The student-taunting Specials perform at the Colchester Institute in 1979, playing hits such as Rat Race, Too Much Too Young and Gangsters, throwing tambourines at the bouncers and indulging in a little moon-stomping during a stage invasion.
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Flying Free
An updated version of Halas and Batchelor’s short film, ‘The Magic Canvas’, with a new electronic score.
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I Hate Blondes
There are two problems with Emilio and his career as a pulp writer. Emilio is a bumbling fellow who has absolutely nothing in common with the heroes he writes about. Second, Emilio can’t seem to publish anything under his own name.
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And the days go by
Abdul Qader lives a quiet and peaceful life with his family. His daughter Madiha marries Adel, who travels to work in an Arab country. His son Shukri falls in love with Rawya, but he opposes the marriage and pressures him to marry his cousin. Rawya decides to take revenge on Shukri and his father, for the former’s failure and the latter’s opposition, by trapping the father in her net.
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This Is America Part 2
The sequel to This is America, aka Jabberwalk. This film goes inside the real America circa 1980 – a world of punks, orgies and worm-eating hicks! Romano Vanderbes back on the film making side and Norman Rose back on narrating duty for the second of the This Is America trilogy. Things kick off slightly louder this time with a performance by The Dictators doing a version of America the Beautiful while the titles role, then right into piece about punk star Jello Biafra of the Dead Kennedy’s running for mayor of San Francisco. Then back into a more This Is America feeling segment about a crazy fat bloke called Captain Sticky. Among some of the other more interesting segments we get a look at underground vagrants, a piranha attack, martial arts nuns, a family of worm eaters, a drug abusing church and ends with a death row electrocution.
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The Japanese Tie Up
Separated from her lover Kenji after he is sent off to war, Sanae is raped by general Takada and gives birth to a girl, Junko, who grows up to become a prostitute. One day, Kenji accidentally meets Junko and confuses her with Sanae, prompting Junko to tell him of her mother’s fate. They make love, leaving Junko pregnant with his child – Hiroko, who goes on to have a chance encounter with Takada at a hostess club…
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Granddaughter of Ice
The granddaughter of Santa Claus becomes an ordinary girl because of her love for the potter. An unusual version of the fairy tale about the Snow Maiden.
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The Long Days of Summer
In this sequel to his 1978 “When Every Day Was the Fourth of July” (and a pilot to a prospective series), producer/director Dan Curtis recalls more of his youth during the late ’30, and follows a fictionalized family where the father has jeopardized a promising law career to defend a Jewish immigrant against the prejudices of a staid New England town.
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The Competition
The movie centers on a piano competition whose winner is assured of success. It is Paul’s last chance to compete, but newcomer Heidi may be a better pianist. Can romance be far away? Will she take a dive despite the pressure to win from her teacher, Greta, or will she condemn Paul to obscurity?
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It’s About the Second Coming
Depictions of famous Biblical stories as well as the end times accompany an overarching plot of a man who continues to avoid church even as the end of the world draws closer.