Adachi's follow-up to Bowl using the figure of a woman suffering from an unusual sexual aliment has often been taken as a controversial allegory for the political stalemate of the Leftist student movement after their impressive wave of massive fiery protests failed to defeat the neo-imperialist Japan-US Security Treaty. The ritualistic solemnity of the charged sexual scenes contribute to the oneiric qualities of Closed Vagina which Adachi would later insist was an open work, not meant to deliver any kind of deliberate political message. - Harvard Film Archive
Meet Shavon O'Brien: Her family doesn't understand her, her church ignores her, even Jesus forgets ...
A dark take on media manipulation and political situation in Malaysia. The idea is to convey how nor...
Lacking a formal narrative, Warhol's mammoth film follows various residents of the Chelsea Hotel in ...
The final 17 years of American singer and musician Karen Carpenter, performed almost entirely by mod...
A dying man in his forties recalls his childhood, his mother, the war and personal moments that tell...
A successful mod photographer in London whose world is bounded by fashion, pop music, marijuana, and...
This is the only feature directed by the famed French painter and sculptor Martial Raysse. In keepin...
Born in Los Angeles but a New Yorker by choice, Barbara Hammer is a whole genre unto herself. Her pi...
In the nineteenth century, a French adventurer sets off to establish a kingdom in the inhospitable S...
The wife of an abusive criminal finds solace in the arms of a kind regular guest in her husband's re...
The Alchemist assembles together a group of people from all walks of life to represent the planets i...
Five lonesome cowboys get all hot and bothered at home on the range after confronting Ramona Alvarez...
Colossal explores the complexities of grief and the process of grieving as understood through the my...
An abstract perspective into two young South African workers in the heart of Johannesburg's industri...
Set halfway through the 17th century, a church play is performed for the benefit of the young aristo...
In the final days of the American Civil War, an emigre Hungarian military officer attempts to map th...
Italian immigrant kidnaps a wealthy British woman, and they fall in love.
A personal, subjective journey into the mind of Greta Thunberg, before realizing her calling as a cl...
An immersion into the surreal and dreamlike world of painter, photographer and filmmaker Man Ray (18...
When the strongest earthquake in a century hit Mexico in 2017, everyone had eyes on the rescue of 12...