 | | | A completely charming movie. Following the lead of George Cukor's THE WOMEN (1939) DIRECTOR Francois Ozon shows us a wholly feminine world where men are referred to but not seen. 8 Femmes is a murder mystery and a musical of sorts starring ... (See full description) |
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 | | | Former AVENGERS director Robert Fuest (The Devil's Rain, The Final Programme) perfected the horror/comedy in these two endearing and extraordinarily visually stylish movies, now available inexpensively on one disc. This was the role of Vinc... (See full description) |
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 | | | Ultra-stylish surreal musical directed by erstwhile music video maestro Julien Temple (EARTH GIRLS ARE EASY) One of the best post-modern musical films. This musical adaptation of Colin MacInnes' novel about life in late 1950s London was way... (See full description) |
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 | | | This is a wonderful movie. Of all the 100s of B&W "psychotronic" horror and science-fiction movies from the 1950s and 1960s there are a handful that are either so good (like THE LAST MAN ON EARTH or CARNIVAL OF SOULS) or so integrally and p... (See full description) |
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 | | | CARNIVAL OF SOULS is so good it enjoyed an art-house run in the 1980s. Unsettling story of a young woman who is in a car with two friends when the car plunges off a bridge into a river. A while later she emerges from the water completely un... (See full description) |
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 | | | Directed by Val Guest, Ken Hughes, John Huston, Joseph McGrath and Robert Parrish. An excessive inspired mess (like so many of my favorite movies). James Bond was a 1960s cultural fad on par with The Beatles so a big budget parody was a nat... (See full description) |
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 | | | There are precious few good zero-budget regional genre movies but the good ones can be great… things like NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD, CARNIVAL OF SOULS and early John Waters. There can be a powerful energy in hitting the streets with a camer... (See full description) |
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 | | | This movie is mean as a snake! Waters' most incisive social and political critique and full of scenes so funny you'll swallow your tongue. Made without Divine (who was on tour), DESPERATE LIVING reveals a malevolent intellectual edge that’s... (See full description) |
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 | | | Take the brilliant director of The Abominable Dr. Phibes and a freakshow cast of has-beens and also-rans (William Shatner, Ernest Borgnine, Ida Lupino, Tom Skerritt, John Travolta, Eddie Albert) and what do you get? A very weird movie! Real... (See full description) |
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| | (Not really directed by Waters – this is the documentary Directed by Steve Yeager) The life and times of Baltimore film maker and midnight movie pioneer, John Waters. Intercut with a 1972 interview of Waters are clips from his first films a... (See full description) |
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 | | | Directed by Julien Temple (ABSOLUTE BEGINNERS) When you look back, there are films that just "have it." Often these old sleepers involve fortuitous collections of major talent just before they hit it big. (STATE OF GRACE and RIVER'S EDGE co... (See full description) |
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 | | Election (DVD) • 1999 | | Paramount DVD / Region 1 (USA) | | DVD $13.98 SALE $6.99 | |
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| | Directed by Alexander Payne (Citizen Ruth). Highest recommendation. Incisive and acidic film in the guise of a teen comedy about events that ripple out from obnoxious overachiever Reese Witherspoon's previous affair with teacher Matthew Bro... (See full description) |
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 | | | A visually marvelous science fiction epic that didn't quite catch on over here because it's very European. (And, in fairness, because the story is dumb.) First Hollywood backed movie for French cult director Luc Besson. (THE PROFESSSIONAL, ... (See full description) |
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 | | | Directed by John McNaughton. Written by Samuel Fuller & Christa Lang. Starring Ione Skye and Anne Heche. Campy remake of 1956 exploitation classic; one of several 1990s SHOWTIME remakes of Samuel Z. Arkoff 1950s exploitation films. Notable... (See full description) |
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 | | | Ralph Bakshi's heralded, adult animated social comedy (with live actors in its finale) tells of the son of a Jewish mother and adulterous Italian father who focuses his attentions on drawing cartoons. Eventually, he moves out, falls for a b... (See full description) |
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 | | | Why is this co-listed in Art Films? Because Last Man on Earth is that good. Directed by Ubaldo Ragona and Sidney Salkow. Richard Matheson is one of those writers like Cornell Woolrich and Elmore Leonard whose works lend themselves to screen... (See full description) |
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 | | | There are many wonderful things about THE HULK. Unfortunately the story and the Hulk himself are not among them so there's a lot to overcome. But I can still recommend this movie with appropriate caveats. Let's get the big problem out of ... (See full description) |
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 | | | Directed by Victor Salva. Francis Ford Coppola is the executive producer of this wonderfully weird and entertaining little horror movie loaded with all the visual style, genuine scares and black humor that separate the cult favorites from t... (See full description) |
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 | | Joe (DVD) • 1970 | | MGM Dual Layer DVD / Region 1 (USA). | | DVD $14.98 SALE $7.49 | |
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| | You know how CASABLANCA is sometimes called, "the Greatest B-Movie ever made"? In that sense, JOE is distinctly the greatest exploitation movie ever made… it's a major studio release but it owes far more to Suburban Roulette than to A Man f... (See full description) |
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 | | | A true cult film – after his debut with BAD TASTE, director Jackson (The Lord of the Rings) arguabley got even more tasteless with this hross, smutty muppet meltdown. "Jackson takes the basic concept of the Muppet sh... (See full description) |
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