In 1974, Tobe Hooper made his directorial debut with the feel-good family comedy of the year, the film that embodied the mantra of “live, laugh, love” and brought a sense of warmth and comfort to audiences everywhere, who doubtlessly went straight to their local travel agency and booked their one-way tickets to the American South,…
Dark Habits (1983)
A nightclub singer named Yolanda witnesses her troubled boyfriend overdose on heroin that she has given to him, and knowing that she is going to be the prime suspect in his death, from both the nosy police officers set to investigate the case, and the violent underworld figures that he had shady dealings with, she…
World of Tomorrow Episode Two: The Burden of Other People’s Thoughts (2017)
Don Hertzfeldt is someone who has shifted the perception of animation throughout his career, and even though he is still relatively young by the standards of the industry, he has become extremely influential, and someone whose achievements are more indelible than most artists his age. Some of the most gorgeous animated films I have ever…
Fallen Angels (1995)
Hong Kong is a city of a million and one stories. We encounter two of them. A mysterious killer (Leon Lai) stalks the city at night, engaging in his job as an effective hitman, eliminating various people who unfortunately fallen on the wrong side of the influential underground figures that run the city, and dictate…
The Naked Civil Servant (1975)
Like many people, I was always aware of Quentin Crisp – he was, in his own words “one of the great stately homos of England”, and whether be his position as one of British culture’s most beloved writers and raconteurs, or his brief forays into acting from time to time (I’ll always remember his performance…
Benilde or the Virgin Mother (1975)
Benilde (Maria Amélia Matta) is an innocent young Portuguese woman who discovers something that sends everyone she knows into shock – somehow, she managed to become pregnant. Her explanation doesn’t make this news any less difficult to comprehend, as she believes that the baby was the product of divine intervention, with the young woman, who…
Euridice BA 2037 (1975)
In the quiet tranquility of a small but comfortable apartment sits Euridice (Vera Tschechowa), a young woman who has been sentenced to spend an unknown amount of time as a prisoner to an unseen entity, which constantly calls the apartment just to mock her situation and to give her false hope that she will soon…
White Collar Blues (1975)
Only bad things seem to happen to Ugo Fantozzi (Paolo Villaggio), who may just be the most unlucky man in existence. A long-suffering accountant who has worked for the enormous ItalPetrolCementThermoTextilPharmMetalChemical for over twenty years, he has hardly anything to show for it – his wife (Liù Bosisio) is far from the woman of his…
Nashville (1975)
Robert Altman made the films no one else was willing to make, and the ones very few were able to even conceive of. In his long and storied career, the director crafted films that spanned genres, nations and even the occasional dimension. His films were sometimes not even all that good, but still managed to…
Fear of Fear (1975)
Rainer Werner Fassbinder knew how to make three different kinds of films better than anything else – the comedic (Beware of a Holy Whore, Chinese Roulette), the melancholic (I Only Want You To Love Me) and the tragic (Fox and His Friends, Ali: Fear Eats the Soul) – and in his extremely prolific career, nearly…
The Postmodern Pelican 