La Novia ensangrentada (Blood Spattered Bride) - dir. Vicente Aranda (1972)

70's Spanish horror movie industry seems dwarfed in comparison to the vast amount of Italian exploitation churned out at the time. Spanish directors, however, were able to produce films of unparallelled strangeness with considerable consistency. As for the reasons, one needs ( Read more... )

Downtown 81 A.K.A. New York Beat Movie - dir. Edo Bertoglio (2001)

This fictional romp through the early 80's New York with Jean-Michel Basquiat mainly seems to serve the purpose of advertising the whole post punk/no wave scene. The sparse storyline accentuates the constructed nature of this particular image, although most of the time the events ( Read more... )