Cuadecuc, vampir
A seminal work of avant-garde cinema, Pere Portabella’s Cuadecuc, vampir (1971) was shot in conjunction with Jesús Franco’s film Count Dracula (1970). Portabella shot his film as Franco shot his,… Read more »
Blind Beast
Aki Shima (Mako Midori), a model specializing in bondage portraits, is kidnapped by the blind “amateur” sculptor Michio Sofu (Eiji Funakoshi) and his mother (Noriko Sengoku) to serve as the… Read more »
Nelly et Monsieur Arnaud
Nelly et Monsieur Arnaud (1995) was the last film that the renowned filmmaker Claude Sautet ever made. The film tells the story of a young woman, Nelly (Emmanuelle Béart), whose… Read more »
Forty Guns
Forty Guns (1957) opens with a stagecoach making its away down through the cinemascope frame. The coach, carrying a trio of Federally employed gunmen, ambles slowly across the vastness of… Read more »
All Summers End
All Summers End (2017) follows in the tradition of dramas like Sleepers (1996) wherein the protagonist comes of age while reckoning with the adult consequences of an immature prank or… Read more »
Mary Jane’s Not A Virgin Anymore
Sarah Jacobson’s lone feature Mary Jane’s Not A Virgin Anymore (1996) is a film drenched with the youthful exuberance for creativity. Every frame of this underground masterpiece conveys Jacobson’s love… Read more »
Girl In The Picture
The picture that filmmaker Skye Borgman draws in her true crime documentary Girl In The Picture (2022) is one of a misogynist system that utterly fails to protect women. Social… Read more »
Voyage Of The Rock Aliens
Part B-Movie spoof, part MTV music video and all camp, Voyage Of The Rock Aliens (1984) is one of the great cult classics of the eighties. Featuring early green screen… Read more »
Taste Of Fear
Hammer Productions’ Taste Of Fear (1961) sees director Seth Holt working at the height of his powers. Taste Of Fear, like Holt’s best films for Hammer, is a thriller rather… Read more »
Why Physical Media?
With the announcement that, in Germany and a handful of other European countries, Playstation/Sony will be deleting all of their Studio Canal titles from their digital library physical media (VHS,… Read more »
