 | | | 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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 | | | As richly realized as any pure fantasy film, and often cited as the most expensive European film when it was made. (The old Soviet WAR AND PEACE is the biggest movie ever made but was a state effort in an economy with no hard currency, and ... (See full description) |
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 | | | Wild and stylish crime thriller/romance film from Michael Radford (1984, Il Postino) based on Andrew Davies' novel and starring uninhibited generation Z femme fatale Asia Argento as a young criminal who tries to break free of her small-time... (See full description) |
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 | | | Brian De Palma's over-the-top homage to Michelangelo Antonioni's BLOW-UP (1966), Francis Coppola's THE CONVERSATION and a bunch of other paranoid films like THE MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE and THE PARALLAX VIEW. De Palma had a little ensemble comp... (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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 | | | 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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 | | | Likeable mix of MAD MAX and IT HAPPENED ONE NIGHT. It's your basic post-apocalyptic road movie action-romance. The basic romantic comedy road-movie plot: An engaged man or woman it thrown in with an exotic member of the opposite sex who i... (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 f... (See full description) |
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 | | | This is my kind of movie; sexy, brilliant and so weird you can't figure how it got made. David O. Selznick may have peaked too soon, never gave up on trying to top his triumph with Gone With The Wind. His best effort was this 1946 sprawling... (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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 | | | 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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 | | | GOLIATH AND THE DRAGON (La Vendetta di Ercole) directed by Vittorio Cottafavi - A returning warrior must battle giant bats, three-headed dogs and a vicious dragon to save his wife and his country from an evil ruler. Mark Forest stars as the... (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... (See full description) |
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