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Monthly Archives: July 2018
The Kinky Ladies of Bourbon Street (1976) Didier Philippe-Gérard, Helga Trixi, Dawn Cummings, Nadja Mons

Following failed suicide attempts, three professional women wind up sharing a hospital room where the mysterious Maude (Dutch Trixie Heinen) comes to visit Read More »
Germany in Autumn (1978) Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Alf Brustellin, Wolfgang Bächler, Heinz Bennent, Wolf Biermann

Germany in Autumn does not have a plot per se; it mixes documentary footage, along with standard movie scenes, to give the audience the mood of Germany during the late 1970s. Read More »
Halloween (1978) John Carpenter, Donald Pleasence, Jamie Lee Curtis, Tony Moran

The year is 1963, the night: Halloween. Police are called to 43 Lampkin Ln. only to discover that 15 year old Judith Myers has been stabbed to death, by her 6 year-old brother, Michael. Read More »
Red Dawn (1984) John Milius, Patrick Swayze, C. Thomas Howell, Lea Thompson

From out of the sky, Soviet, Nicaraguan, and Cuban troops begin landing on the football field of a Colorado high school. Read More »
Invaders from Mars (1986) Tobe Hooper, Karen Black, Hunter Carson, Timothy Bottoms

Invaders from Mars, horror-film director Tobe Hooper’s remake of the classic 1950’s science fiction film, directed by William Cameron Menzies Read More »
Fievres Nocturnes (1978) Claude Bernard-Aubert, Brigitte Lahaie, Ursula White, Jean-Louis Vattier

Pierre has sexual fantasies about his next door neighbor Marianne leading his wife to get him an appointment with a sex therapist. Read More »
The Valley of the Bees (1968) Frantisek Vlácil, Petr Cepek, Jan Kacer, Vera Galatíková

Ondrej, a young boy who loves bees and bats, is introduced to his new mother, a woman much younger than his father. Read More »
An Unmarried Woman (1978) Paul Mazursky, Jill Clayburgh, Alan Bates, Michael Murphy

Erica is unmarried only temporarily in that her successful, wealthy husband of seventeen years has just left her for a girl he met while buying a shirt in Bloomingdale’s. Read More »
The Blood Rose (1970) Claude Mulot, Philippe Lemaire, Anny Duperey, Elizabeth Teissier

Frédéric Lansac, an artist and botanist, has a wild affair with party girl Moira, but throws her over when he meets the lovely Anne. Read More »