• Mototsugu Watanabe – Whore Angels (2000)

    1991-2000ComedyEroticaJapanMototsugu Watanabe
    Whore Angels (2000)
    Whore Angels (2000)

    Komasa is a cow-girl drifter who works at the brothel, “Hot-Lips”. One day, she saves the life of Monroe, a pink-haired woman, who is being attacked by a demon. Monroe gets a job at “Hot Lips” where it’s quickly discovered that her blowjobs have magical healing powers. Soon she’s the most popular girl there as lines of sick and handicap men seek special treatment from the woman who has the healing powers of an angel… Director Mototsugu Watanabe (Sexy Battle Girls) directs this irreverent sexy comedy!Read More »

  • Russ Meyer – Lorna (1964)

    Russ Meyer1961-1970DramaExploitationUSA
    Lorna (1964)
    Lorna (1964)

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    Lorna has been married to Jim for a year, but still hasn’t been satisfied sexually. While Jim is working at the salt mine, she is raped by an escaped convict, but falls in lust with him. Meanwhile Jim’s buddies are giving him a hard time about Lorna’s supposed infidelity, not realizing how close to the mark they really are. Trouble starts when Jim gets home early from work because it’s their anniversary.Read More »

  • Claude Goretta – La Mort de Mario Ricci AKA The Death of Mario Ricci (1983)

    Claude Goretta1981-1990DramaMysterySwitzerland
    La Mort de Mario Ricci (1983)
    La Mort de Mario Ricci (1983)

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    A country road glimpsed through a dirty windscreen… a mangled car wreck on a garage forecourt…Volonté blowing up an inflatable coat hanger and reminding his assistant that ‘it’s the details that count’. And so they clearly do in Goretta’s film, although quite what they add up to is never sharply defined. A crippled TV journalist (Volonté) arrives in a Swiss village to interview a specialist in world food shortages disillusioned by the non-application of his theories. But he soon becomes embroiled in a web of local intrigue resulting from the death of a young immigrant worker. Goretta counterpoints his two stories with deft assurance, letting them strike subdued ironies off one another; there are thematic strands galore here, clearly signposted but seemingly left deliberately smudged. Yet there is no shortage of delights either: fine atmospherics, immaculately fluid camerawork, and a towering performance from Volonté, sympathy and disdain flickering back and forth across those marvellously expressive features.Read More »

  • André Sauvage – Études sur Paris (1928)

    1921-1930André SauvageDocumentaryFranceSilent
    Études sur Paris (1928)
    Études sur Paris (1928)

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    This visually magnificent and poetic city symphony of Paris in the late 1920s earned Sauvage the admiration of Jean Renoir and Jean Vigo. Sauvage maps the metropolis through its street life, monuments, ports, and automobile traffic.Read More »

  • Bill Hays – The Serpent Son [The Oresteia] (1979)

    1971-1980Bill HaysClassicsTVUnited Kingdom
    The Serpent Son [The Oresteia] (1979)
    The Serpent Son [The Oresteia] (1979)

    This trilogy was broadcast in three weekly instalments as Agamemnon, Grave Gifts (the production’s title for Choephoroi, the play also known as Libation Bearers) and Furies (the production’s title for Eumenides). The three plays went out at 9.25pm on BBC2 on Wednesday nights (95, 85, and 75 mins respectively). The trilogy was followed by a half-hour ‘sophisticated modern comedy’ in the style of the ancient satyr play which traditionally followed tragic trilogies: Raphael and McLeish’s Of Mycenae and Men—which follows the reunion of Helen (Diana Dors) and Menelaus (Freddie Jones) after the fall of Troy—was directed by Hugh David.Read More »

  • Julian Goldberg – Andy Kaufman Plays Carnegie Hall (1980)

    1971-1980ComedyDocumentaryJulian GoldbergUSA
    Andy Kaufman Plays Carnegie Hall (1980)
    Andy Kaufman Plays Carnegie Hall (1980)

    Eccentric comedian Andy Kaufman in one of his brightest moments–performing live at Carnegie Hall. The wild eyed “confrontainer” performs some of his best-known acts; Foreign Man, Elvis, Tony Clifton, the wrestler, and then finishes with what is arguably the sweetest ending in showbiz! Includes a cameo by Robin Williams.
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  • Burhan Qurbani – Wir sind jung. Wir sind stark. AKA We Are Young. We Are Strong. (2014)

    2011-2020Burhan QurbaniDramaGermany
    Wir sind jung. Wir sind stark. (2014)
    Wir sind jung. Wir sind stark. (2014)

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    On 24th August 1992 in the eastern German city of Rostock a rampaging mob, to the applause and cheering of more than 3,000 bystanders, besieged and set fire to a residential building containing, among others, more than 120 Vietnamese men, women and children on what has since become known as “The Night of the Fire.” The riots became a symbol for xenophobia in the just recently reunited Germany. This film recounts the incident from the perspectives of three very different characters. Lien is a Vietnamese woman who settled in Germany, but at the end of the day she will be fighting for her life wondering if the place she called home could ever be one for her. Stefan and his friends are part of the night’s violent turmoil. Read More »

  • Ruy Guerra – Ternos Caçadores AKA Sweet Hunters (1970)

    1961-1970ArthouseCultFranceRuy Guerra
    Ternos Caçadores (1970)
    Ternos Caçadores (1970)

    A family living on a remote island learns an escaped prisoner may be in the area. Allan (Sterling Hayden) is the professor who studies the migratory habits of birds. His wife Clea (Maureen McNalley) has a fascination for all things dead. Her sister Lis (Susan Strasberg) is visiting to break the news of her impending marriage to an older man. Clea leaves tobacco and food out for the unseen escapee. Lis meets the prisoner (Stuart Whitman) on the beach and the two make love. The quiet paradise is interrupted by the escaped prisoner who later suffers a potentially fatal wound while killing another man.Read More »

  • James Bridges – The China Syndrome (1979)

    James Bridges1971-1980DramaThrillerUSA
    The China Syndrome (1979)
    The China Syndrome (1979)

    A reporter finds what appears to be a cover-up of safety hazards at a nuclear power plant.Read More »

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