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Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex, Drugs and Rock ‘N’ Roll Generation Saved Hollywood (2003) Kenneth Bowser, Martin Scorsese, Dennis Hopper, Peter Bogdanovich

Based upon Peter Biskind’s book of the same name, this BBC-produced documentary traces the rise of a generation of Hollywood filmmakers Read More »
Filthy Gorgeous: The Bob Guccione Story (2013) Barry Avrich, Patrice Adcroft, Audrey Arnold, Peter Bloch

This is the extraordinary story of a visionary, public-relations master, recluse and self-destructive optimist who went from the pinnacle of power Read More »
Actress / Joyu (1947) Teinosuke Kinugasa, Isuzu Yamada, Michiko Araki, Eitarô Shindô

Sumako, a country girl, becomes a great actress with the help of Hogetsu,a scholar who brought Read More »
Widows’ Peak (1994) John Irvin, Joan Plowright, Mia Farrow, Natasha Richardson

In 1934, an English widow moves to Widows’ Peak, Ireland. She befriends other widows and the son of one. Read More »
Docteur Chance (1997) F.J. Ossang, Pedro Hestnes, Elvire, Marisa Paredes

A young gangster deals with stolen works of art and other dodgy items under the order of his overbearing mother. Read More »
Removal (2010) Nick Simon, Billy Burke, Mark Kelly, Osgood Perkins

Gothic horror meets industrial-strength cleaning products in this spine-tingler about a pill-popping Read More »
Invoking Yell (2023) Patricio Valladares, Macarena Carrere, María Jesús Marcone, Andrea Ozuljevich

Set in 1990s story of three twenty something women who venture into the woods to shoot a demo tape for their black metal band. Read More »
Always Goodbye (1938) Sidney Lanfield, Barbara Stanwyck, Herbert Marshall, Ian Hunter

Following the death of her fiancé, Margot Weston is left pregnant and unmarried. Read More »
The Lady Eve (1941) Preston Sturges, Barbara Stanwyck, Henry Fonda, Charles Coburn

Returning from a year up the Amazon studying snakes, the rich but unsophisticated Charles Pike meets con-artist Jean Harrington on a ship. Read More »