Because of an accident, Michele (a leader of P.C.I. and a water-polo player) loses his memory. During one water-polo match, strange guys torment him; they want him to remember his past. As the match is about to finish, he misses the penalty which would have let his team draw the match and keep the leadership.Read More »
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Directed by Academy Award Winner Lee Grant, “What Sex Am I?” follows a group of Transgender individuals struggling to make their way in every strata of 1980s America. From finding employment to finding acceptance, the first question the world forces them to ask is always, “What Sex Am I?” The acclaimed HBO Documentary returns from Grant’s archives for its 30th anniversary to a world at once much evolved, and still very much the same as the United States of its first run.Read More »
Three couples meet in an elegant Costa del Sol hotel. They are from various social classes and are gathered here for totally different reasons. One couple has met through a matrimonial agency. Another is composed of a fashion designer and his wife who are on the verge of seperation because of the husband’s homosexuality and are here because the wife hopes to recover her husband’s desire. The third couple is a German VIP, Ilsa, and her Gypsy gigolo who sells his charms for a few dollars. They are all going to be strongly attracted by Eva Bombon, a cabaret dancer, who came there to seek calm and solitude to prepare her next show. Her exuberant beauty is going to set their senses on fire and end their conflicts… very cordially!Read More »
PLOT: HANDS UP! is a Polish drama film directed by Jerzy Skolimowski. It is the fourth of a series of semi-autobiographical films in which Skolimowski himself plays his alter ego, Andrzej Leszczyc. The film was originally made in 1967 in monochrome. In a twenty minute section (filmed in colour) added by Skolimowski in 1981 he explains how the original was withheld by Polish censors of the time, and that this was a principal cause of his leaving his country; however following liberalisation in Poland, he was invited to resuscitate it. The introduction includes, apart from some fictional apocalyptic passages, shots of Beirut ruined by the civil wars of the 1970s, where Skolimowski is working as an actor on Volker Schloendorff’s German film CIRCLE OF DECEIT, and also shots of London featuring demonstrations in favour of Solidarnosc, Speaker’s Corner, and an exhibition of Skolimowski’s own paintings. These sections include cameo roles by Bruno Ganz, David Essex, Mike Sarne and others. Some of the music in this introduction is from the 1970 choral work « Kosmogonia » by the Polish composer Krzysztof Penderecki.Read More »
Reunited: Vilma Santos, Christopher DeLeon, and Eddie Garcia, together again for another dramatic performance. This time, Marilou Diaz-Abaya directs, and this time Eddie Garcia displays his superb acting talent.Read More »
In this surreal and sensuous mystery/noir, Lina Romay (The Female Vampire, Lorna the Exorcist) plays Irina, a partner in a male-female mind reading act. At night she experiences vivid and charged dreams which end in murder. It seems that the people whose minds she reads are being killed off one by one. In the 1980s, after the death of the Spanish dictator, Jess Franco returned to his native country and made a series of films in which he was given almost total freedom. Night Has A Thousand Desires is one of the most artistically successful of these films. It’s filled with familiar Franco touches – artful cinematography, atmospheric locations, naked women, an avant garde soundtrack – and it features one of Lina Romay’s most committed performances.Read More »
Annie Sprinkle reveals her sexual fantasies in this legendary film which she wrote and directed herself.Read More »
Luis Eduardo Aute proposed to Arrietta to make an episode for the TV series Delusions of love, and he decided to adapt La Chatte, Colette: the story of a woman, a man, and a cat. The themes of love, sex and jealousy are portrayed both tragically and comically, and the power of this film is to show both perspectives in parallel.Read More »
Blue Mountains (1983) ends with the implosion of the aspiring novelist’s publishing house. Clearly a symbol of Soviet bureaucracy and its capacity for ultimate self-destruction, this moment is a dazzling and wickedly humorous indication of Georgia’s deep seated disillusionment with the USSR.Read More »