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 Pick-Up:
An off-beat story about two young women whose lives are forever changed when they hitchhike a ride in a mobile home.
The Sister-In-Law:
A punchy story about the sexual entanglements of four people and how their moral conflicts lead to heartache and destruction.
The Stepmother:
A
high-living architect who - as a result of his violent temper - finds
himself enmeshed in two accidental deaths. When he discovers his 2nd
wife having an affair with his teenage son...there's almost a third
murder!
The Teacher:
She corrupted the youthful morality of an entire school!
An
explosively tense story about a beautiful, provocative 28-year-old high
school teacher whose seduction of one particular student proves fatal.
Trip with the Teacher:
A
chilling experience in terror as a group of female students and their
pretty teacher are ambushed, while on a field trip, by two sadistic
bikers, forcing the women to learn a lesson in survival.
Best Friends:
Two young couples taste the free and easy life on a cross country motor-home tour until love backfires and tragedy follows.
Cindy and Donna:
Two
sisters, growing up in a middle-class home with parents too preoccupied
with booze and sex, find that being grown up doesn't mean acting like
their folks, as experiments with drugs and sex teach them.
Malibu High:
High
school senior Kim is having her share of problems. Her grades are poor,
her boyfriend dumped her for a rich girl and her financial situation is
disastrous. So she makes an after hours deal with one of her teachers
to improve her grade point average. Soon, she is working her way
through the faculty room and taking on paying customers.
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- 9 songs - Unrated Full Uncut Version...
Maverick director Michael Winterbottom wondered about the double
standard of why novels can have explicit sex scenes and be legit and
films could not. So his short film of a relationship based solely on
sex and a love for music is the result of that thought. If the
definition of a porn film is to shoot actors performing graphic sex
scenes for real, then 9 Songs qualifies. It certainly doesn't
feel or look like your standard whoopdee-do XXX feature. It's as glossy
and low-budget arty as Winterbottom's 24 Hour Party People or I Want You.
But yeah, Matt and Lisa do everything to each other, and the actors are
not "just acting" in some of the sex scenes. No matter how landmark the
movie might be, there is not much story here (at least a book with hot
sex often has a good story to it). Lisa is an American drifter in
London who hooks up with Matt, a scientist who studies glaciers in
Antarctica. They have sex and visit nine rock concerts including Franz
Ferdinand and The Dandy Warhols. As advertised, you can't find these
musical performances anywhere else, but we just see them from way back
in the crowd. The film has an essence of how someone can find bliss in
another person's body, and the emotional, magical weight that can hold
over you. But that spell doesn't last. Since the sex is real,
Winterbottom had to cast unknown actors, and they really don't make an
impression, especially with the lack of story.
- Salo, or the 120 Days of Sodom...
Pier Paolo Pasolini s notorious final film, Salò, or the 120 Days of
Sodom, has been called nauseating, shocking, depraved, pornographic . .
. it s also a masterpiece. The controversial poet, novelist, and
filmmaker s transposition of the Marquis de Sade s 18th-century opus of
torture and degradation to 1944 Fascist Italy remains one of the most
passionately debated films of all time, a thought-provoking inquiry
into the political, social, and sexual dynamics that define the world
we live in.
- In the Realm of the Senses...
Still censored in its own country, In the Realm of the Senses (Ai no
corrida), by Japanese director Nagisa Oshima, remains one of the most
controversial films of all time. A graphic portrayal of insatiable
sexual desire, Oshima's film, set in 1936 and based on a true incident,
depicts a man and a woman (Tatsuya Fuji and Eiko Matsuda) consumed by a
transcendent, destructive love while living in an era of ever
escalating imperialism and governmental control. Less a work of
pornography than of politics, In the Realm of the Senses is a brave,
taboo-breaking milestone.
- When Night Is Falling...
Throughout Patricia Rozema’s third film, conservatives tangle with
liberals, men with women, and heterosexuals with those of more fluid
sexual persuasions. Surface tension aside, When Night Is Falling
feels more personal than political. Camille (Pascale Bussières) teaches
mythology at a Christian college in Toronto. Her fiancé, Martin (Henry
Czerny, Clear and Present Danger), is a fellow theologian. Their superior, Reverend DeBoer (David Fox, The Saddest Music in the World),
encourages them to marry. When Camille’s dog dies, she neglects to
inform Martin. At a laundromat, she meets Petra (Rachael Crawford), a
circus performer, who offers support. She also leaves her card, so
Camille seeks her out, but when Petra makes a pass, she flees. Petra
tries again, so Camille talks her into being friends, but mutual
attraction proves too strong to resist. A simplistic reading suggests
that the death of a pet can lead to experimentation, except Rozema (I’ve Heard the Mermaids Singing)
aims for a metaphorical reading rather than a literal one. Though the
narrative isn't autobiographical, she also attended a Calvinist
institution (the same one as writer/director Paul Schrader). It's a
testament to her skill that the film feels so fresh, since the
storyline echoes Lianna (the academic milieu) and anticipates Tipping the Velvet
(the circus angle). It's also one of the more quotable same-sex love
stories of the 1990s. As Martin tells Camille, "Maybe you can imagine
more intoxicating options. That's okay--that's what imagination's for."
To Rozema's heroine, however, fulfillment is for experiencing, not imagining.
- Caligula...
Remember the dumbstruck, jaw-dropped expressions on "Springtime for
Hitler's" shocked opening-night audience in Mel Brooks's original film
of The Producers? That will no doubt be your face through much
of the two-and-a-half-hour running time of this infamous 1979
pornographic epic that was a (Penthouse) pet project of
publisher Bob Guccione. That's not necessarily a bad thing. But don't
take our word for it. Listen to Helen Mirren--yes, the Oscar-winning Queen
herself--who stars as Caesonia, Caligula's third wife and "the most
promiscuous woman in Rome" (and in this film's salacious vision of
Pagan Rome, that is saying something). In her very gracious, thoughtful
and candid audio commentary that alone is worth the price of this set,
she remarks, "I think it's a movie that is unlike any other, which is
difficult to achieve." And for those of a more prurient bent, she adds,
"It has an awful lot of bottoms." Malcolm McDowell (A Clockwork Orange)
gives a brave and fearless performance as Caligula, the hated and
feared emperor corrupted by absolute power and no doubt voted Most
Likely to Be Assassinated. The film unflinchingly charts his plummet
into madness and the brutality of his reign in scenes of hardcore sex
and violence that cannot be described here ("I can't watch," Mirren
cries to her interviewers over one scene in which unfortunate
characters are beheaded by a blade-spinning combine. "I can't even
listen to it").
- The Dreamers...
A love letter to movies (and the French new wave of the 1960s in particular), Bernardo Bertolucci's The Dreamers starts with a 1968 riot outside of a Parisian movie palace then burrows into an insular love triangle. Matthew (Michael Pitt, Hedwig and the Angry Inch),
an expatriate American student, bonds with a twin brother and sister,
Isabelle (Eva Green) and Theo (Louis Garrel), over their mutual love of
film--they not only quote lines of dialogue, they act out small bits
and challenge each other to name the cinematic source. Matthew suspects
the twins of incest, but that doesn't stop him from falling into his
own intimacies with Isabelle. As the threesome becomes threatened,
Paris succumbs to student riots. The Dreamers aspires to be
kinky, but the results are more decorative than decadent; nonetheless,
the movie's lively energy recalls the careless and vital exuberance of
Godard and Truffaut.
- Lie With Me...
Shot in sunny Toronto and set to a dreamy score, Lie With Me
looks and sounds like an art film, but the end result isn't quite so
lofty. The plot is thin and the dialogue superfluous, but no
matter--Canada's Clément Virgo (Love Come Down) just wants to
turn you on and he has enlisted two attractive, uninhibited young
performers to assist in his aims. Leila (Lauren Lee Smith, The L Word) and David (Eric Balfour, Six Feet Under)
meet at a party. He's with his girlfriend, but finds himself drawn to
her. The feeling is mutual. She's alone, but quickly finds an
unattached hipster with whom to have a tryst. David catches her in the
act. Instead of turning away, he watches. They start seeing each other
immediately afterwards. "I'm not hooked on danger, [I'm] hooked on
sex," Leila claims, but she isn't exactly the most trustworthy
narrator. She wants a purely physical relationship, while David wants
something more. They return to their old lives, but the obsession
refuses to die. Based on the novella by Virgo's partner, Tamara Berger,Lie With Me plays like a low-budget cross between Adrian Lyne's overrated 9 1/2 Weeks and Wayne Wang's underrated The Center of the World.
- The Voyeur (Director's Cut)...
The Voyeur, based on the famous erotic novel (L'uomo che guarda) by
Alberto Moravia, tells the story of Eduardo "Dodo," who in public is a
professor of French literature but in private a desperately lovesick
cuckold, married to the ever-more-elusive Silvia. His life shattered,
he becomes an onlooker rather than a participant in life. Those around
him, though, seem to be living life to the fullest: his bedridden
father has a scantily clad nurse and a series of lady friends; his
students have unending sexual fun, sometimes in his presence; and even
the public beach has become an orgy ground. Through a series of small
revelations, Dodo slowly comes to realize who his rival is. The
discovery, rather than destroying his marriage, strengthens and renews
it.
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