Jean-Pierre Melville – Les Enfants Terribles aka The Strange Ones [+Extras]...
Quote: The fair-haired Paul (Edouard Dermithe) engages in a snowball fight with several other boys outside his school, and is knocked out by a snowball tossed by the bully Dargelos (Renée Cosima). Far...
View ArticleGeorge Kuchar – Symphony for a Sinner (1979)
Quote: Symphony for a Sinner (1979) was a long, lavishly photographed color film generally considered the magnum opus of the class productions. New York critic and coauthor of Midnight Movies J....
View ArticleCelestino Coronado – Hamlet (1976)
Quote: [A] radical reinvention of [Hamlet was] carried out by Celestino Coronado in a 16mm-and-video project made at the Royal College of Art in 1976. Taking its cue from Hamlet’s speech to Gertrude...
View ArticleDerek Jarman – A Journey to Avebury (1971)
Journey to Avebury beautifully reflects Derek Jarman’s fascination with ancient history, paganism, and Celtic traditions. An IMDB review: Derek Jarman is often said to be a painter rather than a movie...
View ArticleAndy Warhol – Lonesome Cowboys (1968)
An outrageously funny spoof on the Western film, Lonesome Cowboys is a synthesis of Warhol’s sorties into the New York underworld, but much more humorous and with closer adherence to a nonsensical...
View ArticleAndy Warhol – The Nude Restaurant (1967)
At a New York City restaurant, the patrons are men, nude but for a G-string, waited on by one woman, also clad in a G-string (played by Viva) and a G-bestringed (bestrung?) waiter. Some of the “nude”...
View ArticleDonald Cammell – Wild Side [Director’s Cut] (1995)
Quote: A bank accountant, whom moonlights as a high-priced call girl, becomes embroiled in the lives of a money launderer, his seductive wife, and his bodyguard whom blackmails her to help the FBI...
View ArticleApichatpong Weerasethakul – Sud pralad AKA Tropical Malady (2004)
Plot — The story of a blossoming romance between a soldier and a country boy, crossed with a Thai folk legend about a shaman with shapeshifting abilities. Review — Love is the drug, a game for two...
View ArticleKirby Dick – This Film Is Not Yet Rated (2006)
Synopisis from RopeofSilicon.com IFC Original Documentary This Film Is Not Yet Rated, the breakthrough film from Oscar-nominated director Kirby Dick (Twist of Faith) is an unprecedented investigation...
View ArticleSerge Gainsbourg – Je t’aime moi non plus AKA I Love You, I Don’t (1976)
IMDB: The petite waitress Johnny works and lives in a truck-stop, where she’s lonely and longs for love. She develops a crush on the garbage truck driver Krassky, although her sleazy boss Boris warns...
View ArticleClaire Denis – Beau Travail AKA Good Work (1999)
Synopsis This film focuses on ex-Foreign Legion officer, Galoup, as he recalls his once glorious life, leading troops in the Gulf of Djibouti. His existence there was happy, strict and regimented, but...
View ArticleLindsay Anderson – If…. (1968)
“A modern classic in which Anderson minutely captures both the particular ethos of a public school and the general flavour of any structured community, thus achieving a clear allegorical force without...
View ArticleJacques Rivette – Céline et Julie vont en bateau aka Celine and Julie Go...
Quote: Jacques Rivette continues with his improvisatory tactics, allowing lead players to invent quite freely and also collab on the script. He mixes a modernized takeoff on Alice in Wonderland and a...
View ArticleJacques Rivette – Duelle (une quarantaine) AKA Twilight (A Quarantine) (1976)
It all began (as things Rivettian tend to do) auspiciously enough. There were to be four films in a series originally entitled Les Filles du Feu (after Gerard de Nerval) before the more expansive...
View ArticleArthur J. Bressan Jr. – Forbidden Letters (1976)
Synopsis: Erotic, explicit letters between a young man and his incarcerated lover recall happier (and hotter) times. The story of 2 lovers, one in jail (Richard Locke), the other, younger one (Robert...
View ArticleJean Cocteau – Le testament d’Orphée, ou ne me demandez pas pourquoi! AKA...
Synopsis “Criterion” wrote: In his last film, legendary writer/artist/filmmaker Jean Cocteau portrays an 18th-century poet who travels through time on a quest for divine wisdom. In a mysterious...
View ArticleMichael Powell & Emeric Pressburger – Black Narcissus (1947)
Plot: (Gary W. Tooze wrote) “five Protestant missionary nuns embark on the task of establishing a school/health center and residence for their future convent in the desolate Himalayan mountains. The...
View ArticleGregg Araki – Three Bewildered People in the Night (1987)
AllMovie Plot Synopsis by Hal Erickson The titular trio in Three Bewildered People in the Night is played by Darcy Marta, Mark Howell and John Lacques. Experimental filmmaker Gregg Araki follows the...
View ArticleEster Martin Bergsmark – Pojktanten AKA She Male Snails (2012)
In She Male Snails intimate bathtub conversation between Ester Martin Bergsmark and the author Eli Levén, is woven together the story of the She Male Snails – a fairy tale, which revolves around a...
View ArticlePedro Almodóvar – Tráiler para amantes de lo prohibido (1985)
Synopsis: A Woman abadoned by the husband, suffer and pass for differents adventures until she finds the love. The film was never shoted in cinemas, only in TV -1985...
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