![]() Director Julien Nitzberg spent a year with five generations of the West Virginia family - and spoke to various members of their community (including the sheriff) - to provide this colorful portrait. This film focuses on the rest of the brood. Va., mountain dancer Jesco White may be the most famous member of the White clan - thanks to the 1991 documentary The Dancing Outlaw - but he’s hardly the most colorful. THE WILD AND WONDERFUL WHITES OF WEST VIRGINIA (2009) ![]() Suddenly, nothing is quite the same within this highly idiosyncratic family unit. In the last few years, White moved from Calgary to Boston at the age of 19, recorded her debut album in an isolated studio/retreat in the wilds of southern Vermont, spent some time in Nashville. Sex enters the picture when dad begins bringing home a female security officer to satisfy his son’s sexual needs. That universe is shattered when their father lets in an outsider. Synopsis: In this Greek drama, siblings who grow up cut off from the world - homeschooled and dependent on one another for entertainment - develop their own blissful alternative universe. This riveting third film from provocative French auteur Gaspar Noe screened in competition at the 2009 Cannes Film Festival. Synopsis: When Oscar (Nathaniel Brown), a foreign drug dealer living in Tokyo with his stripper sister, Linda (Paz de la Huerta), is fatally shot in a police raid, his spirit leaves his body in a hallucinatory odyssey that merges his past, present and future into a chaotic whole. Filmed on location in New York City, this classic thriller won Oscars for cinematography and editing and was nominated for a Best Writing Oscar. Their investigation, the inner workings of the police department and some of the “eight million stories in the Naked City” are explored. Synopsis: When a model is found drowned in her bathtub, homicide detectives Dan Muldoon (Barry Fitzgerald) and Jimmy Halloran (Don Taylor) are on the case. Jason Robards shines in the title role of this lighthearted Western, a film characterized more by picaresque comedy than by director Sam Peckinpah’s signature violence. Transforming the oasis into a much needed pit stop on the local stagecoach route, the resourceful Hogue sits back to wait for his double-crossing former partners. Synopsis: Abandoned in the desert, prospector Cable Hogue survives his ordeal when he discovers a freshwater spring. ![]() Netflix Nuggets is my way of spreading the word about independent, classic and foreign films made available by Netflix for instant streaming. Netflix has revolutionized the home movie experience for fans of film with its instant streaming technology.
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