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A gangster’s moll runs home to mother, with reporters and amateur detectives hot on her tail. Cast: Joan Bennett, Adolphe Menjou, William Gargan, Victor Mature.Read More »
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Hal Roach – The Housekeeper’s Daughter (1939)
1931-1940ComedyCrimeHal RoachScrewball ComedyUSA -
Nancy Hamilton – The Unconquered (1954)
1951-1960DocumentaryNancy HamiltonUSAThis documentary chronicles the life of Helen Keller.
Helen Keller is a blind and a deaf girl. Her parents hired a tutor named Anne Sullivan. The first word that she spelled using sign language is W-A-T-E-R. Some of the schools where she studied is Radcliffe University. When she died they built the Helen Keller International.Read More »
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Dwayne Avery – Booby Trap (1970)
1961-1970ActionDwayne AveryExploitationUSAA crazed military explosives expert heads for Los Angeles with an RV full of explosives, intending to blow up a rock festival and kill all the “hippies”. An army officer is sent to stop him.Read More »
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Yoshimitsu Banno & Ishirô Honda – Gojira tai Hedora AKA Godzilla vs. Hedorah AKA Godzilla vs. The Smog Monster (1971)
1971-1980AdventureIshirô HondaJapanSci-FiYoshimitsu BannoAn ever evolving alien life-form from the Dark Gaseous Nebula arrives to consume rampant pollution. Spewing mists of sulfuric acid and corrosive sludge, neither humanity or Godzilla may be able to defeat this toxic menace.Read More »
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Janusz Majewski – Diabelska edukacja AKA Devilish Education (1995)
1991-2000ArthouseJanusz MajewskiPolandShort FilmOnce upon a time, back at the turn of the century, the milkmaid Gosia is caring for her cows on an idyllic rural countryside. The afternoon is hot, so she bathes naked in the river. The next day, a stranger-in-black appears on the scene and shows her a painting he had done of her in the nude. Embarrassed, but hardly offended, she makes his acquaintance and is soon introduced to the secret pleasures of life: love-making, the beauty of art, the music of Mozart, the delights of the dining table. The meadow becomes a natural backdrop for her lessons in life’s mysteries, in contrast to the moral concerns of her mother, the puritanical ethics of the church, and the puzzling medical diagnosis of the country doctor. “Maybe it’s something the devil told her,” they conclude. (Ziegler Film)Read More »
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? – Women in Defense (1941)
?1941-1950DocumentaryShort FilmUSAShort documentary extolling the virtues and necessity for women to participate in America’s preparation for war, showing women working in scientific, industrial, and voluntary-services activities.Read More »
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Mika Kaurismäki – Highway Society (2000)
1991-2000ComedyCrimeFinlandMika KaurismäkiQuote:
Acclaimed Finnish director Mika Kaurismaki helms this deadpan, oddball road movie. Jack Bogart (Kai Wiesinger) is a dodgy car mechanic living in the backwaters of Germany. His motto is “Live for the moment; that’s all that counts,” and, indeed, for a moment he hooked up with an older Korean woman (Francisca Tu), until a couple of thugs he had previously swindled, Bruno (Hannes Hellmann) and doltish Popo, pay him a visit. Jack promptly hits the road along with bitchy Verena (Michaela Rosen) and her saucy spoiled daughter Elisabeth (Marie Zielcke). The latter falls for Jack, much to his consternation, and soon she is tagging along all the way to Finland.Read More » -
Gunvor Nelson – Frame Line (1983)
1981-1990ExperimentalGunvor NelsonSwedenFRAME LINE is a collage film in black and white. Glimpses (both visual and audial) of Stockholm, people, gestures, flags and the Swedish national anthem appear through drawings, paintings and cut-outs. It is a film with an eerie flow between the ugly and the beautiful about returning, about roots and also about reshaping.Read More »
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Mika Kaurismäki – Viimeisellä Rajalla AKA The Last Border (1993)
1991-2000ActionAdventureFinlandMika Kaurismäki









