by Nathaniel R
Tired of aimlessly scanning choices on Netflix? Treat yourself to a newish movie tonight that you might have been seeing in a theater in a better world! Increasingly the small indie distributors like Kino Lorber and Music Box Films are releasing their movies to pay per view streaming systems which share the ticket purchase price with the movie theater of your choice! So this weekend make some popcorn and pretend you're going to your local arthouse with one of these gems...
Kino Now Virtual Cinema
Kleber Mendonça Filho is arguably Brazil's most exciting director at the moment. His follow up to the universally acclaimed Aquarius is a genre mashup called Bacurau. It stars the always great Sonia Braga and the always weird Udo Kier (among others) and Jason reviewed it here.
Music Box Films Virtual Cinema
Listen, I'm still angry that Sweden's And Then We Danced, which was shot entirely in Georgia in the Georgian language, wasn't at least a finalist for the Oscar nomination last year. Sadly though it was slowly gaining a new fanbase in theaters theaters all up and closed. The film about gay dancers in an extremely homophobic country is so special, sensual, and moving. Claudio reviewed it for us here.
Film Movement Virtual Cinema
Oh hey, look, it's the least discussed member of 2019's Best International Film Nominee Group, Poland's Corpus Christi. We haven't seen this one so we can't vouch for it but we've heard repeatedly that the lead performance by 27 year-old Bartosz Bielenia is electric.
Alamo Drafthouse Virtual Cinema
The popular chain of drink and eat while you watch cool movies theaters has some of the above titles as well as the Romanian comic noir The Whistlers, previously reviewed here, and the Chinese noir The Wild Goose Lake which we've reviewed and Jason's review was even blurbed on the poster. Check it out.
Regular VOD/Rental Options
The Hunt, Invisible Man, Emma., and what's widely considered to be one of the best movies of 2020 thus far, the Eliza Hittman drama Never Rarely Sometimes Always all had their theatrical runs cut short or cancelled. Finally, *BRAND NEW TODAY*, you can check out the cult drama The Other Lamb.