Synopsis: A series of unrelated amorous lovers are connected by a chain of desire.
Chain of Desire is a provocative chronicle of contemporary sexual mores, featuring Linda Fiorentino, Elias Koteas, Assumpta Serna, Seymour Cassel and Malcolm McDowell among others. The film was the American entry in competition at the 1992 Montreal World Film Festival.Read More »
Sonny lives with his intellectually disabled older brother and works as a bellhop at a second-rate hotel. This changes when Monique, a beautiful and suicidal nutcase, checks in. Sonny is offered a part in a heist that goes wrong.
This film is based on the book A Swell-Looking Babe by Jim Thompson.Read More »
As he investigates the case of a mysterious eyeless, hermaphroditic dead body Thomas Dagget, a former priest who has lost his faith and is now working as a detective, is thrust into the midst of an earthly war between angels. A fallen angel Gabriel is trying to create a new Heaven and seeks the soul of a Korean War colonel accused of human sacrifice. The colonel’s soul has been transplanted into the body of a young Indian girl for protection and Thomas must fight to protect her as Gabriel comes after her.Read More »
Narrator: Martin Scorsese.
Nowhere else on television is such a genuine love for filmmaking consistently on display as in the Turner Classic Movie documentaries, especially when they have the audacity to stretch beyond household-name stars and directors. So it is with Martin Scorsese’s heartfelt tribute to Val Lewton, the producer responsible for such movie-buff fare as “Cat People” and “I Walked With a Zombie.” As always, the doc is linked to a retrospective of the subject’s work, and “The Man in the Shadows” more than achieves its objective of stoking interest in Lewton’s filmography.Read More »
A very personal film by Martin Scorsese about the role of films Elia Kazan for the American cinema and for him personally.
Additionally, attending twenty-minute interviews with the actors who starred in Kazan’s movies, and his wife.Read More »