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  • Charles Chaplin – The Pilgrim (1923)

    1921-1930Charles ChaplinComedySilentUSA
    The Pilgrim ()
    The Pilgrim ()

    The Tramp is an escaped convict who is mistaken as a pastor in a small-town church.Read More »

  • Marina Abramovic & Ulay – The Lovers, The Great Wall (1988-2008)

    Marina AbramovicDocumentaryUlayUSA

    Marina Abramović walks China’s Great Wall only to break up
    June 18, 2022

    Marina Abramovic – The Lovers: The Great Wall Walk (still), 1988/2008, performed for 90 days along The Great Wall of China. 16mm film transferred to two-channel video

    Marina Abramović’s & Ulay’s preparation for the project

    Artists Marina Abramovic and Ulay are known in many parts of the world as the lovers whose relationship ended at the Great Wall of China.Read More »

  • Robert Altman – Brewster McCloud (1970)

    1961-1970ComedyFantasyRobert AltmanUSA

    Quote:
    Brewster McCloud (Bud Cort) lives deep within the cavernous underground of the Houston Astrodome, but his dreams rise much higher. He aims to fly. Not in a plane. But with strapped-on wings he’s designing – encouraged by a mysterious woman (Sally Kellerman) who may be his guardian angel. But Brewster McCloud, Robert Altman’s wild, anarchic cult fave, isn’t about dreams as much as it is about the highs and lows of humanity. It’s a serial-killer mystery. A frenetic car-chase flick. A crazy circus-finale comedy. Shelley Duvall debuts as the tour guide whose seduction of Brewster may lead to his undoing. Ah, love. The thing that at once shapes and unravels us. The thing that may or may not give us wings.Read More »

  • Albert Brooks – Real Life (1979)

    1971-1980Albert BrooksComedyUSA

    An account of what happens to a typical American family when a film crew moves in with them to record “real life.” Brooks heads up the crew that invades a Phoenix household with disastrous and hysterical results.Read More »

  • Dick Powell – You Can’t Run Away from It (1956)

    1951-1960ComedyDick PowellMusicalUSA

    You Can’t Run Away From It is a musical remake of Frank Capra’s Oscar-winning classic It Happened One Night, complete with same-named characters and word-for-word scene reconstructions. It all begins when spoiled heiress Ellie Andrews (June Allyson) is literally kidnapped from the altar by her wealthy father (Charles Bickford). Escaping from her daddy’s yacht with only a handful of clothes and minimal finances, Ellie hops a bus, intending to travel cross-country to be reunited with her fortune-hunting husband. Reporter Peter Warne (Jack Lemmon), sensing a swell newspaper story, tags along.Read More »

  • David Lynch – Ant Head (2018)

    2011-2020David LynchExperimentalShort FilmUSA

    Synopsis
    A short video featuring my friends the ants along with cheese, etc. and one-and-a-half tracks from the Thought Gang album.(imdb)Read More »

  • Chuck Barris – The Gong Show Movie (1980)

    1971-1980Chuck BarrisComedyCultUSA

    A week in the life of “The Gong Show” host and creator Chuck Barris who lives through a series of outrageous competitors, stressful situations, a nervous breakdown and other comical characters involved in his life and work on the TV show.Read More »

  • David Lynch – Absurd Encounter with Fear (1967)

    1961-1970David LynchExperimentalShort FilmUSA

    A Man approaches a Women in a field.Read More »

  • Allan Dwan – Silver Lode (1954)

    1951-1960Allan DwanDramaUSAWestern

    The film, with a similar plot to High Noon, tells the story of Dan Ballard (John Payne) and Rose Evans (Lizabeth Scott), who are about to be married on the Fourth of July when Marshal Fred McCarty (Dan Duryea) and his deputies ride into town looking for Ballard. McCarty accuses Ballard of having murdered his brother and has come to arrest him.
    At first, the townspeople are on Ballard’s side, but gradually they turn against him, especially when they believe that he has killed the town sheriff (Emile Meyer). Ballard tries to prove his innocence and expose McCarty (who appears to be a veiled reference to Senator Joseph McCarthy).Read More »

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