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Monthly Archives: September 2018
The Girl in the News (1940) Carol Reed, Margaret Lockwood, Barry K. Barnes, Emlyn Williams
Nurse Anne Graham is controversially – but rightly – acquitted of murder after her elderly patient dies in suspicious circumstances. Read More »
Soft Top Hard Shoulder (1992) Stefan Schwartz, Peter Capaldi, Frances Barber, Catherine Russell
Eight years ago, Gavin artistic son of an Scots/Italian ice-cream dynasty, turned his back on Glasgow and moved south to London to make his name illustrating children’s books. Read More »
Sasaki Kojiro (1967) Hiroshi Inagaki, Hideyo Amamoto, Yuriko Hoshi, Kenjirô Ishiyama
Sasaki Kojiro tells the story of the genius who staked his love, glory, and life on a duel with the supreme master of the sword, Miyamoto Musashi (Tatsuya Nakadai). Read More »
Spin a Dark Web (1956) Vernon Sewell, Faith Domergue, Lee Patterson, Rona Anderson
A Canadian living in London is trying to succeed as a prizefighter, without much luck. Read More »
Das Bekenntnis der Ina Kahr (1954) Georg Wilhelm Pabst, Curd Jürgens, Elisabeth Müller, Albert Lieven
Told in flashback, the film recounts the events leading up to the killing of good-for-nothing Curt Jurgens. Read More »
Chasing Rainbows (1930) Charles Reisner, Bessie Love, Charles King, Jack Benny
The road-show troupe of a top Broadway show go cross-country while taking the audience along on the on-stage scenes as well as what happens and is happening back stage of the production. Read More »
Stroszek (1977) Werner Herzog, Bruno S., Eva Mattes, Clemens Scheitz
Bruno Stroszek is released from prison and warned to stop drinking. He has few skills and fewer expectations: with a glockenspiel and an accordion Read More »
A Lady Takes a Chance (1943) William A. Seiter, Jean Arthur, John Wayne, Charles Winninger
A New York bank clerk,Mollie Truesdale (Jean Arthur), in the late 1930s, finds that her Read More »
Footsteps in the Fog (1955) Arthur Lubin, Stewart Granger, Jean Simmons, Bill Travers
To his Victorian London friends, Stephen Lowry is a heartbroken widower. Read More »
The Human Condition III: A Soldiers Prayer (1961) Masaki Kobayashi, Tatsuya Nakadai, Michiyo Aratama, Tamao Nakamura
Part three of a trilogy. After the Japanese defeat to the Russians in the last episode, Kaji, the Japanese soldier and humanistic protagonist Read More »
The Human Condition II: Road to Eternity (1959) Masaki Kobayashi, Tatsuya Nakadai, Michiyo Aratama, Kokinji Katsura
Kaji is sent to the Japanese army labeled Red and is mistreated by the vets. Along his assignment, Kaji witnesses cruelties in the army Read More »
Blues Busters (1950) William Beaudine, Leo Gorcey, Huntz Hall, Adele Jergens
After undergoing a throat operation, Sach discovers that he now possesses a beautiful singing voice. Read More »
The Human Condition I: No Greater Love (1959) Masaki Kobayashi, Tatsuya Nakadai, Michiyo Aratama, Chikage Awashima
In the World War II, the pacifist and humanist Japanese Kaji accepts to travel with his wife Michiko to the tiny Manchurian village Loh Hu Liong Read More »
Salomé (2013) Al Pacino, Kevin Anderson, Jessica Chastain, Ralph Guzzo
After the lewd and frenetic Dance of the Seven Veils and with the solemn pledge from the very lips Read More »