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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We are wrapping up two weeks of monster-movie fun the best way we know how — a Destroy All Monsters Brew & View!
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Akira Kurosawa contemplates life through mortality of one man in this gripping and accomplished film. Kanji Watanabe is a middle-aged man who has worked in the same monotonous bureaucratic position for decades. Learning he has cancer, he starts to look for the meaning of his life.
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When an ambiguously intentioned man in a bear-mask kidnaps a doped-up punk singer, a media circus ensues.
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Our friends from the popular Pittsburgh podcast The Number One Movie in America will be on site to help us pick a MYSTERY MOVIE? What will it be? We don’t even know. But all we can tell you is that it once reigned supreme at American box offices.
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A man assumes the identity of a dead author to flee Nazi-occupied France in this modern existentialist noir. He soon finds himself stuck in Marseilles, where he falls in love with Maria — a young woman searching for her missing husband.
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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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We are FINALLY showing the film that took box offices by storm in 2022. Tom Cruise returns to his role as Maverick to train a detachment of Top Gun graduates for a specialized mission the likes of which no living pilot has ever seen.
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