1971-1980

Naive, but brash and sultry teenage runaway Bonnie finds herself lost and adrift in America. The lovely young lass runs afoul of a colorful array of evil oddballs who all treat her like an object: violent criminal Pat makes Bonnie help her kidnap the middle-aged Dan Daubrey; domineering lesbian painter Geraldine Mills wants Bonnie to be her kept girl and uses her as a model; and wicked misogynistic rich sicko Vincent Stackman desires poor Bonnie as the ultimate prized possession in his menagerie of caged female animals he keeps locked up in the basement of his swanky remote mansion.Read More »

A group of oil prospectors travel to an outpost in a jungle on the island of Mindanao. The two prospectors Robert (Massimo Foschi) and Rolf (Ivan Rassimov) find the abandoned remains of the original prospecting camp. After one of them is captured and held prisoner by a cannibal tribe, with the help of a sympathetic cannibal woman he escapes and heads into the jungle hoping to find his one surviving companion.Read More »

Quote:
The animator, as actor, lives through his drawings which in turn become actors who influence his own self-image. A trick-film meditation on portraiture.Read More »

Synopsis:
Five friends (representatives of the Fifties generation) now in their forties, get together after many years of silence. One shows up from jail, where he has been entering and exiting for years. The other comes from a series of “accidental” murders, another leaves his wife and kids, the fourth one is a wonderer and the last one, the girl of the gang, comes from a lunatic asylum where she has been hiding for years…Read More »

In 1968, Peace Corps veteran David Schickele enlisted his friend Paul Eyam Nzie Okpokam to star in a light-hearted comedy about the adventures of a young Nigerian intellectual in San Francisco. Using a docu-fictional style reminiscent of Cassavetes’ Shadows, the film observes the foibles of late 1960s African-American culture with an outsider’s incisive eye. The result is a vibrant snapshot of the nation’s racial politics, from interracial romance to cross-cultural misunderstandings and countercultural joy. The film morphs into a documentary when the director’s voice abruptly intrudes to narrate its star’s enraging fate: Okpokam was accused of a crime he did not commit and was thrown in prison before being expelled from the country.Read More »

Another beautiful comedy with Cleo Kretschmer & Wolfgang Fierek!

Inge, Drogistin in einer bayerischen Kleinstadt, hat ihr Herz an den Kraftfahrzeugmechaniker Hub verloren, ohne dass dieser auch nur im Entferntesten davon etwas ahnt. Inge will fürs erste auch gar nicht, dass Hub erfährt, wie es um sie steht. Nichts soll ihn ablenken von dem großen Ziel, dass er und ihr Bruder Wolfgang – Kraftfahrzeugmechaniker wie Hub – mit Verbissenheit und Energie verfolgen: den Bau einer Rennmaschine, um an einem Moto-Cross-Rennen teilnehmen zu können. Inge möchte einen Helden lieben, und so tut sie alles dafür, dass der Traum der Jungen in Erfüllung geht. Freilich kränkt es sie, dass der motorradbesessene Hub überhaupt keine Notiz von ihr nimmt. Read More »

Susumu Hani’s six-year-old daughter Mio plays an orphaned Japanese girl who, for some reason, ends up in Sardinia. She starts going to school, quickly learns Italian, and befriends a boy named Raphael. One of Hani’s stranger concepts for a film, made enjoyable by the great naturalistic acting that’s found in most of his work.Read More »

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King Hu while revered for a number of unique films in the 1960’s was outside the HK studio system by the 1970’s and only produced three films in that decade. In 1979 his made two “Mountain” films concurrently. This one being a ghost story in the tradition of Japanese ghosts films like Ugetsu or Black Cat from the Grove.Read More »

Synopsis:
Gorgeous young French tourist Martine gets arrested while on vacation in Italy. After being found guilty of a trumped-up drug possession charge, Martine finds herself incarcerated at a hellish women’s penitentiary where the inmates are subjected to mental and physical torture by the staff and fellow felons alike. Things are compounded in severity when a riot breaks out in the prison.Read More »