A review of pivotal but underreported events that shaped America’s history during the 20th century.
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Oliver Stone’s ‘Untold History’
Missed opportunities, roads not taken—these are the central themes of Stone’s new documentary.
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A woman (Odile) suspects her husband (Jean) to be unfaithful to her. Thus she decides to give him a taste of his own medicine. Fate gets her in touch with an actor (Daniel) she will use for her revenge. The actor, living with a former serviceman (Albert), will make love with her. But this action will suffer some unexpected consequences : Odile and Daniel will be bound forever by an irrepressible love. To the detriment of their entourage.Read More »
Heidi tries to improve her grades at school by having sex with her teacher. When she returns to her parent’s home somewhere in Bavaria, she starts to spend an unusual amount of time with the male population of her village.Read More »
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In The Witch Hunt a national-Catholic religious college whose mission is to train militants and future leaders of society. Their “lifestyle” is explained by the Spiritual Father: “God, by creating us, did not endow us all equally: He gave some more and others less in admirable diversity” .
The students are the privileged, chosen by God for His Glory and to perpetuate that “admirable diversity” that denies class struggle. A dark incident occurs in the toilets. The protagonists they are thirteen year old children and the ideology of the school maintains that “chastity comes from caste and we cannot allow sin to take root among us. ” The chasing
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Key West is located near the southern tip of Florida, not far from Key Largo. In contrast to Key Largo (John Huston, USA 1948), Key West has no need of gangsters to reveal this paradise on earth to be an illusion. Looking back from a distance of nearly 50 years, it is sufficient to reconnect those images which – each in itself – represented a longing view of this paradise: images of boat-like cars sailing down the highway, of bikini-clad girls on the beach, of surfers riding the waves. A moral lesson? Possibly.Read More »
A young Parisian advertising executive becomes so captivated by the unsettling charm of his mysterious new employer that he eventually abandons his family and friends, viewing it a privilege to let the ubiquitous employer take over his home, his life, his desire. Only his wife remains suspicious, recognizing both the pathos and the evil in the man’s soul-stealing power.Read More »
Assassins are after a prostitute who has come into possession of a cigarette lighter that, unbeknownst to her, contains the negatives that show a politician’s assassination. A delightfully playful giallo starring the beautiful Carole Bouquet as Mystère, a high class call girl who becomes the target for a couple of assassins.Read More »
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A devil conjures up a dancing woman from a mystical flame.
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The Pillar of Fire was the first film to be based on H. Rider Haggard’s 1887 novel She: A History of Adventure. Rather than attempting to tell the whole story of the novel, Méliès used one of its characters as inspiration for a trick film, recalling the scene in the novel in which Ayesha stands amid flames. At least six other adaptations of She were made in the silent era.Read More »
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‘Finding similarities in the pulses and shapes between my own experiments in night photography, lightning storms, and night bombing in World War II, I constructed the war at home. — PSS, Canyon Cinema catalog 1992Read More »