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  • Ralph Bakshi – Fritz the Cat (1972)

    Ralph Bakshi1971-1980AnimationCultUSA

    A hypocritical swinging college student cat raises hell in a satiric vision of various elements on the 1960s.Read More »

  • Franco Rossetti – El Desperado AKA The Dirty Outlaws (1967)

    1961-1970CultEuro WesternsFranco RossettiItalyWestern

    WDB wrote:
    In this spaghetti western, set during the last days of the Civil War, an outlaw finds a dying Confederate officer. As the officer expires, he tells the outlaw about a cache of gold hidden in his blind father’s home. The enterprising thief takes the dead man’s clothes and tricks the father and his housekeeper into believing that he is the son. He is just about ready to begin looking for the gold when an outlaw gang comes to town and forces him to help them rob an army payroll wagon. He then tries to abscond with the loot. The bandits torture him, shoot him, and leave him for dead. Then they shoot the blind father. The hero gets better and gets grisly revenge upon the outlaws. He saves a special treat for the gang leader. First he uses mud to blind him. Then he puts a gun in his hand and kills him.Read More »

  • Dennis Hopper – Out of the Blue (1980)

    Dennis Hopper1971-1980CanadaCultDramaUSA

    A young girl whose father is an ex-convict and whose mother is a junkie finds it difficult to conform and tries to find comfort in a quirky combination of Elvis and the punk scene.Read More »

  • Jesús Franco – Bahía blanca (1985)

    1981-1990CultJesus FrancoSpainThriller

    Bahia Blanca is an obscure but beautifully atmospheric thriller shot on the Spanish coast. Part crime, part character study, and all Franco… (MondoDigital)Read More »

  • David Berlatsky – The Farmer (1977)

    1971-1980ActionCultDavid BerlatskyUSA

    Kyle Martin returns as a silver star hero, but realizes running a one man farm is not profitable, and the bank wants to foreclose, despite returning as a hero. Then a gambler Johnny has a car accident near his farm, in which Kyle saves his life, in which Johnny offers him 1,5000 dollars, which still isn’t enough to save the farm. Then when Johnny past-post on a horse race for over $50,000, angering local mobster Passini as he and his three henchmen kills Johnny’s bodyguard and then blinds Johnny’s eyes with acid to “make a example out of him”, Johnny asks his girl Betty to ask Kyle to kill Prassini and his men one by one for $50,000, the money he needs to save his farm, which sets the path for revenge.Read More »

  • James Robert Baker – Blonde Death (1984)

    USA1981-1990ComedyCultJames Robert Baker

    Meet Tammy, the Teenage Timebomb. Eighteen years of bottled-up frustration are about to explode.

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    Romance blooms as the pair spends their days intertwining loins and exterminating innocents. But the endless rumpus falters in the looming shadows of one-eyed homicidal lesbians and former prison boyfriends, and everything soon spirals into apocalyptic, suicidal oblivion. Their lawless descent finally explodes in a sadistic poisoning scheme that wipes out every park-goer at Disneyland; a scene that was illegally shot inside the guarded gates of the actual Magic Kingdom™.Read More »

  • Dean Stockwell & Neil Young – Human Highway (1982)

    Neil Young1981-1990CultDean StockwellSci-FiUSA

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    The new owner of a roadside diner stuck in a town built around an always leaking nuclear power plant plans to torch the place to collect insurance. However, an assortment of bizarre characters and weird events (such as spaceships flying around) gets in his way.Read More »

  • Peter Greenaway – The Death of a Composer: Rosa, a Horse Drama (1999)

    Peter Greenaway1991-2000ArthouseCultNetherlands

    IMDB Summary:
    This is a TV adaptation of a 1993 opera entitled “Rosa,” with a libretto by Greenaway and score by Louis Andriessen. “Rosa” is the first in a projected series of 10 operas, each dealing with the death of a famous composer – some real (Anton Webern, Jean-Baptiste Lully, John Lennon), others fictional. “Rosa” falls into the latter category; it tells the story of Juan Manuel de Rosa, a Brazilian who went to study music in America but spent most of his time in the cinema instead, becoming particularly entranced by Westerns. Now 32 years old and residing in an abandoned Uraguayan slaughterhouse, Rosa has become one of Hollywood’s foremost composers, specializing in (what else?) Westerns. He also has a beautiful 19-year-old fiancee, Esmeralda, but he pays her little heed, instead lavishing his attentions on a black mare named Bola. One day, a group of men attired as cowboys arrive at the abattoir and kill both Rosa and Bola; an investigation is conducted, with particular suspicion!Read More »

  • Monte Hellman – Two-Lane Blacktop (1971)

    Monte Hellman1971-1980CultDramaUSA

    Quote:
    While drag-racing through the American Southwest in a Chevvy 150, a driver and his mechanic cross paths with an alluring hitchhiker and the inexperienced, tall tale-spinning driver of a GTO.Read More »

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