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  • Felix E. Feist – Guilty of Treason (1950)

    1941-1950DramaFelix E. FeistUSA

    The story of Cardinal Josef Mindzhenty, a Roman Catholic cardinal from Hungary who spoke out against both the Nazi occupation of his country during World War II and the Communist regime that replaced it after the war. Mindzhenty was arrested, tortured and eventually released, but was persecuted to the extent that he wound up taking refuge in
    the US Embassy in Budapest for many years, still acting as a spokesman for the Hungarians who wanted the Russian occupation forces and their Hungarian collaborators out of the country.
    (plot from IMDB)Read More »

  • R.G. Springsteen – When Gangland Strikes (1956)

    1951-1960ClassicsFilm NoirR.G. SpringsteenUSA

    Plot:
    In this crime drama, mobsters swear to get revenge upon a zealous public prosecutor as he tries to get them put into prison. The desperate mobsters try to stop him by using his innocent daughter in a blackmail scheme.Read More »

  • Pola Chapelle – Journey to Lithuania (1971)

    1971-1980ArthouseDocumentaryPola ChapelleUSA

    Quote:
    Of the three films, Pola’s is the best. – Jonas Mekas

    Quote:
    Knowing Pola Chapelle as a singer, she could not make anything that is not beautiful. – Anais NinRead More »

  • Otto Preminger – Anatomy of a Murder (1959)

    1951-1960CrimeDramaOtto PremingerUSA

    Quote:
    In a murder trial, the defendant says he suffered temporary insanity after the victim raped his wife. What is the truth, and will he win his case?Read More »

  • Rene Daalder – Population: 1 (1986)

    1981-1990CultMusicalQueer Cinema(s)Rene DaalderUSA

    Quote:
    Like fellow Dutchmen Paul Verhoeven and Jan De Bont, Rene Daalder was drafted by Hollywood to make genre films, though his inclinations ran a little artier. Daalder achieved some cult success with the 1976 drive-in classic Massacre At Central High; then Russ Meyer asked him to work on the star-crossed Sex Pistols movie Who Killed Bambi? Newly infatuated with punk rock, Daalder struck up a friendship with Tomata Du Plenty, leader of the theatrical L.A. synth-punk act The Screamers. Throughout the first half of the ’80s, Daalder and Du Plenty tried and failed to get multiple music-video projects off the ground, until in 1986, they finally released Population: 1, a quasi-science-fiction art-punk musical cobbled together from pieces of footage Daalder shot with Du Plenty over the years, cleverly layered with the help of state-of-the-art image-manipulation effects.Read More »

  • Ken Russell – The Music Lovers (1971)

    1971-1980DramaKen RussellMusicalQueer Cinema(s)USA

    “Vulgar, excessive, melodramatic and self-indulgent: Tchaikovsky’s music is indeed all of these things, yet gloriously so, and the same goes for Ken Russell at his freewheeling best. The director’s first composer biopic for the cinema approaches Tchaikovsky’s scores as the expression of extreme emotional turmoil.”

    The Music Lovers is about Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, feverishly wrapping his music around his childhood, his career, his sexuality, and his marriage into a tangle.Read More »

  • Robert Altman – Robert Altman – Short Cuts (1993)

    1991-2000ComedyDramaRobert AltmanUSA

    Quote:
    Given Robert Altman’s fondness for working with ensemble casts, it comes as no surprise that his films often provide a shambolic cross-section of a particular institution or locale, whether the titular mobile army hospital of M*A*S*H, the indigenous country music scene in the great network narrative Nashville, or the intersecting lives of 20-odd Angelenos in 1993’s Short Cuts. For Short Cuts, Altman and co-screenwriter Frank Barhydt mashed together nine stories and a poem from “dirty realist” writer Raymond Carver, shifting their setting from Carver’s beloved Pacific Northwest to suburban Los Angeles—a place Altman clearly feels much more ambivalent about.Read More »

  • Paul Schrader – Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters (1985) (HD)

    1981-1990DramaPaul SchraderQueer Cinema(s)USA

    A fictionalized account in four chapters of the life of celebrated Japanese author Yukio Mishima. Three of the segments parallel events in Mishima’s life with his novels while the fourth depicts the actual events of the 25th Nov. 1970.Read More »

  • Julia Marchese – Out of Print (2014)

    2011-2020DocumentaryJulia MarcheseUSA

    IMDB:
    A documentary exploring the importance of revival cinema and 35mm exhibition – seen through the lens of the patrons of the New Beverly Cinema – a unique and independent revival cinema in Los Angeles.Read More »

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