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Kochaj albo rzuc aka Love it or Leave it aka Big Deal (1977) / Roll Bounce (2005) This week we end as we began by returning to the windy city as we crash the Polish diaspora with Kargul and Pawlak and hit the roller disco with Bow Wow

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The Bandwagon (1953) / Baron Blood (1972) This week we’re checking our blind spots as we dance with Fred Astaire and resurrect the dead with Mario Bava

Night of the Demon (1957) / Race With the Devil (1975) This week we’re on the run from evil as we try to lift a cryptic curse with Jacques Tourneur and outrun some deep fried devil worshipers with Jack Starrett

Rise and Shine (1941) / Jim the World’s Greatest (1976) This week we’re grinding it out on the goal line as we try to make the grade in Alan Dwan’s collegiate comedy and go beyond the gridiron in Don Coscarelli and Craig Mitchell’s teenage melodrama

The Whole Shootin’ Match (1978) / Ratboy (1986) This week we’re working towards a theory of Porch Cinema™ as we kick back some Lone Stars with Eagle Pennell and try to make it in Hollywood with Sondra Locke

A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence (2014) / The Great Satan (2018) This week we’re celebrating The Cut as we take aim at power with the minimalist deadpan of Roy Andersson and the maximalist montage of Everything is Terrible!

Invasion (1969) / Sur (1988) This week we’re going down to Buenos Aires as we defend the city with Hugo Santiago’s army of shadows and tango through the terrible past with Fernando Solanas

Electra, My Love (1974) / Fool for Love (1985) This week we’re putting plays on screen as we stage a mythic rebellion with Miklós Jancsó and crash out at a desert motel with Robert Altman and Sam Shepard

Nightmare at Noon (1988) / American Hunter (1989) This week we’re taking the chopper as we battle zombies and the EPA with Nico Mastorakis and try not to get blown up hunting for top secret microfilm with Arizal

The Scarlet Empress (1934) / City of Lost Souls (1983) This week we’re pitching a big tent as we rise to power with Marlene Dietrich in Josef von Sternberg’s hallucinatory historical pageant and try to make it in Berlin in Rosa von Praunheim’s trans new wave musical

Hitokiri aka Tenchu! (1969) / Demons (1971) This week we’re bucking the bushido code with a pair of disreputable ronin as we go on a killing spree with Hideo Gosha and go to hell with Toshio Matsumoto

Scarecrow in a Garden of Cucumbers (1972) / Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid (1973) This week we’re feeling restored as we move to NYC with Holly Woodlawn’s lost and found star vehicle and say goodbye to the old West(ern) with Sam Peckinpah’s contested cuts

The Story of a Cheat (1936) / InterVista (1987) This week we’re embracing the powers of the false as we cheat our way through life with Sacha Guitry and get lost in layers of lies in Federico Fellini’s Cinecittà

Woman Basketball Player No. 5 (1957) / Edge of America (2004) This week we’re hitting the hardwood as we dunk on the past and look to the future with Xie Jin while Chris Eyre teaches us how to run-and-gun on the reservation