1971-1980

After an accident causes an ugly duckling girl to undergo reconstructive surgery, she emerges from behind the bandages a ravishing beauty. It’s payback time when she uses her new attractiveness to exact revenge on those who wronged her.Read More »

[…] Lindblom made her debut as a film director with Summer Paradise (Paradistorg), a film version of Ulla Isaksson’s novel of the same name. Isaksson and Lindblom co-wrote the screenplay, which centres on an impressive summerhouse in the Stockholm archipelago. Every summer the various generations of the Wik family gather at the house, where the matriarchal doctor Katha – played by Birgitta Valberg, who won a Guldbagge award for the role – is the undisputed hub of the family. However, exasperations and disdain are bubbling under the surface of this Swedish idyll, and Bergmanesque elements are clearly discernible in the dialogues that resolve these issues. In one central scene a bitter quarrel breaks out around the dangers facing children in welfare Sweden as a result of women’s liberation and the desire for self-realisation.
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Mind control. Advances of modern science have removed it from the realm of the mystical into the all too probable. What happens when science loses control is the subject of The Terminal Man, based on a novel by Michael Crichton and written for the screen and directed by Mike Hodges. Computer scientist Harry Benson has experimental brain surgery to end his potentially dangerous seizures. Electrodes are attached with 40 terminals to his brain to counteract his violent impulses. But there’s no escaping his own mind. The experiment backfires and the seizures return … with a terminal vengeance. Hooking into this visionary tale will unnerve you. But the truth behind its hallucinatory horrors will fascinate and stimulate you.Read More »

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Guy Debord’s answer to the criticism regarding his previous film, “The Society of the Spectacle”–a film adaptation of his Situationist manifesto, and a sharp commentary on contemporary society and the power of the image untethered from its original context.Read More »

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The Glacier Fox is an exciting documentary filmed in the frozen regions of Northern Japan. Director Korey Kurahara, who apparently was weaned on Disney’s True Life Adventures, strikes just the right balance between reality and artifice. His “cast” consists of a family of wild foxes, each with his or her own distinct personality. The film explores the foxes’ efforts to survive the elements and their ever-threatening environment. The Glacier Fox runs 90 minutes, and “runs” is just the right word to describe the breathless pace of this movie. — Hal EricksonRead More »

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Portrait of a French mercenary working in Lebanon, hired by the Phalange to train the militias. War leaves its traces; and for some, who see death as part of the job, it’s a vocation.Read More »

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The title refers to the postcode 1000, which was valid for the whole of West Berlin at the time and was often abbreviated to 1. In larger cities, the number of the postal delivery district was placed after the place name. This resulted in designations such as “1 Berlin 36” or “1 Berlin 44”.Read More »

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Anne lives with her husband in Belgium where she works as a restorer of paintings. When she becomes pregnant, she finds herself remembering a picture she did some time ago and of which she has no memory, no recollection of what happened to it. It becomes her goal to discover and clarify the mystery behind this painting, at the same time she notices that a strange man is following all of her moves.Read More »

In an elegant restaurant where gourmet food and gourmet sex are both on the menu, former high-class prostitute and acclaimed author Barbara Broadcast (played by stunning Annette Haven) transforms lunch with journalist C.J. Laing into an afternoon of sexual excess. Barbara seduces her way through a corporate office and a busy Manhattan night club, while Laing ventures into the kitchen for a smoldering encounter with Wade Nichols that may just be the greatest sex scene ever filmed. Climaxing with the return of Misty Beethoven, Constance Money, and her tormentor, Jamie Gillis, the Distribpix release of Barbara Broadcast is presented here digitally re-mastered and uncut for the first time.Read More »