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  • Aaron Schimberg – A Different Man (2024)

    2021-2030Aaron SchimbergComedyThrillerUSA

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    An aspiring actor undergoes a radical medical procedure to transform his appearance. But his dream new face soon turns into a nightmare.Read More »

  • Claude Chabrol – Dr. M AKA Club Extinction (1990)

    Drama1981-1990Claude ChabrolCrimeGermany

    In the not-too-distant future Berlin is shocked by a series of spectacular suicides; a policeman’s investigations lead him to a beautiful, enigmatic woman and the revelation of a sinister plot to manipulate the population through mass hypnosis.Read More »

  • Charles Band – Quadrant (2024)

    2021-2030Charles BandHorrorSci-FiUSA

    Quadrant helmet transports users’ minds into nightmarish AI worlds. A girl becomes Jack the Ripper, unleashing terror in virtual London and reality. A vicious killer enters the Quadrant-verse to stop her in a brutal battle across worlds.Read More »

  • Norman Mailer – Wild 90 (1968)

    1961-1970ComedyCrimeNorman MailerUSA

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    Norman Mailer’s first feature filmmaking effort stars the director and his two longtime collaborators Buzz Farbar and Mickey Knox as a trio of gangsters holed up in a ramshackle New York apartment, drinking, braying, and fighting. Mailer once claimed that he viewed making movies as “free psychoanalysis,” and this bristly, stripped-down experiment in improvisation shows a filmmaker baring himself for all to see.Read More »

  • Nancy Holt – Pine Barrens (1975)

    USA1971-1980ExperimentalNancy Holt

    Pine Barrens is concerned with evoking through film a barren wilderness in south-central New Jersey. The camera is always in motion — tracking, pivoting, and walking through the landscape. Though they are never seen in the film, the voices of the local people, the ‘Pineys,’ are heard relating their feelings about the land, their attitudes about city life, their myths of the area, etc. their voices and the music of ‘Bill Patton’s Pine Barrens Trio’ add a psychological dimension to the landscape.Read More »

  • Catriona McKenzie – Satellite Boy (2012)

    2011-2020AdventureAustraliaCatriona McKenzieDrama

    Ten-year-old Pete lives with his grandfather in an old abandoned outdoor cinema in the desert. When the old drive-in is threatened with demolition by developers, Pete and a friend set off on an epic journey in the hopes of saving his home.Read More »

  • Phil Rosen – Woman in the Dark (1934)

    1931-1940ClassicsCrimePhil RosenUSA

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    A recently-released convict, yearning for the solitude of his forest cabin, instead has the misfortune of encountering his old flame, a mysterious woman, and her belligerent boyfriend.Read More »

  • Derrick Knight – Travelling for a Living (1966)

    1961-1970Derrick KnightDocumentaryMusicalUnited Kingdom

    Four young people huddle in the cold and discomfort of an old van as they travel, maybe hundreds of miles, to a singing engagement in a folk club, and back again to their home town of Hull. They are a group called the Watersons – Michael, Norma and Elaine Waterson, brother and two sisters, and their cousin John Harrison.

    The three Watersons were orphaned in early life and brought up by a fiercely matriarchal grandmother who said they had to stick together. Even today the closeness of the family unit is maintained. Despite the fact that two of them have married, they all live together in a single, scruffy terrace house, whose centre is a common kitchen, always full of friends and noise.Read More »

  • Vanessa Lapa – Speer Goes To Hollywood (2020)

    2011-2020DocumentaryIsraelVanessa Lapa

    Albert Speer is an enigma. The highest-ranking Nazi in Nuremberg to be spared the death sentence, Speer was one of Hitler’s closest confidants and his chief architect, tasked with rebuilding Berlin as the capital of a global empire. Appointed Minister of Armaments and War production in 1942, Speer was responsible for 12 million slave laborers. And yet, even now, he has the reputation of being the ‘good Nazi’ – a myth he carefully constructed himself.Read More »

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