Richard Turner made Squeeze to break the “conspiracy of silence” about homosexuality. A pioneering early portrait of Auckland’s LGBT scene, Squeeze centres on the relationship between a young man (Paul Eady) and the confident executive (Robert Shannon) who romances him, then mentions he has a fiancée. The film was discussed in Parliament after Patricia Bartlett campaigned against the possibility it might get NZ Film Commission funding (it didn’t). Kevin Thomas in The LA Times praised Squeeze’s integrity and the “steadfast compassion with which it views its hero”.
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The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson: Mortal Fight
After upsetting the criminal underground in ‘the Master Blackmailer’ case, Sherlock Holmes has to face his archenemy: Prof. Moriarty.
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The Clown
Taiwanese drama.
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The Silent Lovers
The story of the ill-fated romance between Greta Garbo and John Gilbert.
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¡Qué linda es mi familia!
A rebel son decides not to follow in his father’s footsteps in order to follow his own dreams of fame and popularity.
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Vengos the Crazy Kamikaze
A breadwinner, Thanasis Trampas, decides to open a shop renting motorbikes. When the local bikers begin to bother him, he turns into a kamikaze to deal with them.
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Poor Ioanide
Ioanide, an apolitical and misunderstood artist who dreams of “things that are normal abroad but impossible here”, led a difficult life as an architect under the old regime. After 1944, his situation improved thanks to the benevolence of an enlightened communist nicknamed Botticelli, whom he once hid from the police in the attic of his house. He receives commissions for large-scale cultural monuments, although he has “on file” the ballast of his children lost in the legionary adventure and continues to accept, in his entourage, a circle of sycophants from the former elite.
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Clausewitz – Lebensbild eines preußischen Generals
In November 1831, the 51-year-old Prussian Major General Carl von Clausewitz burns the first chapters of his autobiography, which he had begun to write at the insistence of his wife Marie. Shocked by the sudden death of his friend Gneisenau, he is forced to realize that at his friend’s deathbed he has finally said goodbye to the hopes and plans that had once determined his life and that of his friends…
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Tomorrow’s Joe The Movie
An abridged remake of the first Ashita no Joe TV series, released in 1980 to provide back-story for the second TV series to new fans who were not familiar with the first TV series or the manga.