Albrecht is a son in a family of wealthy intellectuals that has a seaside estate near Hamburg. Read More »
Monthly Archives: September 2018
Big Night (1996) Campbell Scott, Stanley Tucci, Tony Shalhoub, Stanley Tucci, Marc Anthony
Primo and Secondo are two brothers who have emigrated from Italy to open an Italian restaurant in America. Read More »
The Holy Mountain (1926) Arnold Fanck, Leni Riefenstahl, Luis Trenker, Ernst Petersen
The dancer, Diotima, meets an engineer and skier, Karl, in his cottage in the mountains where they fall in love and have an affair. Read More »
A Tale of the Wind (1988) Joris Ivens, Henxiang Han, Zhuang Liu
This film travels through fantasy and reality as Joris Ivens goes to China to capture the wind. Read More »
Owls Castle (1999) Masahiro Shinoda, Kiichi Nakai, Mayu Tsuruta, Riona Hazuki
As the great military commander Nobunaga Oda was consolidating his power across Japan, one of his actions was to wipe out a clan of assassins Read More »
Minnesota Clay (1964) Sergio Corbucci, Cameron Mitchell, Georges Rivière, Ethel Rojo
Wrongfully imprisoned for a crime he didn’t commit, Minnesota Clay seeks revenge on the man who withheld evidence at his trial. Read More »
Hotel Sahara (1951) Ken Annakin, Yvonne De Carlo, Peter Ustinov, David Tomlinson
During World War Two, Emad and Yasmin are the proprietors of a desert hotel caught between the various waring sides. Read More »
The Hurricane (1937) John Ford, Dorothy Lamour, Jon Hall, Mary Astor
In the Island of Manukura, a French colony in the South Seas, the joyful Terangi is a leader among the natives and the first mate of the Katopua, the tall ship of Captain Nagle. Read More »
Son of Paleface (1952) Frank Tashlin, Bob Hope, Jane Russell, Roy Rogers
Junior Potter returns to claim his father’s gold, which is nowhere to be found. Read More »
Duel in the Sun (1946) King Vidor, Otto Brower, Jennifer Jones, Joseph Cotten, Gregory Peck
When her father is hanged for shooting his wife and her lover, half-breed Pearl Chavez goes to live with distant relatives in Texas. Read More »
Marta (1971) José Antonio Nieves Conde, Marisa Mell, Stephen Boyd, Jesús Puente
A wealthy landowner haunted by the spectre of his dead mother has a fling with a beautiful fugitive who bears Read More »
Never Too Young to Rock (1976) Dennis Abey, Peter Denyer, Freddie Jones, Sheila Steafel
In the late 1970s, rock ‘n’ roll was banned from television. One young man, our hero, led the battle against the TV ban. Read More »
The Wall (1991) Jürgen Böttcher
A documentary about the deconstruction of the Berlin Wall which makes no use of vocal commentary but instead focuses on visual elements. Read More »
The Senator Likes Women (1972) Lucio Fulci, Lando Buzzanca, Lionel Stander, Laura Antonelli
Senator Pupis feels a strong and uncontrollable urge to grab women’s bottoms, a habit than can lead to embarrassment Read More »
De Palma (2015) Noah Baumbach, Jake Paltrow, Brian De Palma
In the annals of Hollywood film since the artistic glories of the New Hollywood era Read More »