"The Punishment of Anne / aka The Image
Secretary
The Duke Of Burgundy
Mullholland Drive
Sugar Cookies
The Score
Barbarella
Countess Perverse
The Neon Demon
Daughters of Darkness
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There's a few interesting titles there that I suspect weren't released in mainstream cinemas  |
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"The green mile
Yessss I like that one very sad though 
I only saw it last year for the first, cried like a baby! "
I think if you don’t feel a lump in your throat watching that movie your not human lol |
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All of those got mainstream cinema release at their time. The two most explicit (The punishment of Anne and The Score) came at the height of art-porn cinema (late 70s) that drew big mainstream crowds.
The Score is a fabulous lifestyle movie (young housewife seduced to swing by bored neighbour in A Mediterranean costal town. Stars the beautiful Lynn Lowrey who is simply stunning. Beware tho - several cuts exist including on with a 7 minute male on male sex scene that was inserted for a release to the gay market. It’s perfectly fine in the context of the movie but a bit of a shock to even a modern porn audience as it’s otherwise quite Hetro-normative.
A fun fact is that it’s based on an off-broadway 70s play that the young Sly Stallone used to appear fully nude in. |
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"All of those got mainstream cinema release at their time. The two most explicit (The punishment of Anne and The Score) came at the height of art-porn cinema (late 70s) that drew big mainstream crowds.
The Score is a fabulous lifestyle movie (young housewife seduced to swing by bored neighbour in A Mediterranean costal town. Stars the beautiful Lynn Lowrey who is simply stunning. Beware tho - several cuts exist including on with a 7 minute male on male sex scene that was inserted for a release to the gay market. It’s perfectly fine in the context of the movie but a bit of a shock to even a modern porn audience as it’s otherwise quite Hetro-normative.
A fun fact is that it’s based on an off-broadway 70s play that the young Sly Stallone used to appear fully nude in. "
Excellent synopsis and movie trivia. Cheers  |
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Scarface and The Godfather movies
One flew over the cuckoos nest. Saturday night fever. Once upon a time in America. True Romance is my all time fave love story. |
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Just have to echo True Romance.
Can you imagine what it would cost to put that cast together again (if they were all alive), with a Tarantino script and Tony Scott directing!
Absolute classic.
I will also take the opportunity to mention The Boondock Saints. Love it! |
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"Just have to echo True Romance.
Can you imagine what it would cost to put that cast together again (if they were all alive), with a Tarantino script and Tony Scott directing!
Absolute classic.
I will also take the opportunity to mention The Boondock Saints. Love it!"
Tony died in 2012 so that might particular one might prove tricky. |
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"Just have to echo True Romance.
Can you imagine what it would cost to put that cast together again (if they were all alive), with a Tarantino script and Tony Scott directing!
Absolute classic.
I will also take the opportunity to mention The Boondock Saints. Love it!
Tony died in 2012 so that might particular one might prove tricky."
Hence the If they were all alive comment 
Gandolfini dead too, unfortunately, along with Chris Penn and Dennis Hopper.
Which reminds me of another classic, Blue Velvet. |
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"The Punishment of Anne / aka The Image
Secretary
The Duke Of Burgundy
Mullholland Drive
Sugar Cookies
The Score
Barbarella
Countess Perverse
The Neon Demon
Daughters of Darkness
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Huh, those are some interesting choices alright. I've been meaning to watch Lloyd Kaufman's films after seeing that he was initially meant to be in Whit Stillman's Metropolitan and his story fascinated me. My knowledge of 'schlock' is pretty patchy at best.
Anyhow, my favourite films incl nearly all of David Lynch's filmography with some Max Ophuls and Lumet mixed in for some good measure  |
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None of those are schlocky at all. For instance Daughters of Darkness is a lesbian vampire slow burn thriller as a glacial countess and her handmaiden seduce the wife of a English couple at an empty Belgian costal hotel The imagery is fantastic and it’s the clear inspiration for Americian Horror Story’s Hotel season.
Is there is a thread running through any of those movies it’s faded erotica -
Duke of burgundy - a strict S&M love story in a fantasy English Arcadia where there are no men.
Mullholland Drive - a repressed lesbian love murder story in 50s Hollywood
Sugar Cookies - S&M art murder in 70s New York
Score - swinger seduction in 70s France
Barbarella - 1960s space erotica
Countess Perverse - 70s Vampire lesbian seduction on the Italian coast.
The Neon Demon - modern gaudy LA underground with lesbian vampires seeking food among the young and downtrodden
Probably the Bowie movie ‘the hunger’ would be the most famous of this sort of thing. We love it - fashion, style, erotica, beautiful cinematography, beautiful naked women... can’t quite understand why anyone goes to see a marvel movie over that.. |
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"None of those are schlocky at all. For instance Daughters of Darkness is a lesbian vampire slow burn thriller as a glacial countess and her handmaiden seduce the wife of a English couple at an empty Belgian costal hotel The imagery is fantastic and it’s the clear inspiration for Americian Horror Story’s Hotel season.
Is there is a thread running through any of those movies it’s faded erotica -
Duke of burgundy - a strict S&M love story in a fantasy English Arcadia where there are no men.
Mullholland Drive - a repressed lesbian love murder story in 50s Hollywood
Sugar Cookies - S&M art murder in 70s New York
Score - swinger seduction in 70s France
Barbarella - 1960s space erotica
Countess Perverse - 70s Vampire lesbian seduction on the Italian coast.
The Neon Demon - modern gaudy LA underground with lesbian vampires seeking food among the young and downtrodden
Probably the Bowie movie ‘the hunger’ would be the most famous of this sort of thing. We love it - fashion, style, erotica, beautiful cinematography, beautiful naked women... can’t quite understand why anyone goes to see a marvel movie over that.. "
Allow me to mention Gal Gadot as Wonder Woman and Margot Robbie as Harley Quinn. That's 2 good reasons I can think of straight away.
Not sure whether their Marvel/DC and I don't care. |
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Oh I love old movies
Breakfast at Tiffanys and
To kill a mocking bird are two of my favourites.
Thelma and Louise is an amazing movie as well as dirty dancing and top gun
I adore all the old musicals. . When Holywood leading men were masculine and dashing and the ladies were glamorous and feminine
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Rear Window
Vertigo
The Family Way (Haley Mills is so gorgeous in it!)
Billy Liar
Annie Hall
Play it again Sam
Excalibur
Das Boot
A Bridge too Far
Jaws
The Big Blue
Leon |
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"Oh I love old movies
Breakfast at Tiffanys and
To kill a mocking bird are two of my favourites.
Thelma and Louise is an amazing movie as well as dirty dancing and top gun
I adore all the old musicals. . When Holywood leading men were masculine and dashing and the ladies were glamorous and feminine
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Thelma and Louise is excellent |
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Withnail and I.. Absolutely love it. Its one of those I put on a few times a year. The humour is so dry and the acting excellent.
Give it a go. If you hate it back and let me know. I'll meet you in a pub for an indepth critique  |
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"White Heat."
I love that golden era of gangster movies,Jimmy Cagney,Edward G Robinson,Pat O'Brian,George Raft,Humphrey Bogart.
Brilliant stars,brilliant movies and no need for the gore of modern movies,but the stars were menacing through their presence and acting. |
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Also, Heat and Braveheart.
