Claudia Lorenz – Unter der Haut AKA What’s Between Us (2015)
Quote: After eighteen years of marriage, Alice finds herself confronted with the fact that her husband Frank feels more and more attracted to men. Not only Frank, but also she and their three children...
View ArticleFrançois Ozon – Une nouvelle amie AKA The New Girlfriend (2014)
Quote: From the visionary mind of François Ozon (8 WOMEN, SWIMMING POOL) comes this one-of-a-kind gender-bending melodrama, which both shocks and delights in equal measure. Steeped in suspense and...
View ArticleEdgardo Cozarinsky – Boulevards du crépuscule AKA Sunset Boulevards (1992)
In this documentary about the exile of two famous French actors in Argentina during and after World War II, the director Cozarinsky returns to Argentina after many years in France and recalls places...
View ArticleClaire Denis – Beau travail AKA Good Work (1999)
Quote: This film focuses on an ex-Foreign Legion officer as he recalls his once glorious life, leading troops in Africa....
View ArticleDerek Jarman – The Last of England (1987)
Quote: Jarman is a tough filmmaker to recommend, but he occasionally rewards. As we’ve seen from practically the first film on, he sets out to make pictures entirely for himself; with each one...
View ArticleJacques Rivette – Duelle (une quarantaine) AKA Twilight (A Quarantine) (1976)
Quote: Duelle seems to have been instantly cursed just by being the follow-up to Celine and Julie Go Boating, to this day the only Rivette film that the average buff concerns himself with ( and oh,...
View ArticleXavier Dolan – J’ai tué ma mère AKA I Killed My Mother (2009)
Quote: With I Killed My Mother, writer-director Xavier Dolan makes a grandiose show of his pain and narcissism. The 20-year-old Canadian filmmaker appears in his own film as Hubert Minel, a...
View ArticleSean Baker – Tangerine (2015)
Quote: It’s Christmas Eve in Tinseltown and Sin-Dee (newcomer Kitana Kiki Rodriguez) is back on the block. Upon hearing that her pimp boyfriend (James Ransone, STARLET, “Generation Kill”) hasn’t been...
View ArticleCampbell X – Stud Life (2012)
Stud Life takes the viewer into a slice of life of an urban gay scene where casual sex, and drug taking is not treated as deviant behaviour. Where gender is up for grabs but desire follows very strict...
View ArticleSrdjan Karanovic – Virdzina aka Virgina (1991)
The story takes place in Yugoslavia at the end of the 19th century, in an isolated village near the Adriatic sea. Because of the extreme patriarchal culture there is a superstition that families...
View ArticleHector Babenco – Kiss of the Spider Woman (1985)
Quote: Kiss Of The Spider Woman takes place in an un-named, fascist country in South America. It is, essentially, a two-actor drama featuring two men, of vastly different demeanors and ideologies, who...
View ArticleAnucha Boonyawatana – Onthakan AKA The Blue Hour (2015)
Quote: Tam, a timid loner, is bullied regularly by his fellow pupils at school. He is met with similar rejection and suspicion within the narrow confines of his parents’ dingy home, where his father...
View ArticleSrdjan Karanovic – Virdzina AKA Virgina (1991)
Synopsis: The story takes place in Yugoslavia at the end of the 19th century, in an isolated village near the Adriatic sea. Because of the extreme patriarchal culture there is a superstition that...
View ArticleIan Samplin – Hunter (2013)
Quote: Two friends return to their apartment after a night out to find a stranger passed out on their stoop. Intrigued, they vie for his attention over the rest of the weekend....
View ArticleDennis Cooper & Zac Farley – Like Cattle Towards Glow (2015)
Quote: The film’s violence is the genuinely spiritual kind. A loud expression of the alienation that hums constantly in the elevator music to modern life. (John Farley, Full Stop) The novels, writings...
View ArticleEloy de la Iglesia – Una Gota de sangre para morir amando AKA Murder In A...
Words from the net: Often described as “the Spanish A Clockwork Orange”, this controversial shocker is set in a violent near-future world. Honest citizens live in terror as gangs of leather clad,...
View ArticlePaddy Breathnach – Viva (2015)
Quote: Jesus an eighteen year old Cuban is lost and struggling to realize his true identity. Unsure of himself or his future direction, he works at a local Havana drag club where he entertains dreams...
View ArticleMarco Berger & Marcelo Mónaco – Tensión sexual, Volumen 1: Volátil AKA Sexual...
Quote: Have you ever met someone who made your body heat up, get a little nervous and sweaty, and made your crotch stir a bit? Sexual Tension: Volatile will reignite those lustful feelings as it...
View ArticleRuss Meyer – Beyond the Valley of the Dolls [+Extras] (1970)
This film is a sequel in name only to Valley of the Dolls (1967). An all-girl rock band goes to Hollywood to make it big. There they find success, but luckily for us, they sink into a cesspool of...
View ArticleJules Herrmann – Liebmann (2016)
Quote: The teacher Antek Liebmann moves to the French countryside to leave his former life in Germany behind. He soon gets a job and finds himself in a new relationship. But the strange energy of a...
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