When Raymond Carver died in 1988, he was mourned as a national literary figure and shortlisted for the Pulitzer prize yet only ten years earlier he was marooned in a drying-out clinic. From his experiences, his alcoholism, bankruptcies, years spent in trailer parks and motel rooms, BBC ‘Omnibus’ shows how Carver produced stories and poems about the other side of the American dream – about the people whose dreams go belly-up.
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New Order: Brixton Academy
Live concert from 4 April 1987 by the British band New Order at The Academy in Brixton, a fundraising performance for International AIDS Day. Song list: Bizarre Love Triangle, Perfect Kiss, Ceremony, Dreams Never End, Love vigilantes, Confusion, Age of Consent, Temptation.
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Tripwire
A band of ruthless international terrorists led by Josef Szabo hijack a speeding railroad train loaded with a full arsenal of powerful military weaponry capable of threatening world peace. The only hero who can stop the terrorists’ scheme for world domination is Jack DeForest. During the battle between good and evil the hero DeForest accidentally kills the son of the Szabo. Seeking revenge Szabo locates DeForest’s family, murders his wife and kidnaps their teenage son thereby turning their fight it into a personal vendetta. So, DeForest must fight not only to save the world, but for his only remaining family.
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Running Dogs
This is a film about the fate of a group of students and their wondering to find their true place in life. Of course each of them tries to find his own way.
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Abnormal Confession: Give Me Hair
A man and a woman are entangled in a warehouse at a company. The man, Yuji, aims to cum inside her, but is met with resistance from the woman. The woman’s bodily fluids spill onto one of the mannequins… Immediately afterwards, Yuji comes into the warehouse in place of the two men. Suddenly, a naked woman appears in front of him, wiping the cum from her body. Surprised, Yuji calls for someone to come in, only to find a mannequin lying around the warehouse…
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Honban kyojiri zeme
Pinku distributed by Xces / Nikkatsu
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Wittgenstein: A Wonderful Life
The life and work of the Austrian philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein.
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Blue Vengeance
Convicted murderer Mark Trex escapes from an asylum and heads to New York City believing that his favorite band’s occult hit song, which told of Satan and death, is true.
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Bye Bye, Red Riding Hood
Fanny lives in the forest with her meteorologist mother. One day on her way across the forest to visit her grandmother and great grandmother, she has three encounters that will change her life forever: an apparently kind and gentle wolf, a city boy and an ornithologist who bears a striking resemblance to the father who long ago abandoned her and her mother.