1970s

A female plays a race car driver lends her services to the Japanese Secret Service. She goes in pursuit of a cartel of drug runners and assorted Japanese Yakuza types.Read More »

This film shows the images of a dancing woman who is wearing Kimono overlapping another image which a naked man is dancing. This is one of the original psychological concepts of C.G. Jung. For women, Animus is an image of a man by projection of her mental energy.Read More »

Jonathan Haker travels to Transylvania to seal a business deal with the mysterious Count Dracula.Read More »

The film shows vivid close-ups of a liver with the background music of “My Baby” by Janice Joplin.Read More »

Midnight Plowboy is one of director Bethel G. Buckalew’s greatest films in his all too brief career.Junior, the cow-lovin’ country boy from Sassy Sue decides to see the big-city sights of Hollywood, despite having the I.Q. of a feedin’ trough. Mistaking a brothel for a boarding house.As payment for his rent ,Junior is assigned the task of driving the girls around in a van that doubles as a place to have sex, outsmarting a rival pimp and falling deeply in love with the beguiling Debbie Osborne as good-girl gone bad…Read More »

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The uncle of the young narrator enters his house unexpectedly. In order to offer him some refreshments, he goes to bring a bottle of wine. Through the crevice of the wall which happens to be there, he sees an ethereal girl offering a lotus flower to an old man who bursts into a hair-raising laughter. Surprisingly, this is exactly the picture he keeps drawing on pen cases as a calling. He is then jolted into realities. The thought of the old man gradually begins to loom over his life and sow the seed of anxiety. The narrator embarks on a journey in search of the ethereal girl and the old man. His journey, however, takes him into a study of history and myths. The narrator comes back and realizes that his uncle has left, leaving the door agape like the mouth of a dead man. Desperately he goes out to look for the ethereal girl.Read More »

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A woman’s image as a mind-scape, after she had plastic surgery.Read More »

Keith Waterhouse’s adaptation of the play by Eduardo De Filippo.

One Saturday evening Rosa Priore is preparing a magnificent Sunday lunch for her family and their friends. By Sunday afternoon her life and marriage are in ruins.

Cast: Frank Finlay, Laurence Olivier, Joan Plowright, Judy Parfitt, Edward Woodward, Clive Francis, Nicholas Clay, Cyril Shaps, Michael Elphick, John Duttine.Read More »

Written and directed by the multi-talented King Hu, The Valiant Ones (1975) is set in the Ming-dynasty China, a time when Japanese pirates were wreaking havoc along the nation’s coast. Its heroes engage in epic battles and tragic sacrifices, fully illustrating the themes of loyalty and martyrdom. The film’s fierce action, choreographed by Sammo Hung, works synergistically with Hu’s camera angles and tight-knit editing. Also impressive are its settings in the hills, islands, and rough, turbulent sea of Hong Kong, accentuating Hu’s awe-inspiring wuxia aesthetic.Read More »