A number of characters’ sexual shenanigans are followed leading up to a big New Year’s Eve party.Read More »
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Cecil Howard – Foxtrot (1982)
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George Cukor – Holiday (1938)
1931-1940ClassicsComedyGeorge CukorScrewball ComedyUSASynopsis:
Free-thinking Johnny Case finds himself betrothed to a millionaire’s daughter. When her family, with the exception of black-sheep Linda and drunken Ned, want Johnny to settle down to big business, he rebels, wishing instead to spend the early years of his life on “holiday.” With the help of his friends Nick and Susan Potter, he makes up his mind as to which is the better course, and the better mate.Read More » -
Ralph Thomas – Above Us The Waves (1955)
1951-1960Ralph ThomasUnited KingdomWarTCM writes:
Tense and claustrophobic World War II film deals with the efforts of the British armed forces to defeat the intimidating German battleship Tirpitz. After the RAF fails to sink the vessel, a Navy commander (John Mills) must convince his superiors to let him carry out a bold and experimental mission utilizing midget submarines to take the ship out of commission while it’s anchored in a Norwegian fjord. John Gregson and Donald Sinden co-star in the action-packed tale based on true events.Read More » -
George Stevens – Penny Serenade (1941)
1941-1950ClassicsDramaGeorge StevensUSASynopsis:
As Julie prepares to leave her husband Roger, she begins to play through a stack of recordings, each of which reminds her of events in their lives together. One of them is the song that was playing when she and Roger first met in a music store. Other songs remind her of their courtship, their marriage, their desire for a child, and the joys and sorrows that they have shared. A flood of memories comes back to her as she ponders their present problems and how they arose.Read More » -
David Lynch – Eraserhead (1977) (HD)
1971-1980David LynchHorrorUSAA film that defies conventional logic and storytelling, fueled by its dark nightmarish atmosphere and compellingly disturbing visuals. Henry Spencer is a hapless factory worker on his vacation when he finds out he’s the father of a hideously deformed baby. Now living with his unhappy, malcontent girlfriend, the child cries day and night, driving Henry and his girlfriend to near insanityRead More »
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Vivienne Dick – Between Truth and Fiction (1979-2004)
ExperimentalIrelandShort FilmVivienne DickVivienne Dick (b. 1950, Ireland) is an internationally-celebrated film-maker and artist. A key figure of the ‘No Wave’ movement in New York in the late 1970s and early 1980s, she has gone on to develop an extraordinary body of work, which has been shown in cinemas, films festivals and art galleries around the world.Read More »
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Mohamed Camara – Dakan (1997)
1991-2000DramaGuineaMohamed CamaraQueer Cinema(s)RomanceOver turning given assumptions about gay identity with it’s 1st world connotations as well as our less informed view of the sub-Saharan African context, this gentle, humble film depicts the less often if ever portrayed life of gay love in rural Africa.
This film’s relevance & point of interest is that it remains perhaps the only example of it’s kind to provide images which counteract notions of homophobia & the non existence of homosexuality in the realm of ‘blackness’, ‘Africa’ and the developing world & provides an accessible & familiar story of the dilemmas of love specifically within all three contexts usually understood to exclude gay representation.Read More »
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Zhuangzhuang Tian – Yaogun Qingnian AKA Rock Kids (1988)
1981-1990ChinaDramaFifth Generation Chinese CinemaMusicalZhuangzhuang TianRealistic portraits of Chinese youth embracing western culture.Read More »
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Rick Alverson – The Mountain (2018)
2011-2020DramaRick AlversonUSASet against the 1950’s “golden age” of American male supremacy, an introverted young photographer (Tye Sheridan) joins a renowned lobotomist (Jeff Goldblum) on a tour to promote the doctor’s recently-debunked procedure. As he increasingly identifies with the asylum’s patients, he becomes enamored with a rebellious young woman (Hannah Gross) and lost in the burgeoning New Age movement of the west. Also starring Denis Lavant and Udo Kier.Read More »