Synopsis:
Troubled youths Joe and Nick Lorenzo grow into very different men: Joe a small-time hoodlum and Nick an honored college graduate. When Nick falls for Joe’s girl Laurie, trouble erupts between the two men and also with the gang that has it in for Joe.Read More »
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Alfred E. Green – East of the River (1940)
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Kazuo Mori – Zoku Zatôichi monogatari AKA The Tale of Zatoichi Continues (1962)
1961-1970ActionJapanKazuo MoriMartial ArtsSynopsis:
Blind swordsman/masseur Zatoichi is pursued by the retainers of a lord who fear that he will reveal a secret weakness of their master. Returning to the village where a year before he had killed Hirate, a much-admired opponent, Zatoichi encounters another swordsman and former rival in love: his own brother. He must face in combat not only the pursuing retainers but his own flesh-and-blood.Read More » -
Sergio Corbucci – Django (1966)
1961-1970ActionItalySergio CorbucciWesternSynopsis:
A coffin-dragging gunslinger and a half-breed prostitute become embroiled in a bitter feud between a Klan of Southern racists and a band of Mexican Revolutionaries.Read More » -
Emilio Miraglia – La notte che Evelyn uscì dalla tomba AKA The Night Evelyn Came Out Of The Grave (1971)
1971-1980Emilio MiragliaHorrorItalyThrillerSynopsis:
A wealthy English lord is suffering a mental breakdown following the death of his red-headed wife, Evelyn, whom he feared was cheating on him. He tours local bars and dives, scouring for lovely red-heads willing to come back to his decaying castle in the country, where he seduces them, then tortures and kills them. His friend the doctor talks him into marrying again to help heal his slowly-rotting mind, which he does–but are the doctor’s orders really what he needs?Read More » -
Jack Deveau – The Boys from Riverside Drive (1977)
1971-1980EroticaJack DeveauQueer Cinema(s)USASynopsis/Background wrote:
“This early offering from master director Jack Deveau is decidedly tamer than most of his later work, and at just over an hour it’s also a shorter than his epics from the later part of the decade. There is an anonymous flavor to some of the sex, and a little kinky bondage enters the picture courtesy of some very loose rope midway through, but this is mostly a straightforward, romance-inflected film.Read More » -
Emilio Miraglia – La Dama rossa uccide sette volte AKA The Red Queen Kills 7 Times (1972)
1971-1980Emilio MiragliaGialloItalyThrillerSynopsis:
A long time ago there were two sisters, a red queen and a black queen. They grew up hating each other. Finally the black queen killed the red queen by stabbing her seven times. The red queen came back from the dead and killed six people then killed the black queen. This cycle repeats it self every 100 years. But its only a legend…right?
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Bill Viola – I Do Not Know What It Is I Am Like (1986)
1981-1990Bill ViolaUSAVideo ArtQuote:
Structured in five parts, Il Corpo Scuro (The Dark Body), The Language of the Birds, The Night of Sense, Stunned by the Drum, and The Living Flame, the tape envisions a metaphysical journey of rational and intuitive thought, from the natural world to spiritual rituals. Viola’s poetic investigation of subject and object, observing and being observed, and his search for knowledge of the self is encapsulated in an indelible visual metaphor: an image of the artist reflected in the pupil of an owl’s eye.Read More » -
Shozin Fukui – Kyatapira AKA Caterpillar (1988)
1981-1990JapanShort FilmShozin FukuiQuote:
The power of angel and fallen angel are awake and they both start to affect the function of the cyborg. Sharman and Golden Mask accelerate the speed of destruction. MIU sings a song in spite of these drive. The non-stop accelerated power barrel through the metropolice. Overwhelming cuts and sounds has got beyond the boundaries of the traditional film size.Read More » -
Kenji Misumi – Zatôichi monogatari Aka The Tale Of Zatoichi (1962)
1961-1970ActionJapanKenji MisumiMartial ArtsSynopsis:
An impoverished blind masseur becomes a mercenary swordsman, to gain basic respect. The first of novelist Kan Shimozawa’s Zatoichi series: 26 films, a TV series and a play, all but two starring controversial singer/producer/director Shintaro Katsu. First of six Zatoichi films directed by Kenji Misumi. The shrewd Zatoichi targets a yakuza-controlled village, because war with a neighboring town’s smaller gang is brewing. The broke ex-masseur “Ichi” immediately wins big, by taking advantage of local bakuto’s cheating, after they scoff at his asking to join a dice game. The larger horde, who have been given carte blanche by the local governor, summoned Zatoichi. Zatoichi hates the fact that he’s become an outlaw, so he strikes up a friendship with the other gang’s honorable hired samurai, who has TB.Read More »