 | | | Directed by Catherine Breillat. Off-beat and vaguely sordid love story about a young girl and older man from the foremost international chronicler of female adolescent angst. As always, Breillat's heroine is a dimensional person, transcendi... (See full description) |
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 | | | Directed by Alan Parker. Previous DVDs of this movie were of poor quality so I'm delighted with this Lions Gate special edition disc boasting new anamorphic widescreen (1.85) presentation and 5.1 Dolby Digital sound. An exercise in excess... (See full description) |
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 | | | Lovely, hushed eroticism in ancient Rome from Walerian Borowczyk, inspired by Ovid's Ars Amandi (Art of Love). Marina Pierro (Suspiria, Living Dead Girl) plays a lonely married girl in ancient Rome who... (See full description) |
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 | | | Given director Paul Schrader's puritanical upbringing and subsequent obsession with seedy or pathological sexuality this study of HOGAN'S HEROES star Bob Crane's journey from Christian family man to sex addict (a camera buff who was one of ... (See full description) |
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 | | | Directed by Corrado Farina. This psychedelic retro-horror item (loosely based on the erotic graphic novels by Guido Crepax) has been described as an "S&M giallo on acid." "Legendary sex symbol Carroll Baker (BABY DOLL... (See full description) |
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 | | | Directed by Bill Eagles. Engaging and blackly comical vehicle for preternaturally sexy and always appealing actress Rachel Weisz. "Petula (Weisz) and Dorothy (Susan Lynch) are a couple of tough broads living in Glasgow. Their gangster boyfr... (See full description) |
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 | | | "Director Hisayasu Sato's eclectic study of subcultures: fetishism, drug use, prostitution and pornography. Both sensual and unsettling, "The Bedroom" paints a nightmare landscape that is strangely attractive. Kyoko is a member of a club ca... (See full description) |
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 | | | Wonderful overlooked movie directed by Don Siegel (INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS, DIRTY HARRY) Bizarre gothic war/western set in the Deep South during the Civil War. Clint Eastwood plays John McBurney, a severely wounded Union soldier di... (See full description) |
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 | | | Highly recommended. Absolutely first rate French art / sleaze from Luis Bunuel capturing Deneuve at the height of her beauty. Neurotic young bride Severine loves her boy-scout perfect doctor husband, so much so that she recoils from his tou... (See full description) |
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 | | | Better Than Chocolate is a lesbian love story. Walking home from an evening at the lesbian club 'Cat's Ass,' Maggie is confronted by a gang of skinheads. Suddenly a minibus comes to a screeching halt and out jumps Kim. The skins move on, an... (See full description) |
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 | | | Directed by Bob Rafelson (FIVE EASY PIECES) Erotically charged thriller centering around serial husband killer sex-bomb Theresa Russell and FBI agent Debra Winger (among the sexiest film actresses ever, IMO) Both women are making it in a ma... (See full description) |
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 | | | Two pretty bad movies made marketable by the presence of Brooke Shields and Milla Jovovich, respectively, running around wearing little but palm fronds. The basic BLUE LAGOON (1980) concept is that a boy and girl are shipwrecked on an uncha... (See full description) |
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 | | | Despite being one of the most bizarre, audacious and perverted films ever released by a major Hollywood studio, this was the second most critically acclaimed film of the 1980s (after only RAGING BULL) We are all used to David Lynch now and ... (See full description) |
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 | | | Far from DePalma's best but Melanie Griffith is wonderful and the film is sufficiently smutty to offer amusement. Sometimes when De Palma has been accused of borrowing from Hitchcock he was actually borrowing more from Giallo films the revi... (See full description) |
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 | | | Booby Trap (1973, 90 min.) "It's time to kiss and go boom! A cheerfully insane ex-marine hates teenage "freaks and nuts" so much he steals 40 land mines and turns the desert site of an impending rock festival int... (See full description) |
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 | | | Martin Scorsese's big-movie debut, made one year before MEAN STREETS. Roger Corman had one hell of an eye for talent, launching the directorial careers of Martin Scorsese, Jonathan Demme, Ron Howard and some others I'm not recalling. (And, ... (See full description) |
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 | | | One of my favorite cult movies–imaginative, anti-authoritarian, sexy and ironic. Directed by L. Q. Jones (A veteran "bad guy" character actor who took his name from the part be played in the 1955 film BATTLE CRY). This intelligent, weird, v... (See full description) |
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 | | | BOYS DON'T CRY is smart, funny, fast-paced, sexy and a beautiful love story. Hillary Swank delivered the Oscar winning performance of a lifetime as a skinny likeable Jimmy Stewart type fella named Brandon Teena, who is actually a woman name... (See full description) |
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 | | | Directed by Larry Clark. There is no point watching this film except in this unrated form. The R-rated edit just doesn't pack the same punch. Clark seems to be the real deal. KIDS was powerful, ANOTHER DAY IN PARADISE was superb, and BULL... (See full description) |
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 | | | "Welcome to Amsterdam’s notorious Red Light district, a wide-open sin zone of pimps, prostitutes and the kinky customers who keep them all in business. For hooker Blonde Greet, sexual fetish is a way of life and every d... (See full description) |
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