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With a seemingly endless amount of streaming options — not only the titles at our disposal, but services themselves — we’ve taken it upon ourselves to highlight the titles that have recently hit platforms. Every week, one will be able to see the cream of the crop (or perhaps some simply interesting picks) of streaming titles (new and old) across platforms such as Netflix, iTunes, Amazon, and more (note: U.S. only). Check out our rundown for this week’s selections below.

Antichrist (Lars von Trier)

Like the majority of Lars von Trier films, from the first moments of Antichrist, one will be able to discern if it’s an experience they want to proceed with. For those will to endure its specific unpleasantness, there’s a poetic, affecting exploration of despair at its center. Chaos reigns, indeed. – Jordan R.

Where to Stream: FilmStruck

Donnie Darko (Richard Kelly)

Last year marked...

It's a hard life, reporting overseas. Journalists have to deal with unrest, hostile climes and - in BBC reporter Quentin Sommerville's case - giant burning piles of drugs. Sommerville was reporting from Afghanistan, standing in front of a massive pile of burning heroin, opium and hash. Eventually, he inhaled enough of the smoke that he dissolves into a fit of giggles on-air. On Monday, Sommerville Tweeted a link to the video - which he's since deleted - with the line "You've earned a xmas laugh, at my expense." The BBC later told the U.K. Telegraph that the video has...

It's a hard life, reporting overseas. Journalists have to deal with unrest, hostile climes and - in BBC reporter Quentin Sommerville's case - giant burning piles of drugs. Sommerville was reporting from Afghanistan, standing in front of a massive pile of burning heroin, opium and hash. Eventually, he inhaled enough of the smoke that he dissolves into a fit of giggles on-air. On Monday, Sommerville Tweeted a link to the video - which he's since deleted - with the line "You've earned a xmas laugh, at my expense." The BBC later told the U.K. Telegraph that the video has...

Music festivals have never appealed to me. Especially the ones that involve camping in the dead of summer. The bands that are booked for festivals either don’t register or elicit a chuckle. Being around hundreds to thousands of people for that long sounds like one of the ten Chambers of Hell not mentioned in Big Trouble in Little China. Not to mention chronic swamp ass for days.

Six friends are headed to the Free Love Festival nestled deep in the Red Wood forest. Samantha (Jamie King) is hoping to have a good time and put her psycho right wing ex-boyfriend, and bad acid trip behind her. Samantha is excited to spend the time Not everyone is thrilled about the annual freak show. While the Mayor (Rick Overton) is eager for the revenue to fill the town coffers, Sheriff Buzz Hall (Thomas Jane) smells a rat. And they don’t...

Austrian director of award-winning documentaries Whores’ Glory and Workingman’s Death died while filming in Africa from malaria.

Michael Glawogger, the Austrian director, screenwriter and cinematographer, has died aged 54 in Africa. Production company Lotus-Film confirmed that Glawogger died this morning (April 23) in Liberia from malaria.

He was best known for documentaries including Megacities, which won the Vienna film award in 1998; Workingman’s Death, which picked up the Grierson Award at the London Film Festival in 2005; and Whores’ Glory, which won the Austrian Film Award at the 2012 Viennale.

Glawogger recently directed the National Library of Russia segment of omnibus 3D documentary feature Cathedrals of Culture, which debuted at the Berlin Film Festival in February.

A statement from Lotus-Film said: “We have lost a long-time friend. Michael Glawogger influenced our work in a unique way and he was significantly involved in the creative orientation of the way we produce films.

“Michael went on a journey to find out what...

Many—maybe too many, looking at this bunch of bone-tired warriors of Av-virtue—were the travels the Ferroni Brigade embarked on all through 2011: oftentimes for festivals all over Europe, sometimes for visits to this archive or that as part of our programming arbeit (to be read with a Japanese drawl). During those months in the dark, we saw a lot—some of which chimed and rhymed with new works we encountered in this multiplex back home or that gallery abroad, on this collector's Steenbeck or in that producer's private projection room (they still exist).

On one of those trips, we were joined by our main Mubi-man, His Kasness a.k.a. the Kasest with whom we plunged one evening into a brainstorming on what The Festival would look and feel like (truth be told: it was more like a communal delirium—but what do you expect from folks sitting...

"Michael Glawogger, Austria's most enigmatic filmmaker, continues his pendulum movement between fascinatingly diverse fictions — as evidenced by 2009's one-two yin-yang-punch of Contact High and Kill Daddy Goodnight — and globe-spanning documentaries like the 1998 Megacities or the 2005 Workingman's Death." Christoph Huber in Cinema Scope: "Following in the latter's footsteps, Glawogger's docu-essay Whores' Glory caps, as the press book biography dryly states, 'his trilogy about working environments.' … Thriving on contradiction and observational curiosity as usual, Glawogger still resolutely rejects social cause-pandering, but scratches for something deeper by contrasting the rituals of love (for sale) in three different cultures, religions and economies: a look not just at prostitution, but the relationships between men and women in contemporary society that yields telling and ambivalent insights. Another major work, and the only Austrian feature-length film of importance in the upper echelons of the festival circuit this year."

And Huber and Olaf Möller talk with Glawogger...

Architecture in Helsinki has planned their triumphant return after being absent for over three years on May 3 when they release their new LP Moment Bends. The album is set for release on Cooperative/Downtown/Modular in the U.S. It arrives April 11 via V2/Cooperative in the UK and April 8 via Modular in Australia. 

The album was recorded over two years in their own Melbourne studio Buckingham Palace. You can download the dance-pop track "Contact High" here. The Moment Bends cover art up is shown above.

Frontman, Cameron Bird had the following to say in a press release:

"Moment Bends was all about being at one with our ideas, obsessed with popular music and falling in love with our hometown. We wanted to build a record to get lost in, a record that always feels exactly what you are feeling." 

Here is the band's video for "That Beep".

The band...

  Cologne, Germany -- Two of Europe's tinier nations have entered the 2010 Oscar race, with the Netherlands putting forth Jean van de Velde's "The Silent Army" and little Luxembourg nominating "Draft Dodgers" as their candidates for next year's foreign-language film honor.

"The Silent Army" looks at the issue of child soldiers in Africa through the real-life story of a Dutch cook who tracks down his young son's friend after he is kidnapped by a local warlord. Its nomination could spark controversy at home, since the international version of the film, which screened in Un Certain Regard at Cannes this year, is substantially different from the version that bowed in the Netherlands. The film also contains substantial English dialogue, always a point of contention in the foreign-language category.

"Draft Dodgers" is the directorial debut of Luxembourg producer Nicolas Steil ("Contact High") and, like so many in foreign-language race, is set during WWII.

• After a crazy year where they brought six or seven titles to Cannes (including Tulpan, Waltz with Bashir) in various competition categories, this year The Match Factory bring only a pair of titles in Ajami and Kinatay. Nonetheless, they also bring along their batch of well-performing films from Berlin. They aren't a production company, but highly selective sales company that work with producer's from all over the world. And that is why I'm including them in this producer's patch series. Update: they just included Aktan Arym Kubat’s next feature The Light to their stable. Contact High by Michael Glawogger - Completed The Dust Of Time by Theo Angelopoulos - Completed Ajami by Scandar Copti - Completed Dorfpunks by Lars Jessen - Completed Germany 09 (Deutschland 09) by Fatih Akin - CompletedGIGANTE by Adrián Biniez - Completed Kinatay by Brillante Mendoza - Completed The Milk Of Sorrow by Claudia Llosa -

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