Fabian: Going to the Dogs - BLU-RAY

Region B only (requires All-Region player to play in the U.S.). Writer/director Samuel Fuller's rabid thriller tells a provocative yarn about actress Julie Sawyer (Kristy McNichol), who adopts a stray German shepherd she hit with her car. Indebted to the dog after it saves her from a would-be rapist, Sawyer discovers that the animal was taught to attack black people on sight, resulting in her hiring a trainer (Paul Winfield) to change it's racist conditioning. Jameson Parker, Burl Ives co-star. 90 min. Widescreen; Soundtrack English.

In this queer drama, we follow Max, a 25-year-old freelance writer and aspiring novelist who seems well on his way to success in London's cultural spheres. Yet by night, he finds a different kind of exhilaration as a S*x worker with the pseudonym Sebastian, meeting men via an escorting . Max uses his experiences as Sebastian to fuel his stories, and the worthy debut novel that he has been longing to write finally seems within reach. As Max increasingly struggles to remain in control of a delicately balanced double-life, he must reckon with whether Sebastian is merely a writer's tool in their quest for the ultimate sense of first-hand authenticity or whether something more is at stake.

In 1981, writer and Warhol associate Glenn O'Brien, Swiss photographer Edo Bertoglio, and Jean-Michel Basquiat, a graffiti innovator and noise music artist who'd just begun to exhibit his paintings, hit the streets of lower Manhattan to make a movie about the bombed out bohemia that they knew, with a script by O'Brien, Bertoglio directing, and Basquiat, a naturally compelling presence, starring. Left incomplete due to money problems and assembled for in 2000, Downtown 81, which follows Basquiat trying to move a painting while hustling for a place to sleep, became a window on a lost world of life on the margins and crazy creative ferment. Featuring John Lurie, Fab Five Freddy, and Debbie Harry, with musical performances by DNA, James White and the Blacks, and Kid Creole and the Coconuts-and Manhattan in all it's mangy glory.