Prior to the adoption of Confucianism, it was the tradition to abandon one’s parents on a mountainside if they were over 70 years of age. Read More »
Monthly Archives: October 2018
Symptoms (1974) José Ramón Larraz, Angela Pleasence, Peter Vaughan, Lorna Heilbron
A young woman is invited by her girlfriend, who lives in an English country mansion, to stay there with her. Read More »
Forever Mine (1999) Paul Schrader, Joseph Fiennes, Ray Liotta, Gretchen Mol
Two stories, 14 years apart, converge in a suburb of New York. Manuel Esquema, an international financier, whose face is badly scarred Read More »
À propos de Nice, la suite (1995) Catherine Breillat, Costa-Gavras, Bernard Benassayag, Thierry Saïd Bouibil, Jérôme Chabreyrie
Anthology of short films about the French city of Nice, by various directors. Read More »
Shirley Thompson Versus the Aliens (1972) Jim Sharman, Jane Harders, June Collis, Tim Elliott
A group of aliens plans to invade Australia as a means of taking over the Earth. Read More »
Saturdays Heroes (1937) Edward Killy, Van Heflin, Marian Marsh, Richard Lane
College football player is expelled for ticket scalping, and teams up with reporter to expose his school’s hypocrisy. Read More »
A Stranger (2013) Bobo Jelcic, Bogdan Diklic, Nada Djurevska, Ivana Roscic
When Slavko’s old friend Djulaga dies, Slavko feels obliged to go to the funeral. Read More »
Bondage Gladiator Sexy (1961) Giorgio Ferroni, Taina Elg, Pierre Brice, Alberto Lupo
The god Dionysus decides to pay a visit to the city of Thebes. Dionysus wants to be the worshiped by the masses Read More »
It Means That Much to Me (1961) Pierre Grimblat, Eddie Constantine, Bernadette Lafont, Jean-Louis Richard
A down-on-his-luck reporter is framed on espionage charges by the government after taking some photos the government didn’t want made public. Read More »
Icaros (2014) Georgina Barreiro, Mokan Rono
Icaros explores the spiritual universe of the Shipibo indigenous people who live by the Ucayali river, one of the main tributaries of the Peruvian Amazon. Read More »
The Docks of New York (1928) Josef von Sternberg, George Bancroft, Betty Compson, Olga Baclanova
Bill Roberts works as a stoker on a coal-red barge. It’s dirty, hard work and the men have to put up with a foreman, Andy Read More »
The Beast to Die (1980) Tôru Murakawa, Yûsaku Matsuda, Asami Kobayashi, Yoshirô Aoki
A policeman is murdered and his gun, stolen, used to commit the next crime. Read More »
Out of Darkness (1994) Larry Elikann, Diana Ross, Ann Weldon, Rhonda Stubbins White
This is story of Paulie Cooper, a former med student who becomes ill with paranoid schizophrenia and loses 18 years of her life due to the sickness. Read More »
Lacombe Lucien (1974) Louis Malle, Pierre Blaise, Aurore Clément, Holger Löwenadler
A small town in the south-west of France, summer of 1944. Having failed to join the resistance, the 18 year old Lucien Lacombe Read More »
Bloody Territories (1969) Yasuharu Hasebe, Akira Kobayashi, Ryôji Hayama, Tadao Nakamaru
A once-powerful yakuza clan disbands as a result of a police crackdown but one small group refuses to bow to police pressure Read More »