1970s

An absolute classic English horror series here from the master Nigel Kneale.

“Animals can be cuddly, friendly, faithful… but beasts are nightmarishly different…” This was how the TV Times heralded the arrival of Beasts, Nigel Kneale’s anthology of six plays – each focusing around a particular “creature” – produced by Nicholas Palmer for ATV in 1976. The warning was to be a timely one. Over the next six weeks, those in the audience brave enough to watch were treated to some classic Kneale horrors, and a lot else besides… To those lucky enough to see it first time around, the series still remains memorable, and, thanks to these DVDs Beasts is finding a whole new audience of fans today.Read More »

In 20’s Spain, young low-class women want to be hired as nannies by rich families. To get milk, these women ask help to young worker Paco to be pregnant. Paco, whose wife is sterile, accepts and earns money that way.Read More »

Start with Psycho, then throw in some raunchy footage Hitchcock could have never gotten away with in 1960. Private Parts is an excellent black comedy/horror film by cult director Paul Bartel (The Naughty Nurse, Death Race 2000). The main actress is pretty cute… an added bonus (and she gets naked!).Read More »

DVD 1
Les disparus de Rambouillet – 53 min
That’s the first episode I Watch from this old french TV series from the seventies. I don’t remind it when I was a kid. Well it’s not charmless, but it grew very old, if I explain it in the right way. A story of mystery, with much senseless and humor, a show for the whole family, kids, parents grand parents…I am sure to see all of them, but am not sure if I’ll comment them all. This episode is about disappearing folks in Rambouillet forest, near Paris. So a special squad from the police headquarters is in charge of those missing persons. What could I add more ? One little weird thing, in line of this TV series: the director – Claude Guillemot – himself went in the twilight zone – disappeared – during seventeen years, between 70 and 87, before a comeback. Where the hell did he go during all that time. In Rambouillet forest? by IMDB user GUENOT PHILIPPERead More »

Wrongly convicted for the death of a guard during a robbery, Tininha arrives at the women’s prison and is soon the target of a dispute between Rafaela, the cruel and corrupt director, and Nadir, the leader of the inmates, who organizes a mass escape plan.Read More »

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Young yakuza Shujiro Hanada (Takakura) goes to prison after losing his cool in a rigged gambling game and slashing a few other players. When he’s released in 1927, the world has changed. His sister died in the Great Kanto Earthquake and his father is also gone. His brother Jukichi (Ikebe) invites him to stay at his in-laws and works in their family pub. Shujiro is trying to go straight. He lies low, helping his blind mother-in-law and slowly developing a relationship with Ikuye, the hostess who helped him before his arrest. But trouble lurks when the resident gang decides to show its strength. It all leads to a showdown between the two brothers and around 20 sword-wielding gangsters.Read More »

50 year old house wife Ingrid is unsuccessful in her first job after the kids have grown up. Her husband sends her to stay at a summer hotel, where she returns to spirit and goes back home only to find him in bed with a lover.Read More »

Bridge High is an evocative passage across a suspension bridge. Moving from the country to the city, the film expands the half minute it takes a car to cross, into a nine-and-a-half minute trip, choreographing cables, girders and arches into an exuberant dance.Read More »

In the words of the director, a movie about ‘the colonizers in the view of the colonized’, the movie presents a series of disconnected happenings throughout Europe and Brazil emphasizing the perception of human life as trance-like experiences and thus offering a view of the human history as a connection of symbolic behavior.Read More »