Blood for Dracula 1974  R, 93 min.
Genre: Horror / Thriller
aka: Andy Warhol's Dracula
Young Dracula
Director: Paul Morrissey
Cast: Udo Kier, Joe Dallesandro, Arno Juerging, Vittorio De Sica, Maxime McKendry, Roman Polanski, Milena Vukotic, Dominique Darel, Stefania Casini, Silvia Dionisio
Count Dracula (Udo Kier) pursues the blood of virgins as his means of sustenance in this offbeat, Andy Warhol production.
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 The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie 1972  PG, 105 min.
Genre: Foreign / Comedy / Drama / Fantasy
Director: Luis Bunuel
Cast: Fernando Rey, Stephane Audran, Jean-Pierre Cassel, Delphine Seyrig, Bulle Ogier, Michel Piccoli, Bernard Musson, Paul Frankeur, Julien Bertheau, Milena Vukotic, Maria Gabriella Maione, Claude Pieplu
Winner of the Academy Award for Best Foreign Film, this is a satirical look at the bourgeoisie following the activities of upper-middle-class friends. Don Raphael (Fernando Rey), Francois Thevenot (Paul Frankeur), Simone (Delphine Seyrig), Florence (Bulle Ogier), Henri Senechal (Jean-Pierre Cassel), and Alice (Stephane Audran) try, again and again, to spend an evening together. But, no matter how many times they try, and fail, to have dinner together, their plans are frustrated by events over which they have no control. The obstacles are bizarre–ranging from a mixed- up date for the dinner, to army maneuvers, to a dead body, to a stage play in which they are characters. Good entertainment.
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A Good Woman 2004  PG, 93 min.
Genre: Comedy / Drama
Director: Mike Barker
Cast: Helen Hunt, Scarlett Johansson, Tom Wilkinson, Stephen Campbell Moore, Mark Umbers, Milena Vukotic, Diana Hardcastle, Roger Hammond, Jane How, John Standing, Giorgia Massetti, Shara Orano
In this film adaptation of Oscar Wilde's 1892 play, "Lady Windermere's Fan," the scene is now set in the 1930s when Manhattan socialite Mrs. Erlynne (Helen Hunt) leaves her sullied and debt-ridden reputation behind and heads for the Amalfi coast of Italy hoping to start life anew. She is befriended by Meg and Robert Windemere (Scarlett Johansson and Mark Umbers), but gossip rears its ugly head after Tom helps her out financially, and now stories abound that Tom and Mrs. Erlynne are having an affair. Everyone seems to believe the gossip–except Tuppy (Tom Wilkinson) who has fallen in love with Mrs. Erlynne, and then there is Lord Darlington who is smitten with Meg and sees the scandal as his opportunity to seduce her.
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The Moon in the Gutter 1983  R, 126 min.
Genre: Foreign / Drama
Director: Jean-Jacques Beineix
Cast: Gerard Depardieu, Nastassja Kinski, Victoria Abril, Bertice Reading, Gabriel Monnet, Dominique Pinon, Milena Vukotic, Vittorio Mezzogiorno, Bernard Farcy, Anne-Marie Coffinet, Katya Berger, Jacques Herlin, Guido Alberti, Rosa Fumetto, Graziano Giusti
Dockworker Gerard (Gerard Depardieu) sets out to find the man who raped his sister, and he gets aid from the wealthy Bella (Victoria Abril) in the process.
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Operation Snafu 1970  N/R, 97 min.
Genre: Comedy / Drama
aka: Situation Normal, All Fouled Up
Director: Nanni Loy
Cast: Peter Falk, Martin Landau, Nino Manfredi, Jason Robards, Scott Hylands, Slim Pickens, Frank Latimore, Antonio Margheriti, Milena Vukotic, Corrado Sonni
Peter Falk leads an inept group of men on a special World War II mission.
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 The Phantom of Liberty 1974  R, 104 min.
Genre: Foreign / Comedy
aka: The Specter of Freedom
Director: Luis Bunuel
Cast: Jean-Claude Brialy, Monica Vitti, Milena Vukotic, Michael Lonsdale, Anne-Marie Deschott, Michel Piccoli, Claude Pieplu, Paul Frankeur, Julien Bertheau, Adolfo Celi
Talk about bizarre! At age 75, Luis Bunuel still had the knack for innovative filmmaking. This surrealistic comedy is a collection of barely related sketches that include a group of patriots in the Napoleonic era egging on a firing squad to shoot them, a missing girl helping police fill out a missing person report on her, and the well-known scene of an elegantly dressed group sitting on toilets around a dinner table until hunger strikes, when they retire to stalls in a separate room to eat. And that's just a sample.
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That Obscure Object of Desire 1977 R, 100 min.
Genre: Foreign / Comedy
Director: Luis Bunuel
Cast: Fernando Rey, Carole Bouquet, Angela Molina, Julien Bertheau, Andre Weber, Milena Vukotic, Maria Asquerino, Ellen Bahl, Valerie Blanco, Pierre Pieral
Mathieu (Fernando Rey), a middle-aged man, fantasizes about the woman of his dreams: Conchita. Carole Bouquet and Angela Molina alternate in the role of "Conchita." This wryly sophisticated film was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Film.
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| 1. Blood for Dracula (1974)
aka: Andy Warhol's Dracula
aka: Young Dracula
2. The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (1972)
3. A Good Woman (2004)
4. The Moon in the Gutter (1983)
5. Operation Snafu (1970)
aka: Situation Normal, All Fouled Up
6. The Phantom of Liberty (1974)
aka: The Specter of Freedom
7. That Obscure Object of Desire (1977)
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