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Karl Marx Productions movies of the people. seize the means.

05/08/2021

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25/04/2021

Leftist subversive or consummate professional? A video essay by Christopher Small explores the antinomies of the great director Douglas Sirk. For the accompa...

07/01/2021

The moon is a monster, it devours time. Rubio. A fisherman. He loved the sea, he loved the freedom when heading out with his boat. But the sea — nature — has its own thoughts, its own desires. Its …

15/12/2020

A destitute man wakes up with the worst hangover of his life and no recollection of the previous evening. Now, he must piece together the few fragments of his memory…

15/12/2020
04/12/2020

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01/12/2020

On the occasion of 10 years since they began collaborating, Daniel & Clara were in conversation with Scott Barley to discuss a decade of creativity, collaboration & moving image art.

28/11/2020

Video adapted from the Film AIDOL 爱道 Taken from the album AIDOL 爱道 (OST) Available on Vinyl / USB and digital, buy here: https://smarturl.it/AIDOL Released o...

kiyoshi kurosawa on Pulse being a remake of hooper's Lifeforce
20/11/2020

kiyoshi kurosawa on Pulse being a remake of hooper's Lifeforce

16/11/2020

A helpful computer helps us to remember some of the things we forgot.

08/11/2020

Edward Yang, 1992.

07/11/2020

A Forest of National Histories: Interview with Lav Diaz

01/11/2020

Coming Soon: Manoel de Oliveira's FRANCISCA. Opens 11/13 at Film at Lincoln Center and other Virtual Cinemas.

26/10/2020
28/07/2020

"Ever since those reviews for 'Showgirls' (1995), it's like I was that woman in 'The Scarlet Letter'. Except that instead of having to wear the letter 'A' for adulteress, I was condemned to wear an 'S' for 'showgirl'."

Elizabeth Berkley was a teenage model for Elite before pursuing an acting career. She made her television film debut in 1987 with a role in the television film "Frog" and following this, made a number of guest appearances on several television shows. In 1989, at the age of seventeen, she auditioned for the role of Kelly Kapowski in "Saved by the Bell", but the producers of the show could not decide whether to cast her or Tiffani-Amber Thiessen. In the end, they created for Berkley the character Jessie Spano, a role she played from 1989 to 1993, as well as in both of the show's television film installments.

After leaving "Saved by the Bell" to pursue a film career, Berkley won the role of Nomi Malone, the lead character in the controversial Paul Verhoeven film "Showgirls". The s*x- and nudity-laden film was given a controversial NC-17 rating in the United States (the first big-budget film to receive this rating), was a box office bomb, and was widely panned by critics. Berkley was dropped by her agent; due to the negative fallout from the film other agents refused to take her telephone calls.

"First of all, to portray this woman any other way would be a lie. This is what she does. I mean, my feeling is s*xuality, people who have a problem with it are living in shame, so that's their problem. All I know is that this will help people feel more free about themselves, I think, and, um, I see nothing harmful in it. It's a wonderful message about going after what you want."

Verhoeven, in 2015: " 'Showgirls' certainly ruined the career of Elizabeth Berkley in a major way. It made my life more difficult, but not to the degree it did Elizabeth's. Hollywood turned their backs on her. If somebody has to be blamed, it should be me because I thought that it was interesting to portray somebody like that. I had hoped the end of the movie would explain why she acted that way, when it's revealed she has convictions linked with drugs, but that too turned out to be a big mistake. I asked Elizabeth to do all that, to be abrupt and to act in that way, but people have been attacking her about for that ever since. I did consider that people would think she had a borderline personality, but that was because her character had a history of drug abuse, so I tried to express that through her abruptness." (Wikipedia/IMDb)

Happy Birthday, Elizabeth Berkley!

14/03/2020

Greetings!I'm Pedro Gavina Maia, a film student from Porto, Portugal… Pedro Gavina Maia needs your support for Physics Work the Same Here as Where I Come From

12/03/2020

Join us on our journey to create a new and unique hand crafted feature length film | Check out 'Bitterroot - A Metaphysical Odyssey Film' on Indiegogo.

25/02/2020

Nine Seven Seven Título original: 977 Año: 2006 País: Rusia Género: Drama Dirección: Nikolay Khomeriki Guión: Yuni Davydov, Nikolay Knomeriki, Aleksandr Rodionov Duración: 86 min Reparto: Fyodor Lavrov, Klavdiya Korshunova, Yekaterina Golubeva, Pavel Lyubimtsev, Alisa Khazanova, Andrey Kazako...

05/02/2020

(2018) Award-winning drama about a day in the lives of four people. In Mandarin/subs.

09/01/2020
09/01/2020

F**k 2020. All my homies hate 2020.

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