Barbarella
Barbarella testifies to a time in which a profound fascination with technological possibilities of the future had permeated mass culture. Based on Jean-Claude Forest’s racy comic serial, Vadim’s film details the adventures of a beautiful, kinky “cosmic queen” in the distant future of the year 40,000. Barbarella’s camp, liberated sexuality, and her penchant for flaunting her body in skimpy leotards, tight suits, and titillating plastic bodices is one reason the film has secured cult status.
Strawberry Mansion
In 2035, our dreams are no longer our own–they’re infused with product placement and auditors assess unpaid taxes on our most private reveries. Beleaguered taxman James Preble arrives at a run-down house in the countryside for a routine audit and encounters Bella Isadora (Penny Fuller), a lifelong dreamer who remains resolutely analog, circumventing the surveillance state with VHS tapes and homemade headgear. As Preble works his way through Bella’s archive of the unconscious, he begins to fall in love with visions of her younger self. But all is not well in dreamland as dangerous family secrets and a rogue’s gallery threaten to set the lovers’ paradise ablaze... Can Preble and Bella escape from the modern dreamscape and find refuge in Strawberry Mansion?
Funky Forest: The First Contact
Funky Forest: The First Contact is a dreamlike, psychedelic comedy that collects a series of outrageous non-sequiturs involving Guitar Brother and his friends. Featuring everything from animated kaiju dance breaks to a classroom that transforms into a musical instrument, the movie destroyed festival audiences when it debuted in 2005 and eventually became an early Internet-age WTF classic.
Flash Gordon
He's here to save every one of us! Heroic earthling Flash Gordon protects the world from the nefarious Ming the Merciless in this lavish, majestically camp adaptation of Alex Raymond's legendary sci-fi comic strip. The story is space opera purity at its finest: Ming has developed a plan to destroy the Earth, and Flash and his companion, Dale Arden, are called upon to stop him. Along the way, Flash must battle Ming's goons and the temptations of a luscious space princess. An ecstatic explosion of comic-inspired production design and visual resplendence, every flamboyant flourish is exaggerated for maximum pleasure. And the whole thing is set to an iconic score by Queen.
Will-o’-the-Wisp
The year 2069. An old king on his deathbed remembers the love of his youth, which he met when he was still a young prince, who rebelled against royal privileges and went to work at the fire station. This completely crazy musical erotic comedy with elements of sci-fi and magic makes friendly fun of the topics we care about today: class and racial antagonism, climate change, gay issues, and (not to forget) our favorite calendars with sexy firemen!
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Barbarella
Barbarella testifies to a time in which a profound fascination with technological possibilities of the future had permeated mass culture. Based on Jean-Claude Forest’s racy comic serial, Vadim’s film details the adventures of a beautiful, kinky “cosmic queen” in the distant future of the year 40,000. Barbarella’s camp, liberated sexuality, and her penchant for flaunting her body in skimpy leotards, tight suits, and titillating plastic bodices is one reason the film has secured cult status.
Funky Forest: The First Contact
Funky Forest: The First Contact is a dreamlike, psychedelic comedy that collects a series of outrageous non-sequiturs involving Guitar Brother and his friends. Featuring everything from animated kaiju dance breaks to a classroom that transforms into a musical instrument, the movie destroyed festival audiences when it debuted in 2005 and eventually became an early Internet-age WTF classic.
Will-o’-the-Wisp
The year 2069. An old king on his deathbed remembers the love of his youth, which he met when he was still a young prince, who rebelled against royal privileges and went to work at the fire station. This completely crazy musical erotic comedy with elements of sci-fi and magic makes friendly fun of the topics we care about today: class and racial antagonism, climate change, gay issues, and (not to forget) our favorite calendars with sexy firemen!
The Visitor
An intergalactic warrior joins a cosmic Christ figure in battle against a demonic eight-year-old girl and her pet hawk, while the fate of the universe hangs in the balance! Just when you think you've nailed down which direction the film’s heading in, The Visitor shatters your notion of the time-space continuum with a blackhearted blowout of interplanetary possession, telekinetic avian assault, exploding basketballs and ecclesiastical laser storms.