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  • Charles Jarrott – The Dove (1974)

    Drama1971-1980AdventureCharles JarrottUSA

    The true story of a 16 year old (Robin Lee Graham, played by Joseph Bottoms) who sailed alone around the world in a 23 foot sloop named “The Dove”. On his journey he meets and falls in love with a young woman (Patti Ratteree, played by Deborah Raffin) who is also traveling around the world. The story follows Robin around the world to many beautiful locals, as he grows from a boy to a man, finds himself, and finds the love of his life.Read More »

  • Matty Rich – Straight Out of Brooklyn (1991)

    1991-2000DramaMatty RichUSA

    from Wikipedia:
    Straight Out of Brooklyn is an 1991 independent film directed by Matty Rich in his directorial debut. The film is a gritty story about Dennis (played by Larry Gilliard Jr.), an African-American teen living in a housing project with his sister, mother and abusive, alcoholic father. Fed up with his family’s seemingly hopeless future, he plans with his friends to rob a drug dealer.Read More »

  • John Butterworth & R.C. Horsch – The Erotic Memoirs of a Male Chauvinist Pig (1973)

    John Butterworth1971-1980EroticaUSA

    “The random babblings of another loser” is what anti-hero Barney speaks into his recorder, as he winds up his verbal memoirs in this pretentious, overwritten example of what happens when would-be filmmakers used the handy format of XXX porn in its early period (1973) to make a movie. It sums up the duo of directors’ work as well.Read More »

  • Sam Pollard – Sammy Davis, Jr.: I’ve Gotta Be Me (2017)

    USA2011-2020DocumentarySam Pollard

    A star-studded roster of interviewees (including Jerry Lewis, Whoopi Goldberg and Billy Crystal) pay tribute to the legendary, multi-talented song-and-dance man.Read More »

  • Shaun Costello – Water Power AKA The Enema Bandit (1977)

    USA1971-1980EroticaExploitationShaun Costello

    A mentally troubled man becomes a serial rapist and torturer due to the strong shock he suffers after witnessing the performance of an enema in a brothel, plus the bitter discovery that a female neighbor who interests him has a lover.Read More »

  • Johnny Crash – SpiderBabe (2003)

    2001-2010ComedyEroticaJohnny CrashUSA

    A socially awkward young woman gets bitten by a radioactive spider and becomes a crime-fighting superhero and tries to defeat a nefarious super villain while going after any man (or woman) she wants to bed down with.Read More »

  • Mark Romanek – Static (1986)

    1981-1990ComedyDramaMark RomanekUSA

    a review from imdb:
    A flawless example of what an independent film is all about, 19 November 2000
    10/10
    Author: hippiedj from Palm Desert, California

    Nowadays it seems indie festivals are the chic thing and filmmakers are trying too hard to get the status that winners of those “prestige” events get. If they would only look back to 1985 to a film like Static, they could learn a thing or two.

    This film paces itself, and while never snappy, it uses its time wisely. While a melancholy mood prevales, we still are affected in many ways by the different characters we are introduced to.Read More »

  • Josh Becker – Running Time (1997)

    1991-2000CrimeJosh BeckerThrillerUSA

    Bruce Campbell stars as Carl, a man who launches a full-scale heist to steal mob money from the prison that just released him. With the help of an old friend, a driver and a safe-cracker, Carl’s attempt to carry out the heist is fraught with incompetence and bad luck. As the clock ticks and the circumstances turn tragic, Carl is forced to make the most important decision of his life. Inspired by Alfred Hitchcock’s “Rope” and filmed over twenty years before Sam Mendes’ “1917”, writer/director Josh Becker designed “Running Time” to play out using the “one continuous shot” technique with no computer-assisted trickery. Expertly photographed and edited on film to take place over 60 minutes of real-time, this gritty crime drama was shot entirely on location in the streets of Los Angeles.Read More »

  • O’Dale Ireland – High School Caesar (1960)

    1951-1960DramaExploitationO'Dale IrelandUSA

    Matt Stevens is the big man at high school. He sweats the students for protection money, acquires copies of tests for a fee, and has rigged the votes so he can beat Kelly in the election for student president. Aside from his anointed acolytes, Matt is almost universally despised. His parents are obscenely rich and spend their time travelling in Europe rather than giving him the parental guidance he needs. Things begin to get ugly when some of the teens resist his power and show Matt up at the drag race.Read More »

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