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AUGUST 20, 2008---------------------------------------------------------------------------*UMBRELLA ENTERTAINMENT*
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DEEP THROAT (1972) The Most Controversial, Most Profitable Film of All Time! Gerard Damiano’s Deep Throat, starring Linda Lovelace and Harry Reems, stands as one of the highest grossing film of all time, and finally gets a respectable DVD release in Australia. Banned around the world, it stands today as a well-paced adult film that took porn out of the peep show booths and into theatres around the world.
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AUGUST 20, 2008---------------------------------------------------------------------------*UMBRELLA ENTERTAINMENT*
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PORNORAMA (1983) Porn King Ron Jeremy takes us deep behind-the-scenes in the adult film world! In the tradition of Inside Deep Throat, Pornorama is a hilarious yet insightful documentary into the x-rated adult film industry. Hilarious, informative, and sometimes explicit, this is a rarely seen expose into the hidden world of porn.
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AUGUST 20, 2008---------------------------------------------------------------------------*UMBRELLA ENTERTAINMENT*
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PRIVATE COLLECTIONS (1979) Walerian Borowczyk (The Beast, Immoral Women), Just Jaeckin (Emmanuelle, Gwendoline) and Shuji Terayama (Fruits Of Passion) - to indulge their fantasies in one daring film. The result remains one of the most uniquely sensual films of the 1970s.
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AUGUST 20, 2008---------------------------------------------------------------------------*UMBRELLA ENTERTAINMENT*
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EMANUELLE AROUND THE WORLD (1977) In one of the most infamous sex & sleaze sensations of the 70s crusading journalist Emanuelle (the stunning Laura Gemser) embarks on a taboo-busting investigation of violence against women.
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AUGUST 20, 2008--------------------------------------------------------------------------*UMBRELLA ENTERTAINMENT*
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EMANUELLE IN BANGKOK (1976) Laura Gemser – the ‘Black’ Emanuelle - is at her most brazen and provocative as photojournalist sent on assignment to the steamy city of Bangkok.
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AUGUST 20, 2008--------------------------------------------------------------------------*UMBRELLA ENTERTAINMENT*
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LINDA LOVELACE FOR PRESIDENT (1975) With America in a state of chaos as it approaches the 1976 presidential elections, a desperate electorate turns to its only hope for salvation, sanity and satisfaction in the White House...ex-porn star Linda Lovelace!.
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AUGUST 20, 2008--------------------------------------------------------------------------*UMBRELLA ENTERTAINMENT*
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HOLOCAUST (1978) This epic four-part drama follows two parallel tales of life in Nazi Germany as a Jewish family struggles to avoid the horrors of Hitler’s Final Solution, and a young, good-hearted German lawyer transforms into a mass murderer. Stars Meryl Streep, James Woods, Michael Moriarty (Law and Order) and Ian Holm (Lord of the Rings).
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AUGUST 20, 2008---------------------------------------------------------------------------*UMBRELLA ENTERTAINMENT
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REPO MAN (1984) The youth cult classic from 1984, Repo Man is a dark comedy thriller that explores the seamy, seedy LA underworld. Otto (Emilio Estevez) is a disaffected punk wandering the LA streets before Bud (Harry Dean Stanton) a repossession man, offers him money to drive a car out of a bad neighbourhood. Soon enough, Otto earns big money under Bud’s tutelage but their latest repo job lands them in hot water when a nuclear physicist leaves something toxic in the trunk of a 1964 Chevy..
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AUGUST 13, 2008-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------*INDUSTRIAL ENT*
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BUTTERFLY (1982) The shocking 1946 novel has been turned into a most entertainingly sleazy melodrama…Jess Tyler, played in good, legitimate, laconic style by Stacy Keach, is now a desert hermit, left to guard an abandoned silver mine.after years of isolation, (Jess) is suddenly confronted by the return of his long-lost daughter Kady (Pia Zadora) who, as a baby, had been taken away by Belle (Lois Nettleton), Jess's wife, along with an older daughter..... [Read More]
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AUGUST 13, 2008--------------------------------------------------------------------------*SECOND SIGHT FILMS LTD*
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PICNIC AT HANGING ROCK - 3 DISC DELUXE EDITION (1975) The film that established Peter Weir as a major filmmaker is a critically acclaimed classic of Australian cinema. With BAFTA-winning photography and a memorably haunting score Picnic At Hanging Rock remains one of the most chillingly atmospheric and beautifully enigmatic films ever made..... [Read More]
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AUGUST 13, 2008------------------------------------------------------------------------------*NAVARRE CORPOATION*
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SAVAGE STREETS - 2 DISC SPECIAL EDITION (1973) After nearly being rundown by a gang known as the Scars, Brenda (Linda Blair) and friends trash the leader's car. Gang leader, Jake, exacts his revenge by getting his cohorts to gang-rape her mute-deaf sister, Heather (in a gloriously nuanced role by Linnea Quigley). Armed with a crossbow and a bad attitude, Linda Blair sets out to avenge her mute-deaf sister while blazing a bloody, Bronson-inspired trail through 80's Los Angeles..... [Read More]
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AUGUST 13, 2008--------------------------------------------------------------------------------*BLUE UNDERGROUND*
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FIRE AND ICE - 2 DISC SPECIAL EDITION (1983) It began as a once-in-a-lifetime collaboration between two of the greatest icons of the fantasy genre: Controversial animator Ralph Bakshi (director of FRITZ THE CAT, WIZARDS and the original THE LORD OF THE RINGS) and legendary illustrator Frank Frazetta (creator of the iconic CONAN THE BARBARIAN, VAMPIRELLA and Edgar Rice Burroughs book covers). It became and remains one of the most startling animation epics of all time..... [Read More]
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AUGUST 13, 2008------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------*FACETS*
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THE DEVIL(1972) Jakub (Leszek Teleszynski), a young 18th century nobleman, rots in prison for conspiring against the king. A mysterious stranger frees him, but in exchange he demands a list of Jakub's fellow conspirators. Jakub follows the stranger on a journey across a nightmarish, snowbound countryside where they witness countless acts of brutal violence. Affected by the overall chaos and moral corruption, the young nobleman descends into madness.... [Read More]
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AUGUST 13, 2008--------------------------------------------------------------------------------*BLUE UNDERGROUND*
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TWO UNDERCOVER ANGELS / KISS ME MONSTER (1975) Blue Underground proudly presents these psychedelic spy spoofs featuring the bold and beautiful detective duo The Red Lips! In TWO UNDERCOVER ANGELS, the sultry super-sleuths stumble upon a slew of murdered models, actresses and exotic dancers – all of whom appear in the work of a perverted pop artist..... [Read More]
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AUGUST 13, 2008--------------------------------------------------------------------------------*HALO PARK PICTURES*
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A VERY SPECIAL WOMAN (1979) Karin Schubert stars as Yasmine, a beautiful young newlywed with a serious drug problem. Her low-life husband (Georges Guéret), uses her drug addiction to manipulate her, forcing her to smuggle narcotics for him and even sleep with his gangster cronies to settle his drug debts. When Yasmine catches him in bed with another woman, she steals a large quantity of his heroin and goes on the run, with the smugglers in deadly pursuit.... [Read More]
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AUGUST 7, 2008-------------------------------------------------------------------------------*CRITERION COLLECTION*
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THE 120 DAYS OF SODOM (1975) Pier Paolo Pasolini’s notorious final film, Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom, has been called nauseating, shocking, depraved, pornographic - it’s also a masterpiece. The controversial poet, novelist, and filmmaker’s transposition of the Marquis de Sade’s 18th- century opus of torture and degradation to 1944 Fascist Italy remains one of the most passionately debated films of all time, a thought- provoking inquiry into the political, social, and sexual dynamics that define the world we live in.... [Read More]
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AUGUST 7, 2008------------------------------------------------------------------------------------*REDEMPTION FILMS*
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KILLERS MOON (1978) Killer's Moon is Britain's answer to I Spit On Your Grave only sleazier. Produced in the late seventies it mixes lurid scenes of rape with Clockwork Orange Droog style menace, drugs and dollops of ultra violence all of which combined make this a true 'video nasty'. Centered on four drugged-up escaped prisoners whose only purpose in life is to 'loot, kill and rape' and who in true exploitation style seek refuge in the nearest girls school Killer's Moon starts off mired in sleaze and stays there.... [Read More]
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AUGUST 7, 2008-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------*SEVERIN FILMS*
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IN THE FOLDS OF FLESH (1970) In a genre defined by shocking violence and psychosexual kink, it remains perhaps the most over-the-top ‘giallo’ in EuroCult history: Former MGM starlet and doomed James Dean paramour Pier Angeli – two decades past her Golden Globe award for ‘Most Promising Newcomer’ and just one year before her tragic death – stars in this ultra-lurid epic packed with decapitations, pet vultures, creepy incest, groovy fashions, cyanide baths, swirly psychedelics, inexplicable plot twists, Nazi death camp flashbacks and more. Eleonora Rossi Drago (CAMILLE 2000), Fernando Sancho (RETURN OF THE BLIND DEAD) and Luciano Catenacci (KILL BABY, KILL!) co-star in the 1970 sickie that would make Freud himself scream in horror, now fully restored from the original Italian vault elements.... [Read More]
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