Midnight Video 28: Dr Plonk, Sexmission and Running Out of Luck

The second Midnight Video of 2012 has docked in the harbour of Podcast Bay and what cinematic treasures have we recovered from the ocean bed of film flotsam and jetsam.
The Artist is the film that has been on everyone's lip for months now.  A loving homage to the silent cinema years of yore, but in 2007 Australian auteur Rolf De Heer had a similar idea to Michel Hazanavicius and gave the world Dr Plonk - a loving homage to the silent era that tips it's hats to the likes of Keaton, Lloyd and the Keystone Kops.
Next up is Poland's best selling film of all time (as of writing this still stands).  Sexmission could be the utopian dreams of randy teenage boys the world over, but for Max and Albert the bizarre realities of a female-only world prove anything but dreamlike in this thinly veiled satire about life in a communist regime.
To round things off, we continue our 'British rock stars in the movies' season with the apparently little seen Julien Temple directed vanity project of a certain Michael Jagger.  Running Out Of Luck sees The Jagger abandoned and lost in the middle of Brazil and presumed dead.  Cue extensive music videos, cross dressing, hallucinations and one half of Cheech and Chong's female offspring.