Title: Abduction
Year: 1975
Genre(s): Drama
Country: USA
Language: English
Approx. Running Time: 95 Min
Directed By: Joseph Zito
Audio/Picture Quality: B
Based, loosely, on the story of Patty Hearst's kidnappings by the SLA. The daughter of wealthy businessman is taken hostage by a gang of radical black revolutionaries. While she fears for her life at first, she gradually starts to become sympathetic to her kidnappers' cause, and eventually considers herself to be one of them. When the police finally find her, will they bring her back to her family, or lock her up in jail?
Title: Animal Instincts
Year: 1992
Genre(s): Drama
Country: USA
Language: English
Approx. Running Time: 95 Min
Directed By: Gregory Dark
Audio/Picture Quality: B
A cop and his sexually frustrated wife are struggling to keep their failing marriage intact, when by chance he finds that he is at heart a voyeuristic peeping tom. To satisfy him, his wife has numerous affairs, which her husband watches on closed-circuit televison. However, the pair soon learn that when you play with fire, you'll always get burned.
Title: Another
Part Of The Forest
Year: 1948
Genre(s): Drana
Country: America
Language: English
Approx. Running Time: 107 Min
Directed By: Michael Gordon
Audio/Picture Quality: B
Fifteen years after the Civil War the people of Bowden, Alabama still hate
Marcus Hubbard for wartime profiteering. He's also at odds with wife Lavinia and
his sons, conniving Ben and weak Oscar; but beautiful daughter Regina gets all
she wants from him. Conflicts intensify when Regina gets involved with John
Bagtry, scion of the old gentry, and Oscar with the Ku Klux Klan; on a stormy
night, family relationships unravel.
Title: Autumn Born
Year: 1979
Genre(s): Drama
Country: Canada
Language: English
Approx Running Time: 74 Min
Directed By: Lloyd A. Simandl
Audio/Picture Quality: B
A rich young woman is kidnapped and taken to a school of "discipline."
Title: Baby of Mâcon
Year: 1993
Genre(s): Drama
Country: UK / France / Germany / Belgium / Netherlands
Language: English
Approx. Running Time: 122 Min
Directed By: Peter Greenaway
Audio/Picture Quality: B
Ralph Fiennes and Julia Ormand star in this controversial film set in 1650. It is a masque performed on a stage to an audience, and also to us. A grotesque woman gives birth to a beautiful child, and the event is deemed a miracle. The mystical child is then exploited by his guardian (Ormond) and the church. The guardian seduces a Bishop's son (Fiennes) and the child orders a cow to kill him with its horns. The Bishop (Philip Stone of A Clockwork Orange & The Shining) then suggests a severe punishment. The scene near the end contains an astonishing and memorable lengthy scene of her being raped by over 206 men (although it is hidden from view, but we hear her screams). There is then a scene of the child being dismembered. The cast come on stage and bow to the audience, and the audience turn around and bow to us.
"An agnostic's vision of the Nativity, The Baby of Mâcon is an elaborate desecration of Catholic iconography, and a merciless assault on superstition and religion. Greenaway breaks down the barriers between the play and the outside world, the actors and their audience, so that the performance itself becomes just another corrupt religious ritual. The film is repetitive, cold and misanthropic; everyone here is a fraud, a cynic or a simpleton; even the baby proves malign." - Tom Charity, Time Out
Title: Beyond Love & Evil
Year: 1971
Genre(s): Drama
Country: France
Language: English
Approx. Running Time: 90 Min
Directed By: Jacques Scandelari
Audio/Picture Quality: B
Based on De Sade's PHILOSOPHY IN THE BEDROOM, this filmed version necessarily
removes some of the more cruel and perverse elements of the book, but is really
about as accurate as any filmed version of one of the Marquis' works could be.
Bleakly comic and perversely sexual, the film is about a sadistic aristocrat for
whom the pursuit of depraved sexual pleasure is a way of life. The title comes
from a common theme of De Sade's work, that the pursuit of the perverse can lead
one beyond good and evil.
Title:
Bizarre Ones
Year: 1968
Genre(s): Drama
Country: USA
Language: English
Approx. Running Time: 73 Min.
Directed By: Henri Pachard
Audio/Picture Quality: B
While on a leisurely ride in the country, a kinky dominatrix picks up a young
male hitchhiker. At the first opportunity she handcuffs and blindfolds him, then
takes him to a farmhouse where she ties up the young man and brings out three of
her fellow dominatrixes, who take turns abusing and humiliating their
captive--and each other.
Title:
Blast Of Silence
Year: 1961
Genre(s): Drama
Country: USA
Language: English
Approx. Running Time: 77 Min
Directed By: Allen Baron
Audio/Picture Quality: B
Having been 'away' for some time professional killer Frankie Bono returns
to New York to do another job: assassinate some mid-level mobster. Although
intending to avoid unnecessary 'contact' while carefully stalking his victim
Bono is recognized by an old fellow from the orphanage, whose calm and
unambitious citizen's life and happy marriage contrast heavily with Bono's
solitary and haunted existence. Exhausted and distracted Bono makes another
mistake, but his contract is not one to back out of.
Title: Bless the Beasts & Children
Year: 1971
Genre(s): Drama
Country: USA
Language: English
Approx. Running Time: 109 Min
Directed By: Stanley Kramer
Audio/Picture Quality: B
A group of adolescent boys, placed in a summer camp by their otherwise too busy parents, find themselves unable to fit in and are soon branded as bedwetters by their fellow campers and unsympathetic counselor. After their counselor exposes them to what they perceive as a cruel slaughter of corralled bison, these misfits are soon drawn to a common purpose to break free of their camp and free the bison. On their way to free the bison, individual flashbacks reveal the relationships each has with his own family and give insight to their reasons behind wanting to set the bison free. Karen and Richard Carpenter's singing of the title song occurs now and again throughout the movie to underscore the the drama.
Title: Blonde In Black Leather
Year: 1975
Genre(s): Drama
Country: Italy
Language: English
Approx. Running Time: 100 Min
Directed By: Carlo Di Palma
Audio/Picture Quality: B
In hopes of capturing the Easy Rider audience, Italian producers brought in this cheese turkey of celluloid: two beautiful women decide to take a wild adventure across the country on motorcycles. Are they in search of freedom--probably not?
Title: Bonnie's Kids
Year: 1973
Genre(s): Drama
Country: USA
Language: English
Approx. Running Time: 84 Min
Directed By: Arthur Marks
Audio/Picture Quality: B
Sisters Myra and Ellie have finally had enough of their miserable, dead-end
lives. When their step-father Charley (The Bonnie from the title being long
dead) tried to rape Myra, Ellie ventilates him with a shotgun, and the pair run
off to their wealthy uncle's mansion in El Paso. From that point on, the two
undergo a transformation in their personalities, and start to enjoy living their
lives on the wild side.
Title: Brainwash AKA Circle of Power
Year: 1983
Genre(s): Drama
Country: USA
Language: English
Approx. Running Time: 112 Min
Directed By: Bobby Roth
Audio/Picture Quality: B
This truly bizarre movie must have shocked viewers back in 1983, because it contains some truly disturbing scenes, even by today’s standards. The movie is an interesting look at a group of white collar workers who sign up for a retreat that involves mandatory participation in an experimental executive training course. The course is actually the main focus of the retreat, and nobody can escape the compound. The workers are humiliated, abused and tortured—both as a group and individually in front of the group. The goal is to reduce the psychology of each individual to a quivering mound of jelly and then reshape them as they see fit! One of the most disturbing scenes: the naked fat guy in the cage being beaten and force fed like a pig in front of everyone! The freakiest part---this movie is supposedly based on real events!!! Holy shit, man!
Title: Brave, The
Year: 1991
Genre(s): Drama
Country: USA
Language: English
Approx. Running Time: 123 Min
Directed By: Johnny Depp
Audio/Picture Quality: B
An unemployed alcoholic Native American Indian lives on a trailer park with his wife and two children. Convinced that he has nothing to offer this world, he agrees to be tortured to death by a gang of rednecks in return for $50,000
Title: Bus Is Coming
Year: 1971
Genre(s): Drama,
Blacksploitation
Country: USA
Language: English
Approx. Running Time: 109 Min
Directed By: Wendell Franklin
Audio/Picture Quality: B
The MAN Can't Stop It! Don't Miss It! A young black soldier returns home to Los Angeles from combat in Vietnam to find out that his brother had been killed by a gang of racist cops. Angered, he joins a black nationalist group to take his revenge.
Title: Carny
Year: 1980
Genre(s): Drama
Country: USA
Language: English
Approx. Running Time: 107 Min.
Directed By: Robert Kaylor
Audio/Picture Quality: B
A carnival comes to a small town. Eighteen year old Donna meets Frankie and Patch, two carnival hustlers. They earn their living by mercilessly taunting spectators to try to dump one of them into the water by throwing balls. Donna is tired of her work as a waitress and follows them through the South.
Title: Cat Murkil & The Silks
Year: 1976
Genre(s): Drama
Country: USA
Language: English
Approx. Running Time: 102 Min.
Directed By: John A. Bushelman
Audio/Picture Quality: B
The Silks... the most vicious street gang of all... led by the killer they call Eddie the Cat. A street-gang member kills the gang's leader and blames it on a rival gang.
Title:
Chelsea Girls
Year: 1966
Genre(s): Drama
Country: USA
Language: English
Approx. Running Time: 210 Min.
Directed By: Andy Warhol & Paul Morrissey
Audio/Picture Quality: B
Andy Warhol's epic freak-out to end all freak-outs. For four odd hours Warhol, using the double-screen technique, declares war against every sensory logic we have grown used to in the movies.
NOTE: This title is 2 DVDs, the price is $20 with a cover or $15 without
Title: Confessions Of a Blue Movie Star AKA Evolution Of Snuff
Year: 1978
Genre(s): Drama
Country: USA
Language: English
Approx. Running Time: 79 Min.
Directed By: Wes Craven, Andrzej Kostenko, & Karl Martine
Pornographer Robert Furch makes a movie inspired by "Lysistrata," he says. A
documentary crew films the casting call, Furch's 14-day shoot, a lighting
technician's becoming an actor, and the aftermath of the suicide (before filming
ends) of Claudia Fielers, the film's leading lady. Comments by Roman Polanski,
Carl Amery, and an unseen narrator connect the possibility of snuff films to the
process of a commercial enterprise such as this and Fielers' suicide. Furch
pleads innocent, cloaking his work in Protestant virtues. His posturings and his
direction are comical; the commentary may be tongue in cheek. What about the
appended snuff footage? Is this documentary for real?
Title: Cremaster Cycle
Year: 1995-2002
Genre(s): Drama
Country: USA
Language: English
Directed By: Matthew Barney
Audio/Picture Quality: A
The Cremaster Cycle is a sequence of five films by Matthew Barney (Who is Bjorks husband, right there should signify how fucked up these movies are), entitled Cremaster 1 to Cremaster 5 which create a self-enclosed aesthetic system. The conceptual departure point for the cycle is the male cremaster muscle, and the films are filled with anatomical allusions to reproductive organs and the process of sexual differentiation. A surrealists wet dream, Think David Lynch meets Alejandro Jodorowsky. This collection features all 5 films from high quality DVD sources (with the exception of part 5 which is from a VHS copy, still pretty good quality though). The collection is 3 DVDs but if you want to start out with just a few of them the layout is like this: Disk 1 contains part 1 & 2, Disk 2 features the full version of part 3 (182 minute version, not the 40 minute US version), and Disk 3 features parts 4 & 5.
NOTE: This set is 3 Disks for $30
Title: Death Laid An Egg
Year: 1968
Genre(s): Drama
Country: USA
Language: English
Approx. Running Time: 86 Min.
Directed By: Giulio Questi
Audio/Picture Quality: B
A love triangle develops between three people who run a high tech chicken farm. It involves Anna (who owns the farm), her husband Marco (who kills prostitutes in his spare time) and Gabriella (the very beautiful secretary). Marco continues to kill as jealousy becomes more prevalent on the farm.
Title: Death Watch
Year: 1980
Genre(s): Drama
Country: France
Language: English
Approx. Running Time: 128 Min.
Directed By: Bertrand Tavernier
Audio/Picture Quality: B
She's the target of every eye...including eyes only science could create. Roddy has a camera implanted in his brain. He is then hired by a television producer to film a documentary of terminally ill Katherine, without her knowledge. His footage will then be run on the popular TV series, "Death Watch"... Starring Harvey Keitel
Title: Desperate Lives
Year: 1982
Genre(s): Drama
Country: USA
Language: English
Approx. Running Time: 96 Min.
Directed By: Robert Michael Lewis
Audio/Picture Quality: B
In this made-for-TV film, a high-school counselor faces ineffectual help from administration in combating drugs, so she recruits several students to help in the battle. Desperate Lives is best known for a priceless Helen Hunt PCP freakout, just a glimpse of the snorting and screaming talent she's been well-rewarded for.
Title: Dionysus in '69
Year: 1969
Genre(s): Drama
Country: USA
Language: English
Approx. Running Time: 85 Min.
Directed By: Brian De Palma & Richard Schechner
Audio/Picture Quality: B
Early Brian De Palma film. A Celebration of Feeling, Loving, Wanting, Killing, Hearing, Tasting, Touching, Living.
Title: Dirtiest Game In The World
Year: 1970
Genre(s): Drama
Country: USA
Language: English
Directed By: James Bryan & Titus Moede
Audio/Picture Quality: B
A candidate for California state representative decides he needs the hippie vote
to win, so he runs on a platform to legalize marijuana, and sets out to check
out the hippie lifestyle
Title: Don Quijote
Year: 1992
Genre(s): Drama
Country: USA
Language: English
Approx. Running Time: 116 Min.
Directed By: Orson Welles
Audio/Picture Quality: B
Rare Orson Welles film that was later finished by Jess Franco
in 1992 Unlike other unfinished Welles films, Don Quixote's incomplete state was
not because of lack of finances. Welles always considered his Don Quixote a
"private exercise". Or as he put it, he worked on it like an author works on a
novel; under no obligations, no time constraints, and could finish it whenever
he feels like it.
Title: Dorotheas Rache AKA Dorotheas Revenge
Year: 1974
Genre(s): Drama
Country: Germany
Language: German (No subtitles)
Approx. Running Time: 92 Min.
Directed By: Peter Fleischmann
Audio/Picture Quality: B
Title: Face
On a Milk Carton
Year: 1995
Genre(s): Drama
Country: USA
Language: English
Approx. Running Time: 87 Min.
Directed By: Waris Hussein
Audio/Picture Quality: B
A girl happens to look down at a milk carton one day and she sees herself on the back! Her life gets more stressful as she tries to hide the secret from her parents who she knows couldn't have kidnapped her.
Title: I Know My Name Is Steven
Year: 1989
Genre(s): Drama
Country: USA
Language: English
Approx. Running Time: 180 Min.
Directed By: Larry Elikann
Audio/Picture Quality: B
"I Know My First Name Is Steven" chronicles the true story of Steven Stayner's life after being kidnapped at the age of seven and held with his captor for seven years. He returns to the police station one night after rescuing another child from his captor. At first, he denies the allegations that he was sexually abused, however later during the movie it is revealed he indeed was abused during those seven years.
NOTE: This film is spread over 2 disks, price is $20
Title: I Miss You Hugs & Kisses
Year: 1978
Genre(s): Drama
Country: USA
Language: English
Approx. Running Time: 88 Min.
Directed By: Murray Markowitz
Audio/Picture Quality: B
Rare 1978 video nasty. Based on the real-life murder case in which Toronto realtor, Peter Demeter was accused of killing his wife in 1975, this picture hypothesizes about a number of methods that could have effected the crime. It concentrates, however, on the most accepted theory--that the husband hired an outsider to do the deed, a view that led to a conviction. Violence and sex cloud director Markowitz' interesting narrative approach.
Title: Immoral Tales
Year: 1974
Genre(s): Drama
Country: France
Language: English
Approx. Running Time: 103 Min.
Directed By: Walerian Borowczyk
Audio/Picture Quality: B
Four erotic tales from in various historical eras. The first, 'The Tide', is set in the present day, and concerns a student and his young female cousin stranded on the beach by the tide, secluded from prying eyes. 'Therese Philosophe' is set in the nineteenth century, and concerns a girl being locked in her bedroom, where she contemplates the erotic potential of the objects contained within it. 'Erzsebet Bathory' is a portrait of the sixteenth-century countess who allegedly bathed in the blood of virgins, while 'Lucrezia Borgia' concerns an incestuous fifteenth-century orgy involving Lucrezia, her brother, and her father the Pope. English dubbed version
Title: Land Of Doom
Year: 1986
Genre(s): Sci-Fi, Action
Country: USA
Language: English
Approx. Running Time: 87 Min.
Directed By: Peter Maris
Audio/Picture Quality: B
Earth has been ravaged by a nuclear wear, and a feminist warrior is forced to join up with a soldier of fortune in her journey to find a rumored "paradise" as they battle gangs of rampaging bandits.
Title: Last Movie, The
Year: 1971
Genre(s): Drama
Country: USA
Language: English
Approx. Running Time: 108 Min.
Directed By: Dennis Hopper
Audio/Picture Quality: B
A film shoot in Peru goes badly wrong when an actor is killed in a stunt, and the unit wrangler, Kansas, decides to give up film-making and stay on in the village, shacking up with local prostitute Maria. But his dreams of an unspoiled existence are interrupted when the local priest asks him to help stop the villagers killing each other by re-enacting scenes from the film for real because they don't understand movie fakery... Check out "Amercian Dreamer" in the documentary section for a great full length making of
Title: Lies
Year: 1983
Genre(s): Drama
Country: USA
Language: English
Approx. Running Time: 100 Min.
Directed By: Jim Wheat & Ken Wheat
Audio/Picture Quality: B
Robyn's Only Playing A Part... Everyone Else Is Playing For Real! Struggling
actress accepts high paying job to play a rich heiress committed in a lunatic
asylum, not knowing she's really being set up as a surrogate for the real girl
who'd been murdered.
Title: Man, The
Year: 1972
Genre(s): Drama
Country: USA
Language: English
Directed By: Joseph Sargent
Audio/Picture Quality: B
It took an accident to make this man President of the United States. What they
do to him now won't be an accident. When the President and Speaker of the House
are killed in a building collapse, and the Vice-President declines the office
due to age and ill-health, Senate President pro tempore Douglas Dilman (James
Earl Jones) suddenly becomes the first black man to occupy the Oval Office. The
events from that day to the next election when he must decide if he will
actually run challenge his skills as a politician and leader.
Title:
Mindwalk
Year: 1990
Genre(s): Drama
Country: USA
Language: English
Approx. Running Time: 112 Min.
Directed By: Bernt Amadeus Capra
Audio/Picture Quality: B
A US politician (Sam Waterston) visits his poet friend (John Heard) in Mont. St.
Michael, France. While walking through the medeival island discussing their
philosophies of life they happen upon Sonja (Liv Ullman), a scientist in
recluse, who joins in their conversation. The two men listen to the ideas of
this brilliant woman and discuss how her ideas can work in their own politician
and poet lives.
Title: Nachtblende
Year: 1975
Genre(s): Drama
Country: Poland
Language: Polish W/ English Subtitles
Approx. Running Time: 109 Min.
Directed By: Andrzej Zulawski
Audio/Picture Quality: B
Servais Mont, a photographer, meets Nadine Chevalier who earns her money
starring in cheap soft-core movies. Trying to help her, he borrows the money
from the loan sharks to finance the theatrical production of 'Richard III' and
gives Nadine a part. Nadine is torn apart between Servais, for whom she is
falling in love, and her husband Jacques, to whom she has moral obligations.
Title:
Occasional Work of a Female Slave
Year: 1973
Genre(s): Drama
Country: Germany
Language: German W/ English Subtitles
Approx. Running Time: 91 Min.
Directed By:
Alexander Kluge
Audio/Picture Quality: B
That rarest of movies: a left wing comedy which doesn't hang itself up in questions of 'realism' but does involve itself very closely with the everyday flux of political and social pressures. Alexandra Kluge (the director's sister) plays a young housewife and mother who works as a part-time abortionist; her cynical complacency gives way to a bright-eyed 'activism' when she's forced out of the job and starts waging a one-woman war against the authorities, the bosses, and the tyranny of the family. Kluge charts her hopeless campaign through documentary (an unblinking look at the fact of abortion) and witty fiction alike, his methods recalling both Brecht and Godard; everything is informed by a kind of wry humor that keeps the plot in perspective without tempering its immediacy. It's hard to think of another film that's as honest, relevant and yet not disillusioned as this.
Title: OJ
Simpson Story
Year: 1995
Genre(s): Drama
Country: USA
Language: English
Approx. Running Time: 87 Min.
Directed By: Jerrold Freedman
(As Alan Smithee, so you know its good)
Audio/Picture Quality: B
Dramatizes some of the more tawdry events in the relationship between O.J. Simpson and his wife, Nicole Brown, up to and including his arrest for Brown's murder.
Title:
Patty Hearst
Year: 1988
Genre(s): Drama
Country: USA
Language: English
Approx. Running Time: 108 Min.
Directed By: Paul Schrader
Audio/Picture Quality: B
The true story of a rich girl who was abducted by American revolutionaries in the 1970's. Her time spent with her captors made her question herself and her way of life and she joined forces with the cause that her abductors were fighting for. This created a US scandal and Patty Hearst has become a pop culture fixture.
Title: Pets
Year: 1974
Genre(s): Drama
Country: USA
Language: English
Approx. Running Time: 103 Min.
Directed By: Raphael Nussbaum
Audio/Picture Quality: B
There's an Animal in Every Woman. 70's runaway flick starring Candice
Rialson about a psycho who keeps gals locked up like caged animals in his
basement. 70's trash at it's best (worst).
Title:
Plague Dogs
Year: 1982
Genre(s): Drama
Country: USA
Language: English
Approx. Running Time: 103 Min.
Directed By: Martin Rosen
Audio/Picture Quality: B
An animated adaptation of Richard Adams' novel, about a pair of dogs (Snitter and Rowf) who escape from a research laboratory and try to survive in the wild with the help of a cunning fox (The Tod). The lab director tries to keep the escape quiet, but as an increasing number of sheep are found killed, word leaks out, together with rumors that the dogs might be plague carriers... This is the 103 extended version as opposed to the 85 minute US cut
Title: Rainbow Theif
Year: 1990
Genre(s): Drama
Country: USA
Language: English
Approx. Running Time: 87 Min.
Directed By: Alejandro Jodorowsky
Audio/Picture Quality: B
You can just live. Or you can live it up. A petty crook, in search of the proverbial pot of gold at the end of the rainbow, hopes to cash in by befriending the heir to a huge fortune. Rather obscure Alejandro Jodorowsky film.
Title: Ratboy
Year: 1986
Genre(s): Drama
Country: USA
Language: English
Approx. Running Time: 104 Min.
Directed By: Sondra Locke
Audio/Picture Quality: B
An unemployed window display artist discovers a young man with a face that looks like a rat, and she decides to exploit him for financial gain.
Title: Realm Of Senses
Year: 1976
Genre(s): Drama
Country: Japan
Language: Japanese With English Subtitles
Approx. Running Time: 105 Min.
Directed By: Nagisa Oshima
Audio/Picture Quality: B
Based on a true story set in pre-war Japan, a man and one of his servants begin a torrid affair. Their desire becomes a sexual obsession so strong that to intensify their ardor, they forsake all, even life itself.
Title: Szamanka
Year: 1996
Genre(s): Horror, Drama
Country: Poland
Language: Polish W/ English Subtitles
Approx. Running Time: 110 Min.
Directed By: Andrzej Zulawski
Audio/Picture Quality: B
From director Andrzej Zulawski (Possession) comes this bizarre, brutal and sexually explicit tale of a man and his obsession with a mummified shaman and and violently disturbed woman. English subtitles.
Title: Tattoo
Year: 1981
Genre(s): Drama
Country: USA
Language: English
Approx. Running Time: 103 Min.
Directed By: Bob Brooks
Audio/Picture Quality: B
Karl Kinsky, an unbalanced tattoo artist, becomes dangerously obsessed with Maddy, a model he meets when he's hired to paint temporary tattoos on a group of women for a photo shoot. As his obsession grows, Kinsky becomes increasingly determined that Maddy should bear his "mark" ... forever.
Title: Taxi
Dancers
Year: 1993
Genre(s): Drama
Country: USA
Language: English
Approx. Running Time: 94 Min.
Directed By: Norman Thaddeus Vane
Audio/Picture Quality: B
To support herself while pursuing an acting career,
a beautiful young woman becomes a "Taxi Dancer," an erotic dancer whose duties
sometimes include more. After becoming involved with one of the wealthy patrons
of the club, she finds he's a Mob target.
Title: Vinyl & Nico and The Velvet Underground
Year: 1965/1966
Genre(s): Drama/Documentary
Country: USA
Language: English
Approx. Running Time: 140 Min.
Directed By: Andy Warhol
Audio/Picture Quality: B
Andy Warhol double feature. Vinyl - Warhol's strange interpretation of "A Clockwork Orange." Includes Gerard dancing to the Martha and the Vandellas classic "Nowhere to Run" and being tortured by professional sadists. Velvet Underground and Nico - Warhol's documentary on the velvet underground.
Title: Vortex
Year: 1982
Genre(s): Drama
Country: USA
Language: English
Approx. Running Time: 90 Min.
Directed By: Beth B & Scott B
Audio/Picture Quality: B
A film noirish atmosphere is created to show detective Lunch (a popular underground musician and poet) plow her way through the plans of a corporate businessman who seeks government defense contracts through real "corporate wars" and the manipulation of politicians.
Title: When The Wind Blows
Year: 1986
Genre(s): Drama
Country: UK
Language: English
Approx. Running Time: 89 Min.
Directed By: Jimmy T. Murakami
Audio/Picture Quality: B
Based on Raymond Briggs' book. A old British couple, Jim and Hilda, who live in the countryside, believe in the fact that the Government will always know what it is doing. However the world is fast heading for the Third World War between the US and the Soviets. Jim prepares for it by building a shelter using Government pamphlets however both of them still believe that the war will be fought like the Second World War and they can't fully understand that the war will be fought with nuclear weapons. All too soon, war breaks out and Jim and Hilda survives a nuclear blast. They stand back and wait, they believe, for help from the Government and for things to get back to normal in a couple of days, little knowing that help isn't on its way, and that, unknown to them, Jim and Hilda are slowly dying from the "fallout" radiation poisoning and they will probably not survive..
Title: Who Killed Teddy Bear?
Year: 1965
Genre(s): Drama
Country: USA
Language: English
Approx. Running Time: 94 Min.
Directed By: Joseph Cates
Audio/Picture Quality: B
A busboy at a disco has sexual problems related to events in his childhood. He becomes obsessed with a disc jockey at the club, leading to obscene phone calls, voyeurism, trips to the porn shop and adult movie palace, and more! A police detective is similarly obsessed with sexual materials, leading him to become personally involved in the case.
DOROTHEAS RACHE begins with the characters talking directly to the camera and thus us, the viewers. But this is only one of the many, many pleasantly weird things you'll discover when watching this film. Right at the beginning we learn that Dorothea, who introduces herself as a 17 year old girl, has just made love to a Martian. And she even has a groovy, smoking meteorite to prove it. The parents are concerned if the pill will work in the case of interstellar sex ... The rest of the film follows Dorothea as she tries to learn more about love (both emotionally and physically) and ends up being abused again and again by an amazing parade of creeps and freaks before Jesus Christ himself pops up to give her some good advice ... Did I mention that this film is weird? The thing that cracked me up the most was Dorothea's father who runs a firm that produces "laughing bags". That's some kind of small mechanism that's in a metal box and is then put into a bag. When you shake the bag you are treated to hysterical laughter ... Awesome, just awesome! If only contemporary German cinema were as fascinating as this 1972 film ...
Year: 1979
Genre(s): Drama
Country: USA
Language: English
Directed By: John Carpenter
Audio/Picture Quality: B
1979 Biographical movie about the famous rock singer Elvis Presley directed by John Carpenter
Year: 1985
Genre(s): Drama
Country: USA
Language: English
Approx. Running Time: 103 Min.
Directed By: Peter Watkins
Audio/Picture Quality: B
Steven Shorter is the ultimate British music star. His music is listened to by everyone from pre-teens to grandparents. He has no trace of public bad habits or drug involvement. Everyone in Britain loves him. His handlers begin to use his popularity for projects like increasing the consumption of apples after a bumper crop as an aid to farmers. The handlers decide that Steven should support God and Country next. This leads to, among other things, a rock version of "Onward Christian Soldiers," and the inclusion of a Nazi salute to make it clear (to the viewer) how far the British population will be taken for love of God and Country under Steven's guidance. Steven is very plastic in his direction, shifting as his handlers point him toward new projects until he meets Vanessa Ritchie, an artist who makes him look at what's happening.
Year: 1971
Genre(s): Drama
Country: Japan
Language: Japanese
Directed By: Shuji Terayama
Audio/Picture Quality: C
This cult B&W Japanese film from the 1970s analyzes the result of a colony in which children overthrow the control of their parents and attempt to form a new society. Their plan spirals out of control and they are soon lost in a web of sexual deviation and violence. Pretty fucked up and twisted Asian surrealism, not for everyone. This is the full length 76 minute version as well as the black and white short (neither one is in English and neither one has subtitles).
Year: 1982
Genre(s): Drama
Country: USA
Language: English
Approx. Running Time: 157 Min.
Directed By: Lawrence Schiller
Audio/Picture Quality: B
Based on the true story of murderer Gary Mark Gilmore, spanning the last nine months of his life (May 1976-January 1977) in which at age 35, after being released for serving a long prison term in Utah for armed robbery, the unstable Gilmore murdered two men in two separate and senseless robberies in which after a brief public trial in October, he was sentenced to death by firing squad which drew a lot of media attention when Gilmore insisted that his execution be carried out and he became the first man to be executed in the USA since the government reinstated the death penalty in 1976.