Please, Not Now! (1961)

 French love quadrangle comedy stars Brigitte Bardot and was directed by her then ex husband Roger Vadim. Shades of 'A Midsummer Nights Dream' here. A fun and free kinda film, a sort of screw ball comedy, and damn sexy. ***

The Girl in Black Stockings (1957)

 A series of murders rock the resort community of Knab, Utah. A pretty solid B picture with a good cast of characters. The resolutions a little on the silly side, thought the most unrealistic thing about the picture might be that the sheriff drinks coffee and beer. Ann Bancroft and Mamie Van Doren are it's least forgotten cast members. **1/2

Russ Meyer's Supervixens (1975)

 When corrupt cop Charles Napier murders  young mechanic Clint's (Charles Pitt) hypersexual girlfriend Shari Eubank and then frames him for it, our hero is forced to go on the lamb in rural Arizona. Sex comedy/action flick, is over the top but largely good humored. While on the run Clint finds himself repeatedly and aggressively sexually persued by extremely busty women, then violently persued by the men in their life. Still Clint finds love with a look alike (same actress) of his dead girlfriend  before a final confrontation with Charles Napier. Russ Meyer writing and directing at the top of his game, the man loved his work. This movie made $17 million at the box office off a budget of $100,000, a 17 fold return on investment. ***

Cecil is Dead (1944)

This is another Jules Maigret mystery staring Albert Préjean. The body of a headless woman is found in a cheap hotel and a families long held secrets are in danger of exposure. I liked this one alot more then the other of these that I watched, consistently engaging. ***

Compliance (2012)

 A critical examination of deference to authority; a true squirmfest. Inspired by real events, a fast food manager (Ann Dowd) subjects a young employee (Dreama Walker) to increasing levels of harassment, invasions of privacy and worse, because a man on the phone claiming to be a police officer tells her to. Solid, effective, unpleasant. ***

A Teacher (2013)

 A high school English teacher (Lindsey Burge) becomes increasingly obsessed with the student (Will Brittain) she is having an affair with. The film is done largely sans backstory (though some things are implied), and without any internal monologe, or even intimations of the same. So we only know what we see, we can observe the teachers gradual mental unwinding, but we never learn the reasons behind it. It's a kind of story telling some will find frustrating, but here, for me, it really worked. The kid is good, but it's Burge's very committed performance that makes this a engaging watch. ***

The Forbiden Room (2015)

 'The Forbiden Room' is a Guy Maddin film, so it's done in that oldie timey, 'Soviet montage' style that is his signature. This particular film employes a kind of Russian doll structure, where we see stories within stories, in essence a series of short films cut in pieces and presented in parts. This is really to the films benefit, it allows more diversity of visual and story text, and no one narrative goes on too long. The main stories concern a crew trapped in a downed submarine and lumberjacks out to save a beloved local damsel from a gang of wolves. But also, as summed up by Wikipedia: "Other sub-stories involve: a surgeon kidnapped by a team of "women skeletons" who work as insurance defrauders; a madman on a train under the charge of a womanizing psychiatrist; a mustache that seeks to comfort the widow of the man whose face it used to adorn; and a doctor cursed by a bust of Janus. "  I really enjoyed this, it might also make good on boarding for those new to Maddin. ***