A list of film recommendations from the Earspitt community. DM on insta @earspitt or email us earspitt@gmail.com with your film recs to be included in the next listing!
dir. Alejandro Jodorowsky
(rec by Brock Sliter)
"A young man is confined in a mental hospital. Through a flashback we see that he was traumatized as a child, when he and his family were circus performers: he saw his father cut off the arms of his mother, a religious fanatic and leader of the heretical church of Santa Sangre (“Holy Blood”), and then commit suicide. Back in the present, he escapes and rejoins his surviving and armless mother," (Letterboxd).
dir. Robert Altman
(rec by Tully Olsen)
"Schizophrenic housewife, engulfed by terrorizing apparitions, kills off each, unknowing if these demons are merely figments of her hallucinatory imagination or part of reality," (Letterboxd).
dir. Sam Raimi
(rec by Allyse Aramouni)
"When a group of college students finds a mysterious book and recording in the old wilderness cabin they’ve rented for the weekend, they unwittingly unleash a demonic force from the surrounding forest," (Letterboxd).
dir. Hayao Miyazaki
(rec by Olivia Bouquot)
"This movie always cheers me up when I'm down! It is whimsical and truly a utopia!"
dir. Jeffrey Schwarz
(rec by Clarice Arther)
"An incredible documentary about an even more incredible person- Divine. If you like or have even just heard of Divine and John Waters you must watch this. Divine will always be an icon, a superstar, and an important part of queer history."
dir. Charlie Kaufman
(rec by Tully Olsen)
"A theater director struggles with his work, and the women in his life, as he attempts to create a life-size replica of New York inside a warehouse as part of his new play," (Letterboxd).
dir. Martin Scorsese
(rec by Allyse Aramouni)
"The true story of Henry Hill, a half-Irish, half-Sicilian Brooklyn kid who is adopted by neighbourhood gangsters at an early age and climbs the ranks of a Mafia family under the guidance of Jimmy Conway," (Letterboxd).
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