Summer, 1943: wealthy youth in the Riccione district of Rimini play while the war gets closer. Read More »
Daily Archives: July 16, 2018
Too Late the Hero (1970) Robert Aldrich, Michael Caine, Cliff Robertson, Ian Bannen
A WWII film set on a Pacific island. Japanese and allied forces occupy different parts of the island. Read More »
The Mass Is Ended (1985) Nanni Moretti, Marco Messeri, Ferruccio De Ceresa
Don Giulio, a young Roman priest, returns home after being pastor in an island in the Tyrrhenian Sea and is intended for a church in the suburbs. Read More »
Theres No Business Like Show Business (1954) Walter Lang, Ethel Merman, Marilyn Monroe, Donald O’Connor
Molly and Terry Donahue, plus their three children, are The Five Donahues. Son Tim meets hat-check girl Vicky and the family act begins to fall apart. Read More »
Seduced and Abandoned (1964) Pietro Germi, Saro Urzì, Stefania Sandrelli, Aldo Puglisi
Agnese, a 15-year-old Sicilian girl is seduced and impregnated by Peppino, her sister Matilde’s fiancé. Read More »
Fazil (1928) Howard Hawks, Charles Farrell, Greta Nissen, John Boles
An Arab prince born and raised in the desert and a beautiful Frenchwoman from Paris fall in love and marry Read More »
A Girl in Every Port (1928) Howard Hawks, Victor McLaglen, Robert Armstrong, Louise Brooks
Two sailors with a rivalry over chasing women become friends. But when one decides to finally settle down, will this mysterious young women come between them? Read More »
Hurricane Island (1951) Lew Landers, Jon Hall, Marie Windsor, Romo Vincent
Ponce de Leon searches for the Fountain of Youth, but it’s not an easy quest, thanks to bad weather, a treacherous lady pirate Read More »
Pistol Opera (2001) Seijun Suzuki, Makiko Esumi, Sayoko Yamaguchi, Hanae Kan
Did you know that there is a ranking of the best assassins of Japan? In the spirit of 1967’s Branded To Kill, also by director Suzuki Seijun, comes Pistol Opera. Read More »
Cavalleria (1936) Goffredo Alessandrini, Amedeo Nazzari, Elisa Cegani, Luigi Carini
Umberto Solaro loses the love of his life Speranza, a noble but poor girl who has been forced to marry a rich Austrian army officer. Read More »