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  • Ruy Guerra – Ternos Caçadores AKA Sweet Hunters (1970)

    1961-1970ArthouseCultFranceRuy Guerra
    Ternos Caçadores (1970)
    Ternos Caçadores (1970)

    A family living on a remote island learns an escaped prisoner may be in the area. Allan (Sterling Hayden) is the professor who studies the migratory habits of birds. His wife Clea (Maureen McNalley) has a fascination for all things dead. Her sister Lis (Susan Strasberg) is visiting to break the news of her impending marriage to an older man. Clea leaves tobacco and food out for the unseen escapee. Lis meets the prisoner (Stuart Whitman) on the beach and the two make love. The quiet paradise is interrupted by the escaped prisoner who later suffers a potentially fatal wound while killing another man.Read More »

  • Giuseppe Tornatore – Stanno tutti bene AKA Everybody’s fine (1990)

    1981-1990CultDramaGiuseppe TornatoreItaly
    Stanno tutti bene (1990)
    Stanno tutti bene (1990)

    Matteo Scuro is a retired Sicilian bureaucrat (responsible mainly for the writing of birth certificates), a widower with five children, all of whom live on the mainland and hold responsible jobs. He decides to surprise each with a visit and finds none as he imagined. The film is a veritable travelogue across contemporary Italy, as Matteo journeys to Napoli, Roma, Firenze, Milano, and Turino to search for each of his children; he even spends one night on the streets among the homeless. Scuro returns to Sicily, visits his wife’s grave, and reports with irony that “stanno tutti bene.”Read More »

  • Dimitris Athanitis – Kamia sympatheia gia ton Diavolo AKA No Sympathy for the Devil (1997)

    Arthouse1991-2000CultDimitris AthanitisGreece
    Kamia sympatheia gia ton Diavolo (1997)
    Kamia sympatheia gia ton Diavolo (1997)

    Synopsis:
    A modern version of Orpheus and Eurydice. A romance in extremes set at a dystopian future by the acclaimed Greek director Dimitri Athanitis. Provocative, already a cult film.

    After being released from prison, Eurydice gets a job as a waitress but also as a naked model for a mysterious photographer who blackmails her. Orpheus, a cashier at a super market meets her by chance and falls for her at once. When he loses her, he shall travel all the way to hell, to get her back.

    Dimitri Athanitis’s take on the “Orpheus and Eurydice” myth is stylish and sexy. Lena Kitsipoulou is totally magnetic for her fellow characters and the viewer.Read More »

  • Albert Falzon – Morning of the Earth (1972)

    1971-1980Albert FalzonAustraliaCultDocumentary
    Morning of the Earth (1972)
    Morning of the Earth (1972)

    Declared a national treasure by the Australian government for its amazing photography and vision, this stunning masterpiece by Albert Falzon is, to quote Chris Darling directly, “one of the most beautiful surf films of all time!”

    This classic 1972 surfing film reveals a fantasy that takes place in three exotic lands: Bali, Hawaii, and Australia. It takes you away to a world where surfers make their own houses, surfboards, and live in harmony with nature.Read More »

  • Babbar Subhash – Disco Dancer (1983)

    1981-1990Babbar SubhashCultIndiaMusical
    Disco Dancer (1982)
    Disco Dancer (1982)

    Quote:
    Disco Dancer is a 1982 Bollywood movie starring Mithun Chakraborty. It is notable for having been popular in both India and the Soviet Union during the 1980s. The film tells the rags-to-riches story of a young street performer. Today, the movie has become a cult phenomenon among many generations of Indians who grew up in the 80s and remember the classic I am a Disco Dancer song. The movie was a musical blockbuster and cemented music director Bappi Lahiri’s talents in Bollywood.Read More »

  • Jim Sharman – Shock Treatment (1981)

    1981-1990CultJim SharmanMusicalUSA
    Shock Treatment (1981)
    Shock Treatment (1981)

    Quote:
    Following on from “The Rocky Horror Picture Show”, this musical is set several years later in Brad and Janet Majors’ hometown – which has become a giant TV station; residents are either participants or viewers. They are married now, but their romance has fallen on the rocks. Ostensibly to fix their marriage, Brad is imprisoned on the program “Dentonvale” (the local mental hospital) while Janet is conscripted to become a new star. As Janet is entranced by the high life, she forgets Brad. Who is trying to woo her away?Read More »

  • Gus Van Sant – Drugstore Cowboy (1989)

    Gus Van Sant1981-1990CultDramaUSA
    Drugstore Cowboy (1989)
    Drugstore Cowboy (1989)

    A group of drug addicts in the 1970’s help finance their habit by robbing drug stores. A highly superstitious Bob and wife Diane love to do various pharmaceutical drugs like dilaudid, morphine and cocaine. To maintain the habit, they steal from pharmacies with the help of another couple. A cop that eventually gets too close for comfort, which causes the crew to move their operation to another town. Before long, one of the crew dies of an overdose; the body has to be moved from their hotel room to their car. The problem is that there is an unexpected sheriff’s convention assembling at the hotel where they’re staying. Bob believes that one of his superstitious beliefs caused this incident and is scared into joining a methadone program. Leaving his past proves harder than he anticipated, though.Read More »

  • Nick Millard – Fraulein Leather (1974)

    1971-1980CultEroticaNick MillardUSA
    Fraulein Leather (1974)
    Fraulein Leather (1974)

    DVDDrive-In.com: Director Nick Phillips is well-known for his fetish-driven adult films, usually involving leather, shoes, lesbianism, and sex toys. Lost for years, they are finally starting to resurface on home video thanks to the efforts of RetroSeduction Cinema, who have preserved a number of Phillips’ most noteworthy films. Media Blasters’ Guilty Pleasures cult film line has licensed two Phillips films, FRAULEIN LEATHER and BRIGITTA. The first to be released, FRAULEIN LEATHER, is a real surprise!Read More »

  • Oldrich Lipský – Marecku, podejte mi pero! AKA Marecek, Pass Me the Pen! (1976)

    Oldrich Lipsky1971-1980ComedyCultCzech Republic
    Marecku, podejte mi pero! (1976)
    Marecku, podejte mi pero! (1976)

    A factory producing agricultural machines is about to be thoroughly modernized. If he wants to keep his job, master craftsman Kroupa (Jirí Sovák) is going to have to improve his qualifications through further training and completing his school-leaving exams. Kroupa is persuaded to go back to school by his subordinates who fear that the unbearable Hujer (Václav Lohniský), who has already signed on for schooling, may get promoted and take Kroupa’s place. The students at the evening classes of the technical college are all middle-aged people. Even so, there are go-getters, shirkers and slobs among them just like in any other school.Read More »

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