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  • Robert Hiltzik – Sleepaway Camp (1983)

    1981-1990ComedyHorrorRobert HiltzikUSA

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    After a horrible boating accident kills her family, Angela, a shy and sullen young girl, moves in with her eccentric aunt Martha, alongside her protective cousin Ricky. One summer, Martha sends the kids to Camp Arawak. Soon after their arrival, a series of bizarre and increasingly violent accidents begins to claim the lives of various campers. Who is the twisted individual behind these murders? The disclosure of the murderer’s identity is the most shocking climax in the history of American cinema.Read More »

  • Kirby Dick – Sick: The Life & Death of Bob Flanagan, Supermasochist (1997)

    Kirby Dick1991-2000DocumentaryUSA

    Documentary about writer and performance artist Bob Flanagan who died at 43 of cystic fibrosis. His life was indicated by pain from the beginning and he started to develop sadomasochistic practices, which he developed finally into performances.Read More »

  • Emlen Etting – Poem 8 (1932)

    1931-1940Emlen EttingExperimentalUSA

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    “I thought, how interesting it would be if we used the film in a different method. So far it had been used like a novel to tell a story, or else as a documentary and there was nothing else in between, and I wanted to use the film as a poetic medium, to do a poem like T.S. Eliot’s poems, and do it entirely visually and that’s how I came about to do my film I called POEM 8 and as far as I know it was the first film that experimented in that as a poetic medium.” – Emlen EttingRead More »

  • Lillian Schwartz – UFO’s (1971)

    USA1971-1980Amos Vogel: Film as a Subversive ArtAnimationExperimentalLillian Schwartz

    not recommended for people sensitive to flashing lights and colors,

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    This film further indicates that computer animation — once a gimmick — is fast becoming a fully-fledged art; the complexity of its design and movement, its speed and rhythm, richness of form and motion — coupled with stroboscopic effects to affect brain waves — is quite overpowering. What is even more ominous is that while design and action are programmed, the ‘result’, in any particular sequence, is neither entirely predictable nor under complete human control, being created at a rate faster (and in concatenations more complex) than eye and mind can follow or initiate. Our sense of reality is thus disturbed not only by the filmmaker but also by the machines we have produced.
    – Amos Vogel, Film as a Subversive ArtRead More »

  • Michael Almereyda – Nadja (1994)

    Michael Almereyda1991-2000DramaHorrorQueer Cinema(s)USA

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    This ultra-hip, post-modern vampire tale is set in contemporary New York City. Members of a dysfunctional family of vampires are trying to come to terms with each other, in the wake of their father’s death. Meanwhile, they are being hunted by Dr. Van Helsing and his hapless nephew. As in all good vampire movies, forces of love are pitted against forces of destruction.Read More »

  • Howard Hawks – Monkey Business (1952)

    Howard Hawks1951-1960ClassicsComedyUSA

    A chemist finds his personal and professional life turned upside down when one of his chimpanzees finds the fountain of youth.Read More »

  • John Huston – Let There Be Light (1946)

    John Huston1941-1950DocumentaryUSAWar

    This groundbreaking, long-suppressed look at the effects of war on returning veterans was among the first films to tackle the issue of post-traumatic stress disorder (or as it was then called, “shell shock” or “battle fatigue”). Shot at Mason General Hospital in Brentwood, Long Island, at the end of World War II, LET THERE BE LIGHT follows seventy-five former soldiers suffering debilitating psychological trauma who, in the film’s most dramatic scenes, are given sodium pentothal to recall their horrific experiences in the war. Considered too disturbing and controversial for exhibition, this landmark documentary was suppressed by the military for decades until it finally premiered in New York in 1980.Read More »

  • Richard Attenborough – Magic (1978)

    Richard Attenborough1971-1980HorrorThrillerUSA

    A ventriloquist is at the mercy of his vicious dummy while he tries to renew a romance with his high school sweetheart.Read More »

  • Tinto Brass – Caligula: The Ultimate Cut (2023)

    Tinto Brass2021-2030DramaMysteryUSA

    Follows Caligula as he kills his devious adoptive grandfather and takes control of the decadent Roman Empire, spiralling into depravity, devastation, and madness.Read More »

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