of the Endless

Favorite 'new-to-me' films of June: • Pale Flower (Masahiro Shinoda, 1964) • F for Fake (Orson Welles, 1973) • The Dead (John Huston, 1987) • The Insider (Michael Mann, 1999) • Spider (David Cronenberg, 2002) • Frownland (Ronald Bronstein, 2007) • Rocks in My Pockets (Signe Baumane, 2014) • Crimes of the Future (David Cronenberg, 2022)

Le pont du Nord 1981 • 2h 9m Directed by: Jacques Rivette Written by: Bulle Ogier, Pascale Ogier, Suzanne Schiffman Cinematography by: William Lubtchansky Actors: Bulle Ogier, Pascale Ogier, Pierre Clémenti, Jean-François Stévenin A parolee and a young street urchin become companions. They set out to roam Paris after discovering a map of the city which depicts it as a game board.

The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover 1989 • 2h 4m Written & Directed by: Peter Greenaway Cinematography by: Sacha Vierny Actors: Richard Bohringer, Michael Gambon, Helen Mirren, Alan Howard, Tim Roth At Le Hollandais gourmet restaurant, every night is filled with opulence, decadence and gluttony. But when the cook, a thief, his wife and her lover all come together, they unleash a shocking torrent of sex, food, murder and revenge.

Favorite 'new-to-me' films of May: • The Last Detail (Hal Ashby, 1973) • The Gambler (Karel Reisz, 1974) • The American Friend (Wim Wenders, 1977) • Fingers (James Toback, 1978) • Le Pont du Nord (Jacques Rivette, 1981) • Crime Wave (John Paizs, 1985) • Event Horizon (Paul W. S. Anderson, 1997) • Secret Sunshine (Lee Chang-dong, 2007) • Long Way North (Rémi Chayé, 2015) • May 14th (Boo Eun-joo, 2018) • Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness (Sam Raimi, 2022) • The Bad Guys (Pierre Perifel, 2022)

The American Friend Der amerikanische Freund 1977 • 2h 8m Written & Directed by: Wim Wenders Based on: Ripley's Game by Patricia Highsmith Cinematography by: Robby Müller Actors: Dennis Hopper, Bruno Ganz, Lisa Kreuzer, Gérard Blain, Nicholas Ray Tom Ripley, who deals in forged art, suggests a picture framer he knows would make a good hit man.

Re-Animator 1985 • 1h 26m Directed by: Stuart Gordon Screenplay by: Dennis Paoli, William J. Norris, Stuart Gordon Based on: H. P. Lovecraft's Herbert West–Reanimator Cinematography by: Mac Ahlberg Actors: Jeffrey Combs, Bruce Abbott, Barbara Crampton A dedicated student at a medical college and his girlfriend become involved in bizarre experiments centering around the re-animation of dead tissue when an odd new student arrives on campus.