Drama

  • Asia Argento – Scarlet Diva (2000)

    1991-2000Asia ArgentoDramaItalyQueer Cinema(s)

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    In 2000, Argento released “Scarlet Diva,” a movie that she wrote and directed. In the film, a heavyset producer corners Anna, the character played by Argento, in a hotel room, asks her for a massage, and tries to assault her. After the movie came out, women began approaching Argento, saying that they recognized Weinstein’s behavior in the portrayal. “People would ask me about him because of the scene in the movie,” she said. Some recounted similar details to her: meetings and professional events moved to hotel rooms, bathrobes and massage requests, and, in one other case, forced oral sex.Read More »

  • Shunichi Nagasaki – Kugatsu no joudan kurabu bando AKA The Lonely Hearts Club Band in September (1982)

    Shunichi Nagasaki1981-1990ArthouseDramaJapan

    After the death of his friend Tetsuji, Ryo (Takashi Naito) and his biker gang drift apart. Ryo runs a bar, while Reiko wants to get married and have a normal job. As the first anniversary of Tetsuji’s death approaches, Zaji, Yuhi, and Nemu work to fix a bike for the legendary “Yokohama Ryo” to ride. Meanwhile, a mysterious man (Hideo Murota) seeks to destroy any remaining biker gangs. Ryo is pulled back into that world by both friends and enemies, and is expected to live up to his own legendary figure that he no longer wants anything to do with.Read More »

  • Roberto Leoni – Favola crudele (1991)

    1961-1970DramaItalyRoberto Leoni

    It is the story of a terrorist who manages to escape during a transfer by sea and lands on a remote desert island where there is a large mansion inhabited by a little girl about 9 years old a girl of 18 and their housekeeper.Read More »

  • Alexis Granowsky – Das Lied vom Leben aka Song of Life (1931)

    Germany1931-1940Alexis GranowskyDramaExperimentalWeimar Republic cinema

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    Released in America as The Song of Life, this German film stirred up quite a tempest back in 1931 for its depiction of a Caesarian birth. Though not much was really shown, it was enough to cause women filmgoers — and not a few men — to faint dead away. The film was banned outright in Germany and ran into some censorship problems in the US; still, by its very controversial nature it proved to be a hit wherever it was shown. And oh, yes, there was a plot, albeit a somewhat nonsensical one: After discovering that her elderly fiance has false teeth, a young bride-to-be becomes so distraught that she contemplates suicide! She is rescued by a young sailor, with whom she has a baby, leading to the aforementioned “C-section” sequence. ~ Hal Erickson, RoviRead More »

  • Ivan Passer – Haunted Summer (1988)

    1981-1990DramaIvan PasserThe Cannon GroupUSA

    This film delves into an unusual get-together by Percy Shelley (Eric Stoltz), his lover Mary Godwin (Alice Krige), her half-sister Claire (Laura Dern), Lord Byron (Philip Anglim), and his companion, Dr. John Polidori (Alex Winter). During one summer, these poets and their admirers talk about evil, deride the conventional mores of the times, go sailing, smoke opium, and generally celebrate the imaginations and the life of the senses. Ivan Passer directs this beautifully photographed literary drama based on Anne Edward’s 1972 novel. In a very fluid and dreamlike way, Haunted Summer explores some of the dangers and a few of the exhilarations of living in an ivory tower world of art. Krige steals the film with her deft and nimble portrait of the woman who would eventually write Frankenstein.Read More »

  • Clay Jeter – Jess + Moss (2011)

    2011-2020ArthouseClay JeterDramaUSA

    Jess (18) and Moss (12) are second cousins who have spent their summers together since either of them can remember. Without immediate families that they can relate to, and lacking friends their own age, all they have is each other. Through a series of memories and vignettes, ‘Jess + Moss’ recounts the events of the last summer they shared together. Shot entirely on location with a variety of expired and often degraded film stocks, ‘Jess + Moss’ captures the evocative and haunting character of the dark fire tobacco fields of rural Western Kentucky.Read More »

  • Miroslav Krobot – Díra u Hanusovic AKA Nowhere in Moravia (2014)

    2011-2020Czech RepublicDramaMiroslav Krobot

    German teacher Maruna runs the local pub. It doesn’t look like she’ll ever get married, since there aren’t many suitable men in her small village. But one day, something unexpected happens here, Nowhere in Moravia.Read More »

  • Davy Chou – Retour à Séoul AKA Return to Seoul (2022)

    2021-2030CambodiaDavy ChouDrama

    A twenty-five-year-old French woman returns to Korea, the country she was born in before being adopted by a French couple, for the very first time. She decides to track down her biological parents, but her journey takes a surprising turn.Read More »

  • Anaïs Volpé – Entre les vagues AKA The Braves (2021)

    2021-2030Anaïs VolpéDramaFrance

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    Two young and carefree aspiring actresses chase their theater dreams in the streets of Paris until sudden hardship threatens their plans and tests their sisterhood.Read More »

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