Erotique 1994  R, 93 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Lizzie Borden, Monika Treut, Clara Law
Cast: Tim Lounibos, Hayley Man, Choi Hark-kin, Priscilla Barnes, Camilla Soeberg, Michael Carr, Peter Kern, Kamela Lopez-Dawson, Bryan Cranston, Liane Alexandra
This three-episode film centers on sex and sensuality–from the feminist point of view. In the First segment, Lizzie Borden directs "Let's Talk About Love" which involves telephone sex. The second offing is "Taboo Parlor;" directed by Monika Treut; it is about lesbians searching for a boy toy. Finally, "Won Ton Soup" is Clara Law's story of long distance lovers trying Chinese sexual techniques.
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Mother Kusters Goes to Heaven 1975  N/R, 110 min.
Genre: Foreign / Drama
aka: Mother Kuster's Trip to Heaven
Director: Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Cast: Brigitte Mira, Ingrid Caven, Armin Meier, Irm Hermann, Gottfried John, Karlheinz Bohm, Margit Carstensen, Gustav Holzapfel, Lilo Pempeit, Peter Kern, Kurt Raab
Middle-aged Emma Kusters is the wife of an unhappy factory worker. One day he loses it, kills the factory owner's son, and then kills himself. Emma becomes a celebrity, giving interviews of her story, only to be made fun of by the press. Her daughter uses the notoriety to help in her singing career, while a Communist couple befriends her, only to use her to advance their cause. She is finally left alone after others had used her for their selfish desires. In the end she meets with an unselfish act when she is invited to dinner by the factory owner. A pessimistic outlook on the social issues of the day in Germany.
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The Stationmaster's Wife 1977 N/R, 111 min.
Genre: Foreign / Drama
Director: Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Cast: Elisabeth Trissenaar, Kurt Raab, Bernhard Helfrich, Karl-Heinz von Hassel, Volker Spengler, Gustl Bayrhammer, Udo Kier, Armin Meier, Peter Kern, Doris Mattes, Lilo Pempeit, Elma Karlowa
Beautiful, bored, philandering Hanni (Elisabeth Trissenaar) manipulates her Stationmaster husband, Xaver Ferdinand Maria Bolwieser (Kurt Raab), in pre-Hitler Bulgaria.
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The Wrong Move 1975 N/R, 103 min.
Genre: Foreign / Drama
aka: The Wrong Movement
Director: Wim Wenders
Cast: Rudiger Vogler, Hanna Schygulla, Hans Christian Blech, Nastassja Kinski, Peter Kern, Ivan Desny, Marianne Hoppe, Lisa Kreuzer, Adolf Hansen, Wim Wenders
Aspiring writer Wilhelm (Rudiger Vogler) sets off on a train ride to Bonn and along the way meets good-looking Therese Farner (Hanna Schygulla), ex-Olympian Laertes (Hans Christian Blech) with his mute teen companion Mignon (Nastassja Kinski), and not-so-great poet Bernhard Landau (Peter Kern). But, within this group, personal connections are not easy to attain.
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| 1. Erotique (1994)
2. Mother Kusters Goes to Heaven (1975)
aka: Mother Kuster's Trip to Heaven
3. The Stationmaster's Wife (1977)
4. The Wrong Move (1975)
aka: The Wrong Movement
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