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The stunning and voluptuous “Dr. Christina” writes sex-related stories and columns for a Swedish tabloid. Sent to France by the newspaper and thrilled by her first taste of Paris, Dr. Christina’s first task is to interview French young people about their opinions on sex in the age of Free Love. She quickly learns that actions speak louder than words the moment she happens upon an eager young couple in the throes of non-stop lovemaking. Turned on by her voyeurism and the prospects for a great news story, Christina herself is primed for some action. That night finds her feverishly dreaming of an ultra-erotic encounter between two women sporting kinky lingerie, eager tongues and probing fingers. The following day Christina roams the boulevards of Paris hot for sensual satisfaction. Will a café performance featuring two lesbians that mirrors her previous night’s dreams be enough to satiate her?Read More »

This film was a gift to me. I make no claims for it, nor do I offer any apologies. It comes from work on The Thoughts That Once We Had. There was one shot we had to cut whose loss I particularly regretted. It was a shot of a train pulling into Tokyo Station from Ozu’s The Only Son (1936). So I decided to make a film around this shot, an anthology of train arrivals. It comprises 26 scenes or shots from movies, 1904-2015. It has a simple serial structure: each black & white sequence in the first half rhymes with a color sequence in the second half. Thus the first shot and the final shot show trains arriving at stations in Japan from a low camera height. In the first shot (The Only Son), the train moves toward the right; in the last shot, it moves toward the left. A bullet train has replaced a steam locomotive. So after all these years, I’ve made another structural film, although that was not my original intention. – Thom AndersenRead More »

A depressive rich girl is having a counseling session during which she recalls some of her sexual experiences.Read More »

J.D. Cahill is the toughest U.S. Marshal they’ve got, just the sound of his name makes bad guys stop in their tracks, so when his two young boy’s want to get his attention they decide to rob a bank. They end up getting more than they bargained for.Read More »

August Evening follows an aging undocumented farm worker named Jaime and his young, widowed daughter-in-law, Lupe, as their lives are thrown into upheaval. Lupe is more of a daughter to Jaime than his own children, and the two try to stick together… but change is inevitable.Read More »

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“Brigitta lives the lonesome, monotonous life of a bank teller until the day she becomes infatuated with the malignant and charismatic Bize. One night, he drugs Brigitta’s drink and unleashes within her strange passions and animal desires which send her reeling into a wanton sexual trance from which there can be no return! She soon finds herself immersed in the squalid world of drugs, alcohol, fetishism, prostitution, sexually transmitted diseases and drunk driving! What price will Brigitta pay for her newfound freedom?”Read More »

This grindhouse classic from Nick Phillips is perhaps the bleakest of his softcore output, combining the director’s favourite visuals; naturally endowed hippy-chicks in fetish wear, drug usage, and lesbianism, in a psychedelic sleaze-fest that proves both a turn on and downer. Shot in black and white, with an uncredited cast, the film follows heroin addict Jean and her inevitable misadventures in and out of the drug scene. Following a sleazy encounter with her thieving pusher she drifts off into the outside world where she meets clean cut Tad and soon after they become smitten with each other she swiftly introduces poor Tad to her junkie culture. Sex, drugs, sleaze and death backed by grooved out hippie beats and a borderline beatnik narrative are the order of the day in this freaked out cult curiosity.Read More »

Hands of a Stranger was adapted by playwright Arthur Kopit from the best-selling novel by Robert Daley. Armand Assante plays a New York City narcotics officer who aids DA Blair Brown in her investigation of a rape case in which drugs were involved. In the subsequent days, Assante becomes something of an expert in rape evidence. Thus, when his wife Beverly D’Angelo is sexually assaulted while en route to a rendezvous with her lover, Assante suspects something even though D’Angelo remains mum about the incident. Conducting his own investigation, Assante determines the rapist’s identity while wiretapping a phoned-in attempt to blackmail his wife. Will Assante forget everything he’s learned about police procedure and attempt to take the law into his own hands? Co-starring in Hands of a Stranger is Arliss Howard as the scummy rapist. Preceded by a warning that the film contained scenes of a violent and graphic nature, Hands of a Stranger was originally broadcast in two parts, on May 10 and 11, 1987.Read More »

A stirring tale of romance and deception staged on an epic scale by director Frank Lloyd, The Sea Hawk (1924) captures the majesty and vigor of silent cinema at its most spectacular. Based on the novel by Rafael Sabatini, the author of Scaramouche and Captain Blood, the film is a swashbuckling epic of the highest order, spanning several years and continents as it tells the story of Oliver Tressilian, a British nobleman falsely accused of murder, and dramatizes his valiant efforts to restore honor to his name.Read More »