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Saturday Matinee: Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans
Review: Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans By Jessica Winter Source: Film Comment When is the audience allowed to laugh at a serious movie? How do you gauge whether the laughter expresses surprise, shock, nervousness, disdain, feigned superiority, genuine … Continue reading
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Tagged Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans, cult movie, Nicolas Cage, Werner Herzog
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Saturday Matinee: Death Laid an Egg
Synopsis by Robert Firsching Source: AllMovie This is a deliriously strange thriller about a scientist (Jean-Louis Trintignant) who is breeding headless, boneless chickens at a high-tech farm. He’s having an affair with Ewa Aulin, who is plotting with him to … Continue reading
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Tagged cult movie, Ewa Aulin, giallo, Gina Lollobrigida, Italian Cinema, Jean-Louis Trintignant
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Saturday Matinee: Trust
“Trust” (1990) is an independent comedy written and directed by Hal Hartley about the relationship between misfits Maria (Adrienne Shelly) and Matthew (Martin Donovan) who are equally alienated in their stifling Long Island town. Equal parts stylized and realistic with … Continue reading
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Tagged Adrienne Shelly, cult movie, Hal Hartley, Independent Film, Martin Donovan
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Saturday Matinee: Stalker
Posted in Art, culture, Dystopia, Film, Philosophy, Saturday Matinee, society, Video
Tagged Andrei Tarkovsky, Arkady, Boris Strugatsky, cult movie, Dystopia, Roadside Picnic, Russian Cinema, Science fiction, Stalker
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Sunday Matinee: The Spook Who Sat by the Door
“The Spook Who Sat by the Door” (1973) is one of the most unabashedly radical revenge fantasies ever filmed. Based on the 1969 novel by Sam Greenlee, the film was directed by Ivan Dixon, and co-produced by Dixon and Greenlee, … Continue reading
Saturday Matinee: Bad Boy Bubby
In “Bad Boy Bubby” (1993), an Australian film by writer/director Rolf de Heer, Nicholas Hope gives a brilliant performance as Bubby, a man who’s been kept confined and abused physically and emotionally by his mother for 35 years. He eventually … Continue reading
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Tagged Australian film, Bad Boy Bubby, cult cinema, cult movie, Nicholas Hope, Rolf de Heer
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Saturday Matinee: What to Do in Case of Fire?
“What to Do in Case of Fire?” (2001) opens with a montage of young anarchist squatters fighting police, making propaganda films, and constructing a homemade bomb in Berlin circa 1987. They plan to blow up a vacant mansion but the … Continue reading
Saturday Matinee: Battle Royale
With the recent release of the Hunger Games sequel, it seems fitting to feature a cult classic that may have been the inspiration for that series: “Battle Royale”. Released in 2000, it was Kinji Fukasaku’s final film, a director previously … Continue reading
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