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Climax (2018): Dir. Gaspar Noe
Feat. Sofia Boutella, Kiddy Smile, Roman Guillermic; A dance movie like you're never seen, legendary provocateur Gaspar Noe helms this brilliant and intoxicating ensemble piece. Set in an abandoned…
Judy & Punch (Judy and Punch) (2018): Dir. Mirrah Foulkes
Feat. Mia Wasikowska, Damon Herriman; A gorgeously carnivalesque and blackly comic Australian period drama in which the traditional fairy tale of Punch and Judy is turned on its head. The…
Ruben Brandt, Collector (2018): Dir. Milorad Krstic; Brilliantly animated crime drama following four thieves who attempt to steal the legendary artworks that are inspiring the nightmares of their…
Disaster Artist, The (2017): Dir. James Franco
Feat. James Franco, Dave Franco, Seth Rogen…; A satirical yet empathetic adaptation of Greg Sestero's autobiographical book of the same name depicting his friendship with one Tommy Wiseau, the…
My Friend Dahmer (2017): Dir. Marc Meyers
Feat. Ross Lynch, Anne Heche, Alex Wolff…; Chilling biographical drama about the American serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer, based on the 2012 graphic novel by John "Derf" Backderf, who was friends…
T2 Trainspotting (2017): Dir. Danny Boyle
Feat. Ewan McGregor, Ewen Bremner, Jonny Lee Miller…; The characters of Irvine Welsh's TRAINSPOTTING are alive, if not entirely well, twenty years later in this sequel that serves up some good laughs and…
Twin Peaks (TV Series) (Twin Peaks: A Limited Event Series, Twin Peaks: The Return) (2017): Dir. David Lynch
Feat. Kyle MacLachlan, Catherine E. Coulson, Madchen Amick…; Revival of the cult TV series with most of the same cast (plus many, many more), which rivals and occasionally surpasses the terrifying brilliance of…
Woodshock (2017): Dir. Kate Mulleavy, Laura Mulleavy
Feat. Kirsten Dunst, Joe Cole, Pilou Asbæk; A stylistically unique psychological thriller with all the elegance you'd expect from fashion designer siblings Kate and Laura Mulleavy in their…
Forbidden Room, The (2015): Dir. Guy Maddin, Evan Johnson
Feat. Roy Dupuis, Clara Furey, Jacques Nolot…; Maverick director Guy Maddin applies his wild and deliciously demented imagination to this fantastic fantasy, telling a range of almost…
Duke of Burgundy, The (2014): Dir. Peter Strickland
Feat. Sidse Babett Knudsen, Chiara D’Anna, Monica Swinn; BORGEN star Sidse Babett Knudsen throws aside the responsibilities of leading the Danish nation to star in this slice of arty–kink from the…
Computer Chess (2013): Dir. Andrew Bujalski
Feat. Kriss Schludermann, Tom Fletcher, Wiley Wiggins; Mumblecore maestro Andrew Bujalski directs this left–of–field mockumentary, shot on low–fi video, about a surreal chess tournament…
Filth (2013): Dir. Jon S. Baird
Feat. Jamie Bell, Imogen Poots, James McAvoy…; James McAvoy plays a self–destructing copper whose corruption and bigotry manifest in a spiral of sex, drugs and violence. From an Irving Welsh…
God Bless America (2011): Dir. Bobcat Goldthwait
Feat. Joel Murray, Tara Lynne Barr, Melinda Page Hamilton; Irrepressible writer/director Bobcat Goldthwait returns with another sizzling, charcoal–black comedy that takes aim at the worst proponents of…
Love Exposure (2011): Dir. Sion Sono
Feat. Takahiro Nishijima, Hikari Mitsushima; Notorious cinematic oddity from Japanese director Sion Sono (WHY DON'T YOU PLAY IN HELL), following the adventures of a Catholic teenage boy who…
White Lightnin' (2009): Dir. Dominic Murphy
Feat. Edward Hogg, Carrie Fisher; The life of Appalachian mountain dancer and criminal cult figure Jesco White is the inspiration for this nightmarish hillbilly biopic filmed in…
Mister Lonely (2008): Dir. Harmony Korine
Feat. Samantha Morton, Diego Luna, Werner Herzog; Surreal drama from the king of skewed cinema Harmony Korine (GUMMO) following two parallel plots about identity: a couple of celeb impersonators…
Inland Empire (2006): Dir. David Lynch
Feat. Laura Dern, Jeremy Irons, Justin Theroux…; Warped and optically haunting suspense starring Lynch regular Laura Dern as a focused actress ecstatic about receiving a part in a new film, until…
9 Songs (Nine Songs) (2004): Dir. Michael Winterbottom
Feat. Margo Stilley, Kieran O'Brien; A controversially explicit sex'n'rock'n' roll drama about two stray souls – an American student and a British bloke – who over a year…
Helter Skelter (2004): Dir. John Gray
Feat. Jeremy Davies, Clea Duvall; A grimly rewarding TV docudrama about murderous hipster Charles Manson, played with screwy–eyed, whisper–voiced veracity by Jeremy…
Keane (2004): Dir. Lodge Kerrigan
Feat. Damian Lewis, Abigail Breslin, Amy Ryan; A powerful and unnerving feat of ‘mental’ endurance, dir. Kerrigan’s follow–up to the equally unsettling CLEAN, SHAVEN plunges the viewer…
Tulse Luper Suitcases, The (The Moab Story, Vaux to the Sea, From Sark to Finish) (2004): Dir. Peter Greenaway; For the first time groundbreaking British director Peter Greenaway's three film oeuvre is released in this must–have set. Includes the three…
American Splendor (2003): Dir. Shari Springer Berman, Robert Pulcini
Feat. Paul Giamatti, Hope Davis; An ambitious celebration of the life of cult US comic–writer Harvey Pekar, told in a quilt–work of monologue, biopic, autobiography and…
Brown Bunny, The (2003): Dir. Vincent Gallo
Feat. Vincent Gallo, Chloe Sevigny; Notoriously egocentric gem from Vincent Gallo, who stars, directs, writes, shoots, edits and produces an intriguingly desultry road–trip across…
Loop Select 005 (incl. Two Cars One Night) (2003): Dir. Taika Waititi, Patrick Gillies, Michael Duignan; Compilation of 9 music videos and 8 short films from New Zealand. Artists and bands include 'Black Seeds', 'Trinity Roots', Anika Moa and…
Six Feet Under - Season 3 (TV Series) (2003): Feat. Peter Krause, Michael C. Hall, Frances Conroy…; Further episodes of the acclaimed HBO drama set around a funeral home. 13 episodes over 5 DVDs: Perfect Circles, You Never Know, The Eye Inside,…
Tokyo Godfathers (2003): Dir. Satoshi Kon, Shogo Furuya; An unusual 'dramatic' anime, which concerns three down–and–outs in Tokyo who rescue an abandoned baby and struggle to knit together a…
Woodenhead (2003): Dir. Florian Habicht; A remarkable and surrealistic melding of New Zealand setting and Germanic sensibility, in which a sad fairytale narrative is enacted, sung and…
Zero Day (2003): Dir. Ben Coccio
Feat. Andre Keuck, Calvin Robertson; A confronting, fictionalized insight into the nihilistic mind–set of two alienated students who plotted and carried out a violent massacre at…
Auto Focus (2002): Dir. Paul Schrader
Feat. Greg Kinnear, Willem Dafoe; A savvy true Hollywood story detailing the sordid life of “Hogan’s Heroes” TV star Bob Crane, whose illicit 'sex addiction' led to…
Six Feet Under - Season 2 (TV Series) (2002): Feat. Peter Krause, Michael C. Hall, Frances Conroy…; Further episodes of the acclaimed HBO drama set around a funeral home. 13 episodes over 5 discs: In The Game, Out Out Brief Candle, The Plan,…
Spun (2002): Dir. Jonas Akerlund
Feat. Jason Schwartzman, Brittany Murphy, John Leguizamo…; A cinematically exhilarating depiction of existence among a group of methamphetamine (P) addicts in Los Angeles, that is sure to divide audiences as…
Dog Days (2001): Dir. Ulrich Seidl
Feat. Maria Hofstatter, Alfred Mrva, Erich Finsches…; A wilfully transgressive Euro–drama examining middle–class dysfunction and despair in a Viennese suburb over a few days in a summer heat…
Fluffer, The (2001): Dir. Richard Glatzer, Wash Westmoreland; Salacious piece of fluff about an aspiring filmmaker whose fascination with a male porn star leads him to scoring a job on the set. He soon rises to…
Millennium Actress (2001): Dir. Satoshi Kon; The thinking–person's animator, dir. Satoshi Kon further extends his body of "real world" anime with a work of brilliantly conceived illusion…
Naked, The (Golasy) (2001): Dir. Witold Swiêtnicki; Genuine oddity, this Polish satire upon the tedium of the Soviet era, as experienced by an office full of white–collar workers, is lent a…
Six Feet Under - Season 1 (TV Series) (2001): Feat. Peter Krause, Michael C. Hall, Frances Conroy…; The acclaimed, innovative HBO comedy–drama about an extremely dysfunctional family that operate a funeral home presided over by their deceased…
Believer, The (2000): Dir. Henry Bean
Feat. Ryan Gosling, Summer Phoenix, Theresa Russell…; The darker side of Jewish identity is examined in this risky, provocative drama about a disillusioned young man who tries to reconcile his repressed…
8 1/2 Women (1999): Dir. Peter Greenaway
Feat. John Standing, Matthew Delamare, Vivian Wu…; The indefatiguable provocateur of English cinema makes a perverse 'tribute' to Federico Fellini's 1963 masterpiece 8 1/2, with this tale of a rich…
Bringing Out the Dead (1999): Dir. Martin Scorsese
Feat. Nicolas Cage, Patricia Arquette, Ving Rhames…; Drawn from the hell–bent memoirs of a New York ambulance driver, this sees dir. Scorcese returning to home–turf, a script by Paul…
Acid House, The (1998): Dir. Paul McGuigan
Feat. Stephen McCole, Maurice Roeves, Garry Sweeney; Those with a taste for undiluted Irvine Welsh (author of TRAINSPOTTING) will find warts–and–all satisfaction in this portmanteau of three…
Buffalo 66 (1998): Dir. Vincent Gallo
Feat. Vincent Gallo, Christina Ricci, Ben Gazzara…; Released from prison after doing someone else's time, an embittered yet benign loner sets about evening the score, but not before kidnapping a sweet…
Crash (1996): Dir. David Cronenberg
Feat. James Spader, Holly Hunter, Deborah Kara Unger…; Auteur David Cronenberg's latest vision is an anti–fable about accident victims James Spader and Holly Hunter, who become sexually obsessed…
God's Lonely Man (1996): Dir. Francis Von Zerneck
Feat. Michael Wyle, Jamie Walters; The story of St. Francis of Assisi is loosely transposed to the underbelly of modern LA – a redemption–seeking nervous loner befriends a…
Kids (1995): Dir. Larry Clark
Feat. Leo Fitzpatrick, Sarah Henderson, Justin Pierce…; Cult photographer Larry Clark's debut, 24hrs of New York streetkid life, attracted immediate controversy. The unblinking depictions of sex, drugs and…
Showgirls (1995): Dir. Paul Verhoeven
Feat. Elizabeth Berkley, Kyle MacLachlan, Gina Gershon; The BASIC INSTINCT team reprise with another sexploitation film that sent most critics in howls of derision. Lack of plot and oversaturation of…
Kingdom, The (Riget) (1994): Dir. Lars Von Trier
Feat. Ernst-Hugo Jaregard, Kirsten Rolffes, Ghita Norby…; A Danish medical soap opera from the director of BREAKING THE WAVES that's a bizarre yet compulsive combination of ghost story, TV drama and…
Metal Skin (1994): Dir. Geoffrey Wright
Feat. Aiden Young, Tara Morice, Ben Mendelsohn; A petrol–soaked, despairing love story from the director of ROMPER STOMPER, who takes another look at Australian youth counter–culture…
My So-Called Life (TV Series) (1994-1995): Dir. Scott Winant
Feat. Claire Danes, Jared Leto, Bess Armstrong…; Hard–hitting drama series starring a young Claire Danes in her breakout role as a 15 year–old dealing with angst–ridden teen…
Clean, Shaven (1993): Dir. Lodge Kerrigan
Feat. Peter Greene; Cult actor Peter Green followed his great work in LAWS OF GRAVITY with this difficult but startling independent feature as a violent schizophrenic…
Dangerous Game (1993): Dir. Abel Ferrara
Feat. Harvey Keitel, Madonna, James Russo; Fascinating descent into the dark recesses of a film–directing mind (Ferrara's). It opens as a film–within–a–film about a…
Bad Lieutenant (1992): Dir. Abel Ferrara
Feat. Harvey Keitel; Deeply disturbing character study of a bent cop that Harvey Keitel goes off the method deep–end to authenticate. An addiction to smack and…
Romper Stomper (1992): Dir. Geoffrey Wright
Feat. Russell Crowe; Powerhouse drama about a gang of neo–Nazi skinheads who wreak havoc on the Melbourne's Vietnamese community. The contentious subject is…
Adjuster, The (1991): Dir. Atom Egoyan
Feat. Elias Koteas, Arsinee Khanjian, Maury Chaykin; Eliptical and seductive fifth feature from one of cinema's most original talents. Two 'adjusters' – an insurance assessor, and his wife, a film…
Barton Fink (1991): Dir. Joel Coen
Feat. John Turturro, John Goodman, Judy Davis; The Coen Bros' striking if enigmatic account of a brilliant scribe hampered with writer's block and a strange hotel companion in mid 1940s Hollywood.…
Cool as Ice (1991): Dir. David Kellogg
Feat. Vanilla Ice, Kristin Minter, Naomi Campbell; This dubious remake of THE WILD ONE finds rap wash–up Vanilla Ice whooping it up in Brando's famous tough guy role.
Eerie Indiana (TV Series) (1991-1992): Feat. Omri Katz, Justin Shenkarow; Short–lived, cult TWIN PEAKS–offshoot follows the arrival of a young boy to Eerie, Indiana, a town overrun with urban legends, a living…
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead (1991): Dir. Tom Stoppard
Feat. Gary Oldman, Tim Roth; Tom Stoppard films his own play that follows the aimless lives of two incidental characters from HAMLET. Gary Oldman and Tim Roth dazzlingly…
Twin Peaks - Season 2 (TV Series) (1991): Dir. David Lynch, Various
Feat. Kyle MacLachlan, Michael Ontkean, Madchen Amick…; Second and final season of the cult nineties serial, with Kyle MacLachlan as an eccentric, mystical FBI agent arriving in a small Pacific Northwest…
Guy Maddin Collection, The (Twilight of the Ice Nymphs, The Heart of the World, Archangel) (1990-2000): Dir. Guy Maddin
Feat. Michael Gottli, David Falkenburg, Michael O’Sullivan…; Three films from Canada's silent movie alchemist, all deliciously dreamlike examples of the cult filmmaker's brilliant oeuvre. Twilight of the Ice…
Pump Up the Volume (1990): Dir. Allan Moyle
Feat. Christian Slater, Samantha Mathis, Annie Ross…; Christian Slater is Hard Harry, maverick pirate radio DJ by night, anonymous and shy student by day. His anarchic commentaries earn a loyal band of…
Twin Peaks - Season 1 (TV Series) (1990): Dir. David Lynch, Various
Feat. Kyle MacLachlan, Michael Ontkean, Madchen Amick…; An eccentric, mystical FBI agent arrives in a small Pacific Northwest town to investigate the murder of a young high school girl. Iconic, influential…
Cook, The Thief, His Wife and Her Lover, The (1989): Dir. Peter Greenaway
Feat. Helen Mirren, Tim Roth, Michael Gambon; Greenaway combines the best elements of his previous work into one illustrious concoction of charcoal humour, explicit violence, awe–inspiring…
Drugstore Cowboy (1989): Dir. Gus Van Sant
Feat. Matt Dillon, Kelly Lynch, Heather Graham…; A stylised yet vivid journey into the lives of a group of sympathetic, drug–addicted youths in the early '70s. A high point in the career…
Firm, The (1989): Dir. Alan Clarke
Feat. Gary Oldman, Phillip Davis; Another of dir. Clarke’s essential forays into the vicious subcultures of Britain, here a ‘firm’ of football hooligans led by real estate agent…
Down by Law (1988): Dir. Jim Jarmusch
Feat. Tom Waits, Roberto Benigni, John Lurie; Three disparate misfits become friends after sharing an escape from a crummy Southern jail. Art and humour rarely mix better than in this eccentric…
Heat and Sunlight (1988): Dir. Rob Nilsson
Feat. Rob Nilsson, Consuela Faust; This film documents the final, agonising hours of a love affair between a man and his exotic dancer girlfirend. An intriguing, erotic oddity with…
Crazy Love (Love Is a Dog from Hell) (1987): Dir. Dominique Deruddere
Feat. Josse De Pauw, Geert Hunaerts, Michael Pas…; Superlative tragicomedy based on the work of Charles Bukowski is told in three parts – pre–pubescence, acne plagued teenagehood and…
Track 29 (1987): Dir. Nicolas Roeg
Feat. Gary Oldman, Theresa Russell, Christopher Lloyd…; Purporting to be her long–lost son, sleazoid Gary Oldman materialises out of Theresa Russell's alcoholic haze, as husband Christopher Lloyd…
Sid and Nancy (1986): Dir. Alex Cox
Feat. Gary Oldman, Chloe Webb; Pretty grim portrait of the life and times of Sex Pistol Sid Vicious and his girlfriend. Both are stunningly personified by Gary Oldman and Chloe…
Insignificance (1985): Dir. Nicolas Roeg
Feat. Gary Busey, Tony Curtis, Theresa Russell; Curious chamber piece intriguingly posits Joe DiMaggio, Marilyn Monroe, Joseph McCarthy and Albert Einstein as characters who meet in a hotel room in…
Smooth Talk (1985): Dir. Joyce Chopra
Feat. Laura Dern, Treat Williams, Mary Kay Place…; Poignant yet sinister coming–of–age tale chronicles a young girl's sexual awakening and the attention she attracts from a mysterious…
Beat Street (1984): Dir. Stan Lathan
Feat. Rae Dawn Chong, Guy Davis; Key film in the history of hip–hop culture, this urban musical may show its age and derivation (SATURDAY NIGHT FEVER), but still comprises an…
Can She Bake a Cherry Pie? (1983): Dir. Henry Jaglom
Feat. Karen Black; Uniquely kooky concoction set around the unpredictable neuroses of a newly single woman (Black), who enters a world of whimsy, crazed encounters and…
Made in Britain (1983): Dir. Alan Clarke
Feat. Tim Roth, Sean Chapman; Probably the finest skinhead movie ever made – Tim Roth giving an electrifying debut performance as a glaring malcontent who takes out his rage…
Signal 7 (1983): Dir. Rob Nilsson
Feat. Bill Ackridge, Dan Leegant; Dedicated to John Cassavetes, this 12–hr slice of the night–world of various New York taxi–drivers, shot on videotape, is similarly…
Star 80 (1983): Dir. Bob Fosse
Feat. Mariel Hemingway, Eric Roberts, Cliff Robertson…; Dir. Bob Fosse's razzle–dazzle cynicism is a perfect match for this loose chronicle of true events that led to the murder of penthouse pet…
Christiane F. (1981): Dir. Ulrich Edel
Feat. David Bowie; Absorbing account of the decline and fall into the Berlin's degrading drug and prostitution scene of two young heroin addicts. Features the music and…
Eureka (1981): Dir. Nicolas Roeg
Feat. Gene Hackman, Rutger Hauer, Nicolas Roeg…; Irishman Gene Hackman strikes it rich in Alaska, and retires to his own Carribean island for family fights with flaky son–in–law Rutger…
Mommie Dearest (1981): Dir. Frank Perry
Feat. Faye Dunaway; The eyebrow–raising private life of Joan Crawford makes for a gaudy compulsive shocker, in which Faye Dunaway puts on her most ferocious…
Tales of Ordinary Madness (1981): Dir. Marco Ferreri
Feat. Ben Gazzara; A whiskey–swilling, anarchist poet (Ben Gazzara) searches in vain for redemptive power and inspiration through his self–destructive…
Bad Timing (1980): Dir. Nicolas Roeg
Feat. Art Garfunkel, Harvey Keitel, Nicolas Roeg…; After his wife attempts suicide, a guilt–ridden Art Garfunkel engages in a tense battle of wits with investigator Harvey Keitel. Nic Roeg goes…
Being There (1980): Dir. Hal Ashby
Feat. Peter Sellers; A middle–aged gardner, reared in solitude and exclusively educated through his television, is mistaken for a political genius. Profound and…
Breaking Glass (1980): Dir. Brian Gibson
Feat. Hazel O'Connor, Phil Daniels, Jon Finch…; Grievously under–rated and singular rock music drama from the post–punk era offers more than just nostalgic interest, with an impassioned…
Elephant Man, The (1980): Dir. David Lynch
Feat. Anthony Hopkins, John Hurt; The heart–wrenching true story of a grossly deformed pauper, dramatised to perfection. A compassionate doctor rescues him from depravity and…
Falls, The (1980): Dir. Peter Greenaway
Feat. Peter Westley, Aad Wirtz, Michael Murray; One of dir. Greenaway's more trenchantly avant–garde works (think 'A Walk Though H' crossed with DROWNING BY NUMBERS), expanding his riddling…
Ninth Configuration, The (Twinkle, Twinkle, ) (1980): Dir. William Peter Blatty
Feat. Stacy Keach, Scott Wilson, Jason Miller…; Psychological thriller set in the 70's written, produced and directed by William Peter Blatty (THE EXORCIST). Having returned from Vietnam, a marine…
Rude Boy (1980): Dir. Hazan, Mingay
Feat. Jimmy Pursey, Johnny Green; Semi–doco in which a teenage punk is forced to choose political allegiances while scamming a roadie job with the Clash. Features nine Clash…
Scum (1980): Dir. Alan Clarke
Feat. Ray Winstone, Phil Daniels; Life in a British borstal painted in unflinchingly realistic hues. Clark's deeply affecting indictment of the penal system plays out barbaric rituals…
Stunt Man, The (1980): Dir. Richard Rush
Feat. Peter O'Toole, Steve Railsback, Barbara Hershey; A fugitive stumbles upon a movie set, where he is embraced and hired as a stuntman by the fervant director. A bizarre,…
Union City (1980): Dir. Mark Reichart
Feat. Debbie Harry, Dennis Lipscomb; Underrated low–budget film noir starkly depicts urban neurosis in a seedy apartment. Grungy lead performances from Debbie Harry and Dennis…
Angel Mine (1979): Dir. David Blyth
Feat. Derek Ward, Jennifer Redford, Myra De Groot; A punk, Bunuel–esque social satire in which a married couple escape their material lives through anarchic fantasies, staged as dream–like…
Bitch, The (1979): Dir. Gerry O'Hara
Feat. Joan Collins, Antonio Cantafora, Kenneth Haigh…; Joan Collins returns in trashy sequel to THE STUD.
Caligula (1979): Dir. Tinto Brass
Feat. Malcolm McDowell, Peter O'Toole, John Gielgud…; Penthouse magnate Bob Guccione's notorious 'legitimate' porno–drama stars Malcolm MacDowell as the ruthless and randy Roman Emperor. This…
Over the Edge (1979): Dir. Jonathan Kaplan
Feat. Matt Dillon, Harry Northrup; One of the best portraits of delinquency yet committed to the screen, Matt Dillon, in his acting debut, is just one of the aimless youths who erupt…
Quadrophenia (1979): Dir. Franc Roddam
Feat. Phil Daniels, Michael Elphick, Ray Winstone…; Brilliant portrait of alienated youth, inspired by The Who's concept album, focuses on a young Mod's personal crises and his gang's violent agenda…
Alan Clarke at the BBC, Volume 2: Disruption (1978-1989): Dir. Alan Clarke
Feat. Gary Oldman, David Bowie, Sean Chapman; A 5–DVD box set bringing together long–unavailable productions which Alan Clarke directed for the BBC between 1978 and 1987. All these…
Fingers (1978): Dir. James Toback
Feat. Harvey Keitel, Tisa Farrow, Jim Brown…; Harvey Keitel conjures up the required intensity for this portrait of a frustrated concert pianist with a violent temper. The nerve–shredding…
FM (1978): Dir. John A Alonzo
Feat. Michael Brandon; No static at all, and no commercials either (well, not too many) if the liberal, music–dedicated broadcasters get their way over the interests…
Stud, The (1978): Dir. Quentin Masters
Feat. Joan Collins; Joan Collins stars in this appropriately ludicrous dramatisation of sister Jackie's trash novel about the rise and fall of a…
Wise Blood (1978): Dir. John Huston
Feat. Brad Dourif; Brad Dourif plays the obsessed leader of the 'Church Without Christ' in this marvellous satire on contemporary evangelism in the American South. From…
Backroads (1977): Dir. Phillip Noyce
Feat. Bill Hunter; This short road–movie was a moody debut for dir. Noyce, laying out the tale of two drifters (one black, one white) who steal a car for an…
FJ Holden, The (1977): Dir. Michael Thornhill
Feat. Paul Couzens, Carl Stever, Sigrid Thornton; Low–budget youth drama that follows the travails of two smalltime Holden–driving hoons in the West Sydney suburb of Bankstown. Both…
Opening Night (1977): Dir. John Cassavetes
Feat. John Cassavetes, Gena Rowlands, Ben Gazzara; Intermittently fascinating, semi–improvised opus from Cassavetes (who also stars), about an aging actress (Gena Rowlands) who suffers a…
Other Side of Midnight, The (1977): Dir. Charles Jarrott
Feat. Marie-France Pisier, John Beck, Susan Sarandon…; Soapy Sidney Sheldon drama follows the exploits of a young French woman who vows revenge on a ne'er do well Canadian pilot for leaving her pregnant,…
Saturday Night Fever (1977): Dir. John Badham
Feat. John Travolta; John Travolta's instant star–quality invests this chronicle of the disco era with an infectious bravado. Great soundtrack, classic dance moves…
Summer City (1977): Dir. Christopher Fraser
Feat. Mel Gibson, Steve Bisley, John Jarratt; The exploits of four boys who leave Sydney and head out for a weekend of surfing and adventure. Unfortunately the fun takes a serious turn when they…
Brute, The (1976): Dir. Gerry O'Hara
Feat. Sarah Douglas, Julian Glover, Bruce Robinson; A strange combination of social realism and luridity turns this tale of a battered wife into a strange horror film indeed.
Killing of a Chinese Bookie, The (1976): Dir. John Cassavetes
Feat. Ben Gazzara; Cassavetes' most personal film concerns a strip–club owner (Ben Gazzara) who becomes indebted to the mob. An acquired taste for this one as…
Mikey and Nicky (1976): Dir. Elaine May
Feat. Peter Falk, John Cassavetes, Ned Beatty…; Loosely improvised drama, with a wild–eyed John Cassavetes calling on old pal Peter Falk to help escape the Mob. Turns out he may not be such a…
Overlord (1975): Dir. Stuart Cooper
Feat. Brian Stirner; Remarkable one–off that seamlessly interweaves archival war footage and a fictional narrative, this accounts a twenty–year–old’s…
Night Porter, The (1974): Dir. Liliana Cavani
Feat. Dirk Bogarde, Charlotte Rampling; Bizarre yet sensual melodrama about an ex–gestapo officer who resumes a sado–masochistic affair with his Jewish former–prisoner.…
Steppenwolf (1974): Feat. Max von Sydow, Dominique Sanda, Pierre Clementi; A strange yet spiritually faithful adaptation of Hermann Hesse's novel about a solitary intellectual in 1920's Germany who is a half–human,…
Day in the Death of Joe Egg (1972): Dir. Peter Medak
Feat. Alan Bates, Janet Suzman; Rewarding black comedy stars Alan Bates and Janet Suzman as a couple with an autistic child whom they consider mercy–killing. Bizarre yet…
Harder They Come, The (1972): Dir. Perry Henzell
Feat. Jimmy Cliff, Carl Bradshaw; A classic that has found lasting significance as a music film, political film, and above all as a unique, authentic product of Jamaica. A young,…
Heat (1972): Dir. Paul Morrissey
Feat. Sylvia Miles, Joe Dallesandro; A great trash drama, this is the most polished production of all the Warhol–esqe features, with a bravura performance from Sylvia Miles. It's…
Evel Knievel (1971): Dir. Marvin J. Chomsky
Feat. George Hamilton, Sue Lyon; Low–budget drive–in movie version of the famed motorcycle stuntman’s life, growing up in Montana to be comes the world’s most famous…
Music Lovers, The (1971): Dir. Ken Russell
Feat. Richard Chamberlain, Glenda Jackson; A wonderfully audacious film fantasia based on the life of Russian composer Tchaikovsky, the homosexual who married a nymphomaniac! Richard…
Punishment Park (1971): Dir. Peter Watkins; Extraordinary, 'fictionalised' docu–drama from the unique and largely unheralded talent of British director Peter Watkins, portraying the…
Vanishing Point (1971): Dir. Richard Serafian
Feat. Barry Newman, Cleavon Little, Dean Jagger…; A loner accepts a challenge to drive his Dodge Challenger from Denver to San Francisco in 15 hours, with the fuzz in pursuit and help from blind DJ,…
Catch 22 (1970): Dir. Mike Nichols
Feat. Alan Arkin, Jon Voight, Orson Welles; An acerbic anti–war statement based on the much–hailed novel about a WW2 fighter pilot's reluctance to fight, in order to preserve his…
Deep End (1970): Dir. Jerzy Skolimowski
Feat. Jane Asher, John Moulder-Brown, Diana Dors; Remarkable, darkly comic story of 15–year–old Mike who takes a job at the local swimming baths and becomes obsessed with a beautiful…
Harold and Maude (1970): Dir. Hal Ashby
Feat. Bud Cort, Ruth Gordon; Much adored black comedy about a lonely teenager who befriends an old woman who shares his morbid fascination, among other interests. This cult hit…
Trash (1970): Dir. Paul Morrissey
Feat. Joe Dallesandro, Holly Woodlawn; Only the inimitable Joe Dallesandro could play a drug–addicted loser with a sex problem and still come off cool. Holly Woodlawn and other…
Walkabout (1970): Dir. Nicolas Roeg
Feat. David Gulpilil; An English schoolgirl and her brother end up abandoned by their father in the Australian Outback, before meeting Aboriginal boy David Gulpilil. Dir.…
Wanda (1970): Dir. Barbara Loden
Feat. Barbara Loden, Michael Higgins; The sole writing/directing credit of Barbara Loden, whose command of verite storytelling is matched by her own astonishing performance as a feckless…
All the Right Noises (1969): Dir. Gerry O'Hara
Feat. Olivia Hussey, Tom Bell, John Standing…; The story of a young married man who has an affair with a teenage girl, this forms part of a peculiarly 1960s British wave of films exploring such…
Medium Cool (1969): Dir. Haskell Wexler; Filmed against the backdrop of the Democratic National convention in 1968 Chicago, this remarkable directorial effort by renowned cinematographer…
Model Shop (1969): Dir. Jacques Demy
Feat. Anouk Aimee, Gary Lockwood, Alexandra Hay; A mesmerizing, shamefully neglected stateside film from French New Wave director Jacques Demy that follows an aimless, unemployed architect who ends…
Faces (1968): Dir. John Cassavetes
Feat. John Marley, Gena Rowlands, Lynn Carlin; A marriage in crisis lurches into a downward spiral of drunkeness and desperate affairs. The dishevelled honesty and stark camerawork may not suit…
If.... (1968): Dir. Lindsay Anderson
Feat. Malcolm McDowell, Richard Warwick, Mona Washbourne…; An angry yet sublimely poetic counter–cultural work in which events both real and imagined culminate in a violent revolt at a repressive public…
Up Tight (1968): Dir. Jules Dassin
Feat. Raymond St. Jacques, Ruby Dee, Frank Silvera…; In this landmark collaboration between activist and actress Ruby Dee and director Jules Dassin, Black revolutionaries are betrayed by one of their…
Belle De Jour (Beauty of the Day) (1967): Dir. Luis Bunuel
Feat. Catherine Deneuve, Jean Sorel, Michel Piccoli…; Cool and elegant comedy of manners about a virginal newlywed who works the day shift in a high class brothel. Bunuel's surrealist…
King of Hearts (1967): Dir. Phillipe De Broca
Feat. Alan Bates, Genevieve Bujold, Pierre Brasseur; Excellently quirky mid–60s comedy that became a cult–hit in the US, has soldier Alan Bates infiltrate a French village in WWI, which has…
Trip, The (1967): Dir. Roger Corman
Feat. Peter Fonda, Dennis Hopper, Susan Strasberg…; One of several collaborations between director Roger Corman and Jack Nicholson, who wrote the screenplay. A director of TV commercials gradually…
Valley of the Dolls (1967): Dir. Mark Robson
Feat. Barbara Parkins, Patty Duke, Sharon Tate…; Trashy adaptation of Jacqueline Susann's novel about three young women in the show biz fast lane.
Party's Over, The (1965): Dir. Guy Hamilton
Feat. Oliver Reed; Stark yet salubrious cautionary tale of wayward youth set in the Chelsea beatnik scene, where "wild and drunken partying" and a brooding Oliver Reed…
Kitten with a Whip (1964): Dir. Douglas Heyes
Feat. Ann-Margret, John Forsythe, Peter Brown…; Ann–Margaret brings white–hot intensity to this cult classic about a teenage girl on the run from the law who blackmails a clueless…
Woman of the Dunes (1964): Dir. Hiroshi Teshigahara
Feat. Eiji Okada, Kyoko Kishida; From a simple premise – a man becomes trapped in a valley of sand in which a solitary woman lives – the director is able to draw out…
Servant, The (1963): Dir. Joseph Losey
Feat. Dirk Bogarde, James Fox, Sarah Miles; First collaboration between playwright Harold Pinter and dir. Losey is an elegant diagram of English class cruelties, with man–servant Dirk…
That Kind of Girl (1963): Dir. Gerry O'Hara
Feat. Margaret Rose Keil, David Weston, Linda Marlowe; Another gem rescued from obscurity by the BFI's Flipside label, this one deals with the hush–hush topic of venereal disease against a backdrop…
Exterminating Angel, The (1962): Dir. Luis Bunuel
Feat. Silvia Pinal; A psychic 'disaster movie', in which guests become trapped at a dinner party by a mysterious forcefield. As the days go by, dinner–table…
All Night Long (Die Heisse Nacht) (1961): Dir. Basil Dearden, Michael Relph
Feat. Patrick McGoohan, Richard Attenborough, Keith Michell…; Set in London's smoky jazz scene, this updating of Othello is neatly positioned as a vehicle to showcase some of the best Jazz musicians of the…
Intruder, The (I Hate Your Guts) (1961): Dir. Roger Corman
Feat. William Shatner, Leo Gordon; The only Corman film ever to lose money is not surprisingly perhaps his best. William Shatner excels as a small–time drifter who preaches the…
Viridiana (1961): Dir. Luis Bunuel
Feat. Silvia Pinal, Francisco Rabal, Fernando Rey; Bunuel purges his spiritual demons in this potent psychological study of a novice nun who loses her innocence when she visits her…
Shadows (1959): Dir. John Cassavetes
Feat. Lelia Goldoni; Cassavetes' influential debut explores inter–racial relationships with improvised dialogue, gitanes, ray–bans and Charlie Mingus…
Delinquents, The (1957): Dir. Robert Altman
Feat. Tom Laughlin, Peter Miller, Dick Bakalyan; Future luminary Robert Altman's debut feature, an "expose" of juvenile delinquency in the rock'n'roll era. Filmed in Kansas City in a…
Bigger Than Life (1956): Dir. Nicholas Ray
Feat. James Mason, Barbara Rush, Walter Matthau; Enormously potent, landmark melodrama is also a career high for James Mason: he plays a suburban family man struck down with a rare heart disease,…
Written On the Wind (1956): Dir. Douglas Sirk
Feat. Rock Hudson, Lauren Bacall, Robert Stack…; Douglas Sirk’s strident Texas oil–dynasty drama about a pair of spoiled and wayward heirs to the family fortune and the…

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