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  • Jim McBride – Dead by Midnight (1997)

    Jim McBride1991-2000Sci-FiThrillerUSA
    Dead by Midnight (1997)
    Dead by Midnight (1997)

    Synopsis
    When a series of disturbing dreams lead a suburban husband and father to doubt the reality of his middle-class existence, he finds that his suspicions are well founded in this mind bending sci fi thriller from director Jim McBride. John Larkin (Timothy Hutton) has been having some pretty bizarre dreams lately, and when the strange visions from his sleep begin drifting into the daylight he begins to suspect that everything is not as it seems. After being abducted from his home and escaping his captors, John discovers that his entire memory has been programmed as a result of a top-secret government operation. Now, with the government on his trail and time running out, John must find out the truth about his past before his memory is erased forever.Read More »

  • Milos Forman – The People vs. Larry Flynt (1996)

    Milos Forman1991-2000DramaPoliticsUSA
    The People vs. Larry Flynt (1996)
    The People vs. Larry Flynt (1996)

    imdb .com wrote:
    Larry Flynt is the hedonistically obnoxious, but indomitable, publisher of Hustler magazine. The film recounts his struggle to make an honest living publishing his porn magazine and how it changes into a battle to protect the freedom of speech for all people. Written by Kenneth ChisholmRead More »

  • Stewart Raffill – The Ice Pirates (1984)

    1981-1990CultSci-FiStewart RaffillUSA
    The Ice Pirates (1984)
    The Ice Pirates (1984)

    In the far future water is the most valuable substance. Two space pirates are captured, sold to a princess, and recruited to help her find her father who disapeared when he found information dangerous to the rulers. A real Space Opera with sword fights, explosions, fighting robots, monsters, bar fights and time warps.Read More »

  • John Sayles – Return of the Secaucus Seven (1979)

    John Sayles1971-1980CultDramaUSA
    Return of the Secaucus Seven (1979)
    Return of the Secaucus Seven (1979)

    College friends reunite for a New England summer weekend in this low-budget first feature by accomplished independent filmmaker John Sayles. A predecessor of the well-paced, character-driven films in Sayles’ future, Secaucus Seven also looks ahead to the 1980s ensemble movies that it inspired, most notably Lawrence Kasdan’s The Big Chill, which arrived in theaters three years later. As each friend arrives at the house (or travels to the house), characterizations build, dialogue expands, and the house (and film) are full of people getting reacquainted and re-examining themselves and each other. Sayles builds the plot by testing the characters’ connections: Will these former radicals accept the uptight boyfriend of the well-loved politico? What happens when a couple splits up? How does the educated set treat the local blue-collars? Many critics cited Secaucus Seven in their decade-end list of the best films of the 1980s.Read More »

  • Joe Dante – The Second Civil War (1997)

    Joe Dante1991-2000ComedyPoliticsUSA
    The Second Civil War (1997)
    The Second Civil War (1997)

    Quote:
    What happens when Governor Farley of Idaho (Beau Bridges decides to close his state’s borders rather than allow a planeload of immigrant orphans to make it their home? The answer is hilarious, frightening, scandalous – and may well be the start of The Second Civil War.

    In this outrageous comedy, a nation watches – on TV – while the President (Phil Hartman) turns to his advisors, including lobbyist Jack Buchan (James Coburn), for advice. As the crisis escalates, it all depends on the Governor of Idaho. Will he be open to peaceful negotiations? Not before he’s negotiated his way back into the bedroom of his businesslike NewsNet reporter Christina Fernandez (Elizabeth Peña) with whom he is having a stormy affair. NewsNet is covering the tension at the Idaho state border as armed forces move in from either side. Will the Governor give way to his immigrant love or anti-immigration war? Either way, it looks like there’ll be nothing civil about The Second Civil War.Read More »

  • Steve Wang – Drive (1997)

    1991-2000ActionCrimeSteve WangUSA
    Drive (1997)
    Drive (1997)

    A prototype enhanced human, on the run from Chinese-hired hit men, hooks up with a dread-locked bystander, and the two of them elude their pursuers narrowly each time.Read More »

  • Fred Zinnemann – Oklahoma! (1955)

    Fred Zinnemann1951-1960ClassicsMusicalSinging CowboysUSA
    Oklahoma! (1955)
    Oklahoma! (1955)

    In the Oklahoma territory at the turn of the twentieth century, two young cowboys vie with an evil ranch hand and a traveling peddler for the hearts of the women they love.Read More »

  • Radley Metzger – Therese and Isabelle (1968)

    Radley Metzger1961-1970EroticaRomanceUSA
    Therese and Isabelle (1968)
    Therese and Isabelle (1968)

    Two young girls experience awakening sexuality in the heated atmosphere of a Swiss girls’ boarding school.Read More »

  • Tom DeSimone – Prison Girls (1972)

    1971-1980CampExploitationTom DeSimoneUSA
    Prison Girls (1972)
    Prison Girls (1972)

    Quote:
    Six female prisoners are given a weekend furlough to prepare them for their upcoming parole. While out, they all have miscellaneous sexual experiences, some good, some bad. One returns to her pimp even though he beats her, one overcomes her frigidity, one gets gang raped, two join in a threesome, and one goes back to her criminal lover shortly before the police show up.Read More »

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