Michael Apted – The Triple Echo (1972)
Quote:An adaptation of an HE Bates story, set in an isolated Wiltshire farm in 1942. With her husband a prisoner-of-war, lonely wife (Jackson) strikes up an intimate relationship with a young soldier...
View ArticleFrançois Ozon –Été 85 AKA Summer of 85 (2020)
StorylineWhat do you dream of when you’re 16 years old and in a seaside resort in Normandy in the 1980s? A best friend? A lifelong teen pact? Scooting off on adventures on a boat or a motorbike?...
View ArticleUlrike Ottinger – Dorian Gray im Spiegel der Boulevardpresse AKA The Image of...
Quote:From the panoramic, historical revue of the many faces of social prejudice and ostracism, Ottinger turns her attention to the mechanism of exclusion invested with the necessary power to make or...
View ArticleGregg Araki – Totally F***ed Up (1993)
Quote:Six queer teenagers struggle to get along with each other and with life in the face of varying obstacles. Fernando F. Croce wrote:Gregg Araki once described Totally F***ed Up, his follow-up to...
View ArticleJean-Claude Brisseau –À l’aventure (2009)
Quote:In cinematic enfant terrible Jean-Claude Brisseau’s latest outing, “A l’aventure,” the explicit eroticism of his recent oeuvre topples over into outright porn — not because of graphic sex...
View ArticleMasahiro Kobayashi – Closing Time (1996)
Quote:Kobayashi’s directorial debut tells the story of a writer who leads a life of blissful self-annihilation, drinking away his sorrow. As the protagonist wanders the streets of Tokyo at night...
View ArticleOliver Hermanus – Moffie (2019)
Quote:Nicholas has long known he is different, that there is something shameful and unacceptable in him that must stay hidden, denied even. But South Africa’s minority government are embroiled in...
View ArticleFrançoise Prenant – Paradis perdu (1975)
A 1975 French language short film written and directed by Franssou Prenant, starring Hélène Hazéra, Marie-France and René Schérer. Young transgender women turn the streets of Paris into their cabaret....
View ArticlePeter Fleischmann – Jagdszenen aus Niederbayern AKA Hunting Scenes from...
Quote:Of all the new crop of films by new German directors, this first film by Peter Fleischmann has attracted the most attention, and is based upon a prizewinning play by 25-year-old Martin Sperr....
View ArticleAlain Guiraudie – Tout droit jusqu’au matin AKA Straight Ahead Until Morning...
Quote:Night after night a watchman hunts for a man who has been repainting the town in the color red. 181MB | 10m 14s | 696×537 | mkv...
View ArticleJack Smith – Flaming Creatures (1963)
Part of the New American Cinema group in New York City during the 60s, Jack Smith’s flamboyant aesthetic can be characterized by a mix of baroque exoticism, gaudy costumes, and detritus salvaged from...
View ArticleJean Genet – Un chant d’amour (1950)
From Amos Vogel’s Film as a Subversive Art:Genet’s only film — hounded by the censors, unavailable, secret — is an early and remarkably moving attempt to portray homosexual passions. Already a...
View ArticlePaul Morrissey – Trash AKA Andy Warhol’s Trash (1970)
From Amos Vogel’s Film as a Subversive Art:A high-camp “love story” of an outrageously handsome heroin junkie and his trash-scavenging girlfriend (played by a female impersonator), this film skips...
View ArticleJohn Erman – Our Sons (1991)
Quote:Donald is a young man dying of AIDS. His lover, James, asks his mother to go to Fayetteville, Arkansas and tell Donald’s mother, who has been estranged from her son for years. 1.10GB | 1h 24m |...
View ArticleKuba Czekaj – Baby Bump (2015)
Quote:If Walt Disney, Todd Solondz, and David Lynch were to collaborate on a film, it might resemble Kuba Czekaj’s Baby Bump, a gruesome coming-of-age story that is never afraid to test the limits of...
View ArticleEloy de la Iglesia – Juego de amor prohibido AKA Forbidden Love Game (1975)
Synopsis:‘The film begins with a school teacher played by Javier Escriva bidding farewell to his students, who are leaving for the summer. As he is heading home he notices two of his students are...
View ArticleEddy Terstall – Simon (2004)
IMDB:This is not only the best dutch movie that I have ever seen, but one of the most moving movies that I have ever seen. Great picture of dutch society, on extraordinarily interesting people, full...
View ArticleJochen Hick – Mein wunderbares West-Berlin AKA My Wonderful West Berlin (2017)
Berlin-based filmmaker Jochen Hick explores the long shadow left by Paragraph 175 in his fascinating documentary My Wonderful West Berlin (Mein Wunderbares West-Berlin)…“Many victims died before the...
View ArticleGregg Araki – Splendor (1999)
Quote:A struggling actress forges an unusual family unit with two separate boyfriends in this romantic comedy from indie auteur Gregg Araki. Veronica (Kathleen Robertson) hasn’t had a decent date for...
View ArticleApichatpong Weerasethakul – Hua jai tor ra nong AKA The Adventure of Iron...
Quote:She’s gorgeous, she’s dangerous – and she sings! Male convenience store clerk by day, fabulous drag queen/ secret agent by night, Iron Pussy must yet again come to the rescue! In this...
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