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Begotten

Actors: Brian Salzberg, Donna Dempsey, Stephen Charles Barry, James Gandia, Daniel Harkins
ASIN : B0000541WJ
Sales Rank : 34499
Director : E. Elias Merhige
Studio : World Artists
Region Code : 0
Format : Black & White, DVD-Video, NTSC
Binding : DVD
EAN : 9781566871365
ISBN : 1566871360
UPC : 723339113691
Release Date : December 20, 2001
Publisher : World Artists
Manufacturer : World Artists
Label : World Artists
Running Time : 78

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BEGOTTEN is the creation myth brought to life, the story of no less than the violent death of God and the (re)birth of nature on a barren earth. Astounding and baffling critics and audiences alike, BEGOTTEN was named one of the Ten Best Pictures of 1991 by Time Magazine. Time's Richard Corliss wrote: "Nobody will get through BEGOTTEN without being marked... BEGOTTEN is a spectacular one-of-a-kind (you wouldn't want there to be two), filmed in speckled chiaroscuro so that each image is a seductive mystery, a Rorschach test for the adventurous eye." In production notes for the film, director Merhige commented, "Each shot in the film went through hours of preparation to achieve the look you will experience when viewing... the etheral "pulse" that hypnotically permeates the film. It took over ten hours to re-photograph less than one minute of selected takes."

The BEGOTTEN DVD special features include: a souvenir booklet; interactive menus; scene access; the original theatrical trailer; and rare, never-before-seen stills and color production photos. USA, 1991, 78 mins., black & white, digital sound, full format. Unrated. Suggested retail $29.95.

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Girl on a Motorcycle

Actors: Marianne Faithfull, Alain Delon, Roger Mutton, Marius Goring, Catherine Jourdan
ASIN : 6305307210
Sales Rank : 64226
Director : Jack Cardiff
Studio : Starz / Anchor Bay
Region Code : 0
Format : Color, DVD-Video, Letterboxed, Widescreen, NTSC
Binding : DVD
EAN : 9786305307211
ISBN : 6305307210
UPC : 013131067194
Release Date : December 16, 1999
Publisher : Starz / Anchor Bay
Manufacturer : Starz / Anchor Bay
Label : Starz / Anchor Bay
Running Time : 91

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Glen or Glenda

Actors: Henry Bederski, Conrad Brooks, Charles Crafts, Captain DeZita, Timothy Farrell
ASIN : B00003XAMS
Sales Rank : 66970
Director : Edward D. Wood
Brand : Image Entertainment
Studio : Image Entertainment
Region Code : 1
Format : Black & White, DVD-Video, NTSC
Binding : DVD
EAN : 0014381857825
UPC : 014381857825
Release Date : December 15, 2000
Publisher : Image Entertainment
Manufacturer : Image Entertainment
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Label : Image Entertainment
Running Time : 68

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He loved women so much, he dared to dress like one! Ed Wood strikes again. The true story of a man whose lust for women drove him to be as close to a woman as he could by trying to become one. The first film based on the strange tastes of legendary filmmaker Ed Wood, Jr., and a sordid plea for acceptance in the world of bondage and the sexually confused, decades before "The Rocky Horror Picture Show" and TV's "Ellen." "Glen or Glenda?" stars famous horror icon Bela Lugosi as the "puppet master" and Ed himself in the role of Glen/Glenda. It also marks the screen debut of Wood's main squeeze at the time, Dolores Fuller, who went on to become one of Elvis's star songwriters. An important film document about the early career of a man years ahead of his time. Wildly entertaining!

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Is Ed Wood the worst director who ever lived? His films are campy, clumsy, and hysterically inept, but their enthusiasm and good humor overcome incoherent scripts and wooden performances with heart, soul, and an infectious sense of fun. The jaw-dropping "documentary" Glen or Glenda? is a bizarre confessional starring Wood himself as a misunderstood transvestite and Bela Lugosi as a smirking godlike narrator. "Pull ze string!" shouts Lugosi as Wood reveals his angora fetish and love of women's underwear to the world. Lugosi returns as a mad scientist revenging himself on the world ("Home? I have no home!") in Bride of the Monster, a howler of a horror picture. Tor Johnson, the hulking Swedish wrestler turned B-movie icon, made his first Wood appearance as the lumbering beast Lobo (he almost knocks over the set in one scene!) tamed by the touch of angora. Finally there's Wood's "masterpiece," the clumsy, nearly incoherent, and ridiculously cheap Plan 9 from Outer Space. A tall, skinny, blond chiropractor subs for short, raven-haired Bela Lugosi (who died after a few days of shooting), cardboard gravestones wobble as the actors walk by, and night and day randomly come and go within the same scene. --Sean Axmaker

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Shadows

Actors: Jack Ackerman, Tom Allen, Cliff Carnell, Ben Carruthers, Jay Crecco
ASIN : 6304864248
Sales Rank : 94746
Director : John Cassavetes
Studio : Geneon [Pioneer]
Region Code : 0
Format : Black & White, DVD-Video, Full Screen, NTSC
Binding : DVD
EAN : 9786304864241
ISBN : 6304864248
UPC : 013023002999
Release Date : December 24, 1998
Publisher : Geneon [Pioneer]
Manufacturer : Geneon [Pioneer]
Label : Geneon [Pioneer]
Running Time : 81

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Cassavetes' first independent feature depicts the struggle of three African-American siblings to survive in the mean streets of Manhattan. Hugh, a would-be jazz musician, looks after younger siblings Ben and Leila, who are light-skinned enough to pass for white. This seems to give them an advantage and more opportunities while Hugh must struggle by playing the trumpet in dive bars and strip joints. Shadows was made from a script entirely improvised by the cast, and heralded a vital new era in independent filmmaking. Starring: Hugh Hurd, Leila Goldoni, Ben Carruthers.

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When you consider that the big movies of 1960 were films such as Elmer Gantry and The Alamo, it's hard to imagine what people made of this, John Cassavetes's first independent feature. Improvised by the cast, shot in black and white, it looked like no other film of its time. Cassavetes, seeking to both deal with social issues and create a new kind of cinema, told a story about a family of black siblings in Manhattan trying to make ends meet. But one brother falls in with bad company, while the sister, who is trying to pass for white, gets involved in an interracial romance that ultimately crumbles when the white man she falls for discovers her true identity. Though it meanders at times, it features the kind of spontaneous emotion Cassavetes most wanted to elicit in his films. --Marshall Fine

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Reefer Madness

Actors: Dave O' Brien, Dorothy Short
ASIN : B000054OUK
Sales Rank : 56623
Studio : Echo Bridge Home Entertainment
Region Code : 1
Format : Black & White, Dolby, DVD-Video, NTSC
Binding : DVD
EAN : 0096009000592
UPC : 096009000592
Release Date : December 06, 2000
Publisher : Echo Bridge Home Entertainment
Manufacturer : Echo Bridge Home Entertainment
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Label : Echo Bridge Home Entertainment
Running Time : 70

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This huge cult classic released in 1936 revolves around the dangers of ""marijuana addiction,"" highlighting the magnified symptoms of marijuana use, which leads the film's main characters down a road of mischief and mayhem.

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Although it was made in 1936, Reefer Madness didn't become a cult hit until 1972 when the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws (NORML) rescued it from the Library of Congress film archive. Thereafter, it was a mainstay on the midnight movie circuit. And it's easy to see why. The ostensible story involves a group of upstanding young high school students who succumb to the allure of the "killer weed." What follows, as if by natural progression, is a catalog of crimes that includes hit-and-run driving, loose morals, rape, murder, suicide, and my personal favorite, permanent insanity! The action is at times so hysterical, in both senses, that you may forget to inhale. Honors go to the wild-eyed, cackling hophead David O'Brien; his performance reaches a raw intensity that is hard to imagine. One measure of this film's pervasive influence is the extent to which its title continues to be invoked in news stories about decriminalization and medical marijuana. Such posterity for unintentional humor must be rare. A great film to see stoned, man. --Jim Gay

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A propaganda film from 1936 that has become a cult hit because of its dated outlook on marijuana use, Reefer Madness is the height of camp entertainment. Framed as a "documentary," the film is narrated by a high school principal imparting his wisdom and experiences with the demon weed. The bulk of the film focuses on almost slapstick scenes of high school kids smoking pot and quickly going insane, playing "evil" jazz music, being committed, and going on a murder spree. Meant to be an important and affecting cautionary tale, this dated black-and-white film's true value is in its many entertaining moments of unintended hilarity. --Robert Lane

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IndieDVD Fusion ONE (Short Films)

Actors: Joseph Baldwin, Lisa Bostnar, Sally Connors, Calvin Haywood, Dennis Kaiser
ASIN : B00004Y55Z
Sales Rank : 115441
Director : Brian Whitley, Christiane Schaefer, Cyrus Helf, David Tarleton, James Michael Hughes
Studio : Indie DVD
Region Code : 0
Format : Animated, Color, Compilation, DVD-Video, Full Screen, Live, Surround Sound, Widescreen, Special Edition, Dolby, Director's Cut, Digital Sound, Anamorphic, Black & White, NTSC
Binding : DVD
EAN : 0802695000194
UPC : 802695000194
Release Date : December 07, 2000
Publisher : Indie DVD
Manufacturer : Indie DVD
Label : Indie DVD
Running Time : 143

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Nine independent filmmakers come together to show their short films and tell their stories about who they are, how the made their films and the adventures that they have had. It includes: behind the scenes footage, alternate music tracks, animated menus, commentary tracks and a bonus controversial short film.

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Jail Bait

Actors: John Avery (III), Henry Bederski, Ted Brooks (III), Conrad Brooks, Regina Claire
ASIN : B00003XAMT
Sales Rank : 112822
Studio : Image Entertainment
Region Code : 0
Format : Black & White, DVD-Video, NTSC
Binding : DVD
EAN : 0014381860122
UPC : 014381860122
Release Date : December 15, 2000
Publisher : Image Entertainment
Manufacturer : Image Entertainment
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Label : Image Entertainment
Running Time : 71

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She's a good girl--to leave alone! Fresh from his sensational "Glen or Glenda?," Ed Wood, Jr. presents his homage to the gangster films of the '30s and '40s, starring his sex kitten girlfriend Dolores Fuller and introducing to the screen handsome young Steve Reeves (Hercules). Inspired by the popular TV show "Dragnet," this Ed Wood film tells the story of a rich but troubled young man who kills a cop and has plastic surgery to hide his identity. Filmdom's legendary Alex Gordon co-wrote this clever script to help Ed make his first legitimate feature film.

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"How can a great doctor have such a jerk for a son?" asks Ed Wood in his cheap dime store crime thriller about a sneering delinquent whose mania for handguns leads to murder. "I never thought carrying a gun would lead to this," he burbles to his far-too-understanding father, but it's too late. His cold-hearted partner Timothy Farrell blackmails Daddy (who just happens to be the most gifted plastic surgeon in the world) into giving him a new face, but Dad has a trick up his sleeve. Wood regular Lyle Talbot headlines as the investigating police inspector, former Mr. America and future Hercules Steve Reeves takes his shirt off for no good reason to flex his physique to the camera, and Wood's real-life girlfriend and frequent costar Dolores Fuller wears angora as the doctor's nice-girl daughter. "Cheap? Does this look joint look cheap to you?" demands the crook's gold-digging girlfriend? In a word, yes. There's a pleasing grungy B-movie aesthetic to Wood's nighttime location shooting, giving those moments a film noir flavor, but the rest of the film takes place on bland, generic sets with the flat look of a sitcom. Actually, flat is the operative word for this lethargic thriller: Wood displays his genius for arch dialogue and draws wooden performances from his largely mediocre cast. In other words, it's prime Ed Wood. The annoying guitar and piano score was borrowed from Mesa of Lost Women. --Sean Axmaker

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Beat Girl

Actors: Noëlle Adam, Nade Beall, Margot Bryant, Adam Faith, David Farrar
ASIN : B000095J18
Sales Rank : 72747
Director : Edmond T. Gréville
Studio : Crash Cinema Media
Region Code : 1
Format : Black & White, DVD-Video, Widescreen, NTSC
Binding : DVD
EAN : 0669657456020
UPC : 669657456020
Release Date : December 28, 2003
Publisher : Crash Cinema Media
Manufacturer : Crash Cinema Media
Label : Crash Cinema Media
Running Time : 83

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Before swinging London and the rock & roll explosion took over English youths, Britain's first teen rebel didn't have much of a cause but plenty of attitude. Pouty art-school student Jennifer (teen sex kitten Gillian Hills, looking very much a British Bardot) is the Beat Girl of the title, an alienated teenager who hangs out in coffee shops and underground clubs with beatniks and teddy boys. When her self-absorbed father returns home with a sexy French bride, the picture warps into lurid melodrama as Jennifer tracks a suspicion about her stepmom to a sleazy strip club managed by an even sleazier Christopher Lee, whose salacious desires she realizes too late. Director Edmond T. Greville, a craftsman of the old school, brings an unexpected, edgy grit to the low-budget picture, injecting the callow clichés of lost youth with a nervous energy and a genuine sense of desperation. John Barry's growling score gives the film a rumbling undercurrent, and the cheap, claustrophobic sets (often hiding in darkness) only enhance the sleazy atmosphere. The mix of teenage desperation, rock & roll music, and lurid sensationalism (complete with teasing nudity in the strip club) creates a strange hybrid: a teen exploitation film with a film noir soul. Costar Adam Faith sings a couple of songs and Oliver Reed appears in a few scenes as a drugged-up, funked-out teddy boy. --Sean Axmaker

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Begotten

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Girl on a Motorcycle

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Reefer Madness

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