Painter Paul Sloan feels he’s a failure, since nobody will buy his paintings. His art dealer informs him, that the works of an artist become much more wanted and valuable if the artist is dead. Read More »
Daily Archives: November 22, 2017
Stolen Life (1962) Aarne Tarkas, Mäkelä, Rauha Rentola, Rose-Marie Precht, Comedy, Crime, Drama, Thriller
A government official decides to steal a $25-million payroll and then fake his own death. However, in the process he is forced to kill an innocent bystander. Read More »
Duffer (1971) Joseph Despins, William Dumaresq, Kit Gleave, Erna May, Drama
An intense and bizarre study of obsession that is by turns lyrical and disconcerting, Duffer tells the deranged story of a teenage boy torn between the womanly charms of a kindly prostitute, and the relentless, sadistic attentions of an older man.
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Hao duo da mi / So Much Rice (2005) Hongqi Li, Dong Han, Yaodong Zhang, Drama
In a game of hide-and-seek with his wife, Mao suddenly decides to leave home. He moves in with Xiao Ri, an acquaintance living in the small town of Liaocheng and the two of them embark on a routine of weird amorous encounters. Read More »
La fidélité / Fidelity (2000) Andrzej Zulawski, Sophie Marceau, Pascal Greggory, Guillaume Canet, Drama
A talented photographer who lands a lucrative job in Paris with a scandal-mongering tabloid and becomes romantically involved with an eccentric children’s book publisher while resisting the sexual advances of another photographer. Read More »
The Unbelievable Truth (1989) Hal Hartley, Adrienne Shelly, Robert John Burke, Chris Cooke, Comedy, Drama, Romance
After serving time for murder, Josh Hutton returns to his home town where me meets Audry Hugo. Read More »
That Touch of Mink (1962) Delbert Mann, Cary Grant, Doris Day, Gig Young, Comedy, Romance
Cathy Timberlake is an old fashioned country girl who meets the man of her dreams, Philip Shayne, after his Rolls Royce splashes her with mud on her way to a job interview. Read More »
La note bleue / Blue Note (1991) Andrzej Zulawski, Marie-France Pisier, Janusz Olejniczak, Sophie Marceau, Drama, Music, Romance
On a summer day of 1846, George Sand hosts a large party at her country house in Nohant. Among the celebrities present are the painter Eugene Delacroix, the opera singer Pauline Viardot, and Viardot’s lover, the Russian writer Ivan Turgenev. Read More »
Nora Inu / Stray Dog (1949) Akira Kurosawa, Toshirô Mifune, Takashi Shimura, Keiko Awaji, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Murukami, a young homicide detective, has his pocket picked on a bus and loses his pistol. Read More »