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Country: Hong Kong
Genre: Drama
Director: Wu Tian-Ming
Year: 1996
Rating:
ESSENTIAL MOVIE
A couple of months ago, I told you guys about Lost In Time, the ultimate weepie/romance. Today, I’m going to write about what is probably the best family drama ever filmed, King of Masks. Like Lost In Time, King of Masks is engineered to squeeze tears from […]
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Country: Japan
Genre: Horror/Fantasy/Art
Director: Akio Jissoji/ Atsushi Kaneko/ Hisayasu Sato/ Suguru Takeuchi
Year: 2005
Rating:
NOT WORTH YOUR TIME
This omnibus horror film seems to offer some of the pleasures of narrative, but don’t be fooled. Rampo Noir is an art film through and through. Since the stories are only tangentially logical, what you are left with is a […]
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Country: Spain
Genre: Suspense
Director: Alejandro Amenábar
Year: 1996
Rating:
TRASH CINEMA RECOMMENDED MOVIE
Tesis works on two levels: as an American style thriller about a snuff film ring, and as an implicit criticism of the torture porn trend before it even existed.
Angela (Ana Torrent) is working on a thesis about violence in the media when she stumbles across a […]
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Country: United States
Genre: Drama
Director: David Lynch
Year: 1986
Rating:
TRASH CINEMA RECOMMENDED MOVIE
Blue Velvet is an art film, make no mistake about it, but the wealth and power of the transgressive imagery in Blue Velvet puts most exploitation flicks to shame, which is the reason that there is a review about it on this site.
The opening sequence […]
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Country: Hong Kong/Mainland China
Genre: Drama
Director: Chen Kaige
Year: 1993
Rating:
ESSENTIAL MOVIE
Continuing my reviews of art films with the impact of the most tawdry trash cinema, we come to probably the most wrenching historical drama ever made, Farewell My Concubine, starring the awesome trio of Leslie Cheung, Gong Li, and Zhang Feng-Yi, the last of whom holds […]
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Country: United States
Genre: Drama
Director: Michael Haneke
Year: 2008
Rating:
NOT WORTH YOUR TIME
If you watch Funny Games, Michael Haneke’s practically shot by shot English language remake of his 1997 German language film, expect to be punked.
Here’s the plot: two young punks stage a home invasion of a nice young family for no better reason than to terrorize […]
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Country: United States
Genre: Drama
Director: Francis Ford Coppola
Year: 1972
Rating:
TRASH CINEMA ESSENTIAL MOVIE
When The Godfather was released in 1972, it was meant to be a mainstream melodrama, not an art film. Yet, 35 years later, that’s what is has become for all intents and purposes. In most critical and popular lists, The Godfather is ranked among […]
≡ Category: Art Films, Comedy, Drama, Essential, Movie Reviews, United States | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: United States
Genre: Drama/Comedy
Director: Stephen Frears
Year: 1988
Rating:
TRASH CINEMA ESSENTIAL MOVIE
There’s no getting around it. Dangerous Liaisons is an art movie, and would ordinarily never make it into a site like Trash Cinema Club, but the emotional cruelty is so striking, and the tone so sexually prurient (check out how the camera caresses Uma Thurman’s […]
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Country: United States
Genre: Drama
Director: Paul Thomas Anderson
Year: 1996
Rating:
TRASH CINEMA RECOMMENDED MOVIE
I decided to review Hard Eight because it’s the first film of Paul Thomas Anderson, who went on to create the great Boogie Nights before he decided to go the full blown artiste route with Magnolia, Punch Drunk Love, and There Will Be Blood.
In […]
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Country: Holland
Genre: Drama
Director: Paul Verhoeven
Year: 1983
Rating:
TRASH CINEMA ESSENTIAL MOVIE
Paul Verhoeven clearly had a ball making The Fourth Man, which was critically and financially successful. His previous two pictures, Soldier of Orange and Spetters, were both drubbed by the critics in Holland, who found them one dimensional. Verhoeven and his screenwriter Gerard Soeteman, decided to […]