UHF
Synopsis: “Weird Al” Yankovic, Kevin McCarthy (Innerspace), Michael Richards (Seinfeld), David Bowe (The Cable Guy), Victoria Jackson (Saturday Night Live) and Fran Drescher (The Nanny) star in this inspired comedy […]
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Ken Park
Synopsis: Filmmaker Larry Clark reunites with Kids screenwriter Harmony Korine, with some additional directorial assistance from cinematographer Ed Lachman, for this look at a group of troubled teens and their […]
La constellation Jodorowsky
Synopsis: Fascinating and challenging, Alexandro Jodorowsky is a multi-talented person: director of cult-movies (EL TOPO, THE HOLY MOUNTAIN, SANTA SANGRE… ), founder of the “Panique” movement, performer of provocative happenings, […]
Shortbus
Synopsis: You’ve Got to Get on to Get Off. From the director of Hedwig and the Angry Inch comes Shortbus, an exploration into the lives of several characters living in […]
Santa sangre
Synopsis: Forget everything you have ever seen… In the 1970s, his legendary films El Topo and The Holy Mountain redefined movies as both art and entertainment while changing the face […]
Sex and Breakfast
Synopsis: James (Macaulay Culkin) and Heather (Alexis Dziena) along with Ellis (Kuno Becker) and Renee (Eliza Dushku) are two twenty-something couples whose lives are intertwined as they experiment with group […]
The Holy Mountain
Synopsis: The scandal of the 1973 Cannes Film Festival, writer/director Alejandro Jodorowsky’s flood of sacrilegious imagery and existential symbolism is a spiritual quest for enlightenment pitting illusion against truth. The […]
Sykt lykkelig
Synopsis: Any reason not to be? Family is the most important thing in the world to Kaja. She is an eternal optimist in spite of living with a man who […]
El topo
Synopsis: It was the landmark cult film that began the whole Midnight Movie phenomena of the counterculture crazy 1970s. El Topo was the most talked about, most controversial quasi-Western head […]
Happy Few
Synopsis: In this sexy, French romantic drama, two couples decide to explore the boundaries of their relationships by swapping partners. What starts as a fun, free-spirited ménage-a-4 experimentation full of […]
Fando y Lis
Synopsis: Banned in Mexico, a permanent cause celebre, surrealist “fabulador” Alejandro Jodorowsky unique career began with this bizarre tale of corrupted innocence, sadomasochistic love and unattainable paradise. Created from hazy […]
Bob and Carol and Ted and Alice
Synopsis: Consider the possibilities. Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice is the comedy classic from filmmaker Paul Mazursky (Down and out in Beverly Hills, The Pickle, The Tempest) that […]
Jodorowsky’s Dune
Synopsis: In 1974, Chilean director Alejandro Jodorowsky, whose films EL TOPO and THE HOLY MOUNTAIN launched and ultimately defined the midnight movie phenomenon, began work on his most ambitious project […]
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