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DIRECTED BY: Luis Buñuel FEATURING: Fernando Rey, Carole Bouquet, Angela Molina PLOT: A rich French businessman courts a beautiful young Spanish woman over the years, but although she sometimes professes to love him, she continually refuses to consummate the relationship. WHY IT WON’T MAKE THE LIST: Obscure Object is one of Buñuel’s best, . . . → Read More: CAPSULE: THAT OBSCURE OBJECT OF DESIRE (1977) DIRECTED BY: Harmony Korine FEATURING: Vanessa Hudgens, Ashley Benson, James Franco, Rachel Korine, Selena Gomez PLOT: Four college girls head to Fort Lauderdale for a week of binge drinking, drugs and sex and wind up teaming up with a local gangster for a crime spree. WHY IT WON’T MAKE THE LIST: It isn’t in . . . → Read More: CAPSULE: SPRING BREAKERS (2012) AKA Barbarella, Queen of the Galaxy “Barbarella, pyschedella, There’s a kind of cockleshell about you…” –Lyrics from Barbarella‘s theme song DIRECTED BY: Roger Vadim FEATURING: Jane Fonda, John Phillip Law, Anita Pallenberg, Milo O’Shea, Marcel Marceau, David Hemmings, Ugo Tognazzi PLOT: A wide-eyed aviatrix known as Barbarella must travel to the outer reaches of . . . → Read More: 122. BARBARELLA (1968) DIRECTED BY: Jean Rollin FEATURING: Françoise Pascal, Hugues Quester (as Pierre Dupont) PLOT: Young lovers go mad when they are trapped in a cemetery overnight. WHY IT WON’T MAKE THE LIST: Iron Rose‘s wonderfully funereal setting and muted weirdness isn’t powerful enough to overcome its lack of events. The slow-paced visual poetry here is . . . → Read More: CAPSULE: THE IRON ROSE [LA ROSE DE FER] (1973) “By the end, the real and imaginary fuse; for me they form the same thing.”–Luis Buñuel on Belle de Jour DIRECTED BY: Luis Buñuel FEATURING: Catherine Deneuve, Jean Sorel, Pierre Clémenti, Michel Piccoli, Geneviève Page PLOT: Séverine is a wealthy young newlywed who proclaims she loves her husband, but refuses to sleep with him. Her . . . → Read More: 105. BELLE DE JOUR (1967) DIRECTED BY: Srdjan Spasojevic FEATURING: Srdjan Todorovic, Sergej Trifunovic, Jelena Gavrilovic, Katarina Zutic, Slobodan Bestic PLOT: An ethical and well-intentioned ex porn star collaborates with an Eastern syndicate to produce a series of art-house pornographic films. In the process he is unwittingly ensnared in the dark, serpentine morass of his film executives’ depraved madness. WHY . . . → Read More: CAPSULE: A SERBIAN FILM (2010) DIRECTED BY: Dennis Van Zak FEATURING: John Holmes, Billy Curtis, and anonymous hippies PLOT: A pro-pot documentary touting the aphrodisiacal properties of the titular herb, with brief hardcore sex scenes to illustrate its key thesis. WHY IT WON’T MAKE THE LIST: It’s an absurd, exploitative historical oddity that’s worth noting, but it’s not nearly . . . → Read More: CAPSULE: APHRODISIAC! THE SEXUAL SECRET OF MARIJUANA (1971) DIRECTED BY: Paul Bartel FEATURING: Ayn Ruymen, Lucille Benson, John Ventantonio PLOT: A sexually curious teenage runaway negotiates the deviant scumbags in her crazy aunt’s creaky boarding house. WHY IT MIGHT MAKE THE LIST: It might make the List thanks to the atmosphere of sleazy psychosexual depravity that’s slathered on thicker than the . . . → Read More: LIST CANDIDATE: PRIVATE PARTS (1972) DIRECTED BY: R. Kahl FEATURING: Miriam Mayet, Matthias Faust, Lana Cooper PLOT: A female director wants to make an experimental erotic film, but never actually gets beyond rehearsal. WHY IT WON’T MAKE THE LIST: The only list Bedways will ever make it on is a list of the most sleep-inducing films about sex. . . . → Read More: CAPSULE: BEDWAYS (2010) DIRECTED BY: Michael Goldbach FEATURING: Kat Dennings, Reece Thompson, Josh Lucas, Andie MacDowell, Ted Whittall PLOT: A teenage girl and her dad move to a small town populated with drug-addled teenagers and a mysterious serial killer. Feeling alienated and struggling to make friends, she sees a fellow intellectual outcast in her . . . → Read More: CAPSULE: DAYDREAM NATION (2010) |
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