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Kill the Jockey ()
Cast: Nahuel Perez Biscayart, Ursula Corbero
Runtime: 1 hr. 36 mins.
Once-renowned jockey Remo Manfredi (Nahuel Pérez Biscayart) has run out of track. Perpetually inebriated, hopped up on horse drugs, and in hock to a minor mafioso, Remo seems to have a death wish. His girlfriend and fellow jockey Abril (Úrsula Corberó) is pregnant, but more invested in the libidinous equestrian underworld than in their drab domestic existence. Remo’s only hope of getting out of debt and starting a new life is riding on Mishima, a thoroughbred specially imported from Japan for his next big race. When Mishima leaps over the fence, Remo winds up in the hospital with a life-threatening concussion. Hunted by the mob and replaced in Abril’s bed by the alluring Ana (Mariana Di Girolamo), Remo dons a disguise and finds himself as herself, wandering the streets of Buenos Aires in a striking mink coat and going by the name Dolores. A wild and surreal crime comedy from Luis Ortega (El Angel), Kill the Jockey explores the fluidity of identity, desire, and animal magnetism in a wholly original and unpredictable register.

Familiar Touch ()
Cast: Kathleen Chalfant, Katelyn Nacon
Runtime: 1 hr. 30 mins.
Ruth (Kathleen Chalfant), a retired cook, prepares breakfast in her sunny and cozy kitchen — a dish she seems to have made many times before, although small and puzzling errors now punctuate her comfortable routine. When her son (H. Jon Benjamin) arrives to dine with her, she mistakes him for a suitor. Their “date” takes them to an assisted living facility, which Ruth does not remember that she had previously selected for herself.Among her fellow memory care residents, Ruth feels lost and adrift, certain she has found herself somewhere she does not belong. As she slowly begins to accept the warmth and support of care workers Vanessa (Carolyn Michelle) and Brian (Andy McQueen), she finds new ways to ground herself in her body, even as her mind embarks on a journey all its own. Writer-director Sarah Friedland’s coming-of-old-age feature compassionately follows the winding path of octogenarian Ruth’s shifting memories and desires while remaining rooted in her sage perspective.

Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse (R)
Cast: Sam Bottoms, Marlon Brando
Runtime: 1 hr. 36 mins.
Eleanor Coppola films her husband Francis Ford Coppola's trials as he films Apocalypse Now, capturing the real world difficulties that complicate the filmmaking process.

High and Low (Tengoku to jigoku) ()
Cast: Toshiro Mifune, Tatsuya Nakadai
Runtime: 2 hr. 23 mins.

The Seven Samurai (Shichinin no samurai) ()
Cast: Toshiro Mifune, Takashi Shimura
Runtime: 3 hr. 27 mins.
A Japanese farming village, constantly besieged and pillaged by an army of bandits, recruits seven independent samurai to defend it.

Shall We Dance? (Shall we dansu?) (1996) ()
Cast: Koji Yakusho, Naoto Takenaka
Runtime: 2 hr. 15 mins.
Last year's smash hit in Japan tells the warm, frequenty funny story of an uptight Japanese worker whose midlife crisis takes him on a journey of personal discovery in a Tokyo dance class.

The Hidden Fortress (Kakushi toride no san-akunin) ()
Cast: Susumu Fujita, Toshirô Mifune
Runtime: 2 hr. 19 mins.