The Cool School is the story of the Ferus Gallery, which nurtured Los Angeles’s first significant post-war artists between 1957 and 1966. In late 1956, medical-school dropout Walter Hopps met a...Read More
The Criminal Life of Archibaldo de la Cruz is executed in traditional Bunuel fashion, where macabre meets comedy. The story begins when an overindulged young boy of ‘privilege’ is shown a music...Read More
Featuring performance footage and commentary from musicians, fans and critics, this in-depth analysis of alternative rock band the Cure examines the influence of the unique group that came of a...Read More
For their penultimate collaboration, Umberto Lenzi and producer Luciano Martino (Eaten Alive!) brought together Tomas Milian as a cold-blooded crime boss known as ‘The Chinaman,’ John Saxon as ...Read More
From "Lemmy" filmmaker Wes Orshoski comes the story of the long-ignored pioneers of punk: The Damned, the first U.K. punks on wax and the first to cross the Atlantic. "THE DAMNED: Don't You Wis...Read More
1950s Archival short subject “The Dance Of Tomorrow,” featuring a glimpse into the future of automobiles.
Before Charlie Ahearn shot his seminal hip-hop film "Wild Style" in 1982, he was directly exposed to the bourgeoning hip-hop, break-dancing and graffiti movement, while shooting his super-8 mar...Read More
A gang of young people call themselves the Living Dead. They terrorize the population from their small town. After an agreement with the devil, if they kill themselves firmly believing in it, t...Read More
The forbidden-love story THE DEBUT (1977) was the first full-length feature from pioneering filmmaker Nouchka van Brakel. Following the theme of Stanley Kubrick's LOLITA (1962) and Michael Powe...Read More
The first entry in the Decline series sheds a light on Los Angeles’ punk scene of the late 1970s. Featuring interviews and performances by some of the most seminal acts of the era like Black Fl...Read More
Decline of Western Civilization III, the final entry in Spheeris’ influential documentary series, follows the lives of the homeless teenagers that made up the Los Angeles gutter punk scene. The...Read More
Decline of Western Civilization Part Two: The Metal Years was Penelope Spheeris’ followup to the original Decline. Shifting her focus to Los Angeles’ metal scene and the clubs and bands that su...Read More
Ittetsu Nemoto, a former punk-turned-Buddhist-priest in Japan, has made a career out of helping suicidal people find reasons to live. But this work has come increasingly at the cost of his own ...Read More
In 1981, RAI-TV presented six hour-long films based on stories by 19th century horror/fantasy authors from such directors as Giulio Questi (Django, Kill!), Marcello Aliprandi (A Whisper In The ...Read More
The final work of legendary director Mario Bava and the debut of his son Lamberto Bava as co-director. Daria Nicolodi and Marc Porel star in this elegant and haunting tale of supernatural love ...Read More
In this third episode, the vengeful spirit of a jilted groom curses the affair between an English author and his beautiful young lover. William Berger, Rada Rassimov and Franco Ressel star in t...Read More
In this fourth episode, directed by Marcello Aliprandi: In an age of rogues, gallows and spellcasters, the hand of a cuckolded young husband takes on a murderous life of its own. Veronica Lario...Read More
This fifth episode, adapted and directed by Tomaso Sherman: On the island of Samoa, a writer shares the account of a young sailor who acquires a mysterious bottle containing a demon that will g...Read More
In the final episode a destitute medical student agrees to become the sole heir to a wealthy old man's sizable fortune only to discover that his inheritance may come at the ultimate price. Alfr...Read More
In perhaps his most rarely seen film, Godfather Of Gore Lucio Fulci takes on the erotic thriller genre and unleashes the ultimate onslaught of glossy depravity: Brett Halsey (DEMONIA, THE RETUR...Read More