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Monthly Archives: March 2019
Wuthering Heights (1988) Yoshishige Yoshida, Yûsaku Matsuda, Yûko Tanaka, Rentarô Mikuni
This erotic and violent story taken from Emily Bronte’s classic novel, and Georges Bataille’s analyzes Read More »
The Fortunate Fool (1933) Norman Walker, Hugh Wakefield, Joan Wyndham, Jack Raine
A wealthy author, looking for material, ‘adopts’ an incorrigible thief he finds in the streets Read More »
The Rose (1979) Mark Rydell, Bette Midler, Alan Bates, Frederic Forrest
Bette Midler plays The Rose, a female rock star strikingly similar to Janis Joplin. Read More »
To Commit a Murder (1967) Édouard Molinaro, Louis Jourdan, Senta Berger, Edmond O’Brien
Charles Beaulieu, who served as an Army officer during the Algerian War, has become a novelist. Read More »
S.O.S. Titanic (1979) William Hale, David Janssen, Cloris Leachman, Harry Andrews
On April 14, 1912 the R.M.S. Titanic struck an iceberg on her maiden voyage. Read More »
The Power Of Emotion (1983) Alexander Kluge, Hannelore Hoger, Edgar M. Böhlke
The emotion and feelings should not be confused with sentimentality. Emotion is ancient and more powerful than any artistic expression. Read More »
The Belle of New York (1952) Charles Walters, Fred Astaire, Vera-Ellen, Marjorie Main
In squeaky-clean New York at the turn of the century, playboy Charlie Hill falls so much in love that he can walk on air. Read More »
When My Baby Smiles at Me (1948) Walter Lang, Betty Grable, Dan Dailey, Jack Oakie
Vaudeville performers, Dailey and Grable, have marital difficulties when he hits the “Big Time”, which are compounded by his drinking problem. Read More »
Mutiny on the Bounty (1935) Frank Lloyd, Charles Laughton, Clark Gable, Franchot Tone
Midshipman Roger Byam joins Captain Bligh and Fletcher Christian aboard HMS Bounty for a voyage to Tahiti. Read More »
A Modern Hero (1934) Georg Wilhelm Pabst, Richard Barthelmess, Jean Muir, Marjorie Rambeau
Pierre is a young and handsome circus rider whose mother has long tolerated his amorous adventures Read More »
The Brutalisation of Franz Blum (1974) Reinhard Hauff, Jürgen Prochnow, Eike Gallwitz, Burkhard Driest
Born into a well-off family, Franz Blum had led a carefree youth until, some time after graduating from high school, he was arrested by the police. Read More »
My Song Goes Round the World (1934) Richard Oswald, Joseph Schmidt, John Loder, Charlotte Ander
Ricardo is a brilliant singer struggling for success in Venice. Read More »
Feather Your Nest (1937) William Beaudine, George Formby, Polly Ward, Enid Stamp-Taylor
An employee of a record manufacturing company comes up with a hit song. Read More »
Road to Nowhere (2010) Monte Hellman, Tygh Runyan, Dominique Swain, Shannyn Sossamon
There’s a murky tenuous balance between reality and fiction; particularly when it involves a beautiful young woman Read More »