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Ghost in the Shell
1995 89mins Japan (15) Anime

In this Japanese animation, cyborg federal agent Maj. Motoko Kusanagi (Mimi Woods) trails "The Puppet Master" (Abe Lasser), who illegally hacks into the computerized minds of cyborg-human hybrids. Her pursuit of a man who can modify the identity of strangers leaves Motoko pondering her own makeup and what life might be like if she had more human traits. With her partner (Richard George), she corners the hacker, but her curiosity about her identity sends the case in an unforeseen direction.

Funeral Parade presents "The Skin I Live In"
2011 120mins Spain, USA (15) Psychological Thriller

Funeral Parade is proud to present The Skin I Live In, Pedro Almodóvar’s psychological melodrama about surgery and obsession.

After twelve years, prominent plastic surgeon Dr. Robert Ledgard has finally created a new form of damage-resistant skin, a breakthrough which could have saved his late wife. However, this modern miracle of medicine was only achieved through Vera, Ledgard’s captive and human guinea pig. Who is she? And what does she have to do with the doctor’s past? The Skin I Live In is a startling thriller which could have only come from one of queer cinema’s most singular voices.

With intro from artist, filmmaker and author Maz Murray.
 

IG: @maz_murray
Site: www.mazmurray.com

Apocalypse Now : Final Cut
1979 181mins USA (15) War

In Vietnam in 1970, Captain Willard (Martin Sheen) takes a perilous and increasingly hallucinatory journey upriver to find and terminate Colonel Kurtz (Marlon Brando), a once-promising officer who has reportedly gone completely mad. In the company of a Navy patrol boat filled with street-smart kids, a surfing-obsessed Air Cavalry officer (Robert Duvall), and a crazed freelance photographer (Dennis Hopper), Willard travels further and further into the heart of darkness.

The Fifth Element
1997 126mins France (PG) Sci-Fi / Action

The Earth is about to be destroyed by a huge ball of fire racing toward the planet. Cornelius, an old monk, knows how to stop the burning sphere with the help of Korben Dallas, a taxi driver and former secret agent and a woman named Leeloo.