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In 1960s Paris, an expatriate American novelist (Rip Torn) still struggling to find his voice lives life to the fullest without much regard for his wife (Ellen Burstyn) as he embarks on a succession of sexual encounters with beautiful women. Adapted from Henry Miller’s controversial 1934 novel — which was banned in the United States for nearly 30 years — this passionate drama also stars James Callahan.Read More »
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The film does not have a story. There are three characters and violent action. I was interested in making a technical experiment, concernig the problem of the resistance of the duration of the cinematographic take. There, we can see how the technique interferes in the cinematographic process. I decided to make a film in which each take would have the length of a chassis, and study the almost elimination of the editing when there is a verbal action and a psychological action in the same take. – Glauber RochaRead More »
A kind of shot “piéce of avantgarde theater” with an obscure plot. The beginning of the movie destroys the limits of cult cinema: Gianni Dei and Margaret Lee ride stark naked on a beach, then Gabriele Tinti comes there, rummaging in their jeep. A lot of dialogues in the classic cult Polselli’s style. Later they join a kind of errant company, they ride, get undressed and dressed again, do weird things, cross land and sea. The movie also features Rita Calderoni, Orchidea De Santis and a character called “Polselli”(!!). Where the hell is the script of this madness?!?Read More »
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Scheming Howard and Nicholas plan to murder the latter’s grandmother, Washburne, and collect on her will. Their idea is to scare the woman by telling her that the young of the world have decided that the aged should be killed for causing too much trouble for the people who must look over them. The elderly lady does die when a protest group marches past her house, but she has the last laugh by having made a change in her will before she died, cutting off Nicholas.Read More »
A cheerleader and her friends need to make money quickly, so they begin selling sexual services.Read More »
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In 1906, the popular Western Post newspaper sponsored a demanding cross-country horse race, attracting a motley crew of ambitious contestants. With a tempting $2,000 prize, the bold competitors–including the plucky former prostitute, Miss Jones; the ex-Rough Riders, Luke Matthews and Sam Clayton; a Mexican vaquero with a terrible toothache; the English gentleman, Sir Harry Norfolk; an ageing cowhand, and the arrogant cowboy, Carbo–will have to endure 700 miles of unforgiving desert and rugged terrain. The race is on. Who has what it takes to bite the bullet?Read More »
A film set in the front room of a Berlin commune with a large shop window leading to the street outside. The film uses an actor and an actress, a pianist (visible playing the film’s incidental music in the room next door) and occasional people on the street. Scripted action is located inside the room, unscripted on the pavement outside where passers-by occasionally stop and watch the actors in the same way that the audience is watching them on screen from a cinema or the comfort of home. The ‘intellectual/ aesthetic’ rationale for the film (in the director’s words at the time) was to: “signify the similarity of social codes in East and West; to cement – seal with a kiss (there is a central scene where the actor and actress kiss in the traditional Hollywood manner) – two systems that, despite surface differences, seduce and cajole their citizens into obedience and passivity; to emphasise the common bond of bourgeois family values and traditional role-playing prevalent in consumer capitalist and state socialist countries.” An ambitious agenda for a short film, but the serious (immaculately delivered) speeches and exchanges on personal/social positions and solutions are lightened by Woolley’s tongue-in-cheek filmic observations and the comedic role of a pianist, who provides live musical comment and life-support in the room next door. The ending, where the inmates escape from their intellectual prison to the reality of the street outside, is a simple but effective critique of the obsessive search for theoretical answers to everything that hallmarked the early 70’s. [richardwoolley.com]Read More »
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This X rated feature finds a young and sexually inexperienced woman
arriving home from boarding school to find her mother having sex
with a man. Traumatized, she flees the scene and ends up in a
hippie coffee house. She smokes hashish, engages in lesbianism and
has sex with a black American medical student. Exotic dancers,
Hell’s Angels and other colorful characters are included in the young girls sexual awakening.
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Linda Loves her work, and her work is LOVE…
Linda comes to the big city in search of fun and excitement. What she finds is exploitation and abuse at the hands of a succession of sleazy guys. Searching for love, she enters into a lesbian relationship with a beautiful countess, discovers drugs and swingers’ parties and starts acting in porno movies. She also begins to write a secret diary… With a cast of some of the most stunning Euro actresses of the period, wall-to-wall sex and nudity, pot parties, porno shoots and a psychedelic soundtrack, this is a gem of 1970s exploitation cinema from Jess Franco. Street scenes shot in Benidorm (Alicante, Spain) and Las Palmas (Gran Canaria, Spain).Read More »