The wealthy “Death Valley” Cora is coming to New York but is kidnapped by con-man Ira Collins who has showgirl Sally Shea impersonating her to fit a scheme he has to get an eccentric millionaire, P.J. Quinterfield Sr., turn over to him coined gold which he will melt down and presented as newly-mined from Cora’s Death Valley mine. Sally is in on the scheme as Collins has told her it is part of the plan to get Quitenfield’s son to finance a show for her. But Sally falls in love with Neil Graham, who is an undercover G-Man.
Category: Comedy
Luc Moullet contemplates the twilight of his career—and his own mortality—in this comic pseudo-documentary, a characteristically charming, satirical, and yet intellectually serious inquiry into the struggle against “the end.” The film follows Moullet, playing a magnetic self-caricature, as he endeavors to rejuvenate his career and win over a whole new audience… by faking his own death, swapping his passport with that of a dead body he stumbles upon. An extremely free remake of Cecil B. DeMille’s The Whispering Chorus .
Thirty-year-old Hlynur still lives with his mother and spends his days drinking, watching porn and surfing the net while living off unemployment checks. A girl is interested in him, but he stands back from commitment. His mother’s Spanish flamenco teacher, Lola, moves in with them for Christmas. On New Year’s Eve, while his mother is away, Hlynur finds out Lola is a lesbian, but also ends up having sex with her. He soon finds out he and his mother are sharing more than a house. Eventually he must find out where he fits into the puzzle, and how to live life less selfishly.
Two drifters, Jun and Katsuhiro, dream of escaping Japan for Africa but end up stranded in a bleak fishing town in Hokkaido. There, they drift between odd jobs, drinking, and fleeting connections, including with a disillusioned woman, Fujiko. Their dream of Africa becomes less a destination than a symbol of escape from stagnation, as the film reflects on friendship, longing, and the quiet despair of lives lived on the margins.
A teenage rock musician masturbates gleefully and often. Way too often. One night, flying sperm escape and impregnate local women. The babies grow into an army of little creatures with the teen’s head — and libido.
In 1963 Paris, 13-year-old Anne is a listless student, largely unconcerned with grades—or the Cold War anxiety hovering over daily life. She lives with her divorcée mother and increasingly politically aware older sister Frédérique, and wants most of all to wear stockings, sit in cafés, and spy on her sister. Diane Kurys’ tenderly crafted, autobiographical directorial debut is by turns sweet and solemn, delicately honing in on the quiet loneliness of trying to find oneself in the early years of teenagehood.
Judith Singer is a housewife, out of the journalism business for many years. When a dentist she has been seeing (who has a strong bedside manner even while female patients are still in the chair) is found murdered, she finds that a neighbor is a suspect. She begins to investigate. This places her in danger from the murderer, from the women who have had affairs with the dentist, and from the police who begin to wonder why she is always at the scenes where clues are discovered. Her husband becomes angry at what is happening, placing strains on her family as she finds herself more and more attracted to the police detective investigating the murder.