Cult

  • João Botelho – Tempos Difíceis AKA Hard Times (1988)

    1981-1990ArthouseCultJoão BotelhoPortugal

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    Even if adapted from Dickens’ Hard Times, the writer’s world fits perfectly in the Portuguese reality of these times. In a hamlet, that functions as a social microcosms, great wealth & extreme poverty mingle, so do culture, ignorance, perversion & ignorance. Griffith’s channelled via Júlia Britton.Read More »

  • Sun-Woo Jang – Nappun yeonghwa aka Timeless, Bottomless Bad Movie (1997)

    1991-2000CultDramaSouth KoreaSun-Woo Jang

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    A compilation of episodes from the lives of several of the amateur actors’ (who are ‘bad teens’ and the homeless of Seoul) own experiences, this film sheds light on the dark side of Korean society. Feeling alienated and persecuted, they wonder about and come into conflict with the ‘good people’ who persist in trying to reform them. They have their own reason for remaining as they are and resist attempts to reform them: they cannot change simply because they are bad.Read More »

  • Pier Paolo Pasolini – Salò o le 120 giornate di Sodoma AKA Salo, or the 120 Days of Sodom (1975) (HD)

    1971-1980CultExploitationItalyPier Paolo Pasolini

    New, restored high-definition digital transfer, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray edition
    The notorious final film from Pier Paolo Pasolini, Salò, or The 120 Days of Sodom has been called nauseating, shocking, depraved, pornographic . . . It’s also a masterpiece. The controversial poet, novelist, and filmmaker’s transposition of the Marquis de Sade’s eighteenth-century opus of torture and degradation to Fascist Italy in 1944 remains one of the most passionately debated films of all time, a thought-provoking inquiry into the political, social, and sexual dynamics that define the world we live in.Read More »

  • Lamberto Bava – Dèmoni AKA Demons [Director’s Cut] (1985)

    1981-1990CultHorrorItalyLamberto Bava

    Art imitating art is the basis of this demonic tale of a group of invited guests to the screening of a horror film that brings naturalism to life. They are baited and penned, and their walled-in feeling quickly turns to screaming fear as those who are dead lust after the flesh of the living. In this full-scale cinema of hell, it’s only a question of time before demons from the abyss are asking for second portions.Read More »

  • Adolfo Arrieta – Les intrigues de Sylvia Couski AKA The Adventures of Sylvia Couski (1975)

    1971-1980Adolfo ArrietaCultFantasyFranceQueer Cinema(s)

    Adolpho Arrietta was a major figure in the new cinemas that appeared in the sixties and seventies in various countries. Thus he became one of the fundamental film directors in the history of Spanish cinema. As with Buñuel, a long exile seems to have been the condition that allowed his work to keep up with the most important trends in the cinema of his era. Throughout the seventies he produced a series of “punk à la française” films, as Severo Sarduy called them, which for their originality and influence are among the most important in French cinema of that decade. In 1989 he returned to Madrid, and despite noteable intervals, which other Spanish film directors of his generation also experienced, his work proceeded. Alone, like in the era of El crimen de la pirindola but with a digital camera, he produced what for the moment is his latest film: Vacanza permanente (2006).Read More »

  • Claude Mulot – Shocking! aka La Dernière Nuit (1976)

    1971-1980Claude MulotCultEroticaFrance

    “As the world slides to nuclear war and bombs explode in the background, the de Courvals have their family problems, but become increasingly uninhibited. Juliette is uninterested in her husband. Armelle is in love with him but he won’t look at her. She spies on her flatmate having sex with a man, then kicks him out. The son of the de Courvals is caught masturbating by his tutor, Patricia, but she undoes her dress and masturbates as well while remembering an encounter with Thierry de Brem on a yacht (probably archive footage). There is a dinner party and Juliette cools herself against a fan, revealing her knickerless state. The son is caught masturbating under the table cloth and sent off to bed. Then the rest of the party adjourn to watch a porn film.Read More »

  • Arthur J. Bressan Jr. – Pleasure Beach (1983)

    1981-1990Arthur J. Bressan JrCultEroticaQueer Cinema(s)USA

    Synopsis: An early 1980s precondom gay sex classic. The tag line was “Where More than the Surf Is Pounding”…and is it ever! Michael Christopher plays an openly gay lifeguard and Johnny Dawes plays a “straight” one who’s starting to question is sexuality. Christopher and Dawes were allegedly lovers when this film and Skin Deep, which I put on line a couple years ago, were made, and this seem to add something “extra” to their love scenes. Or maybe they were both just great actors or super horny, who knows? I found this one line a while back and not in great shape. I’ve improved the primitive sound some … but sound isn’t what you’re interested in, is it?Read More »

  • Joseph Adler – Revenge Is My Destiny (1971)

    1971-1980CultExploitationJoseph AdlerUSA

    A Vietnam vet returns home to his wife. His home is there, but his wife isn’t. When the authorities prove to be no help, he cuts a violent swath across the countryside in search of his missing missus.Read More »

  • Joseph W. Sarno – Confessions of a Young American Housewife (1974)

    Joseph W. Sarno1971-1980CultEroticaUSA

    Synopsis:
    A grieving widow embraces life and passion during a visit to her sexually open daughter’s home in this boundary-pushing erotic drama from sexploitation auteur Joseph Sarno. New York sophisticates Carole and Eddie spice up their sex life by swapping partners with their close friends, Anna and Pete. An unexpected visit from Carole’s young, attractive and recently widowed mother Jennifer throws a temporary wrench into their plans, but the quartet are soon back in action after Pete tries and fails to seduce Jennifer in the kitchen. Intoxicated by life and lust, Jennifer begins a May-December romance.Read More »

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