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The Cook, the Thief, His Wife and Her Lover (1989)
The Cook, the Thief, His Wife, and Her Lover is a 1989 drama from writer/director Peter Greenaway. The United Kingdom/France co-production had to be released unrated in the USA to avoid the "X" rating that had become associated with pornographic films. In fact, this was one of the movies that helped motivate the MPAA to create the NC-17 rating (introduced in 1990), to create an "adults only" classification separate from the wild west of the X rating, which was not trademarked
Jul 234 min read
Desert Hearts (1985)
Longing, loneliness, and lingering with the people and places that connect (or bind) us to our past. Desert Hearts is a 1985 American...
Jul 84 min read
Knightriders (1981)
This is probably the only movie which serves as an artist’s mission statement and philosophy of life that also has copious amounts of...
Jul 39 min read
Millennium Mambo (2001)
A hazy, fragmented, and elliptical look at a young woman and her relationships in turn of the century Taipei. Vicky (Shu Qi) started...
Nov 10, 20243 min read
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