Starring: Horst Tappert, Werner Peters, Hubert Suschka, Walter Richter, Erika Pluhar, Judy Winter
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35mm print courtesy of Elizabeth Purchell
When a popular local trans drag performer is found dead in the trunk of a car, vice detective Perrak is put on the case. But as he begins getting closer to solving the mystery, he finds himself pulled deeper and deeper into a sexual underworld of corruption and blackmail that reaches the highest echelons of power and industry.
A surprisingly gnarly variation on the German krimi film from genre legend Alfred Vohrer (The Creature with the Blue Hand), Hard Women makes good use of its trans milieu by providing plum supporting roles for performers like Ramona Vargas and Angie Stardust—the latter of whom would later go on to star in Rosa von Praunheim’s trans musical masterpiece City of Lost Souls. A flop upon its initial American release as The Blonde Connection—with an ad campaign that emphasized its trans elements—the film would eventually be recut and rereleased by exploitation film legend Samuel M. Sherman’s Independent-International Pictures as the kinky Hard Women before falling into obscurity. This English-dubbed version of the film has never been released on home video.
Starring: John Hurt, Anthony Hopkins, Anne Bancroft
4K restoration
Dr. Frederic Treves (Anthony Hopkins) discovers Joseph (John) Merrick (John Hurt) in a sideshow. Born with a congenital disorder, Merrick uses his disfigurement to earn a living as the “Elephant Man.” Treves brings Merrick into his home, discovering that his rough exterior hides a refined soul, and that Merrick can teach the stodgy British upper class of the time a lesson about dignity. Merrick becomes the toast of London and charms a caring actress (Anne Bancroft) before his death at 27.
Starring: Kitten Natividad, Ken Kerr, Anne Marie, June Mack, Henry Rowland, Uschi Digard
This July, take a drive deep shall we say “Down South” with The Deuce to the starving-for-it core of our shall we say “Cun-tree” via a deep dip into one Smalltown, USA… and discover together there a bevy of dark demented desirous secrets barely buried BENEATH THE VALLEY OF THE ULTRA-VIXENS! A hot-house hoot of hedonism, jingoism, and shall we say “jismism”… shall we?? We did!!
The basic shall we say “stripped down” story here being that of buggering buffoon hubby Lamar forever leaving his luscious wife Levonia cold with all his yearnin’ for book-learnin’ (?!!?) and insistence on shall we say “beating it through the back door”… setting off a series of sex-capades that shall we say “straddles” the whole sexed-up strata of Small Town, USA’s citizenry… At once and together a stinging satire of America’s sham moralizing as its populace gets forever screwed in the shall we say “alternate ending” AND a fun shall we say “filled” fantasy fantasia of fetishism, femdom, and freewheeling fornication!!
A later shall we say “entry” in the string of Meyer’s “Vixen” movies and maybe his most mind-meltingly mannerist and meta… its filmmaking freed from the tethers of taste or trepidation – untimid in its telling – a frantic frenetic fever-dream forward-thinking fable that very well may have flummoxed the raincoat-clad despite cloudless skies crowd for the Lyric Theatre‘s mega-Meyer double feature shall we say “coupling” with 1975s SUPERVIXENS… And though perhaps more or less or mostly there for the shall we say “jujubees” shall we say “on hand” – by the time of BEANEATH’s release many a film-fan and flim-flam “critics” alike suspected Meyer had more up his shall we say “sleeve” – as would be expected from a filmmaker forged in the fire of WWII’s “official photo unit” to General Patton, is rumored to have shot the shall we say “raising” of the flag at Iwo Jima (to which one imagines, had he his druthers, would have been accompanied by a slide-whistle’s “whoooooop!”), and who’s self-penned tombstoned epitaph dead-panly reads: “King of the nudies. I was glad to do it.” … As too you will be when shall we say “buried” deep in The Deuce BENEATH THE VALLEY OF THE ULTRA-VIXENS!!
Starring: Joan Dinco, David Rommel, Anna Zizzo, Susan L. Cane, Tammy Andersen
When genetic scientist Meredith Weaver finds out about her husband’s affair, she doses him with an experimental and very unstable serum, which causes his body parts to separate from his torso and take on monstrous lives of their own, all of them now craving human flesh. Soon, he’s stalking the streets in search of young women to quench the now insatiable hunger of his evil appendages.
Tom Berna’s rarely seen, stop-motion heavy Super 8mm body horror plays out like an alternate universe Lifetime movie directed by David Cronenberg that delivers both the gruesome FX set pieces but also serves a cautionary tale of male sexual addiction and unchecked passion.
Starring: Eric Bauza, Candi Milo, Peter MacNicol, Carlos Alazraqui, Fred Tatasciore, Kimberly Brooks
Porky Pig and Daffy Duck become Earth’s only hope when their antics at the local bubble-gum factory uncover a secret alien mind-control plot. Faced with cosmic odds, they must save their town and the world while not driving each other totally looney.
Starring: Chloë Sevigny, Claes Bang, Lily McInerny, Naïlia Harzoune, Aliocha Schneider, Nathalie Richard
At the height of summer, 18-year-old Cécile (Lily McInerny) is relaxing by the French seaside with her father (Claes Bang) and falling in love with her new boyfriend. The arrival of her late mother’s enigmatic friend (Chloë Sevigny) turns her world upside down. A modern take on Françoise Sagan’s unforgettable coming-of-age novel.
Starring: Charles Bickford, Judith Allen, Richard Cromwell, Harry Green, Bradley Page
After almost two-decades of lavish, epic, over-sexed period pieces, Cecil B. DeMille turned his camera on contemporary youth for the 1933 melodrama This Day and Age. When a beloved Jewish tailor is murdered by local racketeer Louis Garrett, the lithe and fashionably-attired student bodies of North High find their juvenile idyll disrupted – and their cries for justice unanswered by the grown-ups in the room. Galvanized by the law’s indifference, the kids hatch a plan to entrap Garrett and seek justice on their own terms. DeMille’s love of teeming crowds is on full display in the film’s gripping climax, where hoards of torch-bearing boys (Black standing equally with white) loom over the sniveling hoodlum who dared to cross them.
NYC premiere
“The desire to go back in time has been a part of humanity from the beginning. This film is the closest we could get to returning to a special time in our lives – revisiting a halcyon moment in our emotional memory as one of our experiential pinnacles.” – Jason Axel Summers, co-director
Teaming up with Dead Moon in 2001 to shoot the cult hit documentary Unknown Passage: The Dead Moon Story was a transformative adventure for filmmakers Summers and Kate Fix. They created a lifelong bond with all three members of the band, which continues to this day with the sole survivor, Toody Cole.
Shot in 2001 on tour in Europe and the US, with a days-long visit to the famous Cole home, the original film left little opportunity to allow for full-length song performances, as hearing from Andrew Loomis, Fred & Toody Cole often overlapped with concert footage. This new film revisits the performances that Jason & Kate captured on those tours, most of it never presented to the world until now. We also see fun and interesting footage of a less formal nature, just hanging out and traveling with the band. This film is meant to be an extension of Unknown Passage, and the desire is to provide a window back in time for fans of Dead Moon, both old and new.
Unlike many artists, there is no curtain to pull back and peer behind: they always were and are that face they presented as artists to the world. Their earnestness is undeniable, and their electrifying performances and connection with audiences drove them to the summit of the rock ‘n roll pantheon.
Starring: Christian Bale, Michael Caine, Ken Watanabe, Liam Neeson, Katie Holmes, Gary Oldman, Cillian Murphy, Morgan Freeman
A young Bruce Wayne (Christian Bale) travels to the Far East, where he’s trained in the martial arts by Henri Ducard (Liam Neeson), a member of the mysterious League of Shadows. When Ducard reveals the League’s true purpose — the complete destruction of Gotham City — Wayne returns to Gotham intent on cleaning up the city without resorting to murder. With the help of Alfred (Michael Caine), his loyal butler, and Lucius Fox (Morgan Freeman), a tech expert at Wayne Enterprises, Batman is born.
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Ferocious and feral, this movie hits the ground running and never lets up. A relentless cops and robbers chase flick from early ’90s Hong Kong, it sees one of its great crime directors turn in his most muscular movie before heading out for Hollywood. Based on a real life case and shot on the actual locations where it took place, it’s as simple and straightforward as a bullet to the brain, but the trio of actors at its core turn it into something else. Star turns from one of Hong Kong’s most iconic actor/producers, one of its great cinematic bad guys, and one of its best and most under-rated actresses playing his girlfriend give this movie a heart that beats 500 times per minute. It’s never been on blu ray and it rarely gets played on the big screen so this is your chance to catch this crimecore classic.
