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Flesh (1968)
Joe Dallesandro plays charming, open, and innocent Joe as he takes to the
streets and meets an artist with elaborate and hilarious theories of body
worship, a couple of transvestites, a dumb ex-girlfriend (now a topless
dancer) and a friend whose armpits have been burned by a flamethrower. A
gallery of city grotesques that is hilarious, poignant and real.
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Trash (1970)
The story of Joe and his lover-protector, Holly, who is something to behold,
a comic book Mother Courage who fancies herself as Marlene Dietrich but
sounds more like Phil Silvers. Joe and Holly try to make a go of things in
their Lower East Side basement, from which Holly goes forth from time to
time to cruise the Fillmore East and to scavenge garbage cans, while Joe’s
journeys are in search of real junk. Trash is true-blue movie making, funny
and vivid.
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Heat (1972)
Sylvia Miles is a fading, practically unknown star, given to game shows, TV
movies and studs. Joe Dallesandro is a one-time child actor who lives in a
sun-baked motel where the obese landlady gives cut rates for service and
complains about the star’s freaked out daughter who lives with baby and
lesbian love in a “suite.” Heat is a film of high comedy and low tragedy
with a gifted and offbeat cast. |
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Blood For Dracula (1974)
The ultimate vampire movie from award-winning director Paul Morrissey! The
Vampire Count Dracula requires the blood of young virgins to stay alive.
Pretending to seek the hand in marriage of one of four aristocratic Italian
sisters, he discovers that they are already very modern. A field hand
uncovers his real identity and totally dismembers the helpless vampire in an
orgy of blood letting. A witty, sexy and gory interpretation of the Dracula
tale from one of the world’s most renowned cult directors that is “utterly
hilarious.” |
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Flesh For Frankenstein (1974)
Paul Morrissey’s wacky classic in which Dr. Frankenstein creates humans from
body parts in a manner never seen before or since. A mad scientist, married
to his sister, spends his time kidnapping, cutting up and sewing together
young people in order to create a perfect Male and Female specimen. His
sister, when not minding his two children, selects lovers from her
employees. When one of her lovers turns out to be the best friend of the
head of her brother’s specimen, Dr. Frankenstein’s monster goes berserk and
disembowels everyone, including himself. |
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Madame Wang's (1981)
A young KGB agent comes to California to meet Jane Fonda and prepare for the
coming Russian takeover of the U.S. After losing his papers and money, he
only manages to connect with a band of unemployed, homeless, overweight and
over the hill transvestites who are trying to make the transition from drag
to rock. Persuaded by the daughter of one of the transvestites to become a
self-mutilating punk rocker in a famous L.A. Chinese restaurant run by an
elderly sex-change, Madame Wang, he freaks out and slashes himself to
shreds.
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Mixed Blood (1985)
Drugs, Sex, Murder. All in a day’s work for the kids of “Alphabet City”!
Brazilian drug dealers in the lower east side of Manhattan start a war with
a gang of rival Latino dealers. A gritty, documentary-style drama full of
memorable characters from the streets of immigrant New York moving to a
Latin beat.
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Women In Revolt (1971)
Three men from different walks of life, Candy from high society, Jackie from
the middle class and Holly from the gutter, live and dress as women in order
to attract men. When Jackie feels that the group needs independence, he
organizes meetings to enlist his friends in the newly fashionable Women’s
Lib Movement. They decide to give up men, become lesbians and attempt
careers, only to wind up back where they began, sadder but none the wiser.
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