John Korty

The movie follows Henry, a cynic, and Loribella, a romantic, as they try to get through this thing called life together. The movie features very little spoken dialog and instead relies primarily on an interplay between the great visuals and the voice over narration performed by Burgess Meredith. It is sometimes funny, sometimes heartbreaking, but in the end it stands as a great humanist work that I think serves as a very sober view of the lives that many of us live. While the film is rather short at just over 70 minutes you feel at the end as if you have witnessed their entire existence.Read More »

70s account of a girl’s descent into drug abuse.
The book it is based on, (which may or may not be a true story) was standard reading at school for a generation.

Stars William Shatner.Read More »

Shy, introverted eager-beaver young school teacher Melodye Amerson (sweetly played by the adorable Kim Darby of Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark fame) takes a job at a remote, quiet rural farming community that’s isolated from the rest of the world. The job proves to be far more difficult and challenging than she initially figured: the students are extremely terse, reserved and uncommunicative, the other townspeople are every bit as reticent, mysterious and unapproachable, and everyone lives by a strict code which leaves Melodye feeling confused and alienated. Read More »