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Crazy Mama (1975) Jonathan Demme, Cloris Leachman, Stuart Whitman, Ann Sothern
Jonathan Demme directs this joyous relentlessly kitschy celebration of 1950s America: opportunity, rock’n’roll, and the road. Read More »
The Hours and Time (1991) Christopher Munch, David Angus, Ian Hart, Stephanie Pack
A fictionalized account of what may have happened when John Lennon and Brian Epstein went on holiday together to Spain in 1963. Read More »
A Child Is Waiting (1963) John Cassavetes, Burt Lancaster, Judy Garland, Gena Rowlands
Dr. Matthew Clark is the head of a state institution for intellectually disabled children. Read More »
Not As a Stranger (1955) Stanley Kramer, Olivia de Havilland, Frank Sinatra, Robert Mitchum
Lucas Marsh, an intern bent upon becoming a first-class doctor, not merely a successful one. Read More »
Crush (1992) Alison Maclean, Marcia Gay Harden, Donogh Rees, Caitlin Bossley
On the way to interview a novelist, Lane and Christina are involved in a car crash Read More »
The Furies (1950) Anthony Mann, Barbara Stanwyck, Wendell Corey, Walter Huston
A firebrand heiress clashes with her tyrannical father, a cattle rancher who fancies himself a Napoleon Read More »
Gimme Shelter (1970) Albert Maysles, David Maysles, Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Mick Taylor
In December of 1969, four months after Woodstock, the Rolling Stones and Jefferson Airplane Read More »
Ukikusa / Floating Weeds (1959) Yasujirô Ozu, Ganjirô Nakamura, Machiko Kyô, Haruko Sugimura
A troupe of travelling players arrive at a small seaport in the south of Japan. Read More »
Die Todesstrahlen des Dr. Mabuse / The Death Ray of Dr. Mabuse (1964) Hugo Fregonese, Victor De Santis, Peter van Eyck, O.E. Hasse, Yvonne Furneaux
The final film in the Dr. Mabuse series is also truly the least of the series. Read More »