Crosstown Theater

Julia Ducournau’s Titane is a ferocious fusion of body horror, melodrama, and black comedy, an audacious work that violently fractures genre in order to rebuild it into something startlingly intimate. Winner of the Palme d’Or, the film follows Alexia, a go-go dancer with a titanium plate fused into her skull after a childhood car accident, […]

David Robert Mitchell’s Under the Silver Lake is a woozy neo-noir that sinks into the dream logic of Los Angeles, peeling back its sunlit surface to expose the network of symbols, conspiracies, and secret messages that seem to pulse beneath the city. At the center is Sam, a drifting young man whose obsession with hidden […]