![]() ![]() This thrice Oscar® nominated cinemascope musical features sparkling musical numbers and dream sequences, and the incomparable Fred Astaire.Īfter two years in the trade, a classy call girl is on the final day of her career as she visits various clients and female friends for one last hurrah. This ground-breaking work combines interviews with Tom (prior to his death in 1992) and his leather men acolytes with hundreds of his original drawings and steamy fantasy scenes inspired by his work.įollows a young French girl (Leslie Caron, An American in Paris) through college, as her education sponsoredīy a mysterious millionaire with long legs. His provocative erotic drawings have had an enormous influence on gay identity, attitude and self-understanding. Tom of Finland is one of the major icons of the gay world. ![]() Griffith: the man who first brought artistry and ambition to the movies, and then, having dragged a reluctant American film industry to international prominence, found it had no more use for him. Everyone has a secret and everyone is a suspect, even the woman (Meg Ryan) who loves him.Īcclaimed three-part documentary tells the proud, sad story of D.W. Cab Co.ĭexter Cornell (Dennis Quaid) has just 24 hours to find out who poisoned him. When young Albert Hockenberry wants to become a cabbie, he’s got the wackiest teachers around, courtesy of his uncle Howard and the freewheeling D.C. Maybe Boa Constrictors were shocking and frightening in 1963 when they were not the common pet snakes they became later.The American Film Theatre 14 Film Collection (AFT Megaset)Īn invasion of friends and family pushes the repressed problems of a complacent marriage to the fore in this exceptional adapatation of Edward Albee's Pulitzer Prize-winning play. I suppose the snake was just thrown in to add something weird and creepy in case looking at women with severed limbs and dripping blood wasn't shocking enough to the audience. This might be the only thing about the movie that's has even a fragment of mystery to it. Later we see the snake crawling under a copy of Fuad's book titled "Ancient Weird Religious Rites." What role the snake plays in all of this is not clear. Then he comes back with with his knife and starts ripping out her heart. As he speaks we see an illustration of one of the women having her heart ripped out: First the heart-ripping guy holds a Boa Constrictor over the woman then moves it close to her face. Then we see a scholar giving a lecture on Egyptian culture describing the blood feast for Ishtar, how lust reigns over the land and young women are slaughtered and cooked up for dinner and Ishtar comes to life at the end. Somebody then drags the snake backwards to make it look like it's moving. After Fuad kills a woman on the beach and hacks out her brains we see a live Boa Constrictor on the sand. Meanwhile, a couple of cops try to find the serial murderer. ![]() Blood Feast is really awful, but many horror fans love it because it was a pioneer of the bloody splatter and slasher films to come, and it does have a certain hypnotic power combined of bright colors, including lots of red blood, and acting so slowly-paced and so bad it almost seems like genius.Ī caterer, Fuad Ramses, kills women and harvests parts of their bodies to prepare a blood feast that will resurrect the Egyptian Goddess Ishtar, the mother of the veiled darkness, the evil love goddess, and a department store mannequin painted gold. This movie was made by the "Godfather of Gore" Herschell Gordon Lewis, a man so demented that disgusting people with his gorey movies didn't satisfy his blood lust so he went into the even more horrible Junk Mail business. Some of these pictures and descriptions may give away plot details that you might not want to know before watching the film. ![]()
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