David Barr is the manager and chief designer of a British shipyard (when we still built ships). Read More »
Daily Archives: June 16, 2019
Waterhole #3 (1967) William A. Graham, James Coburn, Carroll O’Connor, Margaret Blye
Sergeant Foggers and two Confederate soldiers lay their hands on gold bullion belonging to the army Read More »
The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (1964) Jacques Demy, Catherine Deneuve, Nino Castelnuovo, Anne Vernon
The lives of Geneviève Emery and Guy Foucher of Cherbourg, France are presented in four acts. Read More »
Violent City (1970) Sergio Sollima, Charles Bronson, Telly Savalas, Jill Ireland
After a bloody double-cross leaves him for dead, professional hit man Jeff tracks the shooter and his beautiful mistress to New Orleans. Read More »
Man – Woman Wanted (1973) Stanislaw Bareja, Wojciech Pokora, Jolanta Bohdal, Mieczyslaw Czechowicz
Stanislaw works in an art museum in Warsaw; it’s not a very well-paid job, and his boss is a bit of a martinet. Read More »
Reign of Terror (1949) Anthony Mann, Robert Cummings, Richard Basehart, Richard Hart
Robespierre, a powerful figure in the French Revolution and the subsequent Reign of Terror Read More »
The Glass Bottom Boat (1966) Frank Tashlin, Doris Day, Rod Taylor, Arthur Godfrey
Jennifer Nelson and Bruce Templeton meet when Bruce reels in her mermaid suit leaving Jennifer bottomless Read More »
Love in the Afternoon (1957) Billy Wilder, Gary Cooper, Audrey Hepburn, Maurice Chevalier
In Paris, detective Claude Chavasse is hired to follow a wife suspected of infidelity with the notorious American libertine Frank Flannagan. Read More »
The Longest Day (1962) Ken Annakin, Andrew Marton, John Wayne, Robert Ryan, Richard Burton
In 1944, the U.S. Army and Allied forces plan a huge invasion landing in Normandy, France. Read More »
Ornette: Made in America (1985) Shirley Clarke, Ornette Coleman, John Giordano
Ornette: Made In America captures Ornette’s evolution over three decades. Read More »
The Illumination (1973) Krzysztof Zanussi, Stanislaw Latallo, Monika Dzienisiewicz-Olbrychska, Malgorzata Pritulak
A man looks for the meaning of life through science, work, love, marriage, family, death, and spirituality. Read More »
St. Francis of Assisi (1989) Liliana Cavani, Mickey Rourke, Helena Bonham Carter, Andréa Ferréol
The life of St. Francis of Assisi (1181-1226) as related by followers who gather after his death Read More »
Donne proibite (1954) Giuseppe Amato, Linda Darnell, Valentina Cortese, Lea Padovani
Tamara, a Roman prostitute, tries to kill herself throwing herself out of the window of the licensed brothel she works in. Read More »