• Jerry Schatzberg – Scarecrow (1973)

    1971-1980DramaJerry SchatzbergUSA

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    Max, an ex-con drifter with a penchant for brawling is amused by Lion, a homeless ex-sailor, and they partner up as they head east together.Read More »

  • Joost Wijnant – De laatste zomer AKA The Last Summer (2007)

    2001-2010BelgiumComedyDramaJoost Wijnant

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    Synopsis:
    The Last Summer (De laatste zomer) is director Joost Wynants’ movie debut. The film is set in 1996 and tells the story of four boys from a village in the West Flemish countryside. Although, at first glance, the four appear to be very different from each other, they are good friends. But then they meet the beautiful Sandrine… Read More »

  • Lucien Castaing-Taylor & Verena Paravel – Caniba (2017)

    2011-2020DocumentaryFranceLucien Castaing-Taylor and Verena Paravel

    Synopsis
    Caniba is a film that reflects on the discomforting significance of cannibalistic desire in human existence through the prism of one Japanese man, Issei Sagawa, and his mysterious relationship with his brother, Jun Sagawa.Read More »

  • Hideo Nakata – Sadistic and Masochistic (2000)

    1991-2000DocumentaryEroticaHideo NakataJapan

    Documentary on director Masaru Konuma, who dedicated his life to Japanese soft porn, directing more than 47 films in more than three decades and specializing in S&M.Read More »

  • Oskar Fischinger – Short animation collection (1931 – 1955)

    AnimationGermanyOskar FischingerShort Film

    Various quality, some mpg, some avi. Recommended if you like Len Lye.

    1930 Studie Nr. 6
    1931 Studie Nr. 7
    1931 Studie Nr. 9
    1933 Kreise
    1934 Muratti Greift Ein
    1935 Komposition in Blau
    1935 Muratti Privat
    1941 American March
    1943 Allegretto
    1947 Motion Painting
    1952 Muntz-Tvmercial
    1955 Oklahoma GaspanyRead More »

  • Sang-woo Lee – Uhmmaneun Changnyeoda AKA Mother is a Whore (2009)

    2001-2010DramaSang-woo LeeSouth Korea

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    “My Mother is a Whore” is a dark piece of Korean independent cinema from the multi talented Lee Sang Woo, who wrote, produced, directed and even takes the lead role in the exceptionally grim drama. Complimenting his similarly themed “Father is a Dog”, the film is another bleak family tale, which also stars Lee Yong Nyeo, Kwon Bum Taek, Kim Ji Hee and Yoo Ae Kyeong. Given the subject matter, themes and tone of his work to date, Lee has perhaps unsurprisingly been compared with a young Kim Ki Duk, having previously also worked on his recent “Time” and “Breath”.Read More »

  • Robert Bresson – Les Dames du Bois de Boulogne AKA The Ladies of the Bois de Boulogne (1945)

    1941-1950ArthouseDramaFranceRobert Bresson

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    “Les dames du Bois de Boulogne is a 1945 film directed by Robert Bresson. It is a modern adaptation of a section of Diderot’s Jacques le fataliste (1796), telling the story of a man who is tricked into marrying a former prostitute. The title means “the women of the Bois de Boulogne”, a park in Paris. Les Dames was Bresson’s second feature and is an early example of his dramatic experimentation and innovations in reducing dramatic form to its bare essentials, signifying his status as an auteur, rather than simply a metteur en scène. It is also his last film to feature a cast entirely composed of professional actors.The film’s editing rhythms are similar to Bresson’s later work. However, while his later work often reflects Bresson’s personal Catholic beliefs and Christian-intellectual mentality, Les Dames is a more secular work. The redemptive ending is more secular than spiritual although it does establish Bresson’s later, more refined, thematic obsessions with redemption and salvation.”Read More »

  • Jan Peters – Aber der Sinn des Lebens (1990 – 1996)

    1991-2000ExperimentalGermanyJan PetersShort Film

    Aber den Sinn des Lebens hab’ ich immer noch nicht rausgefunden / … but I Still Haven’t Figured Out the Meaning of Life (OmeU)

    Every year on his birthday, Jan Peters filmed one reel of Super-8 material; later on he turned to video. In these few minutes of film he reveals something from and about himself. Maybe it is exhibitionism – the way he chatters on, until the blotches on the film indicate the end of the reel. Enthusiastic, sometimes tired, often doubtful, he, like everyone else, quarrels with what has come about from his own actions. On top of this, Peters, the filmmaker, blurs the individual of the same name with his dense texts and images to create something quite different: Jan Peters, the fictional character.Read More »

  • Andrew L. Stone – Cry Terror! (1958)

    1951-1960Andrew L. StoneFilm NoirUSA

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    Plot:
    A wife, a daughter, a steady job. Yesterday Jim Molner was an ordinary guy. Today he’s a desperate man, frantically trying to save himself and his family, held hostage by a demented terrorist who’s demanding $500,000 not to detonate a bomb he’s planted on a domestic airliner. James Mason and Rod Steiger head an “A” cast in a jolting, psychology-driven thriller that, like The Desperate Hours, Suddenly and other 1950s films, turns home sweet home into the tense site of a family held hostage. Cry Terror! adds a sweaty layer of sexual tension as well, provided by Angie Dickinson as the terrorist’s sinuous moll and Neville Brand as his benny-addled henchman, salivating over Molner’s distraught wife (Inger Stevens). From Warner Brothers! Read More »

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