Terry Southern
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English
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In this uproarious and wicked cult-classic, Southern skewers American greed and pomposity Guy Grand, an eccentric billionaire prankster, is rich enough to do whatever he likes. And what he likes is to carefully execute projects where he can cauterize by ridicule what the rest of the world ignores: complacency, greed, corruption, and idiocy. Determined to "make it hot for people," Grand spends his billions staging a series of hilarious, sometimes bewildering...
3) Texas summer
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English
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Twelve-year-old Harold Stevens, a farmer's boy, is heading hell-bent away from the cottony comfort of his mother's care, and showing him the way is C.K., a black hired hand on his father's farm.
4) Candy
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Publisher
Open Road Media
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
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The New York Times–bestselling parody of Voltaire’s Candide that was banned in France and went on to become a salacious cult classic.
Candy is a perfect, idealistic, innocent girl, born on Valentine’s Day, which, her daddy says, is why she’s so beautiful. At college in Racine, Wisconsin, she listens earnestly to Professor Mephisto’s lecture on philosophy and how “deep and aching are the...
Candy is a perfect, idealistic, innocent girl, born on Valentine’s Day, which, her daddy says, is why she’s so beautiful. At college in Racine, Wisconsin, she listens earnestly to Professor Mephisto’s lecture on philosophy and how “deep and aching are the...
5) Blue Movie
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English
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A darkly hilarious, wildly erotic satire of Hollywood King B., the world's most admired filmmaker-winner of a string of Oscars and awards from Cannes to Venice-takes on a new project: the most expensive, star-studded, high-quality, X-rated film ever made. He joins forces with producer Sid Krassman, who's made a fortune with B movies, and Angela Sterling, a misunderstood sex symbol who longs to do "serious" work. After convincing the principality of...
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English
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A satirical dream-logic journey through the dark heart of 1950s Los Angeles Dr. Frederick Eichner, world-renowned dermatologist, is visited by the entrancingly irritating Felix Treevly who comes to him as a patient and stays as an obsession. Prosaic incidents blossom into bizarre developments with the sharpened reality of dreams as the spectral Mr. Treevly leads the doctor into a series of increasingly weird situations. With the assistance of a drunken...
9) Easy rider
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Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Video
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
Two motorcyclists travel across the U.S. in search of the real America.
Series
Criterion collection ; 821
Language
English
Description
A group of paranoia-inspired, war-happy generals manage to initiate an "accidential" nuclear apocalypse. Joint Chief of Staff "Buck" Turgidson and Air Force Strategic Commander Jack Ripper, order a bomber squadron to attack the USSR. This triggers a Soviet secret weapon called the 'Doomsday Machine.' The weapon is a diabolical retaliatory missile system. In an attempt to advert this catastrophe, British Captain Lionel Mandrake becomes the only person...
Publisher
Turner Entertainment Co
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
The Kid thinks he's the best 5-card stud player in town, but The Man has never been beaten. It is therefore inevitable that they go head-on, and what a game it will be: a non-stop, stud poker duel-to-the-death to decide who will be the reigning king of the New Orleans gambling world.
13) Candy
Publisher
Anchor Bay Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
"Candy Christian is an innocent yet luscious high school student when fate sends her on a far-out journey of sexual discovery. On her trippy travels, Candy encounters lust and lunacy at the hands-- and other body parts-- of a drunken poet, a Mexican gardener, a patriotic general, a mad surgeon, and a mystic guru. Can the world's most stalwart members get their own sweet piece of Candy? Or will a final freaky twist swallow her whole forever?" --
14) Easy rider
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Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
"A generation-defining movie about friends who engage in a motorcycle journey across the country to discover the true America. Bonus features include: CD Songtrack, making of documentary, commentary, and British Film Institute Modern Classic Book." --
16) Burroughs
Series
Criterion collection ; 789
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"Made up of intimate, revelatory footage of the singular author and poet filmed over the course of five years, Howard Brookner's 1983 documentary about William S. Burroughs (Naked Lunch) was for decades mainly the stuff of legend; that changed when Aaron Brookner, the late director's nephew, discovered a print of it in 2011 and spearheaded a restoration. Includes on-screen appearances by Allen Ginsberg, Herbert Huncke, Terry Southern, and Lucien Carr."...
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Video
Pub. Date
1998.
Language
English
Description
A satire in which the president of the U.S. and his military advisors struggle ineptly to avert a nuclear holocaust after a psychotic Air Force general launches a nuclear attack on the Soviet Union because he fears the Soviets are poisoning the U.S. water supply.