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KURO TOKAGE (1968)

Jon W. — Sat, 29 Mar 2025 10:33:51 +0000

Japanese sixties comedy featuring a cunning female jewel thief named Black Lizard who tries to kidnap Sanaye, a wealthy jeweler’s beautiful daughter as part of a plot to steal the jeweler’s expensive “Star of Egypt” diamond. To thwart the planned kidnapping, the jeweler hires Japan’s number one detective, the brilliant Akechi. This sets off a dual between Black Lizard and Akechi as each tries to outwit the other. In the process, the two adversaries develop a mutual respect and affection for each other.

Director: Kinji Fukasaku. AKA 黒蜥蜴 / Black Lizard.
Writers: Rampo Edogawa (novel), Yukio Mishima (stage adaptation), Masashige Narusawa.
Stars: Akihiro Miwa, Isao Kimura, Kikko Matsuoka, Jun Usami, Yûsuke Kawazu, Kô Nishimura, Toshiko Kobayashi, Sônosuke Oda, Kinji Hattori, Kyôichi Satô, Jun kato, Ryuji Funakoshi, Mitsuko Takara, Yukio Mishima, Tetsurô Tanba.
Cinematographer: Hiroshi Dôwaki.
Composer: Isao Tomita.

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ANITA: TÄNZE DES LASTERS (1987)

Jon Whitehead — Wed, 26 Jul 2023 10:23:23 +0000

On a dirty grey street in Berlin, a crowd gathers round an eccentric old woman who is performing a strip-tease. Dragged off to a psychiatric hospital, she demands cocaine instead of thorazine, tries to seduce everyone in sight, and insists that she is the legendary dancer Anita Berber, darling of the decadent ’20s. Suddenly, in true Wizard of Oz style, the film departs from monochrome reality into the colour-drenched world of the woman’s fantasies, a wildly exaggerated evocation of Weimar Berlin filmed in full-blown expressionist style.

Director: Rosa von Praunheim. AKA Anita: Dances of Vice
Writers: Marianne Enzensberger, Lotti Huber, Hannelene Limpach.
Stars: Lotti Huber, Ina Blum, Mikael Honnesseau, Eva-Maria Kurz, Tillman Lenhert, Mario Kutschke, Hannelene Limpach.
Cinematographer: Elfi Mikesch.
Composers: Konrad Elfers, Edvard Lieber, Alan Marks, Rainer Ruppert, Wilhelm Dieter Siebert.

1987 Chicago International Film Festival – Nominated for the Gold Hugo.

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PINK NARCISSUS (1971)

Jon W. — Fri, 09 Dec 2022 12:03:38 +0000

The work of artist and photographer James Bidgood, Pink Narcissus is a breathtaking and outrageous erotic poem focusing on the daydreams of a beautiful boy prostitute who, from the seclusion of his ultra-kitsch apartment, conceives a series of interlinked narcissistic fantasies populated by matadors, dancing boys, slaves and leather-clad bikers.

Director: James Bidgood (as Anonymous).
Writer: James Bidgood (as Anonymous).
Stars: Bobby Kendall, Don Brooks, Charles Ludlam.
Composers: Gary Coch, Martin Jay Sadoff.
Cinematographer: James Bidgood (uncredited).

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RIP James Bidgood (1933-2022)

FLAMING CREATURES (1963)

Jon W. — Fri, 21 Jan 2022 11:02:34 +0000

Flaming Creatures is a non-narrative, Dionysian orgy, complete with wild dancing, gender bending, and a climactic earthquake. The carnivalesque madness of the film is reinforced by the chaotic density of its formal composition. Jack Smith’s deliberate spatial disorientation creates a pansexual landscape of tangled body parts; just as the viewer is unable to situate the visual coordinates of the image, the creatures are unaware of which extremity belongs to whom.

Director: Jack Smith.
Writer: Jack Smith.
Stars: Francis Francine, Sheila Bick, Joel Markman, Mario Montez, Arnold Rockwood, Judith Malina, Marian Zazeela.
Cinematographer: Jack Smith.

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HEUTE NACHT ODER NIE (1972)

Jon W. — Wed, 15 Dec 2021 05:44:05 +0000

Once a year, an aristocratic Austrian family holds a traditional feast at which masters and servants trade places. A troupe of actors (including cult cabaret artist Ingrid Caven) are hired to entertain the guests, performing fragments from the “cultural scrap heap”: GONE WITH THE WIND, Madame Bovary, Tennessee Williams, Swan Lake. The decadent proceedings take on a dangerous edge when the actors incite the servants to revolt against their masters-but is the Revolution also part of the act?

Director: Daniel Schmid. AKA Tonight or Never
Writer: Daniel Schmid.
Stars: Ingrid Caven, Voli Gelier, Peter Chatel, Igor Josza, Peter Kern, Béatrice Stoll, Rosemarie Heinikel, Harry Baer, Viktor Latscha, Irene Olgiatti, Peter-Christian Berner, Anna Fadda, Léonie Küng, Angelika Prosa, Liz Panama, Bohoumil Octabecz, Silvio Pasquarelli, Peter Hartmann.
Cinematographer: Renato Berta.

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NO PRESIDENT (1967)

Jon W. — Mon, 19 Apr 2021 09:30:19 +0000

Jack Smith’s third feature film was originally titled “The Kidnapping of Wendell Willkie by the Love Bandit,” in reaction to the 1968 Presidential Campaign. Willkie was a liberal Republican who ran against FDR in the 1940’s. It mixes B&W footage of Smith’s creatures with old campaign footage of Willkie. The climax of the work appears to be the “auctioning” of the presidential candidate at the convention.

Director: Jack Smith.
Stars: Charles Henri Ford, Tally Brown, Tosh Carillo, Doris Desmond, Bill Fortenberry, Francis Francine, Piero Heliczer, Donna Kerness, Nancy King, Robert Lavigne, Gerard Malanga, Joel Markman, Gay Martini, Mario Montez, Irving Rosenthal, Jerry Sims, John Vaccaro, Ruby Zinnia.

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DESPERATE REMEDIES (1993)

Jon Whitehead — Thu, 04 Oct 2018 11:35:19 +0000

In the imaginary 19th-century town of Hope, draper Dorothea Brooks is desperate to save her sister from the clutches of opium, sex and the dastardly Fraser. She begs hunky migrant Lawrence Hayes to help; but complications ensue.

Director: Stewart Main & Peter Wells.
Writers: Peter Wells, Stewart Main.
Stars: Jennifer Ward-Lealand, Kevin Smith, Lisa Chappell, Cliff Curtis, Michael Hurst, Kiri Mills, Bridget Armstrong, Timothy Raby, Helen Steemson, Geeling Ng (as Geeling Ching).
Cinematographer: Leon Narbey.
Composer: Peter Scholes.