Absolute Wilson
Amagosa
Babette's Feast
Bagdad Café
Believe: The Eddie Izzard Story
Blue in the Face
Breakfast on Pluto
Crimes and Misdemeanors
Dirty, Filthy Love
Divine Trash
Hairspray (1988, staring Divine)
Habit
Larry Fessenden, 1997. The most interesting vampire movie you've probably never seen.
Hiding and Seeking
Interiors
This 1978 film came on the heels of Allen's 1977 triumph in ”Annie Hall." It is a somber film with strong resonances of Chekov and Bergman, and deals with a troubled family, beginning with parents played by Geraldine Page and E.G. Marshall. I am not an expert on Page's body of work, but I think this must be one of her finest performances. She plays an interior designer with a long history of mental instability, whose meticulous and exacting attention to the creation of perfectly ordered exterior environments stands in stark contrast to the messy and precarious state of her inner life. Indeed, Page's connection to the world is tenuous; she seems always on the verge of shattering, an impression she conveys not so much in dialogue, but in the affective skill that she brings to the role. Her three daughters, played by Diane Keaton, Mary Beth Hurt, and Kristin Griffith, are all wounded in their own ways, and have their own ways of responding to their father's announcement that he wants a trial separation from their mother. He is, after all, entitled to some kind of happiness (although he doesn't articulate this to his selfish daughters until late in the film). Eventually, Marshall takes up with a cheerful and lively widow (played by Jean Stapleton), who could not be more different than Marshall's morosely introspective, hyper-sophisticated, and ultimately snobbish offspring. Nor could she be a better antidote to the grinding self-sacrifice required by his long marriage to Page. Okay, this movie is a misery-fest without any of the comic relief we enjoy in other Allen movies, but it's a well-written and well-acted misery-fest.
I Shot Andy Warhol
Jackie Brown
Juno
The Legend of Leigh Bowery
The Nomi Song (documentary about Klaus Nomi)
Paris is Burning
Saturday Night Fever
Saved!
Serial Mom
The Spider, the Mistress and the Tangerine (documentary about Louise Bourgeois)
Superstar in a Housedress (documentary about Jackie Curtis)
Trembling Before G-d
Vanya on 42nd Street
A Walk into the Sea: Danny Williams and the Warhol Factory
Wigstock: The Movie
Without You, I'm Nothing
