FRANCISCA [DVD]A portrait of an obsessive love affair, Manoel de Oliveiras Francisca is based on a novel by Agustina Bessa Lus, whose work hed later adapt twice more. The books re telling of a troubled passage in real life author Camilo Castelo Branco life his friend Jos Augusto embarked on a perverse game of marital cat and mouse with Francisca, the woman the novelist loved led Oliveira to new levels of stylistic and formal imagination. (It helped that his wife, a

and a traditional recipe for pici pasta

Alone in a strange forbidding land

Cilaos (2013

78:1 / DTS HD Master Audio 5

resulting in an intimate and mesmerizing dual documentary portrait

University of Southern California

1977: Part 4” Performed by Tony Conrad

LP + Digital Download

appearing in innumerable documentaries and sexploitation films in which he reenacts his crime

Bronx Gothic

Loosely structured around the distinct social and economic classes that divide the nation

A scripted drama of characters attempting to work towards political consensus — based partly on Asili’s own experiences in a Black liberationist group — weaves with a documentary recollection of the Philadelphia liberation group MOVE