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  • Kathy Bates – Dash and Lilly (1999)

    1991-2000DramaKathy BatesUSA
    Dash and Lilly (1999)
    Dash and Lilly (1999)

    The lives of Dashiell Hammett and Lillian Hellman are set against the golden era of Hollywood, HUAC and the issue of McCarthyism of the 1950s. This intimate look at the lives of two of this century’s literary titans follows their tumultuous affair, drinking bouts, career highs and lows, and activities in support of left-wing causes including Hammett’s public avowal of Communism and his membership in the Communist Party and Hellman’s sympathies for the Stalinist regime in the Soviet Union before World War II. Bebe Neuwirth also appears as socialite-writer Dorothy Parker.Read More »

  • Frederick Wiseman – Domestic Violence (2001)

    Frederick Wiseman2001-2010DocumentaryUSA
    Domestic Violence (2001)
    Domestic Violence (2001)

    Synopsis:
    Domestic Violence shows the Tampa, Florida police responding to domestic violence calls and the work of The Spring, the principal shelter in Tampa for women and children. Sequences with the police include police response, intervention, and attempted resolution of domestic violence calls. Sequences at the shelter include intake interviews, individual counseling sessions, anger management training, group therapy, staff meetings, conversations among clients and between clients and staff, and school activities, therapy and counseling for children at the shelter.Read More »

  • Jules Dassin – Brute Force (1947)

    Jules Dassin1941-1950250 Quintessential Film NoirsCrimeFilm NoirUSA
    Brute Force (1947)
    Brute Force (1947)

    PLOT: At overcrowded Westgate Penitentiary, where violence and fear are the norm and the warden has less power than guards and leading prisoners, the least contented prisoner is tough, single-minded Joe Collins. Most of all, Joe hates chief guard Captain Munsey, a petty dictator who glories in absolute power. After one infraction too many, Joe and his cell-mates are put on the dreaded drain pipe detail; prompting an escape scheme that has every chance of turning into a bloodbath.Read More »

  • James Goldstone – When Time Ran Out… (1980)

    James Goldstone1971-1980ActionAdventureUSA
    When Time Ran Out... (1980)
    When Time Ran Out… (1980)

    An active volcano threatens a south Pacific island resort and its guests as a power struggle ensues between the property’s developer and a drilling foreman.Read More »

  • John Frankenheimer – The Fourth War (1990)

    John Frankenheimer1981-1990DramaThrillerUSA
    The Fourth War (1990)
    The Fourth War (1990)

    Quote:
    Cold War drama about two gung-ho border commanders (Roy Scheider, Jurgen Prochnow) who carry out their own private war against each other on the German – Czechoslovakia border.Read More »

  • William Friedkin – The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial (2023)

    William Friedkin2021-2030DramaUSAWar
    The Caine Mutiny Court Martial (2023)
    The Caine Mutiny Court Martial (2023)

    Follows a naval officer who stands trial for mutiny after taking command from a ship captain he felt was acting in an unstable way, putting both the ship and its crew in danger.Read More »

  • Shalini Kantayya – Coded Bias (2020)

    2011-2020DocumentaryShalini KantayyaUSA
    Coded Bias (2020)
    Coded Bias (2020)

    When MIT Media Lab researcher Joy Buolamwini discovers that facial recognition does not see dark-skinned faces accurately, she embarks on a journey to push for the first-ever U.S. legislation against bias in algorithms that impact us all.Read More »

  • Fred Walton – When a Stranger Calls (1979)

    1971-1980Fred WaltonHorrorThrillerUSA
    When a Stranger Calls (1979)
    When a Stranger Calls (1979)

    A terrified young baby-sitter… an incessantly ringing phone… and whispered threats set the stage for one of the most suspenseful chillers ever filmed. Carol Kane stars as the baby-sitter who is tormented by a series of ominous phone calls until a compulsive cop (Charles Durning) is brought on the scene to apprehend the psychotic killer. Seven years later, however, the nightmare begins again when the madman return to mercilessly haunt Kane, now a wife and mother. No longer a naïve girl – though still terrified, but prepared – she moves boldly to thwart the maniac’s attack in scenes that culminate in a nerve-shattering conclusion…Read More »

  • Nick Millard – Siv: A Swedish Girl (1971)

    1971-1980EroticaExploitationNick MillardUSA
    Siv A Swedish Girl (1971)
    Siv A Swedish Girl (1971)

    Siv is an 18 yr old naive and beautiful Swedish girl. She is invited to live with a hippie couple attending the local university. Before long she is introduced to all manner of drugs and bi-sexual encounters that leave her fulfilled yet corrupted…wanting more.Read More »

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