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Antoni Martí i Gich – Hic Digitur Dei (1976 – 1977)
Written by the celebrated Catalan author Quim Monzo and his collaborator, Roser Fradera, Hic Digitur Dei is a decadent musical…
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Carlos Saura – Ana y los lobos aka Ana and the Wolves (1973)
The young but traveled Ana arrives in a manor in the countryside of Spain to work as nanny of three…
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Ken Russell – Lisztomania (1975)
A send-up of the bawdy life of Romantic composer and piano virtuoso Franz Liszt (Roger Daltrey), with ubiquitous phallic imagery…
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Slavoj Zizek – Populism, Democracy and Iran (2009)
Fourth lecture from the ‘Notes Towards a Definition of Communist Culture’ Masterclass Institute for the Humanities, Birkbeck College, 17. June…
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Amos Vogel – Film As a Subversive Art (1974)
Review: Norman Mailer wrote: According to Vogel–founder of Cinema 16, North America’s legendary film society–the book details the “accelerating worldwide…
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John G. Avildsen – A Night in Heaven (1983)
From IMDB: Faye Hanlon is a community-college professor with an emotionally depressed husband and an abundance of sexual frustration. Her…
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Radley Metzger – Camille 2000 (1969)
“Camille 2000, with its cast of wealthy, weary sophisticates, clear plastic blow-up beds, outlandish metal dresses, refined S&M orgies, and…
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Nicholas Ray – Knock on Any Door (1949)
Quote: Andrew Morton is an attorney who made it out of the slums. Nick Romano is his client, a young…
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Fritz Lang – Metropolis [Full Version 2010] (1927)
“Metropolis is not one film, Metropolis is two films joined by the belly, but with divergent, indeed extremely antagonistic, spiritual…
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