THE ETERNAL MASK
This interesting but largely forgotten 1935 Swiss-German production was a landmark in the expressionist film cycle
VARIOLA VERA
From the former Yugoslavia, a fact-based dramatization of the 1972 smallpox epidemic that occurred in Kosovo and Belgrade
SWALLOW
After PLATFORM this is the hottest horror movie of spring 2020
THE PLATFORM
This Spanish language science fiction mindbender is very much in the tradition of Vincenzo Natali’s CUBE
CONTAGION
This above-average 2011 disease thriller is one of director Steven Soderbergh’s most purely entertaining films
THE APPLE WAR
A self-proclaimed “happy and mystic film” from Sweden with a highly eccentric critique of imperialism (of the cultural and environmental variety)
STRANGERS IN PARADISE
This ridiculous sci fi musical from the late R.W. Fassbinder acolyte Ulli Lommel wants very much to be a cult sensation a la REPO MAN or THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW, but fails spectacularly
THE MISADVENTURES OF THE NEW SATAN
1964’s PÕRGUPÕHJA UUS VANAPAGAN, a.k.a. DEVIL WITH A FALSE PASSPORT, DEVIL ON EARTH, THE NEW DEVIL OF HELLSBOTTOM or (as the film is most commonly known) THE MISADVENTURES OF THE NEW SATAN, is all-but completely unknown in the English speaking world but widely considered a classic of Estonian cinema
LOLA
A “lost” film in the filmography of Spain’s late Bigas Luna (1946–2013), LOLA is a 1986 erotic thriller that received very little attention and has largely vanished from sight
NIGHT ON THE TOWN
A twelve minute animated amazement from 1981 that remains shockingly little known