• Kôji Wakamatsu – Ranko AKA The Orgy (1967)

    1961-1970EroticaJapanKoji WakamatsuPolitics

    Quote:
    A professional hitman, turned against the world that made him and sensationalizes what he does, kills in the hope to one day take back pieces of his past. It’s a world void of connections, trust or meaning, embroiled by fleeting encounters with fugitive women, who along with the other usual croutons sprinkling similar films of the time – diversions and subversion, greed and hijinks, the nameless political element, egalitarian dreams coming up against walls of economy – make a Wakamatsu salad where every ingredient has its untold price that everyone will be made to pay.Read More »

  • Marcel Ophüls – Faites vos jeux, mesdames AKA Make your Bets, Ladies (1965)

    1961-1970ActionFranceMarcel OphülsThriller

    Synopsis
    Exciting Eddie Constantine outing finds Eddie playing a special agent searching for missing NATO weapons. When he encounters a scientist who has invented a ring that emits a paralysis spray, the hard-boiled spy saves the day with some very Bondian heroics…Read More »

  • Ron Mann – Go Further (2003)

    2001-2010CanadaDocumentaryRon Mann

    GO FURTHER is a documentary that charts the progress of an environmental activism bus tour from Seattle to Santa Barbara, led by actor Woody Harrelson. In a biofuel bus burning hempseed oil as gas, painted with scenic and symbolic murals depicting the tour’s goals, Harrelson and his crew of eclectic environmentalists–a yoga instructor, a raw foods chef, an organic living neophyte–set out to educate people about Simple Organic Living (SOL), calling their trek the SOL Tour. While some of the SOL Tour’s participants ride in the bus, others bike alongside it.Read More »

  • Sergei M. Eisenstein – La Destrucción de Oaxaca (1931)

    1931-1940DocumentaryMexicoSergei M. EisensteinSilentUSSR

    Description: Footage of the aftermath of the January 14 1931 Earthquake in Oaxaca, Mexico.Read More »

  • Tarek Ehlail – Chaostage (2009)

    2001-2010ActionDocumentaryGermanyTarek Ehlail

    Germany during a normal summer weekend. Punks, Skins and autonomous groups – in case they meet each other this will end up in chaos – this happens during the Chaostage (chaos days). The movie tells a story which could happen every time anywhere. The right mixture of beer, sun music and a feeling of violence will become an explosive mixture.Read More »

  • Stuart Gordon – Re-Animator (1985)

    1981-1990ComedyHorrorStuart GordonUSA

    Based on H.P. Lovecraft´s novel “Herbert West the Reanimator”.

    A dedicated student at a medical college and his girlfriend become involved in bizarre experiments centering around the re-animation of dead tissue when an odd new student arrives on campus.Read More »

  • Werner Herzog – On Death Row (2012)

    2011-2020DocumentaryUSAWerner Herzog

    In this gripping series of films, Academy-Award nominated filmmaker Werner Herzog (Into
    the Abyss, Grizzly Man) delves deeper into the abyss of the human soul. Through
    interviews with five inmates awaiting their appointment with a lethal injection in the Texas
    and Florida prison systems, Herzog conducts a uniquely thought-provoking analysis of why
    people, and the state, kill. Each of the four episodes features an intense interview with a
    death row inmate in which we hear their own account of life in captivity and the crime that
    condemned them. Herzog explores the emotions that these men and women go through as
    they possess the haunting knowledge of exactly when – and how – they are going to die.
    Utterly gripping, Death Row packs a strong emotional punch and is a truly unmissable
    experience.Read More »

  • Alex van Warmerdam – De Jurk AKA The Dress (1996)

    1991-2000Alex van WarmerdamArthouseComedyNetherlands

    Description: The Dress is a tale filled with sex, violence, comedy and drama as it follows the life of a dress. Conceived under a cloud of frustration and despair, the dress serves as the hub in a great wheel of misfortune in an extraordinary sequence of events that envelopes both the dress and those fatefully drawn into its universe. An aloof artist, a virginal school girl, an unfulfilled maid, a lowly train conductor and a broken business executive, all become involuntary players in a macabre game of tag. No one who comes in contact with the dress can escape its dramatic, shocking and hilarious consequences.Read More »

  • William Friedkin – Bug (2006)

    Drama2001-2010HorrorUSAWilliam Friedkin

    Synopsis:
    Having escaped her abusive ex-husband Goss (Harry Connick Jr.), recently released from state prison, Agnes (Ashley Judd), a lonely waitress with a tragic past moves into a sleazy, run-down motel and her lesbian co-worker R.C (Lynn Collins) introduces her to Gulf War veteran Peter (Michael Shannon), a peculiar, paranoiac drifter and they begin a tentative romance. However, things don’t always seem as they appear and Agnes is about to experience a claustrophobic nightmare reality as the bugs begin to arrive…Read More »

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