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Reishu quits a job on a US military base; while mulling over his future he catches snakes, sticks numbers on ants and gets village girl Nabi pregnant. But then he is ‘hidden by God’ and in this enfeebled condition is savaged by a wild rainbow pig.Read More »
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Spy spoof revolving around the unlikely alliance of three eccentric characters and their mission to uncover government foreign policy duplicity. Beautifully and humorously choreographed against London’s most famed locales. Produced in association with the British Film Institute and Channel Four Television.Read More »
Before Stonewall: The Making of a Gay and Lesbian Community is a 1984 American documentary film about the LGBT community prior to the 1969 Stonewall riots. It was narrated by author Rita Mae Brown, directed by Greta Schiller, co-directed by Robert Rosenberg, and co-produced by John Scagliotti and Rosenberg, and Schiller. It premiered at the 1984 Toronto Festival of Festivals and was released in the United States on June 27, 1985. In 1999, producer Scagliotti directed a companion piece, After Stonewall. To celebrate the 30th anniversary of the Teddy Awards, the film was shown at the 66th Berlin International Film Festival in February 2016. To commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall riots in 2019, the film was restored and re-released by First Run Features in June 2019. Later in 2019, the film was selected by the Library of Congress for preservation in the National Film Registry for being “culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant”.Read More »
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Why Columbia Pictures released The Beast in only two theaters (for a $160,000 take against $8 million), then both mothballed it — even with rave reviews from the Lost Angeles Times, PBS-TV Sneak Previews, The Christian Science Monitor, and the Lost Angeles Daily News is anyone’s guess. The film, however — based on its many Euro IMDb reviews — received a wider, as most failed U.S. theatricals do, overseas theatrical release.Read More »
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After being run down by a car, a man asks a passer-by for a last kiss before dying. The other man, full of pity for him, obliges his wish. Soon it becomes the talk of the town, and perverted society starts implying that the two men were lovers, affecting his life and his marriage.Read More »
Michael, Rachel and Sara never really got over the fact that The Revolution sold to them as undergraduates by Patti Smith and the Sex Pistols turned out to be just another pile of media-hype. Stranded as they are in the 80s, they’re more than a little alienated, cynical and just plain bored. They’ve lost touch with one another, with themselves, and are having a hard time connecting with their love partners as well. Needless to say, when this emotionally unstable group spends a weekend together, they most certainly are not going to sit around listening to old Motown Records.Read More »
Elegant and educated bachelor, Charles Swann, moves in the most powerful and fashionable circles of Paris in the 1890’s. When he falls in love with Odette de Crecy, a courtesan, his friends warn him against marriage. Proving himself a silly and socially-foul goose, Swann ducks his social responsibilities, Odette ensnares him, and he is gently but firmly cast out of society amidst everyone’s great politeness.Read More »
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Once again, director Shunichi Kajima and star Takanori Jinnai are teaming up to create a new type of yakuza film that stylishly depicts the short but vibrant life of legendary urban yakuza Takashi Hanagata.Read More »
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Yakuza in Yokohama. Shinkokai executive Kenji Shimada met Asako seven years ago when the group was just starting out. Kenji was a thug in the Kohoku group, but the group suddenly disbanded. Ninomiya, an executive, moved to the Kanto Rengo, and fellow executive Kusuhara took Kenji and Hideo with him to the Shinkokai. One day, Kenji forcefully raped Asako, a hostess at a pink salon, but fell in love with her angel-like kindness. Kenji and Hideo start playing catch bar “Kuroneko”, but Asako gets caught by the detective. Asako, who returned to “Kuroneko”, was defrauded of 200,000 yen by Yoko, her fellow pinsaro, and she was beaten by Kenji. Read More »