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  • Kate Dolan – You Are Not My Mother (2021)

    2021-2030HorrorIrelandKate DolanWomen Make Horror

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    In a North Dublin housing estate Char’s mother goes missing. When she returns Char is determined to uncover the truth of her disappearance and unearth the dark secrets of her family.Read More »

  • Roy Del Ruth – The Chocolate Soldier (1941)

    1941-1950ComedyMusicalRoy Del RuthUSA

    Maria and Karl Lang are the singing duo of Vienna. Maria had previously enjoyed attention from many men before marrying Karl, and Karl is very jealous. Karl tries to test Maria’s loyalty by masquerading as a Russian guardsman to see whether she will flirt. Karl, in his Russian disguise, makes vigorous attempts to seduce Maria. But he becomes more and more confused because he can’t determine whether Maria’s friendly reception to the guardsman is innocent, or whether it signifies a deeper interest. Has Maria has seen through Karl’s disguise and is she toying with him?Read More »

  • Stephen Frears – A Day Out (1972)

    1971-1980BBCDramaStephen FrearsTVUnited Kingdom

    Michael Brooke wrote:
    Alan Bennett’s debut play for television shows a day in the life of the members of a Halifax cycling club in 1911, following them from the town to the ruins of Fountains Abbey and eavesdropping on their conversations, which range from the inconsequential, to the reflective, to the ruefully ironic.

    The most telling example of the latter comes when Boothroyd explains why there will never be another war, as the play is set three years before World War I cut swathes through a generation – and, as the 1919 coda implies, many of the club’s members as well.Read More »

  • Aaron Bartuska – Epilogue (2018)

    2011-2020Aaron BartuskaDramaUSA

    A hopeful young college student decides to reunite with a friend from high school a few years after he had lost touch with her. As the night goes on, both find themselves struggling to suppress the youthful feelings brought on by the circumstances of the night.Read More »

  • Clement Virgo – Brother (2022)

    2021-2030CanadaClement VirgoDrama

    Sons of Caribbean immigrants, Francis and Michael face questions of masculinity, identity and family amid the pulsing beat of Toronto’s early hip-hop scene.Read More »

  • Radley Metzger – The Opening of Misty Beethoven (1976)

    1971-1980ComedyEroticaRadley MetzgerUSA

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    Pornography meets Pygmalion. Misty, the hooker, meets the sexologist who thinks he can transform her from “the nadir of passion” into someone who inspires passion. While Misty is trained for her big test, seducing a homosexual artist, the relationship between the doctor and Misty remains unsettled.Read More »

  • Alexandre Rockwell – Lenz (1982)

    1981-1990Alexandre RockwellArthouseDramaUSA

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    An adaptation of George Buchner’s novella, “Lenz”, chronicling the poet Jakob Lenz’s slide into insanity and madness. The setting is transposed from 18th century Germany to New York in the early 1980s.Read More »

  • Lewis Allen – Chicago Deadline (1949)

    1941-1950Film NoirLewis AllenUSA

    Ladd is as hardboiled as ever in this minor film noir classic. He is a tough reporter in Chicago (though he is never shown working at a typewriter) who first appears at a run-down south side rooming house, attempting to talk a runaway girl into returning home. In the next room he finds the emaciated but beautiful body of a girl who has died of tuberculosis (Reed). Before the police arrive Ladd pockets her address book and then systematically begins to look up the various venal people in her life who tell her story in flashbacks. There is Kroeger, a vicious gangster; Muir, a nervous banker; Freeman, an invalid writer; Lees, an addled boxer; Havoc, a call girl; Hervey, a gangster’s moll; and, in a startling performance, Strudwick, as a melancholy mobster. Read More »

  • Rudolph Maté – The Siege at Red River (1954)

    1951-1960Rudolph MatéUSAWestern

    In Ohio in 1865, a Gatling gun is being transported by a Confederate Army officer in civilian clothes, calling himself Jim Farraday, and a sergeant, going by Benjy, to aid the Southern cause in the war. They come to the aid of a Rebel-hating Yankee nurse, Nora Curtis, whose wagon is stuck in the mud.

    Stopping off in a town for supplies and information, Farraday falls under the suspicion of a Pinkerton detective, Frank Kelso, who has been assigned to locate the stolen Gatling gun. Behind her back, Farraday and Benjy smuggle the gun out of town in Nora’s wagon……Read More »

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