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A man returns to his native Algeria to visit his dying father there, at a time when the French colonial hold on that country is coming to its end.Read More »

Now you can have your cake and eat it, too! Vivacious Rhonda Jo Petty joins two of her gorgeous and oversexed girlfriends on a fun-filled and very erotic bicycle trip. But it’s more than just a vacation. It’s a pleasure hunt that takes their bodies into orgy after orgy as they travel. From the mountains to the sea, every curve leads to another intensely satisfying sexual encounter, as they give their magnificent bodies over and over again to a pleasantly surprised audience of eager studs and wildly passionate girls. This is one trip you’ll enjoy over and over again…if those bicycle seats could only talk!Read More »

Bernardo Bertolucci’s first and only documentary, La via del petrolio consists of three episodes produced by the director in October-November 1965 to recount the complete “oil journey”, from exploration to extraction, shipment and transportation to the refinery in pipelines.Read More »

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Set in the mid-sixties of Singapore, Bugis Street is an off-beat period drama about a young woman’s coming of age among a community of drag queens who work in the famous tourist/red light district: Bugis Street. Lien, is a wide-eyed 16-year-old girl who has just moved from a rural village to Singapore where she works as a maid in the Sing Sing hotel. Little does she know, the hotel is the infamous residence for transsexuals and transvestites who work on Bugis Street.Read More »

A 1964 Soviet film directed by Georgiy Daneliya and produced by Mosfilm studios. It stars Nikita Mihalkov, Aleksei Loktev, Jevgeny Steblov and Galina Polskikh. The film also features cameos by four People’s Artists of the USSR: Rolan Bykov, Vladimir Basov, Lev Durov, and Inna Churikova.

The famous movie theme, performed by Mikhalkov, was written by the composer Andrej Petrov. The film, regarded as one of the most characteristic of the Khrushchev Thaw, premiered at the 1964 Cannes Film Festival and won a prize for the work of cameraman Vadim Yusov, best known for his subsequent collaboration with Andrei Tarkovsky.Read More »

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In 2003, the ambitious renovation of one of the world’s greatest museums began. The Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, home to a glorious collection including masterpieces by Rembrandt and Vermeer, was supposed to reopen its doors in 2008 after five years of construction. But from the start, the project was opposed by unyielding bureaucrats and public resistance. The museum directors battled politicians, designers, curators and even the Dutch Cyclists Union as they struggled to complete the renovation and put its massive collection back on public display. Five years late, with costs exceeding half a billion dollars, the museum finally reopened.Read More »

“A mysterious lonely man and a young rebel woman, confront each other in a psychological drama about suspended identity…”Read More »

What do you get when Noriaki Yuasa, director of Daiei Studios’ much-beloved Gamera series, makes a monochrome film adaptation of the works of horror manga pioneer Kazuo Umezu (The Drifting Classroom)? The answer is 1968’s The Snake Girl and the Silver-Haired Witch, a fantastically phantasmagorical slice of twisted tokusatsu terror ostensibly made for children that will irreparably traumatise any child that sees it!Read More »

Ben Russell explores how we experience time in his latest striking and hallucinatory short film. Between Carpathian Mountains, Vilnius punk clubs, a Belarusian Independence Day celebration, and Marseille, hovers in a limbo of drone and fog, then descends into stroboscopic clusters of moments and movements.Read More »