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Daily Archives: September 10, 2017
Kono hiroi sora no dokoka ni / Somewhere Beneath The Wide Sky (1954) Masaki Kobayashi, Keiji Sada, Yoshiko Kuga, Hideko Takamine, Drama
A family in the city of Tokyo running a liquor store overcome their impotence and dysfunction as they induce an understanding through each other of how to deal with their individual problems. Read More »
Kitty (1945) Mitchell Leisen, Paulette Goddard, Ray Milland, Patric Knowles, Drama, History
London, 1783: Kitty, a saucy wench of the slums, meets the painter Gainsborough by stealing his shoes. Read More »
Hong quan xiao zi / Disciples of Shaolin (1975) Cheh Chang, Sheng Fu, Kuan-Chun Chi, Ming Li Chen, Action, Drama
Impetuous young martial arts master Kuan takes a job at a textile factory where another disciple of the revered Shaolin discipline warns him about the rival Manchu clan, who run another nearby mill. Read More »
A Romance of Happy Valley (1919) D.W. Griffith, Lydia Yeamans Titus, Robert Harron, Kate Bruce, Drama, Romance
John Logan leaves his parents and sweetheart in bucolic Happy Valley to make his fortune in the city. Read More »
The Celestine Prophecy (2006) Armand Mastroianni, Matthew Settle, Thomas Kretschmann, Sarah Wayne Callies, Adventure, Drama
Disillusioned and temporarily rudderless, John Woodson is about to experience a dramatic and profound metamorphosis. Read More »
Smash Palace (1981) Roger Donaldson, Bruno Lawrence, Anna Maria Monticelli, Greer Robson-Kirk, Drama
Al Shaw’s life revolves around motor racing and his back country junkyard, the “Smash Palace”. His French wife, Jacqui, doesn’t appreciate the lack of attention due to Al’s obsession with cars. Read More »
Saigo no tokkôtai / The Last Kamikaze (1970) Jun’ya Satô, Kôji Tsuruta, Ken Takakura, Shin’ichi Chiba, Drama, War
Saigo no Tokkotai (The Last Kamikaze) is set in the final months of World War II, when it was increasingly obvious that Japan was going to lose the war. Read More »
Nuummioq (2009) Torben Bech, Otto Rosing, Lars Rosing, Angunnguaq Larsen, Julie Berthelsen, Drama, Romance
Nuummioq tells the story of a young man’s odyssey from mundane existence into an acute sense of the sacred. Read More »
Curtain Call (1998) Peter Yates, James Spader, Polly Walker, Michael Caine, Comedy, Fantasy
A bachelor afraid of marriage angers his long-time girlfriend by buying a splendid townhouse just for himself Read More »
Il maestro di Don Giovanni / Crossed Swords (1954) Milton Krims, Vittorio Vassarotti, Errol Flynn, Gina Lollobrigida, Nadia Gray, Adventure
Nobleman Rainiero, Sidonia’s duke son, comes back home with his friend Renzo. Soon after arrival, Renzo will get in a big trouble and he will be forced to choose between going to church for marriage or going to prison. Read More »
Another Dawn (1937) William Dieterle, Kay Francis, Errol Flynn, Ian Hunter, Adventure, Drama, Romance
Colonel John Wister, on duty with the British army in the desert region of Dubik, returns to England on leave. Read More »
Ten North Frederick (1958) Philip Dunne, Gary Cooper, Diane Varsi, Suzy Parker, Drama, Romance
At her father’s funeral, Ann Chapin thinks back over the last five years of his life, years of apparent political and personal failure dominated by a selfish and dissatisfied wife and eased only by alcohol. Read More »
Sons of the Sea (1939) Maurice Elvey, Leslie Banks, Mackenzie Ward, Kay Walsh, Drama, War
The head of Dartmouth Training College has been murdered, and his successor, Captain Hyde, suspects that he himself may have been the intended target. Read More »
The Guilty (1947) John Reinhardt, Bonita Granville, Don Castle, Regis Toomey, Film-Noir, Mystery
Two guys, sharing an apartment, meet twin girls. One is Shirley Temple grown-up, and the other is a major piece of bad news. Read More »