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The Killing of a Chinese Bookie
Genres: Crime, Drama
Starring: Al Ruban, Ben Gazzara, Seymour Cassel, Morgan Woodward, Robert Phillips, Timothy Carey, Haji
Directors: John Cassavetes
Country: USA
Year: 1976
Available Quality: DivX, iPod, Hi Def
Cosmo Vitelli owns the Crazy Horse West, a strip joint in California. He's laconic, a Korean War vet, and a gambler. When we meet him, he's making his last payment on a gambling debt. Then, he promptly loses $23,000 playing poker at an illegal local casino. The guys he owes this time aren't so friendly, pressuring him for immediate payment. Then they suggest that he kill a Chinese bookie to wipe off the debt. Vitelli and the film move back and forth between the double-crossing, murderous insincerity of the gamblers and the friendships, sweetness, and even love among Vitelli, the dancers, a dancer's mother, and the club's singer, Mr. Sophistic...
The Domain of the Moment
Genres: Short
Starring: Stan Brakhage
Directors: Stan Brakhage
Country: USA
Year: 1977
Available Quality: Hi Def
American avant garde experimental film maker, concerned more with technique than subject matter. He filmed many short subjects on 8mm or 16mm film. He often used blurred or out-of-focus shots, superimposed or distorted images, intentionally designed to emphasize subjectivity of vision.
The Fury
Genres: Thriller, Horror, Drama
Starring: Kirk Douglas, Amy Irving, Rutanya Alda, J. Patrick McNamara, Charles Durning, Fiona Lewis, Carrie Snodgress
Directors: Brian De Palma
Country: USA
Year: 1978
Available Quality: Hi Def, Hi Def
A secret US agency behind the unscrupulous Childres gathers children with parapsychologic abilities and trains them to become killers in war situations. To rescue his son, who was officially declared dead after an arranged accident, the ex-CIA agent Peter investigates against Childres.
The Blue Lagoon
Genres: Adventure, Romance, Drama
Starring: Leo McKern, Brooke Shields, William Daniels, Christopher Atkins, Alan Hopgood, Gus Mercurio, Elva Josephson
Directors: Randal Kleiser
Country: USA
Year: 1980
Available Quality: DivX, Hi Def, iPod, Hi Def
On a Journey to San Fransico Richard, his father and cousin Em find them selves on a ship about to explode. Rushed to a life boat with Paddy Button, the two children escape while their Father (and Uncle) are on another life boat. In the chaos following the life boats are separated. Paddy, Richard and Em find themselves with no food and no water stuck in the middle of no where. After some time the 3 come across an uncharted paradise, where Paddy quickly teaches the children fishing, hunting and building. after maybe a month or two Paddy gets very drunk off a barrel of rum found on the island when they first arrive, and drowns in the middle of ...
Star Garden
Genres: Short
Starring: Stan Brakhage
Directors: Stan Brakhage
Country: USA
Year: 1974
American avant garde experimental film maker, concerned more with technique than subject matter. He filmed many short subjects on 8mm or 16mm film. He often used blurred or out-of-focus shots, superimposed or distorted images, intentionally designed to emphasize subjectivity of vision
The Amazing Spiderman
Genres: Crime, Adventure
Starring: Michael Pataki, Nicholas Hammond, Ellen Bry, Robert F. Simon, Chip Fields
Directors: Stan Lee
Country: USA
Year: 1978
With the powers given by the bite of a radioactive spider, a young man fights crime as a wall-crawling superhero.
Tess
Genres: Romance, Drama
Starring: Peter Firth, Tony Church, Nastassja Kinski, Leigh Lawson, John Bett, Lesley Dunlop, Rosemary Martin
Directors: Roman Polanski
Country: UK, France
Year: 1979
Available Quality: Hi Def
A rural clergyman in 19th century England tells Durbeyfield, a simple farmer, that he is descended from the illustrious d'Urberville family -- now extinct. Or maybe not. Durbeyfield sends his daughter Tess to check on a family named d'Uberville living in a manor house less than a day's carriage ride away. Alec d'Urberville is delighted to meet his beautiful "cousin" and seduces her with strawberries and roses. Actually Alec has gotten his illustrious name and coat of arms by purchasing them. Tess too takes up the game of illusion when she finds, loses and finds again her true love Angel.
Sometimes a Great Notion
Genres: Action, Adventure, Drama
Starring: Paul Newman, Richard Jaeckel, Roy Jenson, Henry Fonda, Roy Poole, Lee Remick, Michael Sarrazin
Directors: Paul Newman
Country: USA
Year: 1970
Available Quality: Hi Def
Hank Stamper and his father, Henry Stamper own and operate the family business by cutting and shipping logs in Oregon. The town is furious when they continue working despite the town going broke and the other loggers go on strike ordering the Stampers to stop, however Hank continues to push his family on cutting more trees. Hank's wife wishes he would stop and hopes that they can spend more time together. When Hank's half trouble making brother Leland comes to work for them, more trouble starts.
Sleeper
Genres: Comedy, Sci-Fi
Starring: Woody Allen, Diane Keaton, John Beck, John McLiam, Don Keefer, Mews Small, Bartlett Robinson
Directors: Woody Allen
Country: USA
Year: 1973
Available Quality: Hi Def, Hi Def
A clarinet player who also runs a health food store is frozen and brought back in the future by anti-government radicals in order to assist them in their attempts to overthrow an oppressive government. When he goes off on his own, he begins to explore this brave new world that has Orgasmatron booths to replace sex and confessional robots.
Murder Psalm
Genres: Short
Starring: Stan Brakhage
Directors: Stan Brakhage
Country: USA
Year: 1980
Stan Brakhage, 1980-1990 Murder Psalm is mainly comprised of found footage, in particular an educational film about an epileptic. As Brakhage moves her through a variety of settings, violence and horror seem to erupt from all sides. The transformative power of light is here abandoned, exiled by the terrible illusions and half-truths of mass culture. Its opposite, City Streaming, transforms Toronto into a dwelling place of illumination itself. Brakhage sings the city as fields of brilliance whose only meaning is their own existence, and which could not exist anywhere else. Also in the program: Unconscious London Strata; The Loom. 16mm
Midnight Express
Genres: Crime, Thriller, Drama
Starring: John Hurt, Paul L. Smith, Michael Ensign, Randy Quaid, Brad Davis, Norbert Weisser, Paolo Bonacelli
Directors: Alan Parker
Country: USA, UK
Year: 1978
Available Quality: DivX, DVD, Hi Def, iPod, Hi Def, Hi Def
Billy Hayes is caught attempting to smuggle drugs out of Turkey. The Turkish courts decide to make an example of him, sentencing him to more than 30 years in prison. Hayes has two opportunities for release: the appeals made by his lawyer, his family, and the American government, or the "Midnight Express".
House of Dark Shadows
Genres: Romance, Horror, Drama
Starring: Paul Michael, Thayer David, Kathryn Leigh Scott, Grayson Hall, John Karlen, Barbara Cason, Dennis Patrick
Directors: Dan Curtis
Country: USA
Year: 1970
Available Quality: DivX, Hi Def, iPod
House Of Dark Shadows, based on the very popular TV Gothic soap opera, follows the life (or is that AFTERlife) of Barnabas Collins. Recently unleashed from his coffin by local drunk, Willie Loomis, the vampire (Barnabas) goes on a killing spree, while at the same time charming his present day family members. In the process he meets local girl Maggie Evans and notices that she looks exactly like his deceased fiance Josette. Barnabas assumes that she is the reincarnation of Josette, and plans to make him his unholy bride for eternity.
Lisa and the Devil
Genres: Romance, Fantasy, Horror
Starring: Telly Savalas, Elke Sommer, Alida Valli, Eduardo Fajardo, Alessio Orano, Sylva Koscina, Gabriele Tinti
Directors: Mario Bava, Alfredo Leone
Country: Italy, Spain, West Germany
Year: 1974
Available Quality: Hi Def, Hi Def
Lisa is a tourist in an ancient city. When she gets lost, she finds an old mansion in which to shelter. Soon she is sucked into a vortex of deception, debauchery and evil presided over by housekeeper Leandre.
Julius Caesar
Genres: Drama, History
Starring: Robert Vaughn, Diana Rigg, Charlton Heston, Jason Robards, Christopher Lee, John Gielgud, Richard Chamberlain
Directors: Stuart Burge
Country: UK
Year: 1970
Available Quality: Hi Def, Hi Def
All star cast heads up this 1970 remake of the William Shakespeare classic tale of the betrayal of the the Roman senate against their emperor, the plotting and scheming that led up to the assassination of the title charecter, and all of Romes' fickleness towards the events.
Fellini's Casanova
Genres: Romance, Drama, History
Starring: Donald Sutherland, Tina Aumont, Dudley Sutton, Clara Algranti, Cicely Browne, Carmen Scarpitta, Daniela Gatti
Directors: Federico Fellini
Country: USA, Italy
Year: 1976
Available Quality: Hi Def, Hi Def
Casanova is a libertine, collecting seductions and sexual feats. But he is really interested in someone, and is he really an interesting person ? Is he really alive ?
From Noon Till Three
Genres: Comedy, Romance, Western
Starring: Charles Bronson, Bert Williams, Stan Haze, Don 'Red' Barry, Anne Ramsey, Douglas Fowley, Davis Roberts
Directors: Frank D. Gilroy
Country: USA
Year: 1976
Available Quality: Hi Def
On the way to commit a bank robbery a gang of outlaws call off at a remote house in order to steal a horse. The house is owned by Amanda, a beautiful young widow who catches the eye of gang member Graham Dorsey. Instead of riding on, Dorsey stays to await the gang's return and spends three wonderful hours with Amanda. The robbery goes wrong and Dorsey rides off to rescue his fellow criminals, or so Amanda thinks ...
Futureworld
Genres: Thriller, Sci-Fi
Starring: Blythe Danner, Peter Fonda, Dana Lee, Yul Brynner, John Fujioka, John P. Ryan, Darrell Larson
Directors: Richard T. Heffron
Country: USA
Year: 1976
Available Quality: DivX, Hi Def, iPod
Two reporters, Tracy and Chuck, get a message from a third one who discovered something about "Futureworld" and becomes killed before he could tell anyone about it. They visit Futureworld to find out what he knew.
East of Elephant Rock
Genres: Drama
Starring: John Hurt, Anton Rodgers, Christopher Cazenove, Judi Bowker, Jeremy Kemp, Tariq Yunus, Vajira
Directors: Don Boyd
Country: UK
Year: 1977
Available Quality: Hi Def, Hi Def
In 1948, a new British governor takes over a Far Eastern colony after his predecessor is murdered by terrorists.
Escape from Alcatraz
Genres: Action, Crime, Thriller
Starring: Clint Eastwood, Paul Benjamin, Fred Ward, Jack Thibeau, Roberts Blossom, Patrick McGoohan, Larry Hankin
Directors: Don Siegel
Country: USA
Year: 1979
Available Quality: DivX, Hi Def, iPod, Hi Def
A group of inmates attempt a daring escape from the notorious Alcatraz prison island, from which no-one had managed to escape before. Based on a true story.
Duplicity III
Genres: Short
Starring: Unknown
Directors: Stan Brakhage
Country: USA
Year: 1980
Available Quality: Hi Def
Stan Brakhage was always acutely aware of time in his work, even if only to disrupt it through layering and superimposition, the tools by which Brakhage frequently undercut the passage of time. Time works strangely in Brakhage's work: his editing is often fast, even frantic, and an image can last barely a second or two before being replaced with another, so the films seem to move very quickly, propelled forward by the perception of great speed. And yet time is also stretched and warped in his work, elongated through repetition so that a single moment can recur as Brakhage loops back to it again and again, returning obsessively to the same ima...