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Montenegro Dusan Makavejev Funny, bizarre, surreal, sensual, unpredictable. Dusan Makavejev's Montenegro follows Susan Anspach, a middle-class Swedish housewife who gets embroiled in the free-wheeling sensuality of the Zanzi-Bar in the Yugoslavian-immigrant section of Stockholm in an attempt to discover the meaning of personal choice and freedom. English dialog. Sweden/Great Britain, 1982, 79 mins. Videocassette $37.95 DVD $37.95
The Coca-Cola Kid Dusan Makavejev Eric Roberts plays a marketing genius sent to boost the Coke company sales in backwoods Australia, only to see his corporate shell penetrated by the gorgeous and very sexy Greta Scacchi. Full of hilarious and memorable scenes, like the kangaroo with an arm in a sling, and a great sex scene full of feathers. "...unwinds in an unpredictable fashion, which is Makavejev's trademark...filled with moments of inspiration" (Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times). The DVD is letterboxed, and includes trailer, optional French audio, and English, French and Spanish subtitle options. Australia, 1985, 94 mins. DVD $37.95
Gorilla Bathes at Noon Dusan Makavejev An inventive, irreverent and at times touching feature set against the backdrop of post-wall Berlin, winner of the International Critics' Prize at the Berlin Film Festival. The film follows the goofball misadventures of one Russian soldier, stranded in Berlin after his army unit deserts, a kind of "post-Communist Candide" who concocts a fabulous myth that his father was the hero of the liberation of Berlin (brilliantly aided with kitsch archival footage) and is helped in his homesickness by a Siberian tiger at the zoo and a trans-gendered Lenin who knits him a sock, gives him a French kiss and asks him to remove a bullet from his head. English, German and Russian with English subtitles. Germany, 1993, 83 mins. Videocassette $44.95
Innocence Unprotected Dusan Makavejev In 1942 a professional strong man named Dragoljub Aleksic directed and starred in a trite little melodrama titled Innocence Unprotected - the first Serbian talkie. Over 20 years later, Dusan Makavejev retrieved the film from the Archives, tinted many of the sequences by hand, and interviewed Aleksic and his co-workers in present day Yugoslavia 1968. The resulting cinematic collage is a funny and daring (in both content and form) mix of a wide variety of film footage - including documentary, narrative, agitprop, and various other bits and pieces of found footage. Serbian with English subtitles. Yugoslavia, 1968, 78 mins. Videocassette $44.95
Love Affair: Or, the Case of the Missing Switchboard Operator Dusan Makavejev A key work of Eastern European cinema, Love Affair is a radical investigation of the relationship between sex and politics. The story of a young switchboard operator who falls in love with a sanitary worker until she allows herself to be seduced by a younger, more glamorous man. Told through a daring blend of flashbacks and flashforwards and a mix of documentary and fiction. Serbian with English subtitles. Yugoslavia, 1967, 70 mins. Videocassette $44.95
Man Is Not a Bird Dusan Makavejev Man Is Not a Bird is a work of genius which takes place in a mining town in eastern Serbia. The central characters are an engineer in one of the factories and a young hairdresser with whom he has an affair. The film "blends actuality with fiction in a manner so unselfconscious as to seem almost natural. Makavejev brings an instinctive poetry to the editing of the film, intercutting brilliantly Beethoven's Ode to Joy being performed inside the copper factory, and Jan and Raika making love together with a quiet, feverish urgency" (International Film Guide). Serbian with English subtitles. Yugoslavia, 1965, 80 mins. Videocassette $44.95
Sweet Movie Dusan Makavejev The modern cult classic, a hilarious comedy with elements of thriller and horror, "an experience to defy criticism...one of the most challenging, shocking and provocative films of recent years" (Roger Ebert). This daring and totally original film skillfully blends two independent stories with often shocking newsreel footage into a "movie we can't be passive about." The beautiful Carole Laure, winner of the Miss Virginity World contest, is married to Mr. Kapital, a Texas oil billionaire who, instead of consummating their marriage, sterilizes her body with rubbing alcohol. Barely escaping with her life, in Paris Carole has a sexual encounter with El Macho, a rock star at the Eiffel Tower, and ends up in a radical therapy commune. The second story features Anna Prucnal, survivor of The Revolution, now the captain of a boat floating the canals of Amsterdam, whose joyous sexual meeting with a sailor (Pierre Clementi) from the Battleship Potemkin ends up in his murder in a vat of sugar. Pure, unadulterated brilliance, "an audacious attempt...filled with images impossible to forget" (Roger Ebert). English and other languages with English subtitles. France/Canada/West Germany, 1975, 97 mins. Videocassette $44.95
WR: Mysteries of the Organism Dusan Makavejev Called "an outrageous, exuberant, marvelous work," by Amos Vogel in Film Comment and "a weird and hilarious fantasy...witty and exuberant" by The New York Times, WR: Mysteries of the Organism is a unique blend of fact and fiction, and Makavejev's landmark film. It deftly juxtaposes the story of the sexual encounter between the beautiful, liberated Milena and a repressed Soviet figure-skating champion with an exploration of the life and theories of psychoanalyst Wilhelm Reich. The "WR" in the film's title stands for either "Wilhelm Reich" or "World Revolution." Makavejev describes it as "a black comedy, political circus, a fantasy on the fascism and communism of human bodies, the political life of human genitals, a proclamation of the pornographic essence of any system of authority and power over others...If you watch for more than five minutes, you become my accomplice." With Dravic, Jagoda Kaloper, Tuli Kupferberg, Jackie Curtis. English and Serbian with English subtitles. Yugoslavia/West Germany, 1971, 84 mins. Videocassette $44.95