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Dusty, a street smart, but desperately unhappy prostitute who works in Times Square, uses her body to survive; seducing, conning, and ripping off her johns. After moving in with Cherry, a cross-dressing male prostitute, Dusty hopes to find more solid financial footing and a stable future in the sex trade, that is, until she meets Bob, a young lawyer who lives on Staten Island, who falls in love with her, and she with him. With a chance to escape her miserable existence becoming a possibility, Dusty starts dreaming of a future she never thought possible. But can she escape her own destiny?Read More »
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Andy Milligan – Fleshpot on 42nd Street [Director’s Cut] (1973)
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Michael Pataki – Cinderella AKA The Other Cinderella (1977)
USA1971-1980EroticaMichael PatakiMusicalCinderella traces the misadventures of our heroine, who, via the help of her “fairy” godmother, is granted heightened sexual prowess to win over Prince Charming.Read More »
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Zoltan G. Spencer – Danish & Blue (1970)
1961-1970EroticaExploitationUSAZoltan G. SpencerQuote:
With Danish imports, purporting to be documentary sex films, burning up the box office in 1970, Zoltan Spencer/Spence Crilly cashed in on the craze with the obviously phony DANISH & BLUE, which is neither.
Gimmick is a guy named Johnny (William Howard) vacationing in Copenhagen for two weeks, anxious to see how they get it on in a freewheeling place where pornography has famously been made legal. After a pre-credits tease with a sex therapist (the scene duly repeated in sequence later in the film where it belongs), we see Johnny attending live sex shows and buying obscene photos in a bookstore. Lame construction has endless travelogue shots of Copenhagen intercut with shots of Johnny “looking” or reacting – he never left Hollywood. Whether this is stock footage or second unit shots is irrelevant; the entire film is patently bogus.Read More » -
Richard Boleslawski – The Painted Veil (1934)
1931-1940DramaRichard BoleslawskiRomanceUSASynopsis:
In Austria, Katrin is lonely after her sister’s marriage and she agrees to marry her father’s research associate Dr. Walter Fane. Fane takes her to China but constantly ignors her in favour of his medical research. Lonely Katrin has an affair with Jack Townsend of the British Embassy. When it is discovered by Walter he becomes very bitter. Fane travels to fight a cholera epidemic and Katrin goes with him and helps. They grow closer together than ever before but Walter is knifed in a riot incited by the burning of a cholera infested town. Now their new found happiness will depend on Walter’s survival.Read More » -
Alex de Renzy – Pretty Peaches (1978)
Erotica1971-1980Alex de RenzyUSAStoryline
After attending her father’s wedding, innocent Peaches crashes her jeep in the forest only to awake with complete amnesia. She is quickly rescued by two manipulative men who hope to sell her back to her family for a hefty ransom. Their adventures introduce Peaches to a crazy doctor with very unusual treatment methods, a sleazy show promoter and more, but nothing helps. Poor Peaches doesn’t know what to do…until she remembers Daddy!Read More » -
D.W. Griffith – Isn’t Life Wonderful (1924)
Drama1921-1930D.W. GriffithSilentUSAProducer/director D.W. Griffith’s feature is a fairly realistic study of the deprivations visited on the German people after their defeat in World War I. In her best-ever performance, Griffith protégée Carol Dempster plays Inga, who does her best to hold her family together and keep food on the table despite grinding poverty, debilitating illness and out-of-control inflation. The most memorable scene finds Inga desperately trying to maneuver a basketful of near-worthless Deutschmarks to a market before the prices rise again and she is unable to buy meat. Aware that anti-German sentiment still prevailed in the US, Griffith cannily inserted an opening title which noted that the main characters were Polish.Read More »
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George Lucas – THX 1138 [Directors Cut] (1971)
1971-1980George LucasSci-FiUSAQuote:
A chilling exploration of the future is also a compelling examination of the present in George Lucas’ ‘THX 1138’, starring Robert Duvall as a man whose mind and body are controlled by the government. THX makes an harrowing attempt to escape from a world where thoughts are controlled, freedom is an impossibility and love is the ultimate crime.Read More » -
Gloria Leonard & Joseph W. Sarno – All About Gloria Leonard (1980)
USA1971-1980EroticaGloria LeonardJoseph W. SarnoPlot Synopsis:
Cleaning out her desk as she moves up from reporter to publisher, Gloria Leonard reminisces about her adventures in skin-mag journalism. These include finding out why the copyboy’s nickname was “Horse,” trysting with a dancer and a waitress from a funky nightclub, discovering the rush of getting paid for sex, and determining whether “quantity” is better than “quality” when she conducts an in-depth interview with two legendary porn studs.Read More » -
Mark Waters – The House of Yes (1997)
1991-2000ComedyDramaMark WatersUSAA rather disturbed young woman, who calls herself Jackie-O (Parker Posey), and pretends her brother, Marty, (Josh Hamilton) is JFK, is at home with mother (Geneviève Bujold) at their stately home, along with her two brothers, and Marty’s new fiancee, Lesly (Tori Spelling.)
What family secrets will we discover? How will Lesly react to her fiancee’s most unusual family? Are there yet darker secrets? Is their rather unconventional behavior contagious?
This absurd comedy has been a delight for many. I hope you enjoy it!Read More »









