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OP - video is Out of Print
UR - UnReleased on video & UltraRare!
( : ) - approx running time
(A-F / A-F) - pic/sound quality
OP - video is Out of Print
UR - UnReleased on video & UltraRare!
INTERNATIONAL DIRECTORS
ALFREDO ALFREDO (1973)
Hilarious Italian comedy with Dustin Hoffmann as a naive young
man
who marries an insane but beautiful Italian girl. Similar
to Wertmuller's lighter work.
(1:37) (A/A) -- OP Italian with
English subtitles, letterboxed
ALL SCREWED UP (1973)
An early Lina Wertmuller comedy about naive Sicilians who are
corrupted after moving to Milano.
(1:40) (A/A) - OP
Italian with English subtitles
AMARCORD (1975)
One of the more beautiful and accessible films from Federico
Fellini,
a zesty recreation of 1930's Italy before the advent of fascism.
(2:10) (A/A) - OP
Italian with English subtitles, letterboxed
ANDREI ROUBLEV (1966)
Directed by Andrei Tarkovsky. The story of a famed Russian
icon painter of the 15th century,
this masterpiece shows the dark side of the Middle Ages as no other
film has:
brutality, poverty, rape, mass slaughter, pagan orgies, obsessed
visionaries.
(3:00) (A/A) Russian with English
subtitles, letterboxed
ATLANTIS (1992)
Directed by Luc Besson. A beautiful underwater documentary
made at the same time as THE BIG BLUE.
( : ) (B/B) - UR
BETTY BLUE (1986)
Directed by Jean Jacques Beneix. Starring Beatrice Dalle as
a manic depressive girl,
& Jean Hughes Anglade as her loving boyfriend; this is the EXTENDED
uncut European print
(version integrale) with many scenes that were trimmed from the
US print
(including a long and hilarious robbery by Anglade in drag)
(3:00) (B/B) - UR
French with English subtitles
BEYOND THE CLOUDS (1994)
Co-directed by Michelangelo Antonioni and Wim Wenders, this is a
moody masterpiece
about love unfulfilled. John Malkovich ties all of the threads
together as "the Director",
who's narration (written by Antonioni) comments on film obsession
in a brilliant way. Co-stars
Jean Reno, Fanny Ardant, Irene Jacob, Peter Weller, Vincent Perez,
Sophie Marceau,
and Chiara Caselli. Soundtrack includes selections by "The
Passengers" (aka U2 / Brian Eno)
, with the "Beach Sequence" a truly memorable cinematic moment.
(1:40) (A/A) in English
and French (with subtitles)
BLOOD FEUD (1979)
Directed by Lina Wertmuller. Starring Sophia Loren as a widow
who is torn between
a good lawyer (Marcello Mastroianni) and a bad gangster (Giancarlo
Giannini)
(1:52) (A/A) - OP
Italian with English subtitles
BLOOD OF A POET (1940)
Directed by Jean Cocteau. A surrealist classic with much startling
imagery.
(:55) (A/A) - OP
French with English subtitles
BLOW-UP (1966)
Directed by Michelangelo Antonioni. Starring David Hemmings
as a London fashion
photographer who's aimless, decadent lifestyle is disturbed when
he suspects images
on a negative he has shot may be evidence of a murder. Fascinating
and hypnotic.
(1:42) (A/A) in English,
letterboxed
THE CONFORMIST (1971)
Directed by Bernardo Bertolucci. Starring Jean-Louis
Trintignant as a repressed
homosexual trying to survive within the fascist regime of WWII-era
Italy.
(1:55) (A/A) - OP
English dubbed
CUL-DE-SAC (1965)
Roman Polanski's followup to REPULSION.
It stars Donald Pleasance and Francoise Dorleac
as a mismatched couple - he effeminant and petulant, she sensual
and enigmatic - who share
a bizarre sexual relationship, living in a remote castle.
Their very isolation fromt he world prevents
their eccentric partnership from foundering; only an outsider can
disrupt their make-believe lifestyle.
That disruption arrives in the belligerent form of two oddball gangsters
straight out of 1940's
film noir, wounded, desperate, and on the run. They demand
shelter, and as they wait for instructions
from their gangland boss, one of them slips into a dangerous round
of game-playing with
his unwilling hosts. Larger-than-life performances, wicked
black humor, and
superb use of striking outdoor locations. (1:40)
(A/A) - UR
THE DAMNED (1969)
Luschino Visconti's dark and decadent look at Nazi debauchery, as
a noble German
family falls during the days of Hitler. with Dirk Bogarde,
Ingrid Thulin.
(2:30) (A/A) - letterboxed,
in English
DAY OF WRATH (1945)
Directed by Carl Dreyer. An elderly woman, burned for being
a witch, puts a spell on a pastor.
Later, the pastor's wife becomes obsessed with her handsome stepson
and is eventually
accused of witchcraft herself. Stark and somber study of superstition
and repression.
COMING SOON: the CRITERION collection
print
(1:50) (B/B) - OP German with English subtitles
DEEP END (1970)
Directed by Jerzy Skolimowski. A teenage boy working as an
attendant in a London bathhouse becomes
obsessed with an attractive female co-worker, resulting in many
highly charge confrontations.
Hauntingly disturbing erotic thriller. Starts out slowly
but builds to a very intense and unsettling climax
(1:28) (B/B) - UR
DONT TOUCH THE WHITE WOMAN (1971)
Starring Marcello Mastroianni, Catherine Deneuve (2:00) (A/A) - OP Italian with English subtitles
THE END OF THE WORLD IN OUR
USUAL BED IN A NIGHT FULL OF
RAIN (1977)
Lina Wertmuller's first English language picture, about a feminist
photographer (Candice Bergen)
married to an Italian Communist journalist (Giancarlo Giannini).
The acting is WAY over the top,
even for a Wertmuller film. (1:45) (A/A)
- OP in English
THE ETERNAL JEW (1940)
Infamous Nazi propaganda film which graphically describes their
views on the "parasitical Jew".
(1:00) (B/B) - UR English dubbed
narration
EXPERIENCE PREFERRED,
BUT NOT ESSENTIAL
(1982)
A British college girl takes a summer job at a Welsh hotel in 1962
and comes of age. Gentle English comedy.
(1:17) (A/A) - OP
FELLINI'S CASANOVA (1975)
Directed by Federico Fellini. Starring Donald Sutherland over-the-top
and campy
as the infamous seducer; a very bizarre film, with eye-popping sets
and costumes.
(2:45) (B/B) in English - UR
FELLINI'S ROMA (1972)
With an ever-keen eye for the bizarre, Fellini looks fondly back
upon the Rome
of his youth and the events, both real and imagined, that shaped
his life.
~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide
FELLINI'S SATYRICON (1970)
Directed by Federico Fellini. An epic spectacle that recreates
the bawdy and lecherous days
of Nero's reign in ancient Rome; it immerses you in a universe unconcerned
with human dignity
and obsessed with perverse sex, forced or purchased.
(2:10) (A/A) - OP
Italian with English subtitles, letterboxed
GERMANY IN AUTUMN (1978)
A series of short cinematic statements by various German directors,
including Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Volker Schlondorff, and Heinrich
Boll.
(2:14) (A/A) - OP
German with English subtitles
GERTRUD (1964)
Directed by Carl Dreyer. A woman cant get love from her husband,
her younger lover,
or her former lover, so she retreats entirely from the world of
men; a masterpiece
of pared-down visual simplicity, with many long, static takes
(1:30) (A/A) - OP
German with English subtitles
HEIMAT (1984)
Directed by Edgar Reitz. A milestone epic German miniseries,
the saga of one German family
in a provincial village from the end of WWI through 1982.
It was filmed over a two year period,
and features 28 leading characters and 140 speaking roles.
A singular film event!
(15:30) (B/B) - OP German
with English subtitles
HEIMAT II (1992)
Directed by Edgar Reitz. The equally stunning and even longer
German miniseries sequel
to the classic original; it combines with its predecessor to offer
a vivid portrait of Germany
during the 20th century. It tells the story of Herrmann Simon,
a young musician-composer,
and how his life evolves in Munich between 1960 and 1970.
There are 2143 pages of script,
with 71 leading roles, 310 supporting, and 2300 extras.
It took Reitz six years to write it, and 557 days to film it.
(25:30) (B/B) - OP
German with English subtitles
I AM CURIOUS (YELLOW) (1968)
Directed by Vilgot Sjoman. A groundbreaking Swedish sex film
is the story
of a young actress/activist, her evolving political conciousness,
and her affairs.
(1:35) (B/B) - OP
I AM CURIOUS (BLUE) (1969)
Directed by Vilgot Sjoman. Companion film to YELLOW.
(1:30) (B/B) - OP
THE INHERITORS (1984)
Directed by Walter Bannert. A stark and disturbing drama that
details the rise
of neo-Nazism in contemporary Germany. (1:29)
(A/A) - OP English dubbed
THE INNOCENT (1976)
Directed by Luschino Visconti. Starring Giancarlo Giannini
as an aristocrat with a beautiful
lover (Jennifer O'Neill); when his wife takes a lover of her own,
he plots revenge
(1:55) (A/A) - OP English
dubbed
JUD SUSS (1940)
An infamous and long unseen Nazi propaganda drama.
(1:40) (B/B) - UR
German with English subtitles
JUST A GIGOLO
Directed by David Hemmings. Starring David Bowie, Marlene Dietrich.
No review yet.
(2:00) (A/A) - OP
KAMIKAZE 87 (1983)
An unemployed electronics whiz addicted to television invents
an electronic gun that allows him
to kill TV newscasters that he despises. A cadre of famous
scientists are brought together to solve the
murders. A rare instance of Rainer Werner Fassbinder acting
outside of his own films, and Franco Nero.
(1:45) ( / ) - OP
LA GRANDE CEREMONIAL
Written by Fernando Arrabal.
LA NOTTE
Directed by Michelangelo Antonioni.
L'AVVENTURA (1963)
Directed by Michelangelo Antonioni. A groundbreaking drama
about a woman who
mysteriously disappears on an uninhabited island after quarreling
with her lover;
he and a friend search for her, and commence an affair.
(2:25) (A/A) - OP Italian with English
subtitles
LIFE IS BEAUTIFUL (1979)
This is NOT the overrated, cutesy Roberto Benigni film!!
It stars Giancarlo Giannini
as a man living in Lisbon, Portugal, who is immune to the explosive
political unrest brewing
around him, until he is caught up in a nightmarish whirlpool of
events that will forever alter his life.
Also starring Ornella Muti.
(1:40) (A) - OP
Italian with English subtitles
LOVE AND ANARCHY (1974)
Directed by Lina Wertmuller. Starring Giancarlo Giannini as
a freckled face country bumpkin
who hides out in a whorehouse, making plans to assassinate Mussolini
(1:45) (A/A) - OP
Italian with English subtitles, letterboxed
MOHAMMAD, MESSENGER OF GOD
aka THE
MESSAGE (1976)
Directed by Moustapha Akkad. An infamous box office flop that
attempts to show the rise
of the Muslim religion and the life of their messiah (although,
due to threats by fundamentalists,
they couldnt actually "show" the image of Mohammad, so whenever
he is onscreen, the camera
is filming from his POV). Very strange and violent document.
Includes "making of" docu, original theatrical trailers.
(4:00) (A/A) - OP English language,
letterboxed
MONTENEGRO (1981)
Directed by Dusan Makavejev. Starring Susan Anspach as a repressed,
unloved young American
wife of a Swedish businessman (Erland Josephson). She finds
liberation when she joins a
carnal carnival of Slavic immigrants (and finds romance with a young
laborer).
(1:40) (A/A) - OP
English language, letterboxed
THE MOTHER AND THE WHORE (1975)
Directed by Jean Eustache. A garrulous, humorous, provocative,
and erotic classic tells the story
of Alexandre, who lives with Marie, an older woman, and what happens
when they enter into a
menage-a-trois with the sexually liberated Veronika. Shot
on an ultra-low budget in Eustache's apartment.
Much of it consists of revealing, brilliantly acted monologues,
conversations, and set pieces which
explore emotion and sexuality.
(3:30) (B/B) French with English subtitles
MY AMERICAN COUSIN (1986)
Canadian independant film about a bored 12 year old girl, and what
happens
when she is visited one summer by her hunk of a cousin from the
states.
(1:34) (A/A) - OP
THE MYSTERY OF KASPAR HAUSER (1975)
Directed by Werner Herzog. The story of a man who, kept in
captivity from birth,
appears in Nuremberg during the 1820's and must adjust to society.
(1:27) (B/B) screener version
with warning caption, in German with English subtitles
NOSFERATU IN VENICE (1989)
Ultrarare sequel to the classic German horror film isnt directed
by
Werner Herzog, but it does have the irreplaceable Klaus Kinski
( : ) (B/B) - UR
English language, letterboxed
NOSTALGHIA (1983)
Directed by Andrei Tarkovsky. The poetic tale of a Russian
poet who, in the company of a
beautiful Italian interpreter, sets out on a spiritual journey through
Italy
(2:00) (B/B) Russian with
English subtitles
OLYMPIA (1936)
Directed by Leni Riefenstahl. A graceful and beautifully
filmed and edited record of the 1936 Olympics
in Berlin. The greatest sports film of all time! Contains
all of the Hitler footage edited out of other prints.
(4:00) (A/A) - OP English
language
THE PASSION OF JOAN OF ARC (1928)
Directed by Carl Dreyer. An account of the trial of the Saint on
the final day prior to her being burned at the
stake; one of the most acclaimed films in cinema history, with an
astonishing performance by Marie Falconetti
(1:22) (A/A) - OP silent,
subtitled
PIXOTE (1981)
Directed by Hector Babenco. A searing and heartbreaking drama
about a baby-faced,
ten year old street thug who becomes involved in drug dealing, prostitution,
and murder.
(2:08) (B/B) - OP
Spanish with English subtitles
RED DESERT (1964)
Directed by Michelangelo Antonioni. A multilayered psychological
drama about a modern woman
improsoned by her alienation and neurosis, whose only two choices
are to accept her dreary
reality or to escape into fantasy (2:00)
(B/B) - OP Italian with English subtitles
ROGOPAG (1961)
four stories, directed by Rossellini, Godard, Pasolini, and G?... no review yet
THE SACRIFICE (1986)
Directed by Andrei Tarkovsky. A controversial allegory about
the plight of a middle aged
intellectual who's alone with a group of friends on a remote island;
there's a nuclear attack,
and he makes a pact with God. The final scene is an unforgettable,
unbroken 10 minute take.
(2:25) (B/B) - OP
Russian with English subtitles
SCREAM OF STONE (1991)
Directed by Werner Herzog. A rare mountain climbing thriller
with Donald Sutherland
( : ) (A/A) - UR English
language with Portuguese subtitles
THE SEDUCTION OF MIMI (1973)
Directed by Lina Wertmuller. Starring Giancarlo Giannini as
a simple worker with leftist inclinations
who falls in love with a beautiful anarchist, yet finds himself
inexorably aligned with fascists; an earthy
and wildly funny film that has one of the most hilarious sex scenes
in cinematic history.
Remade by Richard Pryor as "Which Way Is Up?" (listed in "Cult K-Z")
(1:40) (A/A) - OP
Italian with English subtitles, letterboxed
THE SENSUAL MAN (1977)
Starring Giancarlo Giannini in a spin on the "Man Who Loved Women"
theme
(1:45) (A/A) - OP
English dubbed
SEVEN BEAUTIES (1976)
Directed by Lina Wertmuller. One of the most chilling and heartbreaking
films Ive ever seen,
the story of a Don Juan and his odyssey through the horrors of WWII.
His confrontation
with a grotesquely fat female commandant is alternately hilarious
and deeply disturbing.
(1:55) (A/A) Italian with
English subtitles OR
English dubbed, letterboxed
SIGNS OF LIFE (1969)
Werner Herzog's debut feature is a Kafkaesque psychodrama wet during
WWII, about a lonely GI
stationed with two comrades on the remote Greek island of Kos; while
he is miles away from
combat and violence, he finds it difficult to accept the peace and
tranquility of the isle.
(1:30) (B/B) German
with English subtitles
SOLARIS (1972)
Directed by Andrei Tarkovsky. A stunning and lyrical masterpiece
that is the Soviet answer
to Kubrick's "2001"; it chronicles what happens when an astronaut
journeys to an orbiting space station,
and discovers that the planet it orbits around is sentient; based
on a novel by Stanislaw Lem.
(2:40) (A/A) Russian with
English subtitles, letterboxed
SOTTO, SOTTO (1985)
Directed by Lina Wertmuller. A comedy about the romantic
attraction between a married woman and her
long-time best friend; the husband, a sexist brute with an easily
bruised ego, proceeds to go hilariously berserk
(1:45) (A/A) - OP
Italian with English subtitles
SPIRITS OF THE DEAD (1969)
Three short films based upon the writings of Edgar Allan Poe; "Metzengerstein"
(dir Roger Vadim),
"William Wilson" (dir Louis Malle), and "Toby Dammit" (dir Federico
Fellini),
starring Brigitte Bardot, Alain Delon, Jane Fonda, and Terence Stamp
(2:00) (B/B) - OP
English dubbed, letterboxed, also have French version w English subtitles
STALKER (1979)
Directed by Andrei Tarkovsky. An eerily abstract tale chronicling
what happens when the
title character guides a pair of intellectuals (one a writer, the
other a scientist) through a forbidden
"zone"; they are in search of a "room" in which they hope to learn
the "truth". Stunning visuals.
(2:40) (A/A) Russian
with English subtitles
THE STATE OF THINGS(1983)
Directed by Wim Wenders.
SWANN IN LOVE (1983)
Directed by Volker Schlondorff. An adaption of a Proust masterpiece,
starring Jeremy Irons
in the title role as a wealthy, elegant aristocrat who falls obsessively
in love with socially
inferior Ornella Muti. Swann has been accepted into the elite
circles despite his being a Jew,
but his position is threatened by his self-destructive infatuation.
Cinematography by Sven Nykvist.
(1:50) (A/A) - French with
English subtitles, letterboxed
SWEET MOVIE (1974)
Directed by Dusan Makavejev. An extremely unconventional two-part
parable, exploring the manner
in which both capitalist and communist systems exploit the masses
and the individual. The film is surreal
and satirical; some will find it profound, others a puzzlement.
NC-17.
(1:35) (A/A) - OP
Serbian with English subtitles
SWEPT AWAY (1975)
Directed by Lina Wertmuller. A wealthy, selfish, liberated
capitalistic woman (Mariangela Melato)
and a crude, fumbling communistic yacht-hand (Giancarlo Giannini)
are marooned on a Mediterranean
island. They are stripped of all social and political standing
and their roles are reversed.
Another foreign film which is funnier in it's English dubbed version.
(1:50) (A/A) Italian
with English subtitles OR
English dubbed, letterboxed
TESS (1979)
Roman Polanski's masterpiece that introduced Nastassia Kinski (Klaus'
daughter) to the filmworld.
She plays the daughter of a nobleman, who goes to live with her
rich cousin, who seduces Tess and
gets her pregnant (the child dies in infancy). While attempting
to escape from her destiny, she meets
a pastor's son, who falls in love with her. They marry, and
on her wedding night, Tess reveals her past to him.
He cannot forgive her and deserts her. Tess is driven to extreme
means to survive.
Oscar Best Cinematography.
(2:45) (A/A) - OP
LETTERBOXED PRINT!
TIEFLAND (1945)
Directed by Leni Riefenstahl.
THE TOUCH (1971)
Directed by Ingmar Bergman. An interesting study of human relations
as Bibi Andersson falls
for an archeologist (Elliot Gould), despite her marriage to a doctor
(Max Von Sydow)
(1:55) (A/A) - OP English
language
TRIUMPH OF THE WILL (1935)
Directed by Leni Riefenstahl. THE classic Nazi propaganda film,
a fascinating
and frightening chronicle of Hitler's 1934 Nuremberg rallies
(1:55) (A/A) - OP
German with English subtitles
VAMPYR (1936)
Directed by Carl Dreyer. A classic chiller about a young man
and his involvement
with a pair of sisters and their father, all of whom are victimized
by a vampire.
Dreyer's use of light, shadow, settings, and camera movement creat
and sustain a very eerie mood.
(1:10) (A) - OP
German with English subtitles
VIVA LA MUERTE (1971)
Directed by Fernando Arrabal. A disturbing and very surreal
film very much in the vein
of Alejandro Jodorowsky's work. GLITCHY
PRINT (1:45)
(C/C) - UR Spanish with NO subtitles!
THE WAGES OF FEAR (1955)
Directed by Henri Georges Clouziot. The original SORCERER.
Restored Criterion print. (2:30)
(A/A) subtitled
WOYZECK (1978)
Directed by Werner Herzog. Starring Klaus Kinski as an otherwise
ordinary man who plunges
into madness and becomes a murderer.
(1:45) (A) - OP German with English subtitles
WR: MYSTERIES OF THE ORGANISM (1971)
Directed by Dusan Makavejev. A one-of-a-kind film which unites
fiction and fact as it tells a
satiric tale of a romantic encounter between a charming, sexually
liberated Yugoslav woman
and a repressed Russian figure skater. Makavejev examines
the relationship between
sexual repression and political opression; the film also serves
as an exploration of the
life and work of the psychoanalyst / sexologist Wilhelm Reich.
NC-17.
(1:25) (A/A) - OP
Serbian with English subtitles
WRONG MOVE
Directed by Wim Wenders.
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