• Juan López Moctezuma – Alucarda, la hija de las tinieblas AKA Alucarda (1977)

    1971-1980CultHorrorJuan López MoctezumaMexico

    When the teenage orphan Justine arrives in a convent, she befriends Alucarda, who was raised since she was a baby by the nuns. They become best friends and stay together most of the time. When they meet a gypsy on the forest, he is indeed Satan and possesses the teenagers. Soon the convent is turned upside-down affecting the lives of Alucarda, Justine, the nuns and Father Lázaro. The skeptic Dr. Oszek will also witness a showdown between good and evil affecting his beliefs.Read More »

  • Clint Eastwood – The Eiger Sanction (1975)

    1971-1980ActionClint EastwoodThrillerUSA

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    Dr. Jonathan Hemlock (Clint Eastwood) is an art history professor and collector who finances his hobby by performing the odd sanction (assassination) for an obscure government bureau. He is forced to take a case where he must find out which of the members of a mountain climbing team is the Russian killer he has been given as a target by joining an expedition to climb the treacherous Eiger.Read More »

  • Dario Argento – Il cartaio AKA The Card Player (2004)

    2001-2010Dario ArgentoGialloItalyThriller

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    A Rome policewoman teams up with a British Interpool agent to find a crafty serial killer whom plays a taunting game of cat-and-mouse with the police by abducting and killing young women and showing it over an Internet web cam.Read More »

  • Leo Birinsky & Paul Leni – Das Wachsfigurenkabinett AKA Waxworks (1924)

    1921-1930FantasyGermanyLeo BirinskyPaul LeniSilentWeimar Republic cinema

    A wax museum hires a writer to give the sculptures stories. The writer imagines himself and the museum owner’s daughter in the stories.Read More »

  • Nicolas Roeg – Two Deaths (1995)

    1991-2000DramaNicolas RoegUnited Kingdom

    Synopsis by Matthew Tobey
    Amid the bloody tumult of Communist dictator Ceausescu in 1989 Romania, a hedonistic and morally sidetracked physician, Daniel Pavenic (Michael Gambon), attempts to hold his annual dinner for 12 of his closest friends. Only three such friends are willing to brave the dangerous war-torn streets to go to Pavenic’s mansion, where they find themselves investigating the shocking, debauched relationship between their host and a once-beautiful house servant. The more the guests learn about the twisted relationship, the more they find themselves re-entangled in their own dark memories. The book upon which this drama is based, The Two Deaths of Senora Puccini, by Stephen Dobyns, was set in Chile.Read More »

  • Vincent McEveety – The Strongest Man in the World (1975)

    1971-1980ComedySci-FiUSAVincent McEveety

    A school laboratory accident mixes one student’s vitamin cereal mix with Dexter Riley’s chemical experiment. When the kids decide to dispose of the mess to their neighbor’s cow, they learn that the cereal gave the cow the super-strength to give a massively vast supply of milk. When they try it out on themselves, they discover that the stuff gives any human superhuman strength for a few minutes. The school sees this as the thing needed to save their school from closure, as the Dean makes a deal with his relative who owns the company that makes the cereal for financial support, unaware that it was Dexter’s chemical which was solely responsible for the strength. When her competitor learn of this deal, he hires two criminals to stop it.Read More »

  • Glenn Tryon – Beauty for the Asking (1939)

    1931-1940DramaGlenn TryonRomanceUSA

    Synopsis:
    Denny drops fiancée Jean and marries Flora who is worth ten million dollars. When Jean is fired from her job she decides to market the face cream she invented. She goes to Jeffrey and he sends a sample of the product to 12 selected rich women. Only one woman invests in the business and Jean is happy until she learns that it is Flora – but she takes the money. As Denny has no job, the girls give him an office at the factory. The business takes off, but Jean finds that she is still in love with Denny and Denny seems to forget he is married to Flora. So Jean and Flora send him to California for six weeks to open the West Coast branch of Jeanne Varelle. Written by Tony FontanaRead More »

  • Amit Dutta – Nainsukh (2010)

    2001-2010Amit DuttaArthouseIndia

    Nainsukh is a 2010 film directed by Amit Dutta based on the life and works of Nainsukh, an 18th-century Indian miniature painter.The film contains meticulous recreations of Nainsukh’s paintings through compositions set amidst the ruins and environs of Jasrota palace. where the artist was retained.

    The film premiered at the 67th Venice film festival, where it was received by Film Comment as one of top 10 films shown. It’s North American premiere was at the San Francisco International Film Festival of 2011.Read More »

  • Les Blank – A Poem Is a Naked Person (1974)

    1971-1980DocumentaryLes BlankPerformanceUSA

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    “Les Blank made A Poem Is A Naked Person during 1972-74, while living at the Russell/Shelter records recording studio compound on Grand Lake Of The Cherokees in NE Oklahoma. While the film has had few public showings as, apparantly, Mr. Russell is not keen on sharing it with his public.Read More »

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