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Friday, March 16, 2018

Child of Resistance (1973)

















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Inspired by a dream director Haile Gerima had after seeing Angela Davis handcuffed on television, Child of Resistance follows a woman (Barbara O. Jones) who has been imprisoned as a result of her fight for social justice.  In a film that challenges linear norms of time and space, Gerima explores the woman’s dreams for liberation and fears for her people through a series of abstractly rendered fantasies.

Sunday, April 16, 2017

Caged Heat (1974)




















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A girl is caught in a drug bust and sent to the hoosegow. The iron-handed superintendent takes exception to a skit performed by the girls and takes punitive steps, aided by the sadistic doctor who is doing illegal electroshock experiments and raping drugged prisoners. After a while the prisoners put away their petty differences and plan the Big Prison Escape. 

Sunday, December 11, 2016

The Roommates (1973)














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Looking to spend a swinging summer at Lake Arrowhead, Carla, Beth, Brea, Heather, and Heather s shapely cousin Paula head to the picturesque hills for a little R&R. The usual raised eyebrows from the resort s male crowd follow them wherever they go as they split up and find summer jobs, spend a little refreshing time in the water, and fall into the occasional seasonal romance. But soon a shadow s cast over the girls sunny vacation when a mysterious murderer begins picking off the lake s bevy of beauties. Can the killer be stopped before the coeds summer fun ends in bloody chaos?