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  • Jack Hill & John Lamb – Mondo Keyhole (1966)

    1961-1970EroticaExploitationJack HillJohn LambUSA

    Howard Thorne is a rapist in Los Angeles: he meets women at work and at parties or he sees them walking down the street, and he follows them, terrifies them, and assaults them. He also dreams about these assaults, and he’s unclear how much of what he’s done is real and how much is fantasy. He ignores his heroin-using wife, Vicki, who tries everything she can think of to get his sexual attention. Howard and Vicki go separately to a costume party where she learns the full truth about his nature and where he is stalked by one of his recent victims. Individualized versions of Hell await Howard and Vicki.Read More »

  • Rick Alverson – Entertainment (2015)

    Rick Alverson2011-2020DramaUSA

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    En route to meet his estranged daughter and attempting to revive his dwindling career, a broken, aging comedian plays a string of dead-end shows in the Mojave desert.Read More »

  • Katt Shea – Dance of the Damned (1989)

    1981-1990HorrorKatt SheaUSAWomen Make Horror

    Quote:
    Very low-budget BUT very well done.
    9/10
    Author: capkronos from Ohio, USA
    29 January 2002

    This is a wonderful low-budget sleeper, proving that not all contemporary Roger Corman-produced films are trash. And all it really is is a night long conversation between a self-destructive, suicidal stripper and a brooding, world weary vampire. Go figure. But it also would probably take a more mature, patient viewer to sit through this one, because if you’re looking for gore, action and special effects, you’ll find little of that here.Read More »

  • Lewis R. Foster – Crashout (1955)

    1951-1960Film NoirLewis R. FosterThrillerUSA

    Quote:
    Convict Van Duff engineers a large-scale prison break; the six survivors hide out in a forgotten mine working near the prison, then set out on a long, dangerous journey by foot, car, train and truck to retrieve Duff’s bank loot. En route, as they touch the lives of “regular folks,” each has his own rendezvous with destiny.Read More »

  • Douglas Buck – Family Portraits: A Trilogy of America (2003)

    2001-2010Douglas BuckDramaHorrorUSA

    Quote:
    From acclaimed director Douglas Buck comes an unflinching, disturbingly beautiful look at the underbelly of American family. Three separate narratives (including the shocking film festival favorite “Cutting Moments” as well as “Home” and “Prologue”) combine to create a unique trilogy of life today that will leave you devastating… and begging for more.Read More »

  • Sidney Lanfield – The Hound of the Baskervilles (1939)

    1931-1940CrimeMysterySidney LanfieldUSA

    Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson investigate the legend of a supernatural hound, a beast that may be stalking a young heir on the fog-shrouded moorland that makes up his estate.

    ‘The Hound of the Baskervilles’ (1939) is the most well-known cinematic adaptation of the book, and is often regarded as one of the better film versions of it. It differs somewhat, but not as much as the 1959 film version.Read More »

  • T. Minh-ha Trinh – Shoot for the Contents (1991)

    1991-2000DocumentaryEthnographic CinemaExperimentalT. Minh-ha TrinhUSA

    Reflecting on Mao’s famous saying “Let a hundred flowers blossom and a hundred schools of thought contend,” Trinh T. Minh-ha’s SHOOT FOR THE CONTENTS—a title that alludes to a Chinese guessing game—is a unique excursion into the maze of allegorical naming and storytelling in China. The film ponders questions of power and change, politics and culture, as refracted by the Tiananmen Square massacre. It offers at the same time an inquiry into the creative process of filmmaking, intricately layering Chinese popular songs and classical music, the sayings of Mao and Confucius, women’s voices, and the words of artists, philosophers, and other cultural workers. The result is a meditative documentary that captures major shifts of interpretation in modern Chinese culture and politics.Read More »

  • Roy William Neill – Sherlock Holmes in Washington (1943)

    USA1941-1950CrimeMysteryRoy William Neill

    Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson travel to Washington D.C. in order to prevent a secret document from falling into enemy hands.Read More »

  • Vinnie Rossi – Foreplay (1982)

    1981-1990EroticaUSAVinnie Rossi

    Synopsis:
    She satisfies her personal desires by spying on the tenants of her boarding house. After observing every sort of erotic act imaginable, she enters the world of sexual conquest like a pro.Read More »

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