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  • Charles Brabin & Charles Vidor – The Mask of Fu Manchu (1932)

    1931-1940AdventureCharles BrabinCharles VidorHorrorUSA

    Englishmen race to find the tomb of Genghis Khan. They have to get there fast, as the evil genius Dr. Fu Manchu is also searching, and if he gets the mysteriously powerful relics, he and his diabolical daughter will enslave the world!Read More »

  • Herschell Gordon Lewis – Two Thousand Maniacs! (1964)

    1961-1970CultHerschell Gordon LewisHorrorUSA

    Synopsis:
    The citizens of the southern town Pleasant Valley lure six Yankee tourists into town where they are to be the reluctant guests for the centennial celebration of the day a band of renegade Union troops decimated the town. The town then participates in events, a different event for each of the tourists, in which the tourist is dispatched. One couple begins to suspect something and seeks a way to escape.Read More »

  • Woody Allen – Annie Hall (1977)

    1971-1980ComedyRomanceUSAWoody Allen

    Quote:
    Alvy Singer, a forty year old twice divorced, neurotic, intellectual Jewish New York stand-up comic, reflects on the demise of his latest relationship, to Annie Hall, an insecure, flighty, Midwestern WASP aspiring nightclub singer. Unlike his previous relationships, Alvy believed he may have worked out all the issues in his life through fifteen years of therapy to make this relationship with Annie last, among those issues being not wanting to date any woman that would want to date him, and thus subconsciously pushing those women away. Alvy not only reviews the many ups and many downs of their relationship, but also reviews the many facets of his makeup that led to him starting to date Annie. Those facets include growing up next to Coney Island in Brooklyn, being attracted to the opposite sex for as long as he can remember, and enduring years of Jewish guilt with his constantly arguing parents.Read More »

  • Andy Warhol & Paul Morrissey – Chelsea Girls (1966)

    1961-1970Andy WarholArthouseCultPaul MorrisseyQueer Cinema(s)USA

    Synopsis:
    Lacking a formal narrative, Warhol’s art house classic follows various residents of the Chelsea Hotel in 1966 New York City, presented in a split screen with a single audio track in conjunction with one side of screen.Read More »

  • Don Bluth – The Secret of NIMH (1982)

    1981-1990AdventureAnimationDon BluthUSA

    Quote:
    A fieldmouse named Mrs. Brisby must move her family to a safe location before the farmer plows the field where they live, but her invalid son Timmy cannot go outside due to his pneumonia. She enlists the aid of some highly intelligent, escaped lab rats that have built a subterranean society inside a rose bush near the farmer’s garden. The rats, led by the wise Nicodemus, decide to help her physically move her house to repay a debt of gratitude to her late husband, who made possible the rats’ escape from the laboratory. But things become complicated when some of the rats decide to use the situation to kill Nicodemus and make it appear to be accidental.Read More »

  • Yorgos Lanthimos – Nimic (2019)

    2011-2020Short FilmUSAYorgos Lanthimos

    A professional cellist has an encounter with a stranger on the subway which has unexpected and far-reaching ramifications on his life.Read More »

  • Richard Lester – The Three Musketeers (1973)

    1971-1980ActionAdventureRichard LesterUSA

    Synopsis:
    The young D’Artagnan (Michael York) arrives in Paris with dreams of becoming a King’s Musketeer. He meets and quarrels with three men, Athos (Oliver Reed), Porthos (Frank Finlay), and Aramis (Richard Chamberlain), each of whom challenges him to a duel. D’Artagnan finds out they are Musketeers and is invited to join them in their efforts to oppose Cardinal Richelieu (Charlton Heston), who wishes to increase his already considerable power over King Louis XIII (Jean-Pierre Cassel). D’Artagnan must also juggle affairs with the charming Constance Bonancieux (Raquel Welch) and the passionate Lady De Winter (Faye Dunaway), a secret agent for the Cardinal.Read More »

  • Joan Micklin Silver – Hester Street (1975)

    1971-1980ArthouseDramaJoan Micklin SilverThe Female GazeUSA

    Synopsis:
    It’s 1896. Yankel Bogovnik, a Russian Jew, emigrated to the United States three years earlier and has settled where many of his background have, namely on Hester Street on the Lower East Side of New York City. He has assimilated to American life, having learned English, anglicized his name to Jake, and shaved off his beard. He is working at a $12/week job as a seamster, the money earned to be able to bring his wife Gitl and his son Yossele to America from Russia. Regardless, he has fallen in love with another woman, a dancer named Mamie Fein. Nonetheless, he is excited when he learns that Gitl and Yossele are indeed coming to America. Read More »

  • Godfrey Reggio – Powaqqatsi (1988)

    USA1981-1990DocumentaryGodfrey Reggio

    Quote:
    Five years after Godfrey Reggio stunned audiences with Koyaanisqatsi, he again joined forces with composer Philip Glass and other collaborators for a second chapter. Here, Reggio turns his sights on third-world nations in the Southern Hemisphere. Forgoing the sped-up aesthetic of the first film, Powaqqatsi employs a meditative slow motion in order to reveal the beauty of the traditional ways of life in those parts of the planet, and to show how cultures there are being eroded as their environments are taken over by industry. This is the most intensely spiritual segment of Reggio’s philosophical and visually remarkable Qatsi Trilogy.Read More »

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