• Nuri Bilge Ceylan – Kasaba AKA The Small Town (1997)

    1991-2000ArthouseDramaNuri Bilge CeylanTurkey

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    Depiction of a small Turkish town, as seen from the perspective of an 11 year old girl and her 7 year – old brother. The four part film unfolds along with the seasons. The first part is set at the school the girl attends, the social environment she must adapt to and its difficulties. She faces with her feeling of shame and some merciless clues of life. The second part is in spring. We see the girl with her brother and their journey to the maize field where their family are waiting for them.Read More »

  • Nicolas Roeg – Don’t Look Now (1973) (HD)

    1971-1980HorrorNicolas RoegThrillerUnited Kingdom

    A married couple grieving the recent death of their young daughter are in Venice when they encounter two elderly sisters, one of whom is psychic and brings a warning from beyond.Read More »

  • David Byrne – True Stories (1986)

    1981-1990ComedyCultDavid ByrneUSA

    Music icon David Byrne was inspired by tabloid headlines to make his sole foray into feature-film directing, an ode to the extraordinariness of ordinary American life and a distillation of what was in his own idiosyncratic mind. The Talking Heads front man plays a visitor to Virgil, Texas, who introduces us to the citizens of the town during preparations for its Celebration of Specialness. As shot by cinematographer Ed Lachman, Texas becomes a hyperrealistic late-capitalist landscape of endless vistas, shopping malls, and prefab metal buildings. In True Stories, Byrne uses his songs to stitch together pop iconography, voodoo rituals, and a singular variety show—all in the service of uncovering the rich mysteries that lurk under the surface of everyday experience.Read More »

  • Stephen Roberts – The Story of Temple Drake [+ Extras] (1933)

    1931-1940ClassicsDramaStephen RobertsUSA

    Loosely adapted from William Faulkner’s controversial novel Sanctuary, this notorious pre-Code melodrama stars Miriam Hopkins as Temple Drake, the coquettish granddaughter of a respected small-town judge. When a boozehound date strands her at a bootleggers’ hideout, Temple is subjected to an act of nightmarish sexual violence and plunged into a criminal underworld that threatens to swallow her up completely. Steeped in southern-gothic shadows by influential cinematographer Karl Struss and shot through with moral ambiguity, The Story of Temple Drake is a harrowing vision of sin and salvation that boasts an astonishing lead performance from the fiery Hopkins, whose passage through the stations of terror, trauma, and redemption is a true tour de force of screen acting.Read More »

  • Dennis Hopper – Colors [Unrated Version] (1988)

    1981-1990ActionCrimeDennis HopperUSA

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    A confident young cop is shown the ropes by a veteran partner in the dangerous gang-controlled barrios of L.A. about to explode in violence in this look at the gang culture enforced by the colors that members wear.Read More »

  • Peter Schamoni – Niki De Sant Phalle (1996)

    1991-2000DocumentaryExploitationGermanyPeter Schamoni

    In the sixties the painter and sculptor Niki de Saint Phalle started her career with shooting paintings, reliefs that were fired at with paint bags. She became famous and popular for her Nanas, colorful sculptures of big and cheerful women, and for the cooperation with Jean Tinguely. The frame of this film is a tour through her tarot garden in Tuscany.Read More »

  • Roy Stuart – Glimpse 13 (1990 – 2012)

    ArthouseEroticaFranceRoy Stuart

    Like the unknown woman imagined by the poet – which is never quite the same nor entirely different- this new Glimpse 13 resembles it’s twelve prestigious precedents while having its own distinct identity. Roy Stuart has put extra effort into the design and implementation of the twenty odd sequences that make up this diverse album. All the imagination, energy, expertise, as if making a feature film. Probably because he had been working on a feature film project earlier this year. This is especially true of the brilliant main sequence, which tells the story and contrast of two girlfriends-an inexperienced childlike beauty that recites romantic poetry in the street and a more mature girl who likes to show off in front of her webcam.-The younger girl opposes her friends twisted plan to use her as bait to pick up and rip off a guy -but who will come out on top? …Read More »

  • Hark Tsui – Die bian aka The Butterfly Murders (1979)

    1971-1980Film NoirHark TsuiHong KongMystery

    From “HK New Wave Cinema”

    Against Tradition, Against the System, Against Society

    After Golden Blade Sentimental Swordsman, Tsui joined the film industry. His debut
    work was The Butterfly Murders (1979). Set in Shen’s castle, the plot focuses on an
    investigation of the ‘butterfly killers’, who have committed a string of murders. Valiant
    men from various places have also been killing each other. A writer-reporter, Fang
    Hongye, is writing about all of these incidents to anthologize them in a book entitled
    Diary of Hongye. In the process, Fang discovers that all of the killings have been
    initiated by the master of the castle, as part of his plan to become the king of wulin
    (the martial arts world).Read More »

  • Kazuo Hara – Gokushiteki erosu: Renka 1974 aka Extreme Private Eros: Love Song 1974 (1974)

    1971-1980AsianDocumentaryJapanKazuo Hara

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    In 1972, Miyuki tells her ex-lover Kazuo that she’s going to Okinawa with their son. Kazuo decides to film her. He narrates his visits to her there: first while her flatmate is Sugako, a woman Miyuki is attracted to; then, while she works at a bar and is with Paul, an African-American soldier. Once, Kazuo brings his girlfriend, Sachiko. We see Miyuki with her son, with other bar girls, and with Sachiko. Miyuki, pregnant, returns to Tokyo and delivers a mixed-race child on her own with Kazuo and Sachiko filming. She joins a women’s commune, talks about possibilities, enjoys motherhood, and is uninterested in a traditional family. Does the filmmaker have a point of view?Read More »

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