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Carl Andersen – Jungfrau am Abgrund AKA Mondo Weirdo (1990)
this is all imdb says about this film – Young girl becomes Alice in dreamland during menstruation. Wild dreams and nightmares about sexuality, vampirism, death, obsessions and other bizarre things.The...
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Gregory J. Markopoulos – Ming Green (1966)
Quote:In early spring of 1966, in anticipation of his eventual departure from the Greenwich Village apartment in which he had been living for a number of years, [Markopoulos] filmed the revelatory...
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Richard Lowenstein – He Died with a Felafel in His Hand [+Extras] (2001)
Over the past 25 years Australian cult director Richard Lowenstein has established himself as one of this country’s most dynamic independent filmmakers. With four feature films to his credit,...
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Jean 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...
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Stephen Frears – My Beautiful Laundrette (1985)
Quote:‘LAUNDRETTE,’ SOCIAL COMEDY SLEEPERDON’T be put off by the title, which makes it sound like a failed French farce. ”My Beautiful Laundrette,” written by Hanif Kureishi and directed by Stephen...
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Terence Davies – Distant Voices, Still Lives (1988)
Quote:The film, depicting life in working-class Liverpool from the 1940s into the 50s, is already a modern classic. Now that Eileen, Maisie, and Tony are adults, their childhood memories – and in...
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Yen Tan – 1985 (2018)
Quote:A closeted young man goes home for the holidays and struggles to reveal his dire circumstances to his conservative family. 2.50GB | 1 h 25 min | 960×576 | mkv...
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Elvis Lu – The Shepherds (2018)
Despite harsh condemnation and denunciation from society, a heterosexual female pastor founded Taiwan’s first LGBT-affirming church in May 1996. For LGBT Christians, who had been rejected by the...
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Micaela Rueda – UIO: Sácame a Pasear AKA Take Me for a Ride (2016)
Quote:High school can be horrible, especially when your classmates make you feel like a freak. But sometimes that pain only means that finding the person who gets you is all the sweeter. Loner Sara is...
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Stan Brakhage – Lovemaking (1968)
One of America’s finest filmmakers tackles “lovemaking” in its many varieties (hetrosexual, homosexual as well as various animals having sex). Without a soundtrack (as the artist always thought that...
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Luchino Visconti – La Caduta Degli Dei (Götterdämmerung) AKA The Damned...
Quote:This brooding, operatic movie about Nazism makes Cabaret look like wholesome family fare. The family in The Damned is a symbol of German society circa 1934. The Krupp-like steel magnate Baron...
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Beeban Kidron – Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit (1990)
Quote:Jessica’s extraordinarily strong will and heart enables her to rebel against her fanatical, cult-like upbringing. From seven to seventeen Jess is brainwashed to be one of the ‘saved’, to devote...
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Paul Morrissey – Trash AKA Andy Warhol’s Trash (1970)
Andy Warhol’s ‘Trash’ Arrives: Heroin Addict’s Life Is Theme of Film Techniques of 30’s on View at Cinema IIThe opening credits (“Andy Warhol Presents Trash…” ) appear as words spelled out in little...
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Sidney Drew – A Florida Enchantment (1914)
Quote:Early gender-bending silent comedy culled from the long out of print Origins of Film boxset. A must for anyone interested in gender and sexuality in film. Synopsis:Lillian Travers, a New York...
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Lewis Allen – Desert Fury (1947)
Quote:Fritzi Haller is a powerful casino owner in Chuckawalla, Nevada. Her daughter Paula (having quit school) returns at the same time as racketeer Eddie Bendix, who left under suspicion of murdering...
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Ayse Toprak – Mr Gay Syria (2017)
Mr. Gay Syria follows two gay Syrian refugees who are trying to rebuild their lives. Husein is a barber in Istanbul, living a double life between his conservative family and his gay identity. Mahmoud...
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Victor Saville – First a Girl (1935)
British musical star Jessie Matthews tops the bill in this song-studded comedy. Elizabeth (Matthews) is a delivery girl for a seamstress who is dispatched to drop off some costumes at a theatre where...
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Ferzan Ozpetek – Saturno contro AKA Saturn in Opposition (2007)
The sympathetically drawn, unthreatening gay characters here are practically an advertisement for this hot political topic. Abroad, the film’s biggest selling point, as with “Steam: The Turkish Bath”...
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Albertina Carri – Las hijas del fuego (2018)
Three women meet by chance at the end of the world, in Argentinian Patagonia, and set out on a polyamorous journey, caught up in the search for new kinds of relationships, far from possession and...
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Jack Deveau – The Boys from Riverside Drive (1977)
Synopsis/Background wrote:“This early offering from master director Jack Deveau is decidedly tamer than most of his later work, and at just over an hour it’s also a shorter than his epics from the...
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