{"id":490118,"date":"2026-06-13T00:21:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-13T00:21:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/490118\/"},"modified":"2026-06-13T00:21:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-13T00:21:08","slug":"indie-films-opening-june-12-stop-that-train-amores-perros-in-4k","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/490118\/","title":{"rendered":"Indie Films Opening June 12: ‘Stop! That! Train!’, ‘Amores Perros’ In 4K"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tRuPaul<\/a> is back on the big screen joined by a handful of limited indie openings from Cannes-premiering Promised Sky<\/a> to award-winning documentary The Gas Station Attendant<\/a> and O Horizon<\/a> starring Maria Bakalova.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe weekend is sprinkled with limited release restorations including Alejandro Gonz\u00e1lez I\u00f1\u00e1rritu\u2019s Amores Perros<\/a> from Mubi and The Third Man from Rialto Pictures. I Shot Andy Warhol is back, from Janus Films with The Devil Queen from Kino Lorber and By Hook Or By Crook from Altered Innocence. June is Pride Month.<\/p>\n

\n\tBTS<\/a> World Tour \u2018Arirang\u2019 In Busan: Live Viewing from Trafalgar will beam out to screens in North America and worldwide Saturday.<\/p>\n

\n\tBleecker Street\u2019s campy comedy Stop! That! Train!<\/a> by director Adam Shankman and starring RuPaul is on 1,161 screens. Follows best friends Tess (Ginger Minj) and DeeDee (Jujubee), train stewardesses who trade their dreary shifts on the Stank Rail for the glitzy Glamazonian Express. With the train at risk of derailing, they join a group of snobby first class attendants and President Gagwell (RuPaul) to save the day. At 86% with Rotten Tomatoes critics off 34 reviews, see Deadline\u2019s here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\n\tKarla Murthy\u2019s award-winning documentary The Gas Station Attendant opens at DCTV\u2019s Firehouse Cinema in New York. A daughter reflects on her father\u2019s life, weaving the story of his journey from the streets of India with the realities of life in America. Using recorded phone calls with her dad while he worked nights at a gas station, along with home movies, the doc is a meditation on family and the immigrant experience. Accolades include a Grand Jury Special Mention award, Sheffield Docfest; Best Documentary Feature, Nashville Film Festival; Best Documentary Feature Award, San Diego Asian Film Festival.<\/p>\n

\n\tFilm Movement debuts the Cannes-premiering Promised Sky by French-Tunisian director Erige Sehiri at the Film Forum in NYC. Opening film of the 33rd\u00a0New York African Film Festival last month. An Ivorian pastor and former journalist, Marie opens her home in Tunisia to three generations of migrant women. A mother desperate to obtain residency status in Tunisia, Naney seeks a better life for herself and her daughter. Jolie, in Tunisia on a student visa, feels burdened by her family\u2019s expectations. Kenza, an orphaned child and the only survivor of a shipwreck is lost and in need of a mother.<\/p>\n

\n\tMagical realist tale O Horizon from Variance Films starring Maria Bakalova opens at the Quad Cinema\u00a0in NYC. Madeleine Rotzler directs. Bakalova is Abby, a young neuroscientist navigating an exhilarating new romance and a groundbreaking career discovery after the recent loss of her father (David Strathairn). When an emerging technology suddenly allows her to speak with him again, it turns her life upside down.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"RuPaul is back on the big screen joined by a handful of limited indie openings from Cannes-premiering Promised…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":490119,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[226229,1845,146,85,46,226230,226231,92383,76956,92385,226232],"class_list":["post-490118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-amores-perros","tag-bts","tag-entertainment","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-o-horizon","tag-promised-sky","tag-rupaul","tag-specialty-preview","tag-stop-that-train","tag-the-gas-station-attendant"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490118","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=490118"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490118\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/490119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=490118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=490118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=490118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}