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  • John Shearman – Train Time (1952)

    1951-1960DocumentaryJohn ShearmanShort FilmUnited Kingdom
    Train Time (1952)
    Train Time (1952)

    A short documentary about the transportation of goods and livestock by train around the UK.Read More »

  • Nick Millard – Lustful Addiction (1969)

    USA1961-1970EroticaExploitationNick Millard
    Lustful Addiction (1969)
    Lustful Addiction (1969)

    This grindhouse classic from Nick Phillips is perhaps the bleakest of his softcore output, combining the director’s favourite visuals; naturally endowed hippy-chicks in fetish wear, drug usage, and lesbianism, in a psychedelic sleaze-fest that proves both a turn on and downer. Shot in black and white, with an uncredited cast, the film follows heroin addict Jean and her inevitable misadventures in and out of the drug scene. Following a sleazy encounter with her thieving pusher she drifts off into the outside world where she meets clean cut Tad and soon after they become smitten with each other she swiftly introduces poor Tad to her junkie culture. Sex, drugs, sleaze and death backed by grooved out hippie beats and a borderline beatnik narrative are the order of the day in this freaked out cult curiosity.Read More »

  • Terence Fisher – The Brides of Dracula (1960)

    1951-1960Hammer FilmsHorrorTerence FisherUnited Kingdom
    The Brides of Dracula (1960)
    The Brides of Dracula (1960)

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    The Brides of Dracula is a 1960 British horror film made by Hammer Film Productions. Directed by Terence Fisher, the film stars Peter Cushing, David Peel, Freda Jackson, Yvonne Monlaur, Andrée Melly, and Martita Hunt.

    The film is a sequel to Hammer’s original Dracula (US: Horror of Dracula) (1958), though the vampires possess abilities denied to vampires in the previous film, much like those in the original novel. Alternative working titles were Dracula 2 and Disciple Of Dracula. Dracula does not appear in the film (Christopher Lee would reprise his role in the 1966 film Dracula: Prince of Darkness) and is mentioned only twice, once in the prologue, once by Van Helsing.

    Shooting began for The Brides of Dracula on 16 January 1960 at Bray Studios. It premièred at the Odeon, Marble Arch on 6 July 1960. The film was distributed theatrically in 1960 on a double bill with The Leech Woman.Read More »

  • Larry Elikann – Hands of a Stranger (1987)

    Larry Elikann1981-1990DramaTVUSA
    Hands of a Stranger (1987)
    Hands of a Stranger (1987)

    Hands of a Stranger was adapted by playwright Arthur Kopit from the best-selling novel by Robert Daley. Armand Assante plays a New York City narcotics officer who aids DA Blair Brown in her investigation of a rape case in which drugs were involved. In the subsequent days, Assante becomes something of an expert in rape evidence. Thus, when his wife Beverly D’Angelo is sexually assaulted while en route to a rendezvous with her lover, Assante suspects something even though D’Angelo remains mum about the incident. Conducting his own investigation, Assante determines the rapist’s identity while wiretapping a phoned-in attempt to blackmail his wife. Will Assante forget everything he’s learned about police procedure and attempt to take the law into his own hands? Co-starring in Hands of a Stranger is Arliss Howard as the scummy rapist. Preceded by a warning that the film contained scenes of a violent and graphic nature, Hands of a Stranger was originally broadcast in two parts, on May 10 and 11, 1987.Read More »

  • Gareth Evans – Apostle (2018)

    Drama2011-2020FantasyGareth EvansUnited Kingdom
    Apostle (2018)
    Apostle (2018)

    The year is 1905. Thomas Richardson travels to a remote island to rescue his sister after she’s kidnapped by a mysterious religious cult demanding a ransom for her safe return. It soon becomes clear that the cult will regret the day it baited this man, as he digs deeper and deeper into the secrets and lies upon which the commune is built.Read More »

  • James Ritchie – Blue Pullman (1960)

    1951-1960DocumentaryJames RitchieShort FilmUnited Kingdom
    Blue Pullman (1960)
    Blue Pullman (1960)

    Blue Pullman is a 1960 short documentary film directed by James Ritchie, which follows the development, preparation and a journey from Manchester to London on new British Railways Blue Pullman units. As with earlier British Transport Films, many of the personnel, scientists, engineers, crew and passengers were featured in the 20 minute film. It won several awards, including the Technical & Industrial Information section of the Festival for Films for Television in 1961. The film is also particularly noted for its score, by Clifton Parker, which, unlike the earlier Elizabethan Express is uninterrupted by any commentary.Read More »

  • Bill Forsyth – Being Human (1994)

    Bill Forsyth1991-2000ComedyFantasyUnited Kingdom
    Being Human (1994)
    Being Human (1994)

    The film portrays the experience of a single human soul, portrayed by Williams, through various incarnations. Williams is the only common actor throughout the stories that span man’s history on Earth.[2]

    An attempt on director-screenwriter Bill Forsyth’s part to depict by visual means the ordinariness of life throughout the ages, Being Human is deliberately slow in its pace in order to emphasize how slow life often is. The structure is one of vignette-like character studies of one man (actually at least four distinct men, all with the same soul) who keeps making the same relationships and mistakes throughout his lifetimes.Read More »

  • Mary Helena Clark & Mike Gibisser – A Common Sequence (2023)

    Mike Gibisser2021-2030DocumentaryMary Helena ClarkUSA
    A Common Sequence (2023)
    A Common Sequence (2023)

    Explores tradition, colonialism, property, faith, and science, seen through labor practices that connect an endangered salamander, mass-produced apples, and the evolving fields of genomics and machine learning.Read More »

  • Bryan Bertino – The Dark and the Wicked (2020)

    2011-2020Bryan BertinoHorrorUSA
    The Dark and the Wicked (2020)
    The Dark and the Wicked (2020)

    On a secluded farm in a nondescript rural town, a man is slowly dying. His family gathers to mourn, and soon a darkness grows, marked by waking nightmares and a growing sense that something evil is taking over the family.Read More »

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