Someone To Love
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Orson Welles gives his final onscreen performance in this Un Certain Regard Cannes Official Selection from independent legend Henry Jaglom. A film director's puzzled search for romance and his attempt to find out why life hasn't worked out quite like anyone expected it to features a starry cast including Sally Kellerman, Oja Kodar, and Andrea Marcovicci. 1987.
The Juniper Tree
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Set in medieval Iceland, The Juniper Tree follows Margit (Björk in a riveting performance) and her older sister Katla (Bryndis Petra Bragadottir) as they flee for safety after their mother is burned to death for witchcraft. Finding shelter and protection with Johan (Valdimar Orn Fygenring), and his resentful young son, Jonas (Geirlaug Sunna Pormar), the sisters help form an impromptu family unit that’s soon strained by Katla’s burgeoning sorcery. Photographed entirely on location in the stunning landscapes of Iceland in spectacular black-and-white by Randy Sellars, The Juniper Tree is a deeply atmospheric film, evocative of Carl Theodor Dreyer’s Day of Wrath and Ingmar Bergman’s The Virgin Spring, and filled with indelible waking dream sequences (courtesy of legendary experimental filmmaker Pat O’Neill). A potent allegory for misogyny and its attendant tragedies, The Juniper Tree is a major rediscovery for art house audiences.
The Trial
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Anthony Perkins (PSYCHO) stars in Orson Welles' adaption of the Franz Kafka novel. A taut psychological thriller and drama about a man who is accused of a mysterious crime that he has no recollection of, caught in a nightmarish labyrinth of bureaucracy leading him to doubt his own innocence.
La Madre Muerta (The Dead Mother)
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Ismael (Karra Elejalde, Timecrimes) breaks into the house of a fine art restorer and shoots the homeowner dead, leaving her daughter orphaned and traumatized for life. Years later Ismael is working in a bar where he sees the daughter again. Paranoid that she has recognised him and will report him, he kidnaps her and holds her hostage, demanding that her hospital pay a ransom for her release. A gothic thriller with pitch-black humour that recalls the Coen brothers, Juanma Bajo Ulloa's sophomore feature won a host of prestigious international awards and was a precursor to the Spanish genre explosion.
Adela Has Not Had Supper Yet
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Within that bizarre flower lies a huge enigma,” muses Nick Carter, America’s Greatest Detective, called to Prague to investigate the case of a missing dog and instead winding up in the jaws of a giant carnivorous plant controlled by his old nemesis, The Gardener, in Czech director Oldřich Lipský’s beloved cult hit. Inspired by the Nick Carter dime novel detective stories created by John R. Coryell, ADELA is an irresistible slapstick combination of 19th century James Bond gadgetry, Little Shop of Horrors, Blake Edwards circa The Pink Panther Strikes Again and Louis Feuillade silent serials like Fantomas. In other words, a sheer delight.
Time of Roses
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Finnish director Risto Jarva’s fascinating, futuristic sci-fi mystery is set in a dystopian, Pop Art-designed world of gleaming white towers, Sony video monitors and inflatable furniture, where the beautiful inhabitants all dress as Edie Sedgwick-like pixie sprites or medieval page boys out of LOGAN’S RUN. A historian of late 20th century culture - “before class boundaries were abolished” – named Raimo (Arto Tuominen) is researching the death many years earlier of a free-spirited erotic model named Saara (Ritva Vepsä) who died under mysterious circumstances. Raimo finds Saara’s identical double – an earthy, uninhibited engineer named Kisse (also played by Vepsä) -- and tries to convince her to re-enact Saara’s life and death for TV.
The Unknown Man Of Shandigor
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Swiss director Jean-Louis Roy’s long-lost mid-1960s Cold War super-spy thriller is a marvelous and surreal hall of mirrors, part-DR. Strangelove, part-Alphaville, with sly nods to British TV shows like “The Avengers.” The film stars a Who’s Who of great Sixties character actors starting with the unforgettable Daniel Emilfork as crazed scientist Herbert Von Krantz, who’s invented a device to sterilize all nuclear weapons.
A mad herd of rival spies are desperate to get their hands on the device, including legendary French singer Serge Gainsbourg as the leader of a sect of bald, turtleneck-wearing assassins, and Jess Franco vet Howard Vernon (The Awful Dr. Orlof). Gainsbourg’s deranged jazz-lounge song, “Bye Bye Mr. Spy” – performed by him on a funeral parlor organ, no less – is arguably the film’s high point. “An accomplished spy is at the same time psychologist, artist, funambulist, conjurer,” to quote one of the characters – and the same could be said of Roy’s exotic camera obscura of B&W Cold War paranoia.
Tracks
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From the producer of "Easy Rider," Dennis Hopper stars as Sgt. Jack Fallen in this Cannes Official Selection. Returning home from the Vietnam War to accompany a friends body across the country via train, Fallen enters a hallucinatory reality of memory, war, and desire. Also starring Dean Stockwell and Taryn Power.
Prague Nights
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In the vein of horror anthologies like Bava's BLACK SABBATH, the long-unseen PRAGUE NIGHTS is a gorgeous and supernatural vision of ancient and modern Prague: caught between Mod Sixties fashions and nightmarish Medieval catacombs, and filled with Qabbalistic magic, occult rituals, clockwork automatons and satanic visitors.
In the first tale, director Jiří Brdečka's stunning "The Last Golem," a young rabbi (Jan Klusák) struggles to fashion a massive, silent giant out of living clay - until he's distracted by a mute servant girl (Lucie Novotná). In the second episode, "Bread Slippers," an 18th-century countess (Teresa Tuszyńska) indulges her passion for sweet cakes, adulterous affairs, and secret kisses with pretty maids - until a mysterious visitor (Josef Somr) whisks her away to an abandoned mansion, where Fate has a different kind of dance in store for her. In the final story, "Poisoned Poisoner," a ravishing murderess in the Middle Ages dispatches lecherous merchants to the tune of upbeat 60s Czech Pop songs (scored by the renowned Zdeněk Liška).
Rem Koolhaas: A Kind of Architect
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Rarely has an architect caused as much sensation outside of the architecture community as Rem Koolhaas. His outstanding creations, such as the Dutch Embassy in Berlin and the Casa da Música concert hall in Porto, are working examples of the Dutchman's visionary theories about architecture and urban society. A Kind of Architect is an engaging portrait of Koolhaas that takes us to the heart of his ideas. Directors Markus Heidingsfelder and Min Tesch have made a visually inventive, thought-provoking film about the architect, prompting Koolhaas to state, "It's the only film about me that I have liked."
Turn of the Century: Episode 01
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Dame Darcy + Isabelle Doll Banjo Intro, Dame Darcy sings, The Walrus and the Carpenter, I Dream of Jeannie, Dame Darcy Plays, Contorted Poetry, Decombreit, Dutch Dancers, Dutchess and Doppleganger, Stockton
Turn of the Century: Episode 02
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Dame Darcy Intro, June Flowers, Sacrum Torch, Long Tall Salty, Golden Shoes, Dame Darcy, Prof. Dustcoughs Night At Saint Barts, Banjo Fun, PussBucket, Various and Sundry Songs for your Amusement, Dame Darcy - Storms on the Ocean, Morven’s House, Dutch Dancers.
Turn of the Century: Episode 03 - Cakewalk Part 1
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“Dem Bones” Dance, Cake Contest, “Lady Godiva” Greta, Witchcraft through the ages.
Turn of the Century: Episode 04 - Cakewalk Part 2
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June Jones Intro, Wolf and the Kids, June Jones Again, Cake Walk Bday Party, Professor Bonehead is Shipwrecked, Planet Filly Satnin Daddy, My Little Chickadee, Top Dancing Astronaut on the Moon.
Turn of the Century: Episode 05 - Birthday Panties
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Halloween is Fun Shadow, Guy Maddin The Redon Film, Wrestling Part II, The Devils, B-Day Panties, Cabaret On Fire (Silent) Giant woman in Corset Show Girl to Burlesque, B-Day Cake, Midnight Mirage.
Turn of the Century: Episode 06 - Cabaret Review
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Clips of DD in Tub, Red Vixen + Blue Angle, Burlesque Shows
Turn of the Century: Episode 07 - Chock Full O' Mits
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Darcy w/ Antoharp Princess Singing Harmony, The Anatomy Lesson, Luminosities, Such Ruins, Sense of Sadness, More Antoharp Princess and Darcy, Films
Turn of the Century: Episode 08 - Apple Girls
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“Sleep Walker” Angst onde Ghunde, Apple Girls, June Flowers, Singing Saw Dame Darcy, Fantom of the Opera, Tiny Tim & Tiny Town, Hunch Back of Notre Dame, Banjo Playing.
Turn of the Century: Episode 09 - Choo Choo Train Show
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Choo-Choo Intro, Weimar, ChooChoo Song, Cartoon, Banjo Pete Song, Montag: Train Tour, Karen Black ‘Kembra Pfahler’ - Weird Victorian Video , France Branch Dance, Great Illusion Magic Show, Scalding Hot Tea Dance
Turn of the Century: Episode 10 Absenthe Show
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DD turning around w/ Chandiler, Banjo Pete Intro, Toss Pot Twins, DD w/Chandiler Again, Absenta, The Amazing Oswald, DD w/ Chandiler Again, Trifles overhead projector, Tobacco Ken, The dog and his various merits, DD w/ Chandiler
Turn of the Century: Episode 11 - Auto Hypnomania
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Red Gingham Intro, Pygmies on Film, “Auto-Hypnomania” Film - Next Attraction, Fox on Wall - Singing Saw, Hamlet - Ghost Scene, “Spanks for the Memories”, Gingham Dress Ending.
Turn of the Century: Episode 12 - County Fair
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Banjo Grass Intro, Animated Musical Number, Banjo/Grass/Dance, County Fair, Banjo Dance, Theatre Scene, Jumping-Jesters / Fair, Panties Dance, Glamorous Quilted, Rolling on Grass.
Turn of the Century: Episode 13 - Dame Darcy Sings in French
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Intro w/Fancy French Costume, Old Vaudeville Clip, Dancing w/Parisols, Blessed Elisium Propaganda film, Poetry w/ Dame Darcy + Karen and other Girl, Dreams of a fiend, Dame Darcy Signs in French, Set of Meatcake the Movie, Edison Kinscope Films the Kiss
Turn of the Century: Episode 14 - Crazy in the Park with Dame
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“Whatanice day”, DD in Park Hits Ross in the Face, Phantom Carrage, DD in Park, That Fatal Sneeze, DD in park Laughing and Skipping, Madcap Matador, How it Feels to be Run Over.
Turn of the Century: Episode 15 - Dance of Death
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Maury Povich Intro, The Dance of Death, Caught in a Cabaret,David’s Bow-Tie Lesson, Wrestling Finale, Job (Movie), Dame Darcy + Countessa say Hail Mary’s
Turn of the Century: Episode 16 - Doll Trolly Ahoy
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Dolls Hosting Intro, “The Golden Beetle” Film, Dolls Riding, Trolly Ahoy!, Dolls Sing Song, “Where is Isabelle?” Russian navy Silent Film, Victorian Lady Stares at Flower, Aladdin Film.
Turn of the Century: Episode 17 - Fairey Tale
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The Sirens and the Sailors, Transatlantic, The jalerwalkie Poem, Beauty and the Beast, Fairyland by Betty Muffin,Trailer for Art School movie, Frogland, Starwitch
Turn of the Century: Episode 18 - Ferrum 5000
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Intro with DD in Parlor, The Pumpkin Race, Ferrum 500 -(Karen Black) ‘Kembra Pfahler, The Ghost Ship.
Turn of the Century: Episode 19 - Grail Time Out
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Banjo Time w/ Dame Darcy, In Search of Isabelle Doll, Dutchess and Doppelgänger, Welches Creek - Film, Drawing Meat Cake Comics published by Fantagraphics, Midnight Mirage Featuring Dame Darcy
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