She was the pleasure-seeking photojournalist who uncovered an increasingly lurid world to become the premier feminist icon in genre history.
She was the pleasure-seeking photojournalist who uncovered an increasingly lurid world to become the premier feminist icon in genre history.
With his lush and sensual visuals, pitch-perfect soundtracks, and soulful romanticism, Wong Kar Wai has established himself as one of the defining auteurs of contemporary cinema. Joined by such key collaborators as cinematographer Christopher Doyle; editor and production and costume designer William Chang Suk Ping; and actors Tony Leung Chiu Wai and Maggie Cheung Man Yuk, Wong (or WKW, as he is often known) has written and directed films that have enraptured audiences and critics worldwide and inspired countless other filmmakers with their poetic moods and music, narrative and stylistic daring, and potent themes of alienation and memory
She was the pleasure-seeking photojournalist who uncovered an increasingly lurid world to become the premier feminist icon in genre history.
This genre-defying horror-musical mash-up—the bold debut of Polish director Agnieszka Smoczynska—follows a pair of carnivorous mermaid sisters drawn ashore to explore life on land in an alternate 1980s Poland.
A girl on the verge of womanhood finds herself in a sensual fantasyland of vampires, witchcraft, and other threats in this eerie and mystical movie daydream. Valerie and Her Week of Wonders serves up an endlessly looping, nonlinear fairy tale, set in a quasi-medieval landscape. Ravishingly shot, enchantingly scored, and spilling over with surreal fancies, this enticing phantasmagoria from director Jaromil Jireš is among the most beautiful oddities of the Czechoslovak New Wave.
JUSTINE AND JULIETTE is a modern re-telling of the classic sex tale from the Marquis de Sade. Beautiful actresses Maria Forsa and Anne Bie Warburg play two sisters caught in a web of sex and sensual pleasures.
Swedish cinematographer Mac Ahlberg (credited here as Bert Torn) directed this classic erotic film from the 1970’s known not only for its beautifully photographed hard-core sex scenes, but also as an early film featuring US hardcore star, Harry Reems. Also stars Kate Mundt, Brigitte Maier, Lisbeth Olsen, Louise Frevert, Lone Gersel & Irene Lindholm.
A Box set collection of 19 of the best-known, least-known, rarely-seen and thought-lost classics of folk horror from around the world.
Blind Beast is a masterpiece of erotic horror that explores the all-encompassing and overwhelming relationship between the artist and his art and the obsessive closed world that the artist inhabits, with maestro director Yasuzo Masumura (Giants and Toys, Irezumi) conjuring up a hallucinogenic dreamworld in which sensual and creative urges combine with a feverish intensity.
Tony Award winner Roger Rees (THE PRESTIGE, THE WEST WING) and Geno Lechner (SCHINDLER’S LIST, IMMORTAL BELOVED) star in this starkly beautiful Award-winning film that brilliantly illuminates the dark world of S&M, fetishized eroticism, and the disturbing consequences of blurring the line between fantasy and reality.
Tony Award® winner Roger Rees (THE PRESTIGE, THE WEST WING) and Geno Lechner (SCHINDLERS LIST, IMMORTAL BELOVED) star in this starkly beautiful Award-winning film that brilliantly illuminates the dark world of S&M, fetishized eroticism, and the disturbing consequences of blurring the line between fantasy and reality.