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Monthly Archives: January 2019
Antoine and Antoinette (1947) Jacques Becker, Roger Pigaut, Claire Mafféi, Noël Roquevert
Working class couple Antoine and Antoinette dream of a better life. Read More »
An Outlaw (1964) Teruo Ishii, Ken Takakura, Tetsurô Tanba, Naoki Sugiura
A killer who only hits people who deserve it is tricked into killing an innocent man. Read More »
Suicide Fleet (1931) Albert S. Rogell, William Boyd, Robert Armstrong, James Gleason
Three US sailors fight German U-boats in World War I aboard a decoy ship and try to win Ginger Rogers who works on the Coney Island midway. Read More »
The Ragman’s Daughter (1972) Harold Becker, Simon Rouse, Victoria Tennant, Patrick O’Connell
A cheese warehouse worker with wife and two kids hates his dull life. Read More »
Magnet of Doom (1963) Jean-Pierre Melville, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Charles Vanel, Michèle Mercier
When French ex-paratrooper turned amateur boxer Michel Maudet looses his last fight he decides to quit boxing. Read More »
Joshua Then and Now (1985) Ted Kotcheff, James Woods, Gabrielle Lazure, Alan Arkin
The story of a Jewish writer, from his life as a young boy in Montreal to his more complicated grown-up life. Read More »
Bandido! (1956) Richard Fleischer, Robert Mitchum, Ursula Thiess, Gilbert Roland
American arms dealer Kennedy hopes to make a killing by selling to the “regulares” in the 1916 Mexican revolution. Read More »
Tales of Canterbury (1973) John W. Shadow, Patrizia Adiutori, Rik Battaglia, Shirley Corrigan
Father of English literature, the poet Geoffrey Chaucer, involved in storytelling a rainy night at an inn. Read More »
The Gay Divorcee (1934) Mark Sandrich, Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Alice Brady
Mimi Glossop wants a divorce so her Aunt Hortense hires a professional to play the correspondent in apparent infidelity. Read More »
Wake of the Red Witch (1948) Edward Ludwig, John Wayne, Gail Russell, Gig Young
Captain Ralls fights Dutch shipping magnate Mayrant Sidneye for the woman he loves Read More »
Rage (1995) Joseph Merhi, Gary Daniels, Kenneth Tigar, Fiona Hutchison
A corrupt right-wing militia group chooses a California teacher as the ideal specimen to clone for its army. Read More »
Passing fancy (1933) Yasujirô Ozu, Takeshi Sakamoto, Nobuko Fushimi, Den Ohinata
After the death of his wife, a man struggles to raise his son in nearly overwhelming poverty. Read More »
Chasing Butterflies (1992) Otar Iosseliani, Narda Blanchet, Pierette Pompom Bailhache, Aleksandr Cherkasov
A noble family of France maintains dignity despite the onslaught of modernism and non-white immigrants. Read More »
Twentieth Century (1934) Howard Hawks, John Barrymore, Carole Lombard, Walter Connolly
Broadway director Oscar Jaffe (John Barrymore) is a bigger ham than most actors Read More »