EDITORIAL HUB FOR CINEPHILES
Drama
“Tokyo Fist” and the Gonzo Cinema of Shinya Tsukamoto
Tsukamoto’s RAGING BULL more or less, TOKYO FIST’s often surreal and disorienting saga brings a fraught romantic triangle to the boxing ring, where passions, regrets and revenge are played out as ferocious bloodsport. The lyric “Love will tear us apart, again” has never rung truer…
Curator’s Pick: “The Legend of the Holy Drinker”
A besotted dream of a very clean tramp, THE LEGEND OF THE HOLY DRINKER is also a throwback to a particular kind of half-logy, umber-infused, myth-laden European arthouse cinema layered thick with obscure portents and kept aloft with lyrical fantasy interludes. It’s so old-fashioned that it’s practically new again.
Mary Jane’s Not Unknown Anymore
MARY JANE’S NOT A VIRGIN ANYMORE (1996) is Riot Grrrl meets CARNAL KNOWLEDGE, celebrating its heroine’s agency by charting her route to it, fueled by feminist sass and a gender-fluid sensibility, lots of raw candor and barbed wit, and the absolute charm of its cast.
Joe (1970)
Bill, a wealthy businessman, confronts his daughter’s drug-dealing boyfriend and in a fit of rage, Bill kills the dealer. Wandering the streets and and pondering …
Kansas City Confidential (1952)
In Kansas City Confidential, four robbers hold up an armored truck, getting away with over a million dollars in cash. Joe Rolfe (John Payne), a …
Lady Cocoa (1975)
Lady Cocoa has a mobster boyfriend, and she’s going to bring him down! With a cast that includes Lola Falana and NFL star “Mean” Joe …
Life and Nothing More (2017)
Stressed by her job in a diner, single mother Regina is raising her two children in northern Florida. When her 14-year-old son Andrew has another …
Mean Johnny Barrows (1976)
Former NFL star Fred Williamson (making his debut as a director) is Johnny Barrows, a soldier dishonorably discharged from the army. He returns home to …
WATCH – 8 1/2 Women
Following the death of a mother, a father and son open up a brothel in their Genevan estate after watching 8½ (1963).
WATCH – The Baby Of Mâcon
A movie about the corruption in all levels of society. A baby is born from a supposed-to-be virgin woman, so a chain of hysteria about divine intervention in the birth takes place.
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