“The best explanation of this film is that, from the standpoint of pure reason, there is no explanation.”
Synopsis:
A group of bourgeois dinner guests find themselves inexplicably unable to leave once the party is over.
Genres:
Black Comedy
Bourgeois Society
Buñuel Films
Get Together
Living Nightmare
Surrealism
Response to Peary’s Review:
Peary refers to this extended allegory on [...]
Posted on August 31st, 2006 by admin
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“Sensitive men have been fretting over G-strings for years…”
Synopsis:
A door-to-door salesman (Bill Teas) develops the uncanny ability to see women without their clothes on.
Genres:
Comedy
Peeping Toms
Russ Meyer Films
Supernatural Powers
Response to Peary’s Review:
Peary notes that this one-note nudie comedy was “notorious when released”, but now seems “tame, even genteel”. Most [...]
Posted on August 30th, 2006 by admin
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Synopsis:
A shy beauty salon assistant (Isabelle Huppert) falls in love with a suave literature student (Yves Beneyton), who becomes embarrassed by her lack of intellectualism.
Genres:
Cross-Class Romance
French Films
Mental Breakdown
Romance
Response to Peary’s Review:
As Peary points out, this heartbreaking tragedy may be “too sad” for some viewers to handle, but remains a powerful [...]
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“God is alive and well and living in a sugar cube.”
Synopsis:
A deaf-mute runaway (Susan Strasberg), hoping to find her missing brother (Bruce Dern) in the Haight-Ashbury district of San Francisco, becomes immersed in a crazy scene of drugs, sex, and rock n’ roll.
Genres:
Counterculture
Deafness
Runaways
Search
Response to Peary’s Review:
The Flower Power era of [...]
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Synopsis:
Richard Pryor delivers what may be his best live performance while discussing oversexed monkeys, nonchalant nurses, peeing in the woods, and boxing with Muhammad Ali.
Genres:
Stand-Up Comedy
Response to Peary’s Review:
As Peary notes, to watch this live concert film is to see “a comic genius at work.” Pryor is uninhibited and raunchy, yet manages to [...]
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Synopsis:
A beautiful, sexually liberated nightclub dancer (Louise Brooks) inadvertently shoots one of her admirers, lands in jail, and turns to prostitution to survive.
Genres:
Louise Brooks Films
Prostitutes
Sexuality
Silent Films
Womanizers
Response to Peary’s Review:
Peary offers an excellent, in-depth analysis of this classic silent film in his GFTFF, describing Lulu as “the victim of the [...]
Posted on August 30th, 2006 by admin
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“Just because you can argue better doesn’t mean you’re right!”
Synopsis:
An unhappy faculty wife (Linda Griffiths) divorces her husband and discovers that she is attracted to women.
Genres:
Divorce
Feminism
John Sayles Films
Lesbianism
Response to Peary’s Review:
I was happy to learn about this “unusually fine, thematically daring” independent film by John Sayles — probably the best [...]
Posted on August 30th, 2006 by admin
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“Two old-fashioneds — for two old-fashioned people…”
Synopsis:
An elderly couple with financial problems (Beulah Bondi and Victor Moore) are forced to move into separate homes with their grown children.
Genres:
Elderly People
Grown Children
Leo McCarey Films
Response to Peary’s Review:
As Peary notes, this “poignant classic” makes a “good argument for Social Security”. It’s beyond depressing [...]
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“Whatever you do, don’t fall asleep.”
Synopsis:
A group of small-town teenagers are slain while dreaming about a sadistic masked man with knife-blades for fingers (Robert Englund). It’s up to Nancy (Heather Langenkamp) and her boyfriend Glen (Johnny Depp) to stay awake long enough to survive and investigate the mystery of Freddy Krueger.
Genres:
Child Abuse
Horror
[...]
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“We wanna be free to do what we wanna do.”
Synopsis:
A group of California Hell’s Angels, led by Heavenly Blues (Peter Fonda), wreak anti-social havoc by riding recklessly, drinking, doing drugs, and molesting innocent individuals.
Genres:
Counterculture
Gangs
Motorcyclists
Roger Corman Films
Response to Peary’s Review:
I agree with Peary that Wild Angels is a “despicable [...]
Posted on August 30th, 2006 by admin
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