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Margaret Mead narrates an elaborate ritual performance. The ritual is reenacting a local mythological story, which is briefly described before the film. The basic story is that a king denies to marry a witch’s daughter, thereby unleashing the witch’s wrath. She and her disciples spread plague across the land. The king sends an emissary, who the witch transforms into a dragon. This becomes a cosmic battle between life (dragon) and death (witch).Read More »
A biplane pilot who had missed flying in WWI takes up barnstorming and later a movie career in his quest for the glory he had missed.Read More »
Michael, Rachel and Sara never really got over the fact that The Revolution sold to them as undergraduates by Patti Smith and the Sex Pistols turned out to be just another pile of media-hype. Stranded as they are in the 80s, they’re more than a little alienated, cynical and just plain bored. They’ve lost touch with one another, with themselves, and are having a hard time connecting with their love partners as well. Needless to say, when this emotionally unstable group spends a weekend together, they most certainly are not going to sit around listening to old Motown Records.Read More »
Two innocent men are wrongly convicted of murder and sentenced to death. The fiance of one of them convinces a police detective of their innocence, and together they try to find the real killer before the men’s execution date.Read More »
Children and parents. In New York City, Stephen and Danny live well: they’re smooth, cool, in love, and good at what they do. Stephen’s Midwestern parents pay them a surprise visit. Meanwhile, Jenny and Matt tell their parents they are engaged: Matt’s parents, Midwestern paramilitary fanatics, take it as a sign to gather their group to invade New York. Jenny’s father is the local Mob boss who employs Stephen and Danny as enforcers. He’s unhappy that Jenny is marrying someone who is neither Sicilian nor Catholic. Stephen’s parents know he’s gay, they just don’t know what his job is. Here come the parents; will the children survive? All roads lead to the engagement party.Read More »
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Documentary about the 25th and last bombing mission of a B17, the “Memphis Belle”. The “Memphis Belle” took part in a great bombing raid on sub-pens in Wilhelmshafen, Germany. On their way they encounterd heavy AA fire and interceptors.Read More »
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This is a BR rip of Gregg Araki’s latest film, his follow up to the great Mysterious Skin (2004), which was probably the best (and best reviewed) film of Araki’s career, after an uneven run of making strange, campy, low-budget films such as The Doom Generation (1995) and Nowhere (1997). Now Araki does something completely different, creating the indie answer to mainstream “pot comedies” such as Harold and Kumar Go To White Castle and the Cheech and Chong films. Read More »
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If you have ever wanted to know what it feels like to be a hormonal 14-year-old boy with homosexual leanings, this puts you there. Loosely composed of tender narrative episodes and hallucinatory waking dreamscapes, it follows Logan, an androgynous California loner whose head is perpetually in the clouds. Much of the time our heads are in the clouds with him, following his fevered masturbatory fantasies, his obsession with mountain lions and his tentative friendship with an older boy named Rodeo. An element of jeopardy creeps in when Logan tries to engage Rodeo on a sexual level by calling him for phone sex in the guise of a woman.Read More »
A three part archival film documentary that traces the evolution of African American dance. Pt. 1: First half of the 20th Century; Pt. 2: Savoy Ballroom of Harlem; Pt. 3: Postwar era.
“The Spirit Moves”: Rescuing the Essence of DanceRead More »