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Documentary that explores actor/director Clint Eastwood and his art by juxtaposing each major stage in his life with a corresponding stage in the thematic development of his work. Clint Eastwood tells his own story, from his childhood in Depression-era Northern California, to life in the stratosphere of fame and fortune. He’s torn up the wild West, patrolled the mean streets of San Francisco, and even gone into outer space. Follow the on-screen and off-screen life of the Oscar-winning film icon in this retrospective co-production from BBC’s Arena and PBS’s “American Masters”, filled with film clips, archival material and interviews. Clint’s “Unforgiven” co-star Morgan Freeman narrates.Read More »

From Amos Vogel’s Film as a Subversive Art:
A film record of one of Claes Oldenburg’s celebrated happenings – largely improvised, mysterious or humorous, neo-Dadaist or surreal events, not necessarily causal or meaningful, which sardonically comment on an absurd universe and aim at fusing actor and spectator, art and life.Read More »

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Pinup model Laura (Isadora Edison, Sexy Adventures of Van Helsing) learns of some bad news on the home front from her sister Winnifred (Chelsea Mundae, The Seduction of Misty Mundae). She just has time for some lesbian love before heading back to New England to see what’s up. Turns out that her Aunt Cynthia (Tina Tyler, Pulp Friction) is getting it on with Laura’s ex hump buddy, Nelson Nyland (John Samuel Jordan, Sexy Adventures of Van Helsing) Laura’s ire vanishes when she finds out that the two are in love. But Laura knows that Nelson’s jealous sister, Judith (Kay Kirtland), will stop at nothing to break the lovers apart.Read More »

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A squad of National Guards on an isolated weekend exercise in the Louisiana swamp must fight for their lives when they anger local Cajuns by stealing their canoes. Without live ammunition and in a strange country, their experience begins to mirror the Vietnam experience.Read More »

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By a twist of fate, the clumsy, but well-meaning aspiring actor, Hrundi V. Bakshi, is invited to Fred Clutterbuck’s big party, after utterly ruining the set of his latest feature film. However, unbeknownst to the host, Bakshi is present at the gathering, merrily mingling with the hand-picked guests in this magnificent hi-tech villa, where the drinks are flowing, and everybody is in high spirits. But, much to everyone’s surprise, when Bakshi accidentally has his first-ever sip of alcohol, only God knows how this well-thought party will end. What delightful disasters await?Read More »

An evening-long collaborative work between Tharp and David Byrne (of The Talking Heads), The Catherine Wheel is a continuous piece of dance/theater that makes its way toward a firework-like finale [see: The Golden Section] through episodes presenting the disintegration of the nuclear family, while ruminating on the detonation of nuclear weapons. The dance ensemble becomes a cast of specifically defined characters: The Leader and The Chorus; The Mother; The Father; The Sister; The Brother; The Maid; The Pet; and The Poet. A pineapple prop plays a part as its natural self and as its symbolic self, as a nickname for explosive devices.Read More »

Joe Sarno did his best to bring class to smut throughout the ’60s, in a string of “middle-class depravity” exposés that turned low budgets into assets. The director’s locations and casts looked authentically shabby, and because Sarno didn’t have to worry about playing Radio City Music Hall, his films possessed a bracing frankness about what frustrates people, sexually and otherwise.Read More »

The sadistic Madam Margareta is a talking side of beef that serves as the hostess and ringleader for a live sex tease show and whorehouse. Madam’s shows always feature her bodacious nieces Susanna and Karen, who perform in everything from striptease to S&M acts. Eventually, Karen meets a nice rich gentleman and runs away with him whereas Susanna falls in love with a deceptive airport cargo handler.Read More »

Mara and Jane, two girlfriends from college, rekindle their friendship. Jane is now married to Mara’s ex-boyfriend, but Mara still has the hots for both him and Jane.Read More »