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Film Country: U.S.
September 17, 2026
SUMO: Spirit Weighs Nothing
The Japanese sport of sumo goes back centuries, and its wrestlers (rikishi) are more than just athletes. Marked by their heavyweight physique, topknot hairstyle, and traditional garb (mawashi), they epitomize aspects of Japan’s premodern culture and Shinto beliefs and rituals. This exquisitely cr...
September 17, 2026
Ray Gunn
From Academy Award winner Brad Bird (The Incredibles, Ratatouille) comes this retro-futuristic noir about private eye Raymond Gunn (Sam Rockwell), and a case involving aliens, murder, and a multimedia star named Venus Nova (Scarlett Johansson). Set in the gigantic city of Metropia, the story trac...
September 17, 2026
Paper Tiger
In James Gray’s deeply felt and intense drama, two brothers, Gary Pearl (Adam Driver), a tough ex-cop, and Irwin Pearl (Miles Teller), his younger engineer sibling, become entangled in a scheme that turns out to be too good to be true. As they try to navigate their way through the dangerous world...
September 17, 2026
The Only Living Pickpocket in New York
Harry Lehman (John Turturro) is an aging pickpocket who plies his trade with ever-diminishing returns in a drastically changed New York City. Wallets stuffed with cash have been replaced by easily canceled credit cards, and Harry struggles to make ends meet as he cares for his disabled wife, Rosi...
September 17, 2026
Once Upon a Time in Harlem
A decade after his death, genre-defying filmmaker William Greaves has one last trick up his sleeve with the most important event he captured on film: a 1972 party he masterminded with the living luminaries of the Harlem Renaissance. This extraordinary group—many of whom had not seen each other in...
