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  • Lana Wachowski & Lilly Wachowski – Bound (1996)

    Lana Wachowski1991-2000CrimeLilly WachowskiQueer Cinema(s)ThrillerUSA
    Bound (1996)
    Bound (1996)

    Tough ex-con Corky and her lover Violet concoct a scheme to steal millions of stashed mob money and pin the blame on Violet’s crooked boyfriend Caesar.Read More »

  • David O. Russell – Spanking the Monkey (1994)

    David O. Russell1991-2000ComedyDramaUSA
    Spanking the Monkey (1994)
    Spanking the Monkey (1994)

    Synopsis
    The debut feature from writer-director David O. Russell tells the darkly comic story of a young pre-med student’s nearly unbearable summer vacation. When Ray Aibelli’s promiscuous father orders him to stay home for the summer and care for his mother, who recently broke her leg, he misses out on an incredibly important internship. As Ray struggles with the realization that he’s wasting his summer doing nothing at home, he must contend with an endless string of seemingly insurmountable circumstances, including a failed brief relationship with a young high school student. Things reach their boiling point when Ray and his mother get drunk one night, leading to an incestuous encounter that pushes him over the edge. Humiliated, depressed, and downtrodden, Ray decides to commit suicide to end his troubles forever. Russell’s racy story walks a tightrope between deep psychological drama and taboo comedy, resulting in a highly original tone that keeps SPANKING THE MONKEY from buckling under the pressure. Featuring a standout performance by Davies, as well as Watson, who recalls Anne Bancroft’s Mrs. Robinson in THE GRADUATE, this is one of the 1990’s most auspicious directorial debuts.Read More »

  • Douglas Sirk – A Time to Love and a Time to Die (1958)

    Douglas Sirk1951-1960DramaRomanceUSA
    A Time to Love and a Time to Die (1958)
    A Time to Love and a Time to Die (1958)

    On the Russian front in 1944 German Private Ernst Graeber receives a leave and visits his family in Germany but Germany isn’t the same country he left behind.Read More »

  • Jack O’Connell – Revolution (1968)

    1961-1970DocumentaryJack O'ConnellUSA
    Revolution (1968)
    Revolution (1968)

    A documentary that explores the counterculture of San Francisco in the mid-1960’s. In HD.Read More »

  • Eugene Forde – Buy Me That Town (1941)

    Eugene Forde1941-1950ClassicsComedyUSA
    Buy Me That Town (1941)
    Buy Me That Town (1941)

    Synopsis
    A gangster and his mob buy a small-town in this warm comedy. They, tired of trying
    to make it as big city hoods, buy the town to use as a hideout. The leader of the
    gang begins to have a change of heart after he begins falling for a local girl. He
    decides to use the “protection money” his gang has been pocketing to benefit the
    townsfolk. This feels good to the tough and thug-like gangsters who begin embracing
    the ideals of good citizenship in favor of a life of crime.Read More »

  • Deborah Stratman – Last Things (2023)

    Deborah Stratman2021-2030DocumentaryExperimentalUSA
    Last Things (2023)
    Last Things (2023)

    Synopsis:
    The project originated from two novellas of J.-H. Rosny, the joint pseudonym of the Belgian brothers Boex who wrote on natural, prehistoric and speculative subjects—sci fi before it was a genre. The film takes up their pluralist vision of evolution, where imagining prehistory is inseparable from envisioning the future. Also central are Roger Caillois’ writing on stones, Robert Hazen’s theory of Mineral Evolution, Clarice Lispector’s Hour of the Star, the Symbiosis theory of Lynn Margulis, multi-species scenarios of Donna Haraway, Hazel Barton’s research on cave microbes and Marcia Bjørnerud’s thoughts on time literacy. In one way or another, these thinkers have all sought to displace humankind and human reason from the center of evolutionary processes. Passages from Rosny and interviews with Bjørnerud form the film’s science-fictional / science-factual spine. Stones are its anchor. To touch stone is to meet alien duration. We trust stone as archive, but we may as well write on water. In the end, it’s particles that remain.Read More »

  • Phillip J. Roth – Interceptors AKA Interceptor Force (1999)

    1991-2000ActionDramaPhillip J. RothUSA
    Interceptors (1999)
    Interceptors (1999)

    In the near future, the government has created an elite team of soldiers specially trained in the event of a hostile alien encounter. A multi-national force of the world’s best, they are known as the Interceptor Force. A covert early warning satellite network tracks an object crash landing in a town in the Pacific Northwest. Within minutes of the impact, all communication with the town is mysteriously severed. The news sources are given a false story of contamination and the area is sealed off. AWAC’s and fighters patrol the perimeter. As the silence from the town continues, the Interceptor team lead by Lieutenant Sean Lambert (Gruner) is sent in to investigate. Read More »

  • Babak Jalali – Land (2018)

    Babak Jalali2011-2020DramaUSA
    Land (2018)
    Land (2018)

    A Native American family struggles with violence and alcohol, when news reaches the Reservation that one of them has died during military service in Afghanistan.Read More »

  • Rebecca Miller – The Ballad of Jack and Rose (2005)

    2001-2010ArthouseDramaRebecca MillerUSA
    The Ballad of Jack and Rose (2005)
    The Ballad of Jack and Rose (2005)

    PLOT: complicated relationship between father and doughter and in the background of the story beautifull landscapes of east cost island in US.Read More »

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