Soon the air is filled with skydiving nuns, single and in packs, and in one case with a dirt bike clamped between her legs.

Repeatedly framed by doorways and windows, each character in Hou Hsiao-hsien's film exists in a separate space, but they also reach toward one another.

Documentaries about forgotten bands tend to act as if their lack of success were the fault of a blinkered society intent on overlooking genius. But in Sam Wainwright Douglas and Paul Lovelace's The Holy Modal Rounders: Bound to Lose, it's clear that this duo were their own worst enemies.

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