We’re opening the 2023 Pittsburgh Japanese Film Festival with this wildly fun, comic-book style cult classic. A violent, guitar-playing, electrically charged boxer faces off against an electronic wizard half-merged with a metallic Buddha…. which is pretty much all you need to know about why this movie rules.
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In this new restoration of Alain Resnais’s rarely screened fourth film, a chief of the Spanish Communist Party struggles to find his place as a political activist between two generations of revolutionaries and his lover in Paris who wants him to settle down.
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French New Wave’s founder Jean-Luc Godard’s quiet and poetic film follows a man who leaves his family with their beautiful au pair and travels from Paris to the Mediterranean. When they are persued by Algerian hitmen, he discovers his new love is not who he thought.
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Melville’s classic WWII thriller follows a Frenchman betrayed by an informant and trapped in a torturous Nazi prison camp. He escapes to rejoin the Resistance and exacts his revenge amidst the atmosphere of tension, paranoia and distrust of occupied France.
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Maybe the most famous movie ever shot in Pittsburgh!A top student at the FBI’s training academy interviews the incarcerated Dr. Hannibal Lecter — a brilliant psychiatrist and violent psychopath — in a film packed with suspense, surprise, and iconic scenes.
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Jordan Peele’s ambitious and fresh breakout film is set in upstate New York when a young black man visits his white girlfriend’s family. What starts as an uncomfortable first meeting progresses into series of increasingly disturbing discoveries.
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They got a murder on their hands. They don’t know what to do with it.
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Yeon Sang-ho’s high-speed take on the zombie genre is everything horror should be — smart, exciting, and wildly creative in its morbidity. When a zombie outbreak seizes South Korea, the passengers on a high-speed train to Busan fight to survive.
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Wi Ha-Jun (star of Squid Game) stars as a brutal serial killer who ruthlessly hunts down a deaf woman through the streets of South Korea after she witnesses his brutal crime in a new thriller that will keep you guessing and leave you breathless.
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Quentin Tarantino’s breakout film tells a bloody tale of a botched robbery that indicates a police informant, and the pressure mounts in the aftermath at a warehouse. Crime begets violence as the survivors—a very classic 1990s ensemble cast of “misters” — unravel. (1992)
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