Producer-writer-director Charles Chaplin’s 1940 brave, risky and pioneering satirical comedy classic focuses on a timid Jewish barber who is mistaken for the dictator of Tomania (‘our Fooey’) and then takes over from him. A stirring, controversial condemnation of […]
Writer-director Charles Chaplin’s still-renowned, often brilliant 1931 comedy classic is a silent movie, even though he made it three years after the talkies had come in. It is over-burdened with sentimentality from another age but […]
Director Damien O’Donnell’s 1999 Film Four movie proved a very big popular hit in the UK. Om Puri brings a tragic dimension to what is basically a sitcom about a traditional Seventies Pakistani father who […]
Gregg Araki’s ambitious and successful 1997 movie Nowhere is zany alternative entertainment for cool entertainment folk. James Duval makes an engaging, lost hero as Dark Smith. Writer-director Gregg Araki’s ambitious and successful 1997 movie Nowhere […]
Gay Asian American cult director Gregg Araki’s 1995 black comedy road movie The Doom Generation is gleefully gross, violent and ultra-provocative. Gay Asian American cult director Gregg Araki’s 1995 black comedy road movie The Doom […]
Gregg Araki’s 1993 movie Totally F***ed Up focuses on a gang of half a dozen gay and lesbian teenagers living in Los Angeles who are totally fed up and f***ed up outcasts. Writer-cinematographer-editor-producer-director Gregg Araki’s […]
Director Agnieszka Holland’s 1995 adaptation of Christopher Hampton’s play (with a screenplay by the playwright himself) about the destructive mutual passion of the 19th-century French poets Arthur Rambeau and Paul Verlaine is a depressing fiasco […]
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