New Additions: 10/22/16

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Today’s batch of online store adds is comprised of Kathryn Bigelow’s “Strange Days,” the Wachowskis’ “Bound,” and “Drowning By Numbers” by Peter Greenaway. Schooled as a painter, in making “Drowning By Numbers” Greenaway sought to break free of cinema’s subservient role as a means of illustrating text, instead using organizing principles such as gameplay, structural cycles, trivia, and iconographic allusions as the throughline that draws audiences through the film’s duration. Unlike most movies, which aspire to engage audiences by unspooling their storylines in a way that feels as realistic as possible, “Drowning By Numbers” endeavors to do the exact opposite: to constantly impress on viewers that what they are experiencing is a work of film art that exists for its own sake with no desire to immerse them in the unfolding of a standard plot.