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Nosferatu: Phantom der Nacht
Werner Herzog's German version of his eerie color remake of F.W. Murnau's original vampire classic is at once faithful to Murnau's film and quintessentially Herzogian, right down to the casting of Herzog's demon alter ego Klaus Kinski in the role he was born to play. Kinski is...Watch Movie -
Nosferatu the Vampyre
Werner Herzog's English version of F.W. Murnau's original film pays homage to many of the latter's memorable images with stunning recreations while creating a number of his own dreamy moments: the twilight hike of Bruno Ganz's Jonathan Harker through the fog-ringed Carpathian...Watch Movie -
Onechanbara
A cowboy-hat-wearing, bikini-clad zombie assassin mows down hordes upon hordes of the undead in this tongue-in-cheek Japanese exploitation film, perhaps best understood by its alternative English title: ZOMBIE BIKINI SQUAD. Seemingly dreamed up in some B-movie wish factory yet actually based on a...Watch Movie
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Tombstone Rashomon
The Gunfight at the OK Corral only happened once, but has been tirelessly recreated in films, television shows and western towns ever since. No one has a monopoly on truth, and in TOMBSTONE RASHOMON, the truth is shared by six conflicting, yet historical perspectives. In doing...Watch Movie -
Seytan
Forget the notion of remakes, sequels, prequels, extended scenes and modified versions of movies; the Turkish motion picture industry has been making their own versions of American movies for years. After the worldwide success of William Friedkin's 1973 classic film THE EXORCIST, those wacky...Watch Movie
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SpaceDisco One
In this sequel of sorts to both LOGAN’S RUN and 1984, George Orwell's Winston Smith runs into the daughters of Logan 5 and Francis 7 as they're busy running amok in a park, shooting laser beams at one another. A roller-skating rink in space, BATTLESTAR GALACTICA references and a Ministry of Truth...Watch Movie -
Damned If You Don't
DAMNED IF YOU DON'T is Friedrich's subversive and ecstatic response to her Catholic upbringing. Blending conventional narrative technique and impressionistic camerawork, symbols and voice-overs, the film creates an intimate study featuring Peggy Healy as a young nun tormented...Watch Movie -
Tales of the Valley of the Wind
Filmmaker Damon Packard lifts the underlying themes and several of the characters from Hayao Miyazaki's NAUSICAA OF THE VALLEY OF THE WIND (and the manga upon which it was based) and puts them to remarkable use. Sword fights, sorcery and the usual chaotic hybrid of influences...Watch Movie
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Captain Video
"Captain Video" was such a nationwide sensation that in 1951, Columbia Pictures Corporation contracted to produce a theatrical serial of the Captain's exploits, the first television show ever to be adapted to the big screen. The result, CAPTAIN VIDEO: MASTER OF THE STRATOSPHERE has been hailed as...Watch Movie -
Workers Leaving the Factory (Dubai)
115 years later, a(nother) remake of the Lumière Brothers pseudo-actuality film LA SORTIE DES USINES LUMIÈRE. This time around our factory is a job site, a construction site peopled by thousands of Southeast Asian laborers, a neo-Fordist architectural production site that...Watch Movie -
On the Marriage Broker Joke as Cited by Owen Land...
The Land Camera Collective presents a (nearly) shot-by-shot remake of the Owen Land 1977 classic experimental film ON THE MARRIAGE BROKER JOKE AS CITED BY SIGMUND FREUD IN WIT AND ITS RELATION TO THE UNCONSCIOUS, OR CAN THE AVANT-GARDE ARTIST BE WHOLED?Watch Movie
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Hard Core Logo II
Bruce McDonald, director of the rock doc about Hard Core Logo, has lived with the guilt of immortalizing lead singer Joe Dick's death on film. He is asked to interview Care Failure of the band Die Mannequin, who claims to be channeling Joe's spirit. Bruce is convinced Care is...Watch Movie