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A chilling exploration of the future is also a compelling examination of the present in George Lucas’ ‘THX 1138’, starring Robert Duvall as a man whose mind and body are controlled by the government. THX makes an harrowing attempt to escape from a world where thoughts are controlled, freedom is an impossibility and love is the ultimate crime.Read More »
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Annie, a beautiful young woman, lives in St-Tropez, France. On a trip to the seaside resort, American writer Mark Redley meets the girl and is enchanted. He writes books on female behavior and freedom. He invites her to accompany him on a trip to Rio de Janeiro. Annie accepts and falls in love with the city. However, she is still a girl traumatized by sexual abuse suffered in her childhood.Read More »
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Jean (Carl Parker) rekindles his relationship with the mysterious Claire (Marilyn Roberts), and the latter involves her curiously submissive “companion,” Anne (Mary Mendum), in the mix. Together, they explore the boundaries of sexuality in a series of S & M tinged fantasies…Read More »
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Smooth operator Arlo is setting up an erotic musical in NY. Lialeh, a talented girl who wants a singing career and doesn’t mind doing nudity or having sex, joins the show. Funk legend Bernard Purdie and his band play Arlo’s band.Read More »
Famour producer Pierre Braunberger (who produced Vivre sa vie, Tirez sur le Pianiste, Moi un noir…) has said that he only had produced two geniuses in his life : Jean Renoir and Jean-Pierre Lajournade.
Lajournade has only directed two feature films, here is one of them.
It’s a very rare copy but in good quality. You can see how his cinema has influenced Philippe Garrel (whom had worked as an assistant for Lajournade). It’s pure underground cinema from the late 60’s and it’s unfortunalty his last film.Read More »
Taking place almost entirely during a murder trial, the film details in significant detail the deep roots sunk by organized crime in the business and political life of Sicily.Read More »
The second film in Ogawa Productions’ Narita/Sanrizuka series of documentaries about the resistance by farmers and activists to the construction of the Narita Airport.Read More »
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La polizia è al servizio del cittadino? (internationally released as The Police Serve the Citizens?) is a 1973 Italian giallo-poliziottesco film directed by Romolo Guerrieri. The film is set in Genova.Read More »
After Summer, Ogawa Pro attempted a more epic scale with Winter in Sanrizuka. It was roundly criticised as a failure. In the wake of this criticism, the collective became increasingly militant. They decided to make a quick and dirty report from the front, calling it a “bullet film.” They shot this agit-prop film in three days, when 2,500 protestors battled 6,500 police. Even the school had been let out so children could participate in the action.Read More »