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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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