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GENGHIS BLUES (1999)

  88 minutes Director: Roko Belic Producer: Roko Belic, Adrian Belic   Filmmaker Roko Belic follows Paul Pena; a blind, accomplished guitarist into the heartlands of Tuva to seek out and compete in the triennial throatsinging festival there. If this wasn’t endearing / surreal enough, the back-story sounds like something out of ‘Amélie’ (2001); Pena stumbles ...

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THE VERDICT (1982)

  129 minutes Director: Sidney Lumet Producer: David Brown, Richard D. Zanuck Cinematography: Andrzej Bartkowiak   Screenwriter David Mamet’s second offering of a script is so raw and powerful you’ll be left feeling affected by this film. It’s his logic and compassion that takes centre stage in this courtroom drama that takes a page out of ...

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LEAVE HER TO HEAVEN (1945)

  110 minutes Director: John M. Stahl Producer: William A. Bacher Cinematography: Leon Shamroy    Leave Her To Heaven. A film filled with gooey sentiment, a cringe worthy ending and a terrible support cast (even Vincent Price hams it up).   In lieu of all these clangers, why is Leave Her To Heaven one of the most ...

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THE BLACK HOLE (1979)

98 minutes Director: Gary Nelson Producer: Ron W. Miller Cinematography: Frank Phillips    Too horrific to be considered a children’s film yet too hokey to be shown back to back with ‘Halloween’, ‘The Black Hole’ over the years has entered obscurity due to its unclassifiable nature. A modest ...

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LA BÊTE / THE BEAST (1975)

98 minutes Director: Walerian Borowczyk Producer: Anatole Dauman Cinematography: Bernard Daillencourt, Marcel Grignon   Walerian Borowcyk, a Polish director with a flair for fantasy porn vaguely masked as erotic arthouse, outdid himself with La Bête. Everything from puppetry erections, masturbating with a rose, bestial fellatio, is in this filmic curiosity. Put it this way, it’s ...

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SORCERER (1977)

 Duration: 95 minutes Director: William Friedkin Producer: William Friedkin Cinematography:  John M. Stephens, Dick Bush    Perhaps more soul destroying than epic films which are never made (Jodorowsky’s Dune and Welles’ Heart of Darkness spring to mind) are the films, which are made but not seen on their ...

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QUATERMASS AND THE PIT (1967)

Also known as: FIVE MILLION YEARS TO EARTH 97 minutes Dir: Roy Ward Baker Producer: Anthony Nelson Keys Cinematography: Arthur Grant Prince George has just been presented before us all while I’m writing a film review about the awakening of a new insect overlord on planet earth. Coincidence? Cognitive association? Whatever the reason, before we’re impaled in the ...

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LES VAMPIRES (1915)

417 minutes Dir: Louis Feuillade Producer: Gaumont Cinematography: Manichoux If you like your buttocks raw but you don’t want to pay someone for privilege, clocking in at 417 minutes is Les Vampires, a crime serial that debuted all the way back ...

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WIZARDS (1977)

80 minutes Dir: Ralph Bakshi Producer: Ralph Bakshi Cinematography: Ted C. Bemiller I’ve stumbled upon antiquated animators living in the farthest flung inhabitations known to mother earth, scrambling and eeking out some living. In short, animation isn’t for those slight of ...

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THE SPIRIT OF THE BEEHIVE (1973)

(El espíritu de la colmena) 97 minutes Dir: Victor Erice Producer: Elias Querejeta Cinematography: Luis Cuadrado If ever you suffer from Nietzche nihilism and believe that we’re all born to die alone and detached, ‘The Spirit Of The ...

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