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Alain Robbe-Grillet – L’immortelle (1963)
Robbe-Grillet’s directorial debut, which was for decades bogged down by copyright dispute and never available on home video, cropping up only at rare 35mm showings – infrequent because apparently...
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Alexis Damianos – Evdokia (1971)
Synopsis: A prostitute (Evdokia) meets a sergeant (Yorgos). They fall in love and get married after a short love affair. Her profession, however, is a barrier for their relationship. They try to stay...
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Béla Tarr – Családi tüzfészek AKA Family Nest (1979)
Quote: Béla Tarr’s first full length film is a bleak indictment of communist housing policy; A young couple and their daughter are forced to live with the husband’s family in a tiny flat in which...
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Yuuji Makiguchi – Tokugawa onna keibatsu-emaki: Ushi-zaki no kei aka Shogun’s...
a review by Ian Jane I don’t know what it is with Japanese cinema and it’s affinity for violence and cruelty, but man, when they pull out all the stops they sure do a damn good job of grossing me out....
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Teruo Ishii – Bôhachi bushidô: Poruno jidaigeki AKA Bohachi: Clan of the...
To die is hell, but to live is also hell. SUMMARY Japanese cult movie guru Teruo Ishii (HORROR OF MALFORMED MEN; BLIND WOMAN’S CURSE) directs this deranged, over-the-top adaptation from the original...
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Hisayasu Sato – Rafureshia AKA Sukebe-zuma: otto no rusu ni (1995)
From The Director Of Survey Map Ofia Paradise Lost And Love-Zero=Infinity Throughout the 1980s and 1990s, the sledgehammer style of Hisayasu Sato helped redefine Japanese erotic cinema with carefully...
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Asia Argento – Incompresa AKA Misunderstood (2014)
Synopsis Rome, 1984, Aria is nine-year-old girl. On the verge of divorce, Aria’s infantile and selfish parents are too preoccupied with their careers and extra-marital affairs to properly tend to any...
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John Ford – The Iron Horse [US Version] (1924)
allmovie wrote: David Brandon (James Gordon) is a surveyor in the Old West who dreams that one day the entire North American continent will be linked by railroads. However, to make this dream a...
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James Foley – At Close Range (1986)
Synopsis One of the overlooked films of the 1980s, perhaps because it is such a downbeat tale of an amoral family. Sean Penn plays a kid whose small-time criminal impulses are stoked to a new level...
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Wim Wenders – Every Thing Will Be Fine (2015) (HD)
Synopsis by Jack Rodgers A car accident brings together a writer, his girlfriend, a publisher’s assistant, and a mother in mourning. James Franco, Rachel McAdams, Charlotte Gainsbourg, and Marie-Josée...
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John Ford – Tobacco Road (1941)
Plot: In Georgia, near to the Savannah River, the lazy and crook hillbilly Jeeter Lester lives in the Tobacco Road with his wife Ada, his son Dude and his single daughter Ellie May in a very poor...
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Martin Bell – Streetwise (1984)
Synopsis: This documentary portrays the lives of nine desperate teenagers. Thrown too young into a seedy grown up world, these runaways and castaways survive, but just barely. Rat, the dumpster diver....
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Alvin Rakoff – Passport to Shame AKA Room 43 (1958)
Synopsis by Michael P. Rogers Before Eddie Constantine became a French pop icon as the slapdash “Lemmy Caution,” he played Johnny, a straightforward London taxi driver. When his new taxi is smashed...
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João César Monteiro – Le Bassin de J.W. AKA The Hips of John Wayne (1997)
Quote: Two actors performing in Strindberg’s “Inferno” as God and Lucifer, find themselves competing in real life as well. One of them, Henrique, has spiritual obsession with John Wayne and his way of...
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Eduard Grecner – Drak sa vracia AKA The Return of Dragon [+ Extra] (1968)
Synopsis: A ballad of love, hatred, and desire to escape from loneliness. The story of a reclusive potter, who returns, years after being shunned by his village. The story is a simple one, set in...
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Arthur Penn – The Missouri Breaks (1976)
Synopsis from Timeout.com: A wonderfully quirky Western, brilliantly scripted by Thomas McGuane, which strips all the cute whimsy away from the Butch Cassidy theme (outlaws on the run from a...
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Federico Fellini – Amarcord aka I Remember [+Commentary] (1973)
SYNOPSIS: In this carnivalesque portrait of provincial Italy during the Fascist period, Federico Fellini’s most personal film satirizes his youth and turns daily life into a circus of social rituals,...
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Catherine Breillat – Romance (1999)
excerpt from “Senses of Cinema” on Catherine Breillat: “But it was with the release of Romance in 1999 that Breillat would face censorship internationally, when the film was either banned altogether...
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Jacques Levy – Oh! Calcutta! (1972)
Quote: The DVD was burned from the 1971 closed circuit production, apparently on Videotape. Therefore, it has a VHS appearance to it. By any American legal definition, this would fit under the R and...
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Jean Rollin – Le frisson des vampires aka Shiver of the Vampires (1971)
Quote: Jean Rollin’s third feature film Le Frisson des Vampires, alternately known as Thrill of the Vampires, Shiver of the Vampires and Sex and the Vampire, is one of the key works in his impressive...
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