1981-1990

How’d you like to get into something tight & sexy? Playboy Mark’s got just what you ordered, ever since he inherited an intimate lingerie boutique. From bras to undies, this erotic entrepreneur really knows his merchandise in this very lusty business. On Mark’s first day, he hires ample Aileen – a gal who really loves to work. Together, the two of them help the endless parade of glamorous women make the right choice with the tantalizing togs they’ve selected. Needless to say, the action in the fitting room is non-stop!Read More »

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Raw, unpolished social realism preoccupied with loners on the margins of communist Hungary. Tarr returns to the documentary, free-floating style of FAMILY NEST (1979) to examine working class lives struggling to sustain employment, relationships, and economic stability. The family is once again centered as the object of disintegration. One man’s need for family, and his inability to locate it through personal, corporate and artistic spaces, reflects a fatalistic vision of the family, the individual, as well the society that groomed them.Read More »

Murni is a young woman in love with the the handsome Kotar. He promises to marry her, but after taking her virginity he marries another woman, the daughter of the village headman. Murni is not well pleased with this. The wedding does not go off smoothly, with the bride having strange visions of skeletal husbands, and in fact the whole event becomes a shamble. It is clear to the villagers that black magic is at work here.Read More »

A girl loves an older man. He demands that she goes in a brothel, as evidence that she loves him.

Shuji Terayama adapted his 1981 film, The Fruits of Passion, from the eponymous Pauline Reage’s sequel to her well regarded book, The Story of O. However, ‘adapted’ is used very loosely in this instance, as Terayama uses the opportunity to completely reshape the structure of the novel, and use only it’s themes and characters to create a story that is uniquely his. According to the credits, the text of the narration and O’s dialogue itself was taken directly from the short novel, but everything else is pure Terayama.Read More »

The director takes us to a cemetery for dogs.Read More »

Synopsis:
The president of the Japanese National Railways is found dead during a period in which train service is plagued by numerous layoffs, strikes and shutdowns. The government says that the president was murdered; the police claim it was a suicide. A quizzical reporter follows the case for years, but the basic question remains unanswered: was the victim killed by members of the burgeoning Communist movement in Japan, or was the death stage-managed by the authorities in hopes of discrediting the Communists?Read More »

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One of the great punk films anywhere (let alone canada), starring Jello Biafra (of Dead Kennedys fame) and never commercially released, soundtrack on alternative tentacles (with a nomeansno song!) Actually this movie kind of reminds me of Max Headrrom.Read More »

From All Movie Guide:
While the audience watches a black and white horse opera, a narrator’s voice wonders what such a movie would be like today…

An amusing spoof of the good ‘ole westerns back in the halcyon days when all the cliches were held up as icons, this parody by Hugh Wilson works best for savvy audiences. Rex O’Herlihan (Tom Berenger) is a singing cowboy with a wardrobe straight out of the Hollywood westerns of the ’40s – he worships his horse, amend has a trusty sidekick too. Every town he wanders into has a sheriff on the dole, a shady cattle rancher, a prostitute with a heart of gold, an innocent young damsel, a town drunk, and the standard bad guys in black hats and long coats (Spaghetti-western style) who brutalize the poor sheep ranchers. After setting things straight in each identical town as goes, Rex is beginning to feel like a re-run junky, when he saunters into a town that is slightly different – and the parodies continue.Read More »

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A reforming ex-gangster tries to reconcile with his estranged policeman brother, but the ties to his former gang are difficult to break.Read More »