Sex and the Teenage Mind
Bumbling high school geek Virgil Heitmeyer has yet to lose his virginity. A golden opportunity for finally getting deflowered arises after Virgil manages to get closer to the beautiful and…
The Apple War
A German businessman wants to buy land in southern Sweden for a gigantic amusement park, his new project called “Deutschneyland” (a wordplay of Deutschland and Disneyland). Some of the locals…
The Perfect Host
Warwick Wilson is the consummate host. He carefully prepares for a dinner party, the table impeccably set and the duck perfectly timed for 8:30 p.m. John Taylor is a career…
My Back Page
In 1969, Sawada is filled with idealism that permeated that era and starts working as a gonzo journalist for a weekly magazine. Two years later, Sawada interviews activist Umeyama with…
Manhatta
Morning reveals New York harbor, the wharves, the Brooklyn Bridge. A ferry boat docks, disgorging its huddled mass. People move briskly along Wall St. or stroll more languorously through a…
Film About a Woman Who…
Rainer’s landmark film is a meditation on ambivalence that plays with cliché and the conventions of soap opera while telling the story of a woman whose sexual dissatisfaction masks an…
Mr. Right
A girl falls for the “perfect” guy, who happens to have a very fatal flaw: he’s a hitman on the run from the crime cartels who employ him.
Moana
Robert J. Flaherty’s South Seas follow-up to Nanook of the North is a Gauguin idyll moved by “pride of beauty… pride of strength.”
Kid Boots
A salesman is helped out of a jam with an angry customer by a wealthy playboy. In return, he agrees to help the playboy get a divorce from his wife,…
Chinese Roulette
A husband and wife lie to each other about their weekend travel plans, only to both show up at the family’s country house with their lovers.
City Slickers II: The Legend of Curly’s Gold
Mitch Robbins’ 40th birthday begins quite well until he returns home and finds his brother Glen, the black sheep of the family, in his sofa. Nevertheless he is about to…
What! No Beer?
When Prohibition ends, a barber tries to get in the liquor business only to come up against mobsters.