A chess grandmaster is at a huge tournament, and if his lover has been found painted and the blood drained from her body he becomes a main suspect. Read More »
Daily Archives: May 29, 2018
Skullduggery (1970) Gordon Douglas, Richard Wilson, Burt Reynolds, Susan Clark, Roger C. Carmel, Adventure
An expedition to the interior of Papua New Guinea comes along with a tribe of ape-like men and women that may or might not be ancestors of ancient man. Read More »
Employees Entrance (1933) Roy Del Ruth, Warren William, Loretta Young, Wallace Ford, Drama, Romance
Kurt Anderson is the tyrannical director of a New York department store in fiscal straits. Read More »
Belle toujours (2006) Manoel de Oliveira, Michel Piccoli, Bulle Ogier, Ricardo Trêpa, Drama, Music
Belle toujours happened to me suddenly and, as I had the will to pay my tribute to Luis Buñuel and Jean-Claude Carrière, I had been happy to have discovered a means to accomplish this, Read More »
A Talking Picture (2003) Manoel de Oliveira, Leonor Silveira, Filipa de Almeida, John Malkovich, Comedy, Drama, History, War
A meditation on culture. July, 2001: buddies tide as a cruise boat departs Lisbon for Mediterranean ports and also the Indian Ocean. Read More »
Across the Wide Missouri (1951) William A. Wellman, Clark Gable, Ricardo Montalban, John Hodiak, Adventure, Romance, Western
From the 1830’s beaver trapper Flint Mitchell along with other white guys hunt and trap in the then unnamed lands of Montana and Idaho. Read More »
That Day on the Beach (1983) Edward Yang, Sylvia Chang, Ming Hsu, Terry Hu, Drama
Two friends who have not seen each other for two years return. One is a powerful concert pianist back from a European tour and another has only started a brand new small business. Read More »
For Love or Money (1963) Michael Gordon, Kirk Douglas, Mitzi Gaynor, Gig Young, Comedy, Romance
In this romantic comedy, Deke Gentry (Kirk Douglas) is a lawyer who receives an odd mission from Chloe Brasher (Thelma Ritter), a wealthy widow, proprietor of a thriving resort chain, and among his most prominent customers. Read More »
Winter Light (1963) Ingmar Bergman, Ingrid Thulin, Gunnar Björnstrand, Gunnel Lindblom, Drama
On a chilly winter Sunday, the pastor of a tiny African American church (Tomas Ericsson) performs support for a very small congregation; however he’s dealing with a cold and a serious crisis of faith. Read More »
Albuquerque (1948) Ray Enright, Randolph Scott, Barbara Britton, George ‘Gabby’ Hayes, Western
Cole Armin comes to Albuquerque to work for his uncle, John Armin, a despotic and hard-hearted czar who works an ore-hauling cargo line Read More »