The Soul of a Man is a 2003 documentary film, directed by Wim Wenders, as the second instalment of the documentary film series The Blues, produced by Martin Scorsese. The film explores the musical careers of blues musicians Skip James, Blind Willie Johnson and J. B. Lenoir. The film is narrated by Laurence Fishburne in character as Blind Willie Johnson, and features performances by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Beck, Jon Spencer Blues Explosion, James 'Blood' Ulmer, T-Bone Burnett, Eagle Eye Cherry, Shemekia Copeland, Garland Jeffreys, Alvin Youngblood Hart, Los Lobos, Bonnie Raitt, Lou Reed, Marc Ribot, Lucinda Williams, and Cassandra Wilson. The film won an Emmy Award for Outstanding Cinematography for Nonfiction Programming, and the Audience Award at the São Paulo International Film Festival. It was also screened out of competition at the 2003 Cannes Film Festival. ///// https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Soul_of_a_Man

"Better Dead Than Wed!" The Brides of Fu Manchu is a 1966 British/West German Constantin Film co-production adventure crime film based on the fictional Chinese villain Dr. Fu Manchu, created by Sax Rohmer. It was the second film in a series, and was preceded by The Face of Fu Manchu. The Vengeance of Fu Manchu followed in 1967, The Blood of Fu Manchu in 1968, and The Castle of Fu Manchu in 1969. Each one can be found on this channel. The movie was produced by Harry Alan Towers for Hallam Productions. Like the first film, it was directed by Don Sharp, and starred Christopher Lee as Fu Manchu. Nigel Green was replaced by Douglas Wilmer as Scotland Yard detective Nayland Smith. The action takes place mainly in London, where much of the location filming took place. Plot In 1924, Dr. Fu Manchu, his army of dacoits and his vicious daughter Lin Tang are kidnapping the daughters of prominent scientists and taking them to his remote island, where he demands that the fathers help him to build a device that transmits blast waves through a radio transmitter, which he intends to use to take over the world. He plans to keep (even wed) the girls in question. But Dr. Fu Manchu's archenemy, Nayland Smith of Scotland Yard, is determined not to let that happen. Cast Christopher Lee as Dr. Fu Manchu Douglas Wilmer as Nayland Smith Heinz Drache as Franz Baumer Marie Versini as Marie Lentz Howard Marion-Crawford as Dr. Petrie Tsai Chin as Lin Tang Rupert Davies as Jules Merlin Kenneth Fortescue as Sergeant Spicer Joseph Furst as Otto Lentz Roger Hanin as Inspector Pierre Grimaldi Harald Leipnitz as Nikki Sheldon Carole Gray as Michèle Merlin Burt Kwouk as Feng Francesca Tu as Lotus Production Sharp recalled producer Harry Alan Towers used the film to showcase "young and beautiful actresses". It was shot at Bray Studios. Nigel Green was not available to repeat his performance as Neyland Smith so he was replaced by Douglas Wilmer. Sharp recalled filming went "smoothly but already the signs were there that" Towers could make Fu Manchu movies without having to "worry too much because the stories were okay. Well, there was more to making the movies than that." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Brides_of_Fu_Manchu https://odysee.com/@OpenAllNight:7?view=lists

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"Completely topless. Completely uninhibited. The craze that began in San Francisco is now exploding across the USA and Europe." Mondo Topless is a 1966 pseudo-documentary directed by Russ Meyer, featuring Babette Bardot and Lorna Maitland among others. It was Meyer's first color film following a string of black and white "roughie nudies", including Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! While a straightforward sexploitation film, the film owes some debt to the French New Wave and cinéma vérité traditions, and is known to some under the titles Mondo Girls and Mondo Top. Its tagline: "Two Much For One Man...Russ Meyer's Busty Buxotic Beauties ... Titilating ... Torrid ... Untopable ... Too Much For One Man!" The film was banned in Finland. Plot The film presents a snapshot of '60s San Francisco before shifting its focus to strippers. The strippers' lives are earnestly portrayed as they reveal the day-to-day realities of sex work, talk bra sizes, relate their preferences in men, all voiced over while dancing topless to a '60s instrumental rock soundtrack. Throughout a large portion of the film, the narrator talks about the women as if they are a subgenre of the counter culture movement, somewhat similar to the beatnik or hippie movements that were highly prevalent during the same era. The "Topless" movement as it is called by the narrator could also be perceived as an allegorical subset of the Sexual Revolution of the 1960s. Cast Babette Bardot as Bouncy Pat Barrington as Herself (as Pat Barringer) Sin Lenee as Lucious Darlene Gray as Buxotic Diane Young as Yummy Darla Paris as Delicious Donna X as Xciting Veronique Gabriel as Herself (Europe in the Raw footage) Greta Thorwald as Herself (Europe in the Raw footage) Denice Duval as Herself (Europe in the Raw footage) Abundavita as Herself (Europe in the Raw footage) Heide Richter as Herself (Europe in the Raw footage) Gigi La Touche as Herself (Europe in the Raw footage) Yvette Le Grand as Herself (Europe in the Raw footage) Lorna Maitland as Herself (Lorna screentest footage) Production Meyer made the film after his "gothic period" - four dramatic movies he did in black and white, starting with Lorna and going through to Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!. It was shot to cash in on the San Francisco "topless boom" of the 1960s. Documentary traditions The title Mondo Topless derives from the series of "mondo" films of the early 1960s. The first and most successful of these was Mondo Cane (A Dog's World). The purpose of these films was to bypass censorship laws by presenting both sexual and graphically violent material in a documentary format. Mondo Topless shares some stylistic similarities with Jean-Luc Godard's collaborative effort, Le plus vieux métier du monde (The Oldest Trade in the World). Mondo Topless, like most other Meyer films, drew much of its inspiration from the more relaxed European attitudes toward sex, and was followed by a host of imitators. Reception Author Jimmy McDonogh later wrote, "How is this movie to be taken? An intense magnification of a completely negative sexual mythology? Or only a frenetic drone, an unrelenting meditation on nothingness best put into words by Pat Barringer, the dancer on the electrical tower: 'All that you're doing is a dance it has no meaning whatsoever...'" https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0060712/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mondo_Topless https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russ_Meyer https://odysee.com/@OpenAllNight:7?view=lists