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Daily Archives: August 22, 2018
Sobibor, Oct. 14, 1943, 4 p.m. (2001) Claude Lanzmann, Yehuda Lerner, Francine Kaufmann
A gripping account of the prisoners uprising at the Nazi extermination camp of Sobibor in 1943. Read More »
Le guignolo (1980) Georges Lautner, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Mirella D’Angelo, Michel Galabru
After the failure of his recent criminal exploits, international con artist Alexandre Dupré sets off for Venice to try to dupe some Japanese business men Read More »
Itinerary of a Spoiled Child (1988) Claude Lelouch, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Richard Anconina, Lio
A foundling, raised in the circus, Sam Lion becomes a businessman after a trapeze accident. Read More »
Lady Liberty (1971) Mario Monicelli, Sophia Loren, William Devane, Gigi Proietti
Maddalena and Michele fall in love in Italy in the 1960s, while working at a meat factory in Emilia stormed by the workers’ protest Read More »
Kim (1950) Victor Saville, Errol Flynn, Dean Stockwell, Paul Lukas
Kim, a young boy living on his own on the streets of India, is actually the son of a British officer. Read More »
Vincent (1987) Paul Cox, John Hurt, Marika Rivera, Gabriella Trsek
This documentary, on the life of artist Vincent Van Gogh, is told through his letters to his brother Theo, from 1872 until his tragic death. Read More »
Lesson of the Evil (2012) Takashi Miike, Takayuki Yamada, Shôta Sometani, Fumi Nikaidô
A popular high school teacher concocts an extreme plan to deal with the rise of bullying and bad behavior among the student body. Read More »
Hot Rod Girl (1956) Leslie H. Martinson, Lori Nelson, Chuck Connors, John Smith
When his younger brother, Steve, is killed racing a hot-rod, Jeff Northup blames himself for the accident since he had built the car for his brother and had encouraged him to race it Read More »
The River and Death (1954) Luis Buñuel, Columba Domínguez, Miguel Torruco, Joaquín Cordero
A useless and bloody vendetta has been going on for ages between two families in this mexican village. Read More »
The Lucky Stiff (1949) Lewis R. Foster, Dorothy Lamour, Brian Donlevy, Claire Trevor
Semi-successful lawyer John Malone is intrigued by local night club singer Anna Marie St. Clair. Read More »
Red Skies of Montana (1952) Joseph M. Newman, Richard Widmark, Constance Smith, Jeffrey Hunter
When a large forest fire breaks out in the mountains of Montana, a squad of ‘Smoke Jumpers’, the paratroop-corps of fire-fighters in the U. S. Forest Service Read More »
Fat City (1972) John Huston, Stacy Keach, Jeff Bridges, Susan Tyrrell
The film tells the story of two boxers and their problems. Read More »
Down to the Sea in Ships (1949) Henry Hathaway, Richard Widmark, Lionel Barrymore, Dean Stockwell
At the end of the 19th century, Massachusetts whaling ship captain Bering Joy takes his grandson Jed on a whaling expedition. Read More »
A Town Called Bastard (1971) Robert Parrish, Irving Lerner, Telly Savalas, Robert Shaw, Stella Stevens
In 1895, in a small town ravaged by the Mexican Revolution, the revolutionary leader Aguila and his men massacre the town’s locals and the military garrison soldiers. Read More »