Chantal Akerman explores Jewish American identity in this multilayered portrait of the immigrant experience. Shot in Brooklyn near the Williamsburg Bridge, Histoires d’Amérique takes the form of a series of first-person addresses delivered by a cross-section of Jewish New Yorkers (including Living Theatre cofounder Judith Malina), whose by turns tragic and humorous tales speak to a collective history of trauma, displacement, and resilience.Read More »
In Spain, a newlywed couple parks their car in a deserted land to make love and they trespass a private property. They are taken to a women’s prison and the husband is released while his wife is arrested and forced to hard labor. Soon she learns that the women in the prison are submitted to sexual abuse to satisfy the sadistic and lesbian warden and the impotent governor and his bisexual wife. Meanwhile her husband returns to the prison with a friend expecting to rescue his wife while Kanita and Tara are sold to a brothel.Read More »
If any Jess Franco films truly lives up to its title that would be “El sexo está loco”…
Synopsis:
Life starts to imitate art when aliens in search of fertile women to help repopulate their planet impregnate an actress. The plot as it progresses then focuses around two couples and their sexual adventures. Then we’re back to the weird alien vibe it all started with only to briefly abandon it again until the films ends. So were there really aliens or where they just a fantasy of Lina Romay’s character’s imagination?Read More »
Synopsis:
The first series of a film whose course is in parallel with the life of the author. Unlike a newspaper, however, any realistic, everyday element is excluded.Read More »
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Amanda Shell, who has a toy boy, is trying to sell a house in the country. She has two nieces, Tina Loren and Valerie Vinal who play tennis on the court attached to the house wearing no knickers. They are watched by Jean-Pierre Armand who is trying to persuade Marilyn Jess to have sex with him. He succeeds by winning a bet with her that the other two girls play knickerless tennis. The two nieces seduce the prospective buyer, Jean-Pierre has it away with Marilyn, who also has it away with the prospective buyer, and so on.Read More »
Buckle up for ride in the Black Moon, a sleek, high-tech supercar, powered by hydrogen and capable of speeds of over 300mph! Tommy Lee Jones (Rolling Thunder, Under Siege) stars as Sam Quint, a master thief working for the government who hides a computer disc loaded with evidence of corporate crime in a prototype supercar, the Black Moon. When a gang of thieves steal the car, Quint seduces their leader, Nina (Linda Hamilton, Terminator), to get to the disc. But in order to reclaim his property, Quint and Nina must break into an impenetrable skyscraper and take down Ed Ryland (Robert Vaughn, The Delta Force), the head of a dangerous stolen car syndicate…A fast-moving, hydrogen-fuelled action thriller written by John Carpenter (Halloween, The Thing), Black Moon Rising has earned admiration from cult movie audiences for its thrilling chase sequences, pounding synth score, and slick direction courtesy of Harley Cokeliss (Battle Truck, The Glitterball).Read More »
Grenouilles (Frogs) is perhaps Arrieta’s strangest film. Anne Wiazemsky plays a beautiful Russian spy, Nora, who arrives on an island in the middle of the ocean, to avenge the betrayal of her lover, the artist Tibor. Other characters include a spy from UNESCO, a mysterious stranger who is plotting the end of the world, and a gang of thieves disguised as frogmen…Read More »
Ko Chow (Chow Yun-Fat) is an undercover cop who is under pressure from all sides. His boss, Inspector Lau (Yueh Sun), wants him to infiltrate a gang of ruthless jewel thieves; in order to do this he must obtain some handguns; his girlfriend (Carrie Ng) wants him to commit to marriage or she will leave Hong Kong with another lover; and he is being pursued by other cops who are unaware that he is a colleague.Read More »
