Amelia and Pippo are reunited after several decades to perform their old music-hall act (imitating Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers) on a TV variety show. It’s both a touchingly nostalgic journey into the past, and a viciously satirical attack on television in general and Italian TV in particular, portraying it as a mindless freakshow aimed at morons.Read More »
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Three girls living in Los Angeles, CA in the 1980s found cult fame when they “accidentally” transitioned from models to B-movie actresses, coinciding with the major direct-to-video horror film boom of the era. Known as “The Terrifying Trio,” Linnea Quigley (The Return of the Living Dead), Brinke Stevens (The Slumber Party Massacre) and Michelle Bauer (The Tomb), headlined upwards of ten films per year, fending off men in rubber monster suits, pubescent teenage boys, and deadly showers. Then it all came crashing down. This documentary remembers these actresses – and their most common collaborators – and shows how smart they were to play stupid.Read More »
Jonathan Harker is a successful real estate agent now living with Mina Murray in Budapest…Read More »
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A&B IN ONTARIO was completed eighteen years after the original material was shot. After Frampton’s death, the film was assembled by Wieland into a cinematic dialogue in which the collaborators (in the spirit of the sixties) shoot each other with cameras.Read More »
A companion piece to the earlier Stone Wedding. Using the same structure of two loosely interlinked stories, the film is a darkly humorous study of greed in a small prospecting town where everyone is obsessed with, and motivated by, gold. Exceptionally beautiful, the film is full of extraordinary set design and photography, making inventive use of focus and composition (with characters frequently framed within frames).Read More »
“What interests me is the hypnotic trance into which a viewer can be plunged. When you make a film and it works, you’re like a shaman, a hypnotist.” – Gaspar NoéRead More »
Producer Joe Pasternak was making “Deanna Durbin pictures” long before he’d discovered Durbin – and indeed, long before he’d left Hungary. Pasternak’s 1935 musical “Peter” stars Franciska Gaal as Eva, a 17-year-old gamine who ekes out a living as a street singer. While wandering past an open courtyard, Eva confronts a young burglar, who orders her to change clothes with him so he can make a quick getaway. With nothing but her newfound male garb to her name, our heroine poses as a boy named Peter so that she can obtain a job selling newspapers. In this guise, she experiences all manner of hilarious misadventures, and even finds true love in the form of a handsome doctor (Hans Jaray). Peter was directed by Herman Kosterlitz, who as Henry Koster would later helm several of Joe Pasternak’s Hollywood musicals. (Hal Erickson, Rovi)Read More »
A perverted loner roams the rafters of a boarding house in 1920s Tokyo in Watcher in the Attic, directed by one of the Nikkatsu‘s top Roman Porno filmmaking talents, Noboru Tanaka, peeping on the unusual sexual antics of its residents in this dreamlike tale of voyeurism, obsession and murder drawn from the “erotic grotesque” literature of Japan’s foremost master of mystery and the macabre, Edogawa Rampo.Read More »
A documentary about Wenceslau de Morais, in Japan. A Portuguese writer from the beginning of the 20th century.Read More »