The first years of the revolution, characterized by social transformations and class struggle, make man’s challenge to the animal fade into the background. A very skilled hunter, attached to his world and his myths, does not adapt easily to a changing context. A personal conflict will contribute to deepen his contradictions; his virtues as a hunter will be put to the test.Read More »
The story of an impossible love: doctor Emil Codrescu is reunited 20 years later with Adela, the one he had only known as a young girl. The two fall in love, but circumstances and hesitation prevent them from getting closer.Read More »
Synopsis: An early 1980s precondom gay sex classic. The tag line was “Where More than the Surf Is Pounding”…and is it ever! Michael Christopher plays an openly gay lifeguard and Johnny Dawes plays a “straight” one who’s starting to question is sexuality. Christopher and Dawes were allegedly lovers when this film and Skin Deep, which I put on line a couple years ago, were made, and this seem to add something “extra” to their love scenes. Or maybe they were both just great actors or super horny, who knows? I found this one line a while back and not in great shape. I’ve improved the primitive sound some … but sound isn’t what you’re interested in, is it?Read More »
In post-World War II Britain, food rationing continues, leading a married couple to become involved in the flourishing bacon black market.Read More »
The mansion that a young couple inherits has been, they find, a center for sophisticated depravity. They get immersed in voyeurism and hedonistic love triangles with their willing servants. Eventually the entire household, including the guests at a formal dinner party, get caught up in the antics.Read More »
The two-part TV movie Inside the Third Reich was based on the extraordinary revelatory (if self-serving) autobiographical book by Albert Speer. Played herein by Rutger Hauer, Speer is a young man of privilege in pre-Hitler Germany who happens to be a brilliant architect. Becoming a member of Hitler’s inner circle, Speer is appointed the Nazi regime’s master builder. According to this film, Speer is egomaniacal and ambitious, but somewhat blinded to the inherent evils of Nazism. Though he’d later claim to be ignorant of Hitler’s horrific policies aimed at the Jews, he was certainly aware of the use of Jewish prisoners as slave labor: as Germany’s armaments minister during World War II, Speer exploited these enslaved unfortunates as much as anyone, if not more so. The cast includes Derek Jacobi as Hitler, Blythe Danner as Speer’s wife Margarethe, John Gielgud as Speer’s father, Ian Holm as Goebbels, Maurice Roeves as Hess, and George Murcell as Goering. Originally running 5 hours, Inside the Third Reich was filmed in Munich; it was first telecast on May 9 and 10, 1982. ~ Hal Erickson, RoviRead More »
A middle aged woman oculist has a heart attack. Recalling her past, she feels sorry for not having been a dutiful wife and mother, but she consoles herself with the thought that she has saved many people from blindness.Read More »
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Anneli is soon to be 17 years old. She lives alone with her mother and can barely remember her father who left the family 10 years ago. One day she receive a letter from her father, who is a helicopter pilot up north. Anneli decides to visit him, but on her way up, she meets Johnny and falls in love. (by NL @ imdb)Read More »
Synopsis (by David Gregory Lawson – filmcomment.com)
Richard Linklater’s first feature, It’s Impossible to Learn to Plow by Reading Books (88), is the travelogue of a young man, played by Linklater, riding the rails, hitching, and driving through the southwestern United States. The unnamed protagonist flounders about pleasantly in Austin, visits a friend in Missoula, and hoofs around San Francisco by his lonesome (chatting up strangers, though the conversations can’t be heard, covered by city noise, or waves crashing against rocks at a lighthouse by the bay). Then he returns to Austin, babysits his mother’s dog, and, finally, is given a cassette tape by Daniel Johnston, whom he does not know. During their spontaneous meeting Linklater reveals that the film’s title is written on one of the T-shirts he’s been wearing the whole time: “Old Russian proverb,” he says.Read More »