Bound together by a desire to play “Mazes and Monsters,” Robbie and his four college classmates decide to move the board game into the local legendary cavern.Read More »
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Steven Hilliard Stern – Mazes and Monsters (1982)
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Hiroyuki Kawasaki – Ninja Pussy Cat (2003)
2001-2010ActionEroticaHiroyuki KawasakiJapan1580. Ninja Kotaro gets killed by the evil Hattori Hanzo after he discovers that the local shogun and his son aren’t related. It’s up to Kotaro’s nubile and innocent virginal daughter Kaede to exact revenge on Hanzo for bumping off her dad. Kaede learns various lethal sexual martial arts techniques in order to accomplish this particular goal.Read More »
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Lee Tamahori – Mulholland Falls (1996)
1991-2000CrimeDramaLee TamahoriUSAThis film is about the adventures of a 1940’s special anti-gangster police squad in Los Angeles, the infamous ‘Hat Squad.’ The four members of this squad are big, tough, no-nonsense cops who don’t hesitate to break the law, if it suits their purposes. When a local woman is murdered, their investigation turns up the fact that she had been romantically linked to several prominent men and had secret films taken of her liaisons. Since one of those men is the powerful U.S. Army General at the head of the then-new Atomic Energy Commission and another is the (married) leader of the Hat Squad, complications ensue. The FBI even gets involved in an attempted cover-up.Read More »
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Ariane Mnouchkine – Le Dernier caravansérail (Odissées) (2006)
Ariane Mnouchkine2001-2010ExperimentalFrancePerformancePlot Synopsis
With characteristic invention, Ariane Mnouchkine, one of Europe’s most visionary stage directors, had the actors of Le Théâtre du Soleil improvise refugee stories based on what they’d gathered in a lifetime of newspaper reading before showing them the extraordinary letters on which THE LAST CARAVANSERAIL is based. Selected letters – written by Iranian, and Kurdish refugees held in France, Australia, Indonesia, New Zealand – were then organized into an episodic, non-linear, structure that honors and recalls Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey, manifold tales of war, no matter its cause, and its consequences. The 6-hour play, presented in two parts, neither points its finger at the West nor portrays the refugees as saintly; what it does is give dimension to withering statistics.Read More » -
Yervant Gianikian & Angela Ricci Lucchi – Inventario balcanico + Nocturne (2000)
1991-2000Angela Ricci LucchiExperimentalItalyYervant GianikianQuote:
Yervant Gianikian and Angela Ricci Lucchi are filmmakers of the resistance. They don’t want to convince at all costs, but rather aim at inducing a productive sense of dout, leading to a dialectic between present and past, there and elsewhere, truth and lies, ideology and history. Like Godard, the Gianikians have a solid belief in the ontological power of the image, in its radiant permanence. (…) If their films are formally superb, the Gianikians are part of that category of filmmakers of splendor, who use this as a dialectical means, rather than as an aim on itself. It’s also in this regard that they are political filmmakers. Like all great cineastes, the Gianikians learn us to look anew. They are worried poets, who compose their films with scraps from the past to throw a stronger light on the present. (Frédéric Bonnaud) Inventario Balcanico: Images of the Balkans, coming from diverse Yugoslav communities.Read More » -
Arturo Ripstein – El evangelio de las Maravillas (1998)
1991-2000Arturo RipsteinCultDramaMexico“La Nueva Jerusalem” is a small community of believers lead by Papá Basilio (Rabal) and Mamá Dorita (Jurado). They’re waiting for the second coming of Christ, so they’ve abandoned the world, searching for a new spiritual life. Mamá Dorita sees in young Tomasa (Gurrola) the signals of the chosen one. The young girl will be the new leader in “La Nueva Jerusalem”.Read More »
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Jan P. Matuszynski – Zeby nie bylo sladow AKA Leave No Traces (2021)
2001-2010DramaJan P. MatuszynskiPolandIn 1983, communist Poland is shaken by the case of high school student Grzegorz Przemyk, who is beaten to death by police. The only witness of the beating becomes the number one enemy of the state.Read More »
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Zeph E. Daniel – Dementia (1999)
USA1991-2000ThrillerZeph E. DanielAn heiress who is being treated for a mental breakdown becomes attracted to her nurse, who seems to be similarly inclined. The nurse’s ex-husband shows up and demonstrates his capacity for all things sadistic and psychotic, even murder.Read More »
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Hiroyuki Oki – Ekusutashi no namida: Chiin AKA Tears of Ecstacy (1995)
1991-2000EroticaExperimentalHiroyuki OkiJapanA conceptual pinku film which is conceived of 60 shots which all are 60 seconds long and represent an absurdist take on the narrative and stylistic schemes of erotic cinema.Read More »









