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Monthly Archives: January 2018
Clair de femme / Womanlight (1979) Costa-Gavras, Yves Montand, Romy Schneider, Romolo Valli, Drama
Reciprocal consolation. The background of two middle-aged people (Michel and Lydia) is gradually unfolded. Michel’s wife is incurably ill. Read More »
The Master Gunfighter (1975) Tom Laughlin, Ron O’Neal, Lincoln Kilpatrick, Drama, Western
Don Santiago (Richard Angarola) is a vicious man who helps provoke an Indian massacre that will allow him to steal the Indians’ land and claim it as his own. Read More »
The Hostess Also Likes to Blow the Horn (1970) Franz Antel, Teri Tordai, Harald Leipnitz, Glenn Saxson, Comedy
Susanne is the hostess who gives comfort to the visitors to her hotel. All of the vices in the country are heavily taxed, including drinking and making love. Read More »
Kenjû zankoku monogatari / Cruel Gun Story (1964) Takumi Furukawa, Jô Shishido, Chieko Matsubara, Tamio Kawachi, Action, Crime, Thriller
Businessmen arrange the early release from prison of Togawa, serving time for taking revenge on the truck driver whose carelessness confined Togawa’s sister, Rei, to a wheelchair. Read More »
Sex and the Single Alien (1993) Peter Daskaloff, Eric Kohner, Melanie Rose, Frank Fowler, Comedy, Sci-Fi
Harry Smith is your typical sexually-unfulfilled husband whose wife Olivia is more interested in UFOs than in him. Read More »
Noisy Requiem / Tsuitô no zawameki (1988) Yoshihiko Matsui, Toshihiko Hino, Simon Kumai, Yukiko Murata, Drama
In the slums of Osaka, various marginalized misfits have their own interpretations of love. Read More »
Macbeth (1971) Roman Polanski, Jon Finch, Francesca Annis, Martin Shaw, Drama, War, History
Roman Polanski imbues his unflinchingly violent adaptation of William Shakespeare’s tragedy of ruthless ambition and murder in medieval Scotland with grit and dramatic intensity. Read More »
Le quai des brumes / Port of Shadows (1938) Marcel Carné, Jean Gabin, Michel Simon, Michèle Morgan, Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Life’s a rotten business, says Jean, a deserter who arrives at night in Le Havre, looking to leave the country. Read More »
Shûen / The Flame of Devotion (1964) Koreyoshi Kurahara, Ruriko Asaoka, Izumi Ashikawa, Jûzô Itami, Drama, Romance
The tragic tale of Kiyono, a young woman from the mountain who fell in love with Takuji, a fisherman’s son, and her devotion to him during a time of war. Read More »
Man Called Invincible (1973) Giuliano Carnimeo, George Hilton, Cris Huerta, Ida Galli, Comedy, Western
A gunman and his sheriff companion are hired to deliver a million dollars in gold by traveling through gang-infested lands, while in disguise. Read More »
El Norte / The North (1983) Gregory Nava, Zaide Silvia Gutiérrez, David Villalpando, Ernesto Gómez Cruz, Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Brother and sister Enrique and Rosa flee persecution at home in Guatemala and journey north, through Mexico and on to the United States, with the dream of starting a new life. Read More »
Ageman / Tales of a Golden Geisha (1990) Jûzô Itami, Nobuko Miyamoto, Masahiko Tsugawa, Hiroshi Ohkôchi, Comedy, Drama
The film stars two of Itami’s regular actors, Nobuko Miyamoto as a geisha who brings luck to the men with whom she sleeps, and Masahiko Tsugawa as her unfaithful, sometimes partner. Read More »
Regarde les hommes tomber / See How They Fall (1994) Jacques Audiard, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Jean Yanne, Mathieu Kassovitz, Crime, Drama
Simon is a sales representative about fifty. When Mickey, his cop friend, is being shot, he leaves everything to find the murderers. Read More »
The Food of the Gods (1976) Bert I. Gordon, Marjoe Gortner, Pamela Franklin, Ralph Meeker, Adventure, Horror, Sci-Fi
Morgan and his friends are on a hunting trip on a remote Canadian island when they are attacked by a swarm of giant wasps. Read More »