Roommates Alex and Max are very different: Advertising copywriter Alex is a womanize who has no trouble making sexual conquests, while jazz saxophonist Max lacks self-confidence with women. This leads to all sorts of sexual and romantic adventures and entanglements.Read More »
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A priest investagates paranormal activity at a nuns’ convent where a deep, dark secret is about to resurface in the guise of murder! Could the devil be behind this, or is that just what Mother Superior wants everyone to believe?Read More »
L’Inconsolable (The Inconsolable One).1st version. 2010. France. Written and directed by Jean-Marie Straub. Based on Dialogues with Leucò, by Cesare Pavese. With Andrea Bacci, Giovanna Daddi. In Italian. 14 min.
Returning from the forest of shades, a quietly defiant Orpheus tells a Bacchante it was free will, not destiny, which compelled him to cast the fatal gaze on his wife Eurydice, recognizing their love as a thing of the past and his own proper place in the world of living souls. A masterful series of camera shots reveals the Bacchante looking away in incredulity, horror, and betrayal. (Joshua Siegel – MoMA)Read More »
A group of insane persons run away from the probably just as crazy civilization.Read More »
Sardinian shepherds Michele, Peppeddu encounter bandits. Michele evades police, sheep perish. Wrongly charged with murder, impoverished, Michele turns outlaw. He resorts to violence, banditry for survival, fueling a lawless spiral.Read More »
Amanda will be your tour guide, taking you to the hottest places at night in every mayor city around the world.Read More »
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Evocation of a dramatic episode of the Second World War told by an old guard. Boarded as a non-commissioned officer on the battleship sailed from Pola and headed south. In time of danger, the man is forced to sacrifice the lives of seven sailors and the son of the Captain, his good friend, in order to save the rest of the crew.Read More »
In the titillating Italian sex comedy Cugini carnali (1974), there isn’t much to do in the sleepy rural hamlet that Nico (Alfredo Pea) calls home. As a result, there’s a lot of sleeping around to stave off the boredom. Unfortunately the bashful Nico doesn’t get nearly as much action as he’d like. Enter Sonja: The beautiful young newcomer is tall, blonde, and full-figured, …Read More »
Nello Pazzafini, using the pseudonym “Ted Carter,” leads a band of outlaws in this rousing spaghetti western from director Giuliano Carmineo (as “Anthony Ascott” ) . Lisa (Pascale Petit) and her geologist husband Paul discover an abandoned mine full of gold but are attacked and robbed by Pazzafini’s gang. Wandering to the town of Eagle’s Nest, Lisa enlists the aid of a vagabond gunfighter named Joe Collins (Jeffrey Hunter) in getting back the gold and avenging her brother’s murder. Aldo Lastretti appears as the obligatory fake priest, Rev. Riley, and genre regulars Daniela Giordano and Piero Lulli co-star. Hugo Fregonese collaborated on the screenplay, while Ricardo Pallottini provided the striking cinematography. — Robert Firsching @AMGRead More »