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Monthly Archives: September 2018
The Two Orphans (1965) Riccardo Freda, Sophie Darès, Valeria Ciangottini, Mike Marshall
Two orphaned sisters are caught up in the turmoil of the French Revolution, encountering misery and love along the way. Read More »
The Abyss (1988) André Delvaux, Gian Maria Volontè, Sami Frey, Jacques Lippe
In the sixteenth century, Spain occupies Flanders, an Inquisition enforces the faith. Read More »
Criminal Passion (1994) Donna Deitch, Joan Severance, Tony Denison, John Allen Nelson
What does it take to trust? Melanie Hudson is an L.A. police officer, a loner on the trail of a serial killer who slits the throats of beautiful women just after they have made love. Read More »
Creature Designers – The Frankenstein Complex (2015) Gilles Penso, Alexandre Poncet, Rick Baker, Joe Dante, Guillermo del Toro
From King Kong to Avatar, from Star Wars to The Lord of the Rings, movie creatures have never been more popular as they are today. Read More »
Long Live Life (1984) Claude Lelouch, Charlotte Rampling, Michel Piccoli, Jean-Louis Trintignant
The movie starts with an interview with director Claude Lelouch. He pleads viewers not to disclose the plot of the movie after leaving the projection room. Read More »
The Adventurers (1995) Ringo Lam, Andy Lau, Rosamund Kwan, Chien-Lien Wu
Andy was a child when his parents murdered by a double agent in Vietnam, Ray Liu. Read More »
The Victim (1999) Ringo Lam, Tony Ka Fai Leung, Ching Wan Lau, Amy Kwok
A computer engineer is kidnapped and tortured. Since then, his girlfriend senses he’s no longer the same person Read More »
Drifting into Chaos (1989) Sachi Hamano, Kyoko Sawamura, Natsuki Yamamoto, Kan’ichi Hiraga
Film loosely follows plot of Texas Chainsaw Massacre, with rape in addition to murders. Read More »
Return of the Gladiator (1971) Bitto Albertini, Brad Harris, Massimo Serato, Raf Baldassarre
Tullius Valerius — a Proconsul of Rome, circa 310 A.D. — fears that a provincial governor named Gaius Appius Quintillianus Read More »
Heaven is a Traffic Jam on the 405 (2016) Frank Stiefel, Tom Wudl
Mindy Alper is a tortured and brilliant 56 year old artist who is represented by one of Los Angeles’ top galleries. Read More »
Time Table (1956) Mark Stevens, King Calder, Felicia Farr
As a train speeds through the Arizona night, a man posing as a physician holds up the baggage-car crew and escapes with a $500,000 payroll. Read More »
Life Begins at 40 (1935) George Marshall, Will Rogers, Richard Cromwell, George Barbier
In small-town America the easy-going publisher of the local paper finds himself in opposition to the local banker Read More »
E venne un uomo (1965) Ermanno Olmi, Rod Steiger, Adolfo Celi, Giorgo Fortunato
Based on the diary Pope John XXIII kept between the ages of 14 and 18, his lifelong concern for tolerance, the underprivileged, and world peace is told. Read More »
Upper World (1934) Roy Del Ruth, Warren William, Mary Astor, Ginger Rogers
A rich railroad tycoon, bored with his marriage (his wife has no time for him — she’s too busy giving parties and sailing on yachts) starts seeing a showgirl. Read More »