At the time it was released, in 1931, this avant-garde and very surrealistic film by the teen-aged Brazilian Mario Peixoto was hailed as evidence of a very advanced sensibility and was compared to Un Chien Andalou. In the intervening…
Love, lust, loyalty, and betrayal are the themes of this tense adult drama. Joe (Edward James Olmos) and Betty (Maria Conchita Alonso) are a married couple living in Jersey City; Joe runs a fish market, and Betty wishes that…
The late great Derek Jarmans film of Benjamin Brittens unique choral work. Faced with the task of creating a visual equivalent to Brittens work, and using only the words Britten used (the poems of Wilfred Owen and the Latin…
