Sagad hanggang buto (1991)

Actors: Eddie Arenas (actor), Dindo Arroyo (actor), Nestor Balla (actor), Joe Baltazar (actor), Vic Belaro (actor), Jason Bognot (actor), Polly Cadsawan (actor), Ernie David (actor), Nonoy De Guzman (actor), Paquito Diaz (actor), Teddy Eugenio (actor), Ernie Forte (actor), Albert Garcia (actor), Allan Garcia (actor), Jerome Advincula (actor),

Genres: Action, Drama,

No Picnic (1986)

Actors: David Brisbin (actor), Steve Buscemi (actor), Chandler (actor), Ryan Cutrona (actor), Luis Guzmán (actor), Richard Hell (actor), David Murray Jaffe (actor), Myoshin (actor), Gary Ray (actor), Clare Bauman (actress), Anne D'Agnillo (actress), Judith Malina (actress), Lizzie Olesker (actress), Doris Kornish (producer), Chris Sievernich (producer),

Plot: A black-and-white love letter to pre-gentrification New York City, Phil Hartman's NO PICNIC captures a remote time and place - the East Village circa 1985, a vibrant, seedy neighborhood populated by musicians, pimps and poets. Macabee Cohen (David Brisbin), whose heyday as a rock musician is long gone, travels the city in a beat-up VW bus, supplying records to local juke boxes. His beloved Lower East Side neighborhood is in turmoil: rampant real estate speculation, tenants on rent strike, art invading the bars - "in my own neighborhood, I felt like I was in the middle of a party that I hadn't been invited to," he says. Mac's personal life is in turmoil, too: his girlfriend dumped him for the Air Force, his neighbor is pressuring him into a green card marriage, his father has left his mother for a younger man, and his brother is sending post cards from his sexual sojourn to all fifty states. Then a mysterious girl appears in his life, and Mac's obsession to find her becomes a quest of self-discovery, too - "I was looking for someone to save," he says, "to save myself."

Keywords: independent-film
Genres: Drama,

Bananas (1971)

Actors: Woody Allen (actor), Axel Anderson (actor), Hy Anzell (actor), Jack Axelrod (actor), Conrad Bain (actor), Eddie Barth (actor), John Braden (actor), Dick Callinan (actor), Beeson Carroll (actor), Anthony Caso (actor), Ted Chapman (actor), Howard Cosell (actor), Ed Crowley (actor), Baron De Beer (actor), Stanley Ackerman (actor),

Plot: Fielding Mellish (a consumer products tester) becomes infatuated with Nancy (a political activist). He attends demonstrations and tries in other ways to convince her that he is worthy of her love, but Nancy wants someone with greater leadership potential. Fielding runs off to San Marcos where he joins the rebels and eventually becomes President of the country. While on a trip to the states, he meets Nancy again and she falls for him now that he is a political leader.

Keywords: 1970s, accused-of-treason, assassination, assault, banana-republic, bookstore, bound-and-gagged, break-up, breaking-a-pencil, cannabis
Genres: Comedy,

Quotes:

Fielding Mellish: I object, your honor! This trial is a travesty. It's a travesty of a mockery of a sham of a mockery of a travesty of two mockeries of a sham.

Fielding Mellish: You busy tonight?::Norma: Some old friends are coming over. We're gonna show some pornographic movies.::Fielding Mellish: You need an usher?

Nancy: Would you like to volunteer for the Volunteers for San Marcos?

Nancy: Have you ever been to Denmark?::Fielding Mellish: I've been, yes... to the Vatican.::Nancy: The Vatican? The Vatican is in Rome.::Fielding Mellish: Well, they were doing so well in Rome that they opened one in Denmark.

Fielding Mellish: I once stole a pornographic book that was printed in braille. I used to rub the dirty parts.

Rebel Leader: You are accused of killing over a thousand people in your term of office... of torturing hundreds of women and children. How do you plead?::Diaz: Guilty... with an explanation.

Sharon Craig: I think Mr. Mellish is a traitor to this country because his views are different from the views of the President and others of his kind. Differences of opinion should be tolerated, but not when they're too different. Then he becomes a subversive mother.

Fielding Mellish: Blood! That should be on the inside!

[last lines]::Howard Cosell: I think we should leave the happy couple on that note. It's hard to tell what may happen in the future. But they may live happily ever after. Again, they may not. Be assured of this, though. Wherever the action is, we will be there with ABC's Wide World of Sports to cover it. Now, on behalf of Nancy and Fielding Mellish and all of the others who have made this possible, this is Howard Cosell thanking you for joining us and wishing you a most pleasant good night.

Fielding Mellish: You cannot bash in the head of an American citizen without written permission from the State Department.