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  • Robert Rossen – Body and Soul (1947) (HD)

    USA1941-1950DramaFilm NoirRobert Rossen

    SYNOPSIS:
    A talented boxer’s young career hits difficult terrain when an unethical promoter takes interest in him.Read More »

  • Vincente Minnelli & Gottfried Reinhardt – The Story of Three Loves (1953)

    1951-1960DramaFantasyGottfried ReinhardtUSAVincente Minnelli

    Three loosely connected love stories. The first story: Paula is a talented dancer who cannot truly live unless she dances. But has a heart condition, which means she cannot live if she does. The second story: Tommy despises his French tutor, and hates being a child. He wants to be an adult so he can do what he wants. He gets his wish, being transformed into a handsome young man for one evening, and learns about whole new side of his French tutor. Third story: Pierre Narval is trapeze artist who gave it up when his partner died doing a dangerous stunt at his bidding. He rescues Nina, a beautiful young woman, after she throws herself into the Seine, and convinces her to become his new aerial partner. Her husband had been killed by the Nazis during the war, and she blames herself. They fall in love, which is tested when Nina must perform the stunt which killed Pierre’s former partner.Read More »

  • Maya Deren – At Land (1944)

    1941-1950ExperimentalMaya DerenShort FilmUSA

    Silently, a woman wakes on a beach as the tides go in reverse. Her dreamscape unfolds as she tries to locate a chess piece traveling from the beach to a party to a country road and then back.Read More »

  • Yvonne Rainer – Film About a Woman Who… (1974)

    USA1971-1980DramaExperimentalYvonne Rainer

    Quote:
    Picking up where Lives of Performers left off, Rainer’s second, landmark feature tells the story of a woman whose sexual dissatisfaction masks an enormous anger, with Rainer needling at questions raised by contemporary feminism about the relationship between the representation of romantic clichés and sexual repression. Borrowing techniques from soap opera, the formally fractured yet exuberant Film About a Woman Who… combines voiceover, intertitles, simulated “still” images, and dinner-table discussions to provocative, often contradictory effect. Long silences and Babette Mangolte’s fluid black-and-white images only heighten the darting, doubt-ridden, highly dislocating drama.Read More »

  • William Sachs – The Incredible Melting Man (1977)

    1971-1980CultHorrorUSAWilliam Sachs

    Quote:
    “The Incredible Melting Man” is a fantastically gross, trashy and energetic Z-grade production that every self-respecting camp-horror freak simply has to see for him/herself! The ideal way to describe this low-budget 70’s gem is like a shameless copy of Hammer’s “The Quatermass Xperiment” …only a thousand times filthier! Astronaust Steve West is the only survivor of a disastrous space-mission, but turns out the carrier of a horrible disease that makes him radioactive and … causes him to melt! In shock after seeing his face in the mirror (can you blame him?), Steve busts out of the hospital, leaving a trail of sticky pus and fallen off body parts behind.Read More »

  • Vincente Minnelli – The Courtship of Eddie’s Father (1963)

    USA1961-1970ComedyDramaVincente Minnelli

    Eddie wants his dad to find a new wife but disapproves of the women he dates. He thinks their neighbor would make a much better match.Read More »

  • Arthur Penn – Night Moves (1975)

    1971-1980Arthur PennCrimeThrillerUSA

    Los Angeles private investigator Harry Moseby is hired by a client to find her runaway teenage daughter. Moseby tracks the daughter down, only to stumble upon something much more intriguing and sinister.Read More »

  • William A. Seiter – Why Be Good? (1929)

    1921-1930ComedyDramaUSAWilliam A. Seiter

    A flapper with a dubious reputation enjoys a vivacious night of dancing and finds herself romantically linked to her boss.Read More »

  • Phil Morrison – Junebug (2005)

    2001-2010DramaPhil MorrisonUSA

    Quote:
    George (Alessandro Nivola) seems easy enough to read. At a Chicago art gallery opening, surrounded by people dressed in sleek black, he spots the owner, Madeleine (Embeth Davidtz). He meets her in front of a simple-seeming painting of deer in snow, exchange shy smiles. “It makes me happy,” he says of the artwork. And with that, the film’s credits begin, as George and Madeline kiss, playfully and earnestly. She laughs. He makes her happy.Read More »

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