhage, and Shigeko Kubota’s Sexual Healing.

Available through Jul 27

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Directed by Werner Herzog

A gorgeous, almost voiceless piece of work, Herzog’s uniquely different kind of doc stunningly captures the almost sci-fi-like terrain of the expansive deserts of Kuwait, where its oil wells burned for several months at the close of the Persian Gulf War.

Available through Jul 28

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Directed by Maureen Blackwood & Isaac Julien

Intro by Alfreda’s Cinema curator Melissa Lyde

Sankofa Film and Video Collective’s first feature intertwines vignettes of Black family life, sexuality, and class struggle with a dystopian backdrop.

Available through Jul 28

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Directed by Éric Rohmer

The first title in Rohmer’s “Comedies and Proverbs” film cycle is a fleecy farce of romantic overanalysis starring Philippe Marlaud and Marie Rivière. A Metrograph Pictures release.

Available through Jul 29

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Directed by Éric Rohmer

A new restoration of the final episode of Rohmer’s “Comedies and Proverbs” series, in which two young women are tempted by each other’s love interests.
A Metrograph Pictures release.

Available through Jul 29

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Directed by Leos Carax, Michel Gondry & Bong Joon-ho

An almost unbelievable trifecta of talent comes together for this contemporary spin on the old art-house omnibus film.

Available through Jul 30

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Directed by Awoye Timpo

Q&A with Awoye Timpo & André Holland, moderated by Hilton Als

Timpo reimagines Bill Gunn’s 1975 play as a visual staged reading, with André Holland and Jason Bowen alternating the roles of father/son filmmakers with differing measures of success.

Available through Jul 30