Nov 21, 2012


Betty Page: Bondage Queen (1998)


Director:
Irving Klaw

Runtime: 113 min

"Cult Epics presents the complete volumes of the bondage, fetish and catfight films on DVD featuring Bettie Page and other glamour girls.Bettie Page (in her films credited as Betty Page) famous for her pin up modeling also appeared in bondage photos and short films. These unique classics are the first film sources of today’s fetish and SM scene and appear nowadays surreal, tender and joyful."





Nov 16, 2012

Would You Convict? - Seventeen Cases That Challenged the Law (1999, PDF)


"A police trooper inspects a car during a routine traffic stop and finds a vast cache of weapons, complete with automatic rifles, thousands of rounds of ammunition, and black ski masks-a veritable bank robber's kit. Should the men in the car be charged? If so, with what?


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Nov 5, 2012

Show Business Homicides: An Encyclopedia, 1908-2009 (PDF)


"A companion volume to the author's Suicide in the Entertainment Industry: An Encyclopedia of 840 Twentieth Century Cases (2002), this reference work chronicles 298 cases of what can be broadly defined as "celebrity" homicides from the early twentieth century onward. Cases are drawn from the realms of film, theatre, music, dance and other entertainment fields. In each instance, the person was either the actual or suspected perpetrator or the victim of a murder. Included are entries on such well-known personalities as film comedian Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle, actress Sharon Tate, music producer Phil Spector, rap artist Notorious B.I.G., and superstar Michael Jackson. Each entry covers the crime, its legal disposition, and the subject's personal and professional background, comprehensively documented with notes and a separate bibliography."

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Nov 2, 2012

The Columbine Massacre - In the Killer's Minds (2007)


Runtime: 52 min 



"It was in april 20th, 1999, at a Colorado high school. Two apparently quite harmless students, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold, arrived at the school armed to the teeth and proceeded to butcher 15 of their fellow students, wounding dozens of others before both commit suicide. The state of Colorado and the entire world were stunned and shocked. Since then, the Colorado police has published previously unseen documents and an exclusive report on the massacre (900 pages of personal diaries, school work, drawings, music, computer files). This documentary, like a police investigation, follows the adolescent murderers' suicide mission week by week, examining the most crucial and alarming events of the months preceding the drama and to which no one paid any attention. The case will be revisited through the unique and exclusive testimony of the killers' parent's lawyer, their friends and teachers, and victims families. How did they end up at that bleak and tragic point in their lives? Could it have been foreseen? What conclusions have been drawn by the psychiatrists and police officers who have investigated the case and studied Harris' and Klebold's private writings? Everything we previously knew about this affair is false. But the truth could be even more chilling than the myth. In the United States today, there are hundreds of websites devoted to these young killers, and thousands of young Americans see them as veritable cult figures."





Nov 1, 2012

Sex in a Cold Climate (1998)


Runtime: 50 min

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"Interlocking interviews of 4 women interred in various Magdalene asylums and/or orphanages because of out-of-wedlock pregancies, being sexually assaulted, or just being "too pretty" (believe it or not)."


"This is the documentary that inspired the film: The Magdalene Sisters. It is an expose of the cruelty and abuse suffered by the inmates of Ireland's Magdalene laundries where woman who were thought to be 'fallen' were made to work 12 hours a day, six days a week, for no pay. Four former inmates, overdubbing quaint old footage of Ireland, narrate the film. This juxtaposition shows us how such injustice could go on: to the outside world these institutions seemed good, even idyllic, places to put these young girls."







Ballad of the Little Soldier (1984)


Directors:
Werner Herzog, 
Denis Reichle

Runtime: 46 min

Herzog said: "it is about children who are fighting in a war, not a film about the Sandinistas or Somoza. (…) Originally the Miskitos had fought against Somoza as allies of the Sandinistas, and in their social structure they traditionally lived a primitive form of socialism. The Sandinistas wanted to help the Indians take a step forward towards 'real' scientific socialism, and in an attempt to reorganize the village communes a whole strip of Miskito land on the Honduran border was categorically depopulated and sixty-five towns and villages razed to the ground. The excuse the Sandinistas gave was they wanted to transform the region into a military zone of protection against the Contra rebels, and inevitably, after these great abuses had been committed against them, the Indians broke from the Sandinistas. For some people, showing nine-year-old kids fighting against the Sandinistas meant I was clearly an American imperialist. No one would even contemplate that the Sandinistas could violate the essential rights of native Indians (…).What was most interesting about the Miskito children was that they were all volunteers, and a very personal and traumatizing experience had forced every one of them to take up arms. (…) This war was about a traditional culture being ripped apart by the introduction of modern instruments of killing, and to talk about it in political or military terms is not useful."

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