Belle de jour buñuel 1967

Belle du Jour is a 1967 French-Italian film directed by Luis Buñuel, starring Catherine Deneuve as Séverine, a married woman who leads a double life as a high-class prostitute. The film is known for its surreal and erotic atmosphere, as well as its exploration of themes such as desire, fetishism, and social class. It has been widely acclaimed and is considered one of Buñuel’s most successful and famous films.…

The Nun and the Devil

Original Title: Le monache di Sant’Arcangelo Starring: Anne Heywood, Luc Merenda, Ornella Muti Director: Domenico Paolella After the death of the mother superior in the convent of Sant’Arcangelo di Baiano, a power struggle rages on, as one nun, who comes from a powerful family, is willing to do anything to become the new abbess.…

La Moglie Più Bella (The Most Beautiful Wife)

In Sicily, as a Mafia boss leaves for prison, he advises Vito, a young man who’s his potential successor, to marry a virtuous and poor woman. Vito’s eye settles on Francesca, only 15, but lovely and self-possessed. Among her virtues are high self worth and forthright speech, so although she falls in love with Vito, she won’t bow down to him. Believing he’s losing face, he has his boys kidnap her and he rapes her.…

Forbidden Passion (La segretaria)

Sex kitten Ornella Muti stars in this lost title from the seventies. A high positioned engineer, Francesco, despite the fact that he’s married with children, has an affair with his secretary, Manuela. When she tries to break up, Francesco blackmails her, threatening to fire her and to stop helping her family. In the meantime, Manuela is falling in love with another man, a young journalist.…

Psycho/s

A reimagining of Psycho, exploring similarity and difference. This unique film raises questions of authorship in an age of mashups and remixes. It records historical changes in filmmaking apparatus and modes of production. Due to the original source materials the technical quality of the film is low.

Presented at Glasgow Radical Film Network Festival 2016, CCA Glasgow 2018.…

Sabotage – Alfred Hitchcock (1936)

Saboteurs are causing havoc in London with a series of explosive terrorist attacks. Karl Verloc (Oscar Homolka) is part of the group, but he maintains a cover as a kind movie theater owner. His wife (Sylvia Sidney) is beginning to suspect something, though, and so is Scotland Yard Detective Sgt. Ted Spencer (John Loder). What neither of them know, however, is that Verloc uses his wife’s little brother (Desmond Tester) to deliver the bombs in film canisters.…

The 39 Steps (1935) – Alfred Hitchcock

The 39 Steps is a heart-racing spy story by Alfred Hitchcock, following Richard Hannay (Oscar winner Robert Donat), who stumbles into a conspiracy that thrusts him into a hectic chase across the Scottish moors—a chase in which he is both the pursuer and the pursued—as well as into an expected romance with the cool Pamela (Madeline Carroll). Adapted from a novel by John Buchan, this classic wrong-man thriller from the Master of Suspense anticipates the director’s most famous works (especially North by Northwest), and remains one of his cleverest and most entertaining films.…