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  • Michael Almereyda – Hamlet (2000)

    1991-2000DramaMichael AlmereydaUSAWilliam Shakespeare

    William Shakespeare’s classic tale is brought to the screen for the third time in ten years in this modernized interpretation. Writer/director Michael Almereyda updates the story to the present day, where Hamlet (Ethan Hawke) is a struggling filmmaker whose personal and familial trials are set against the machinations of a huge production firm called the Denmark Corporation. Joining Hamlet as he seeks revenge for the death of his father and the wedding of his mother to an enemy are Kyle MacLachlan as Claudius, Julia Stiles as Ophelia, Bill Murray as Polonius, Sam Shepard as the ghost of Hamlet’s father, Diane Venora as Gertrude, Steve Zahn as Rosencrantz, and Dechen Thurman as Guildenstern. – allmovie.comRead More »

  • Christopher Menaul – One Kill (2000)

    1991-2000Christopher MenaulCrimeDramaUSA

    A divorced female marine officer (Anne Heche) with two small children begins an affair with a senior officer (Sam Shepard) in this fact-based drama. Things turn nasty when she discovers that he is married. She tells him it is over, but he won’t accept her ultimatum. Pledging to divorce his wife, he tries to force himself on her including an incident where he unloaded his weapon in front of a platoon of men at a firing range to get her attention. Finally, he breaks into her house and tries to force himself on her. She pulls a weapon from beneath her pillow and kills him. The movie then moves to the court room proceedings and a cover-up created by base officers who refuse to let their fellow officer’s reputation be smudged.Read More »

  • George Marshall – Pack Up Your Troubles (1932)

    1931-1940ClassicsComedyGeorge MarshallUSA

    The boys’ Army buddy, Eddie Smith, is killed in the trenches in France, leaving his baby girl an orphan. Back home after Armistice, they try to find Eddie’s father and turn the child over to him. Unfortunately, they keep coming up with the wrong Smiths, and in the process disrupt a wedding by proclaiming the baby to be the groom’s child. To evade the Welfare Association, they try to skip town, raising money for their escape by hocking their lunch wagon. But they accidentally knock the bank president unconscious and wind up being hunted down for bank robbery.Read More »

  • Bill Norton – Gone in the Night (1996)

    Drama1991-2000Bill NortonThrillerUSA

    When Cyndi and David Dowaliby’s daughter Jaclyn is abducted, they find themselves blamed by the story-hungry media. Only a commited journalist, a university professor, a lawyer and a seasoned detective see through the hysteria and attempt to help the parents get to the bottom of this terrible crime.Read More »

  • Jeffrey Perkins – George: The Story of George Maciunas and Fluxus (2018)

    USA2011-2020DocumentaryExperimentalJeffrey Perkins

    In 1961 Lithuanian American artist and impresario George Maciunas established the avant-garde art movement Fluxus. George details the rise of Fluxus following a sensationalized tour of “concerts” in Europe in 1962, and continuing in New York for most of the 1960s and ’70s. During this time Maciunas was converting the dying industrial buildings of Soho into a network of artists’ lofts, creating one of the first official real estate co-ops of artist-owned buildings. Maciunas’s life and legacy—as recounted by artists of his generation, including Yoko Ono and Jonas Mekas—ignited debates that remain pivotal to artists working today.Read More »

  • Scott Sidney – Tarzan of the Apes (1918)

    1911-1920AdventureScott SidneySilentUSA

    Reared by a childless ape, the orphaned heir of the Greystokes becomes one of the apes. Then Dr. Porter organizes a rescue expedition, and his beautiful daughter Jane catches his attention. Has Tarzan of the Apes found the perfect mate?Read More »

  • Dave Fleischer & Dave Tendlar – Betty Boop’s May Party (1933)

    1931-1940AnimationDave FleischerDave TendlarUSA

    Betty Boop attends a May Party (May Day?) dressed as a queen in the second of her three party cartoons of 1933, but is relegated almost to the role of a supporting character, only getting to sing a few verses of the song “Here We Are”. Most of the cartoon is taken up by typical surreal sight gags in the Fleischer style and, during the last two minutes, some of the wildest and rubberiest animation of any cartoon in the series to the tune of “It Don’t Mean a Thing (If It Ain’t Got That Swing)”.Read More »

  • Robert F. Hill & Scott Sidney – The Adventures of Tarzan (1921)

    1921-1930AdventureRobert F. HillScott SidneySilentUSA

    When Jane is abducted by Arab slave traders, Tarzan comes to her rescue, only to see her kidnapped again by Queen La of Opar. To save Jane, Tarzan must battle both the queen’s minions and William Clayton, who seeks Tarzan’s family title.Read More »

  • Gerard Damiano – The Devil In Miss Jones (1973)

    USA1971-1980CultEroticaGerard Damiano

    Miss Jones is tired of her life and commits suicide. She comes to a place where its decided if she will end up in Heaven or Hell. Because of her suicide she should go to Hell but she has the option to return to Earth and live life according to one of the mortal sins for some time. She picks lust and a few days of carnal pleasure follows.Read More »

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