Ménilmontant and Emak-Bakia movie reviews: Avant-Garde Paris’ memorable offerings for those willing to take a chance.
Experimental | Underground Movies
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Jesus Franco a.k.a. Jess Franco: Cult sex & horror filmmaker. Jesús Franco a.k.a. Jess Franco: Cult sex & horror Spanish filmmaker dead at 82 “I think I was born because…
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Carlos Reichenbach: The Forbidden Paradise / O Paraíso Proibido. Carlos Reichenbach, a Brazilian filmmaker and cinematographer perhaps best known for his sex comedies and dramas of the 1970s and early 1980s,…
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Clara Bow, Mantrap: The Silent Era’s “It Girl.” What do Andrei Tarkovsky, Edward G. Robinson, Clara Bow, Arthur Conan Doyle, and Audrey Hepburn have in common? Easy. They’ll all be…
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“Gay zombie porn”: Bruce La Bruce’s L.A. Zombie, in which gay porn star François Sagat is a Los Angeles zombie (or a schizophrenic homeless man?) who uses (really kinky?) sex…
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Gay brothers’ taboo affair: Rafael Cardoso and João Gabriel Vasconcellos in Aluízio Abranches’ From Beginning to End. Aluízio Abranches’ Do Começo ao Fim / From Beginning to End, Donatella Maiorca’s…
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Super 8½ (1994) movie review: Underground Bruce La Bruce feature is a subversive, self-indulgently chaotic Citizen Kane + Fellini + gay explicit sex mélange.
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American Primitive with Tate Donovan and Adam Pascal. July 19: The tale of a poor backwater family struggling against poverty, addiction, and assorted personal and social maladies, Tina Mabry’s Mississippi…
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Darfur Movie: The Devil Came on Horseback. Darfur Now and The Devil Came on Horseback, both focusing on the ongoing Darfur crisis, will screen as part of the Academy of…
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London Lesbian & Gay Film Festival Friday, March 27, highlights Schedule and synopses from the LLGFF website The Naked Civil Servant Directed by: Jack Gold. Cast: John Hurt, Liz Gebhardt,…
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An Ed Wood film from 1971, the long-thought (partially) lost sexually explicit supernatural tale Necromania was an adult genre groundbreaker.
The name George Kuchar (seen on the right, with Marion Eaton in Thundercrack!) will probably not ring a bell to the vast majority of moviegoers anywhere in the world. Yet,…
Fetish Festival: Featured movies include Modern Love Is Automatic by Zach Clark. Kiel’s Fetish Film Festival, which runs from Oct. 29-31 at the Traum-Kino in the northern German city, prides…
Dennis Lim in the New York Times: “When referring to the Portuguese director Manoel de Oliveira, it is now – and has been for some time – customary to affix…