Tag: 1986

‘My Beautiful Laundrette’ on Amazon Prime

!Featured, Academy Award nominee, Amazon Prime Video, Blu-ray, British Cinema, drama, DVD, LGBTQ, socially aware cinema, Streaming Movies, SVOD 10/13/202010/13/2020 Sean Axmaker

Provocative and potent, My Beautiful Laundrette (1986) launched a lot of careers while shaking up British cinema in the eighties. Gordon Warnecke stars as Omar, the son of a Pakistani immigrant in London who takes over the management of a failing launderette in a seedy neighborhood owned by his entrepreneurial uncle (Saeed Jaffrey). Omar is […]

Nola Darling and Tommy Redmond Hicks star in Spike Lee's debut feature

Spike Lee’s original ‘She’s Gotta Have It’ on Netflix

!Featured, African-American filmmakers, American Independent Cinema, Comedy, DVD, Netflix, Streaming Movies 11/21/2017 Sean Axmaker

“Please baby, please baby, please baby baby baby please!” Spike Lee exploded in the independent film world with his debut feature She’s Gotta Have It (1986), an inventive low budget romance with a strong-willed heroine. Tracy Camilla Johns is the confident and sexually independent Nola Darling, a young professional Brooklynite who is happy to sample […]

Tim Streeter and Doug Cooeyate star in the directorial debut of Gus Van Sant

Gus Van Sant’s ‘Mala Noche’ on Criterion Channel

!Featured, American Independent Cinema, Criterion, Criterion Channel, drama, DVD, Have You Seen...?, socially aware cinema, SVOD 09/14/201701/28/2020 Sean Axmaker

Mala Noche (1986), the feature debut of Gus Van Sant adapted from the autobiographical novel by Portland “street poet” Walt Curtis, is an intimate black and white tale of l’amour fou steeped in the culture of Portland, Oregon’s (now long gone) skid row. Walt (Tim Streeter), a counter jockey at a grimy liquor store in […]