Akiko, a woman must endure an extreme ritual when her ex-husband, who has recently escaped from jail, kidnaps her, brings her to a house in remote wooded area. There he subjects her to sexual torture, tetherings, suspensions and humiliations. Through the rage and lust, the pair develop a relationship, that flourishes especially when Kunisada, the ex-husband, meets a young couple…Read More »
A student film by Béla Tarr, from 1979.
Presumed lost until very recently.Read More »
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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 »
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 »
A reporter finds what appears to be a cover-up of safety hazards at a nuclear power plant.Read More »
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After having spent eight years in jail on account of an armed bank robbery, Paul Flanagan is released. The only thing on Flanagan’s mind is revenge…Read More »
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From the original manga by Kazuo Koike (Lone Wolf and Cub) and Kazuo Kamimura and the main inspiration for Quentin Tarantino’s Kill Bill, Lady Snowblood is a blood spattered Samurai masterpiece from the golden age of Japanese cult cinema!
Meiko Kaji (Female Prisoner Scorpion / Blind Woman’s Curse) is Yuki, a women raised from birth for one terrible, blood splattered purpose…To murder those who raped her mother and left her to rot in a stinking women’s prison, where she died in childbirth. Trained in deadly fighting arts and fatal sword play, Lady Snowblood is cursed to wander the lands in pursuit of her single purpose. She is a demon of vengeance, only sated by the crimson blood of those who stole her mother from her.Read More »
Probably Früh’s most unique work: an elliptical sort-of-biopic about Karl Tellenbach, a barber from Bern, who was known in the whole city for his strange, unhinged jokes. Also, a dark, desperate film about alcoholism and loneliness. In a way, DÄLLEBACH KARI sees an old master discovering modernism – indeed, today the film is thought of as an important part of the New Swiss Cinema. At the same time, the film might be seen as a reflection of Früh’s own personal and artistic struggles.Read More »
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Yuki’s family is nearly wiped out before she is born due to the machinations of a band of criminals. These criminals kidnap and brutalize her mother but leave her alive. Later her mother ends up in prison with only revenge to keep her alive. She creates an instrument for this revenge by purposefully getting pregnant. Though she dies in childbirth, she makes sure that the child will be raised as an assassin to kill the criminals who destroyed her family. Young Yuki never knows the love of a family but only killing and revenge.Read More »