Here’s a National Geographic style documentary that’s alternately exploitive and informative. Read More »
Brakhage (1998) Jim Shedden, Jerry Aronson, Jane Brakhage, Marilyn Brakhage
Jim Sledden’s 1998 documentary Brakhage is an interesting, well-constructed portrait of avant-garde filmmaker Stan Brakhage Read More »
There Were Seven Simeons (1989) Vladimir Eisner, Herz Frank
One family, one band. They seemed to be happy. A movie that investigates why these seemingly optimistic musicians Read More »
Here Comes the Navy (1934) Lloyd Bacon, James Cagney, Pat O’Brien, Gloria Stuart
To continue a grudge with naval officer Biff Martin, feisty construction worker Chesty O’Connor Read More »
Tales of Ordinary Madness (1981) Marco Ferreri, Ben Gazzara, Ornella Muti, Susan Tyrrell
After a lecture where a poem is read out to a group of bored students, the alcoholic and sex addicted poet Read More »
Die Nichten Der Frau Oberst (1980) Erwin C. Dietrich, Karine Gambier, Brigitte Lahaie, Pascale Vital
Frau Oberst has 2 young nieces who are very open with their sexuality. Read More »
Flocking (2015) Beata Gårdeler, Fatime Azemi, John Risto, Eva Melander
A small Swedish community which seems idyllic on the surface. But when 15-year-old Jennifer claims to have been raped by a schoolmate, everything changes. Read More »
The Girls of Pleasure Island (1953) Alvin Ganzer, F. Hugh Herbert, Leo Genn, Don Taylor, Gene Barry
In the spring of 1945, World War II is coming to a close. Roger Halyard, a dignified, strait-laced Englishmen Read More »
The Butterfly Murders (1979) Hark Tsui, Siu-Ming Lau, Michelle Yim, Shu Tong Wong
A journalist attempting to solve a mystery in “Martial World” enlists the aid of a master fighter and a woman named Green Breeze. Read More »
Hester Street (1975) Joan Micklin Silver, Steven Keats, Carol Kane, Mel Howard
It’s 1896. Yankel Bogovnik, a Russian Jew, emigrated to the United States three years earlier Read More »