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Psychology suggests that pleasure derived from feelings of disgust exemplifies what is called “benign masochism” – the tendency to seek out apparently “negative” experiences for the purpose of enjoying “controlled risks”, such as riding rollercoasters, eating spicy food, watching repulsive films. Well, shall we discuss suspension of disgust & instinctive rejection of psychological mechanisms?
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- DirectorPeter GreenawayStarsRichard BohringerMichael GambonHelen MirrenAt Le Hollandais gourmet restaurant, every night is filled with opulence, decadence and gluttony. But when the cook, a thief, his wife and her lover all come together, they unleash a shocking torrent of sex, food, murder and revenge.Except for Michael Nyman’s wonderful soundtrack, just piles of food sitting like pseudo-artistic natures mortes (still lives)
- DirectorNagisa ÔshimaStarsTatsuya FujiEiko MatsudaAoi NakajimaA passionate telling of the story of Sada Abe, a woman whose affair with her master led to an obsessive and ultimately destructive sexual relationship.Love is supposed to adorn life. Acts like oral sex or inserting a dildo or an egg(!) into a vagina are not arisen from a healthy mind. They are just sadistic and non-appropriate for drama.
- DirectorSam MendesStarsKevin SpaceyAnnette BeningThora BirchA sexually frustrated suburban father has a mid-life crisis after becoming infatuated with his daughter's best friend.A 40+ pervert is fixated upon his daughter's best friend. Ain't this children porn ? Truly a disturbing film. The only remotely normal people are the homos who live next door. The acting is good but the story is a monument to the total meltdown of their (¨American¨) culture.
- DirectorPier Paolo PasoliniStarsPaolo BonacelliGiorgio CataldiUberto Paolo QuintavalleIn World War II Italy, four fascist libertines round up nine adolescent boys and girls and subject them to 120 days of physical, mental, and sexual torture.It is one of the most disturbing movies ever made. It has scenes where they feast on feces. Pasolini had a whole fetish with feces. Sick, ain't it
- DirectorMarco FerreriStarsMarcello MastroianniMichel PiccoliPhilippe NoiretA group of men go to a villa in the French countryside where they resolve to eat themselves to death.The work of a man arrived at the height of mental alienation . Where's the comedy? but more importantly, where's the plot?
- DirectorJohn WatersStarsDivineDavid LocharyMary Vivian PearceNotorious Baltimore criminal and underground figure Divine goes up against a sleazy married couple who make a passionate attempt to humiliate her and seize her tabloid-given title as "The Filthiest Person Alive".Waters' grotesquerie is decidedly trivial. Like De Sade, Warhol, he features extremes. The nitwit plot of this poorly lensed 16mm picture accounts for one of the most vile, stupid and repulsive films ever made.
- DirectorTerry JonesStarsJohn CleeseTerry GilliamEric IdleThe comedy team takes a look at life in all of its stages in their own uniquely silly way.It ranges from the mildly humorous to the downright absurd and disgusting (An obese man vomiting multiple times and eventually blowing up in a restaurant). But that's what Pythons are infamous for – to stupefy, to bewilder, to disgust, to shock. It's unfortunate I couldn't derive any enjoyable entertainment from it.
- DirectorRichard CurtisStarsHugh GrantMartine McCutcheonLiam NeesonFollows the lives of eight very different couples in dealing with their love lives in various loosely interrelated tales all set during a frantic month before Christmas in London, England.There is probably no more wallowingly sentimental, cliched and stereotyped, syrupy film. The epitome of the romantic comedy in every excess. Disgusting and pathetic trash.
- DirectorSrdjan SpasojevicStarsSrdjan 'Zika' TodorovicSergej TrifunovicJelena GavrilovicAn aging porn star agrees to participate in an "art film" in order to make a clean break from the business, only to discover that he has been drafted into making a pedophilia and necrophilia themed snuff film.Torture, incest, rape, child rape, a grown man raping a newborn child, beheading (during sex), necrophilia, paedophilia, bloody toothless blow jobs, anal bleeding and a man screwing another man.
- DirectorLars von TrierStarsEmily WatsonStellan SkarsgårdKatrin CartlidgeOilman Jan is paralyzed in an accident. His wife, who prayed for his return, feels guilty; even more, when Jan urges her to have sex with another.Lars von Trier is the worst kind of director, the kind that thinks it's his job to incite and provoke his audience, and that movies must be unendurable if they are to say anything that matters. What's most unendurable about this literally sickening movie is the hand-held camera work that not for one minute sits still.
- DirectorBeata GårdelerStarsFatime AzemiJohn RistoEva MelanderA 14-year old girl reports that she has been raped, but is not believed. The entire village turns against her and her family.Sick. Written and produced by psychopaths. Starring a fifteen-year-old psychopath, a serial rapist. Exaltation of sexist impunity.
- DirectorAbel GanceStarsGabriel de GravonePierre MagnierGeorges TérofA railway engineer adopts a young girl orphaned by a train crash. Years later when she starts getting suitors, he grapples with whether or not to tell her the truth about her parentage.Sisif, a railwayman, and his son Elie fall in love with the beautiful Norma (whom Sisif rescued from a train crash when a baby and raised as his daughter with tragic results. In its complete version La Roue lasts for 7 hours. Useless to say, the film is impossible to follow and we easily lose patiance after the first... Say, six? Five? Four? Three? Even 2 hours?... It is the slowest film ever made and full of artsy and melodramatic scenes, but under the technical aspects it is of course competent. This seminal film introduced many innovations in set design and construction, and cinematic devices.
- DirectorGeorge StevensJean NegulescoStarsMax von SydowDorothy McGuireCharlton HestonAn all-star, large scale epic movie that chronicles the life and ministry of Jesus Christ.The boringest story ever told. Cost: $20 million. Initial gross in America : $6.9 million. Overseas gross estimate: $2 million. Loss: initially at least $13 million, reduced to around $12 million by TV and video sales.
- CreatorDavid SeltzerStarsBill PullmanNatascha McElhoneMichael MasseeJust before the start of the Apocalypse, a physicist and a nun race against the clock to see if the end of the world can be averted.The end of the world is always an intriguing subject matter. With cinematic explorations of the Apocalypse such as The Omen, its themes are familiar to both believers and atheists. 'Revelations' does not stray far from the formula : the birth of the anti-Christ, the second coming of Jesus, all handled or hinted without originality. Bill Pullman and Natascha McElhone play the spiritual equivalents of Mulder and Scully with the gender roles unduly reversed.
- DirectorKenji MizoguchiStarsChôjûrô KawarasakiYoshizaburo ArashiUtaemon IchikawaThe legendary Forty-seven ronin plot to avenge the death of their lord, Asano Naganori, by killing Kira Yoshinaka, a shogunate official responsible for Asano being forced to commit seppuku."Genroku Chûshingura" (The 47 Ronin, 1941) is a massive undertaking for the audience, an ambitious adaptation of the oft-filmed kabuki play that it is based on. Shochiku produced the film as a two-parter, with the total film clocking in at almost four hours. It was wartime and studio heads considered it a matter of great importance that this classic tale of feudal loyalty would be brought to screen for people's fighting spirit to grow higher. Meanwhile, Walt Disney worked in tandem with the United States Army to help in the war effort and fight the Axis Powers (including Japan) through animation. Do stick to Disney.
- DirectorJacques RivetteStarsMichel PiccoliJane BirkinEmmanuelle BéartThe former famous painter Frenhofer revisits an abandoned project using the girlfriend of a young visiting artist. Questions about truth, life, and artistic limits are explored.Elitist porn. Mediocre , contrived and silly acting. The conversations are as stilted and boring. Just mumbo jumbo yakking about nothing of importance. Piccoli has a tone in his voice as if to say his talking is important. No substance or plot. No humor either
- DirectorFord BeebeSaul A. GoodkindStarsBuster CrabbeConstance MooreJackie MoranA 20th Century pilot named Buck Rogers and his young friend Buddy Wade awake from 500 years in suspended animation to find that the world has been taken over by the outlaw army of Killer Kane.I like the comic book/kitsch style, but in general it featured weak acting, poor production, low grade special effects, lame story, and bad costumes. This is n o exception. I wasn't born in the 1930s but even up to the 1950s audiences were treated to serials before the main movie at some of their local theaters. Each section of these ongoing stories was about a half hour in length, and a new one was shown each week. Did you know the good guys would win? Of course. Did you know that at the end of each week's installment, there would be a "cliffhanger" moment leaving you wanting more next week? Of course.
- DirectorTheodoros AngelopoulosStarsEva KotamanidouVangelis KazanAliki GeorgouliGreece, 1939-1952: Fascist, Nazi, and Communist conflict, as seen through the eyes of a family of travelling provincial players.This is like Tarkovsky filmed in VERY slow motion: baffling, frustrating, uninspiring. Strictly for viewers who find Tarkovsky too action-packed.
- DirectorEduardo EscorelStarsEduardo EscorelGetúlio VargasOsvaldo AranhaNewsreels, photographs, letters, diary excerpts, fiction and family films, folk songs and so on. Through these heterogeneous records, the film offers a vision of Getulio Vargas dictatorship by commenting on these documents produced for various purposes - political advertising, journalistic information, personal note, family celebration - as well as by seeking to unravel the Estado Novo regime's political plot.