In medieval Japan, aging Rokubei, his younger wife of four years Osugi and her uncle run a tenement complex at the bottom of a cliff Read More »
Monthly Archives: March 2018
What a Woman! (1956) Alessandro Blasetti, Sophia Loren, Charles Boyer, Marcello Mastroianni, Comedy, Drama
It is a breezy, inconsequential, but likeable comedy about a photographer, Corrado, played by Mastroianni, who snaps a picture of a Rome beauty, Antonietta, played by Loren. Read More »
Rhapsody in August (1991) Akira Kurosawa, Sachiko Murase, Richard Gere, Hisashi Igawa, Drama
An elderly woman living in Nagasaki Japan takes care of her four grandchildren for their summer vacation. Read More »
Invisible Adversaries (1977) Valie Export, Susanne Widl, Peter Weibel, Josef Plavec, Drama
Anna, an artist, is obsessed with the invasion of alien doubles bent on total destruction. Read More »
Phantom of the Toilet (1995) Joji Matsuoka, Takayuki Inoue, Ai Maeda, Yuka Kono, Horror
After school children start to go missing and turn up dead, the students of the local elementary school come up with their own explanation. Read More »
Uçan daireler Istanbulda / Flying Saucers Over Istanbul (1955) Orhan Erçin, Zafer Önen, Halide Piskin, Comedy, Sci-Fi
Ucan Daireler Istanbulda (Flying Saucers Over Istanbul) is a Turkish sci-fi comedy from 1955. It’s recommended for fans of old Turkish movies and psychotronic cult films. Read More »
Bremen Freedom (1972) Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Margit Carstensen, Wolfgang Schenck, Wolfgang Kieling, Drama
A very stylized TV version of the Fassbinder play. The set consists of a few pieces of furniture in front of a large screen on which coastal scenery is back projected. Read More »
Godspeed You! Black Emperor (1976) Mitsuo Yanagimachi, Documentary
The 1970s in Japan saw the rise of motorcycle gangs, which drew the interest of the media. Read More »
She Did What He Wanted (1971) William Rotsler, Sandy Dempsey, Damian Zisk, Bambi Allen, Adult, Fantasy
Eddie hypnotizes Nora to indulge his sexual fantasies. Read More »
No Strings Attached (1997) Josef Rusnak, Vincent Spano, Cheryl Pollak, David Packer, Mystery, Thriller, Drama
Marc Demetrius, writer of investigative articles for a magazine, becomes sexually involved with Nicole who threatens his long term relationship with Sara Robbins. Read More »
The Lovers of Midnight (1931) Augusto Genina, Marc Allégret, Danièle Parola, Pierre Batcheff, Louis Zellas, Crime, Drama, Romance
Gaston Bouchard, sentenced to 20 years in a penal colony, escapes and meets Marcel Valmont on the train. Read More »
Criminally Insane 2 (1987) Nick Millard, Priscilla Alden, Michael Flood, Jane Lambert, Horror
A mental hospital, faced with a severe decrease in funding, is forced to release mass-murderer Ethel Janowski into a halfway house. Read More »
Olympia Part Two: Festival of Beauty (1938) Leni Riefenstahl, Sheigo Arai, Jack Beresford, Ralf Berzsenyi, Documentary, Sport
After being commissioned by the 1936 Olympic Committee to create a feature film of the Berlin Olympics Read More »
How to Murder a Rich Uncle (1957) Nigel Patrick, Charles Coburn, Wendy Hiller, Crime, Comedy
The impoverished Clitterburn family live on a grand English estate but times are hard and the head of the household, Sir Henry Read More »
Regeneration (1915) Raoul Walsh, Rockliffe Fellowes, Anna Q. Nilsson, William Sheer, Biography, Crime, Drama, Romance
At 10 years old, Owens becomes a ragged orphan when his sainted mother dies. Read More »