Starring: Kae Araki, Michiko Neya, Hôchû Ôtsuka
Rally Vincent knows her weapons well, while her partner Minne May Hopkins loves to play with explosives. The pair run a gun-shop illegally and one day Bill Collins of the ATF, blackmails Rally and Minnie May into working for the ATF. Little do they know, that they are getting involved in a mission larger than they could imagine.
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Starring: Blake Lively
Still reeling from the loss of her mother, medical student Nancy Adams (Blake Lively) travels to a secluded beach for some much-needed solace. Despite the danger of surfing alone, Nancy decides to soak up the sun and hit the waves. Suddenly, a great white shark attacks, forcing her to swim to a giant rock for safety. Left injured and stranded 200 yards from shore, the frightened young woman must fight for her life as the deadly predator circles her in its feeding ground.
Starring: Cornel Wilde, Ken Gampu, Gert van den Bergh, Bella Randles, Morrison Gampu, Sandy Nkomo, Fusi Zazayokwe
The dog-days of August are upon us… Time to shed those warming layers – tear the sweat-soaked raiment of societal structuralism away – freed to take chase with The Deuce in hot hunt of… THE NAKED PREY!.. “Audience” and “film” finally fused – stripped bare… surrendered… together sentient in a Sun-flooded fever of image! Sound! Movement! Emotion!.. STEAMY!!
With a minimum of “set-up”: obnoxious privilegeds on a paid-for South African safari stupidly disregard their guide’s guidance and get met with more than a mouthful of malice from those whose land they’re looting… leaving said guide the last man standing – or rather running – for his life… as The Naked Prey!!
Mid-latish career for the handsomely hunkish one-time swash-buckling “Matinee Idol” Wilde – here doing double-duty before and behind the camera… One of a handful of highly idiosyncratic, generally down-beat directorial efforts.. this for which he somewhat re-invents not only himself – here bearded haggard scraggly gaunt and sinewy – but also as well the idea of what a “mainstream” “Hollywood” “Action-Adventure” movie could be made up of: also haggard scraggly gaunt and sinewy (and bearded?? why not!)… Independent from explanations, contextualizations, judgmentals… base and basic… A crucible of brutal sensualism nearing the “experimental” in its lean meanness… Confident in its nearly dialogless universality and fervent digging toward a humanity-wide cry for compassion… with THE NAKED PREY, Wilde forges the basics of movie-making’s beginnings into a gut-stab mold-breaking modernism… A wonder to behold! Behold on tight with The Deuce!!
PREY‘s Paramount Pictures promoted the pic’s New Embassy Theatre premiere with a “nationwide beauty contest” – the “winner” of which to be tiaraed that opening night: “Miss Naked Prey“!??! Preposterous?!!? Perfect!??! Prey-tell – which of you Deucies be brave enough to dare vie for such a title?? Because – believe or not… ’tis indeed… by night’s end – one of YOU (in actual theatrical attendance) will be crowned!!
Starring: Joan Blondell, Ann Dvorak, Bette Davis, Warren William, Lyle Talbot, Humphrey Bogart
Called “distasteful” by New York Times critic Mourdant Hall, pre-Code workhorse Mervyn LeRoy’s Three on a Match ranks among the era’s most lascivious and uncompromising women’s pictures.
Grade school pals Mary, Vivian and Ruth’s personalities seemed to have already calcified on the playground, hinting at the shades of womanhood in their respective futures. Shameless flirt Mary (Joan Blondell) ripens into a happy-go-lucky showgirl. Brainy bookworm Ruth (Bette Davis) parlays her studiousness into a secure office job. But it is Vivian (Ann Dvorak), a snobbish beauty with a rich husband, whose life takes the most drastic turn. Reunited during a chance meeting, Vivian can only marvel at her companions’ independence and self-sufficiency. Bored with marriage and motherhood, she soon falls under the sway of a no-good gangster, sending her tumbling into a void of addiction and child neglect.
Starring: Lindsay Lohan, Jamie Lee Curtis, Chad Michael Murray, Manny Jacinto, Chloe Fineman, Mark Harmon, Stephen Tobolowsky, Julia Butters
22 years after Tess and Anna endured an identity crisis, Anna now has a daughter and a soon-to-be stepdaughter. As they navigate the challenges that come when two families merge, Tess and Anna discover that lightning might strike twice.
Join us for a special Pride Month show as The Flushing Remonstrance perform their original live accompaniment to two of the seminal films of queer cinema.
James Sibley Watson and Melville Webber’s Lot In Sodom (1933) is a sensual depiction of the biblical story of Sodom and Gomorrah, filled with sinewy and semi-clad bodies, delirious bacchanals devoted to physical pleasure, and a searing, cataclysmic finale depicting the fall of a city devoted to adoration of the flesh.
Alla Nazimova and Charles Bryant’s adaptation of Oscar Wilde’s Salomé (1923) also visits the Bible to depict the story of Salomé (Nazimova), who performs the Dance of the Seven Veils for her lustful stepfather King Herod, demanding John the Baptist’s head on a platter as a reward. Featuring stunning costumes and Aubrey Beardsley–inspired art design, and with a (rumored) exclusively gay and bisexual cast, it’s considered to be one of America’s first art films.
