Wunder der Schöpfung is an extraordinary, fascinating Kulturfilm trying to explain the whole human knowledge of the 1920s about the world and the universe. Read More »
Monthly Archives: July 2018
Hang Em High (1968) Ted Post, Clint Eastwood, Inger Stevens, Pat Hingle
After a gang of men unsuccessfully attempts to lynch him for a cattle rustling crime he did not commit Read More »
Presenting Lily Mars (1943) Norman Taurog, Judy Garland, Van Heflin, Fay Bainter
Talented small-town girl Lily Mars hounds producer John Thornway for a part in his new play, but he doesn’t want anything to do with stage-struck amateurs. Read More »
Postman (1995) Jianjun He, Jue Chen, Yuanzheng Feng, Zhixing Ge
Postman tells the Decalogue-like story of Xiao Dou, an introverted young postal worker who is suddenly promoted from installing mail boxes to delivering letters. Read More »
The Koumiko Mystery (1967) Chris Marker, Koumiko Muraoka
While filming the Olympics, a filmmaker encounters a Japanese girl. Manchurian born and French educated, she’s an intriguing anomaly. Read More »
Statues Also Die (1953) Ghislain Cloquet, Chris Marker, Jean Négroni, François Mitterrand, Pope Pius XII
Documentary about the disintegration and desecration of black African art by white Europeans Read More »
Exodus (1960) Otto Preminger, Paul Newman, Eva Marie Saint, Ralph Richardson
The theme is the founding of the state of Israel. The action begins on a ship filled with Jewish immigrants bound for Israel who are being off loaded on Cyprus. Read More »
Death Hunt (1981) Peter R. Hunt, Charles Bronson, Lee Marvin, Andrew Stevens
Canada 1931: The unsociable trapper Johnson lives for himself in the ice-cold mountains near the Yukon river. Read More »
Step Lively (1944) Tim Whelan, Frank Sinatra, George Murphy, Adolphe Menjou
Gordon Miller is rehearsing a musical comedy in the penthouse suite of Gribble’s hotel…on credit. Read More »
Profile for Murder (1996) David Winning, Lance Henriksen, Jason Nash, Joan Severance
A female police psychiatrist develops sexual fantasies involving a patient accused of murder. Read More »
Charlie Chan at the Olympics (1937) H. Bruce Humberstone, Warner Oland, Katherine DeMille, Pauline Moore
When an experimental plane is hijacked and its pilot murdered, the new guidance system that will allow it to fly unmanned is stolen. Read More »
Homoti (1987) Müjdat Gezen, Perran Kutman, Bahar Öztan
The second Turkish E.T. rip-off, this time centring around a tabloid photographer tasked with taking photos of “UFOs” by throwing pot lids in the air Read More »
Blondie of the Follies (1932) Edmund Goulding, Marion Davies, Robert Montgomery, Billie Dove
Blondie, a New York tenement dweller, and Lurlene are best friends. When Lurlene makes the cast of a big Broadway show, she arranges for Blondie to join the cast as well. Read More »
Glitch (2008) Randy Daudlin, Steve Byers, Maury Chaykin, Matthew Edison
Three young people try to pitch a new technology for communication to a large cellular company in order to receive funding to further test their product. Read More »
Shake Hands with the Devil (1959) Michael Anderson, James Cagney, Don Murray, Dana Wynter
In 1921 Dublin, the IRA battles the “Black & Tans,” special British forces given to harsh measures. Read More »