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Daily Archives: July 27, 2019
Torture Me But Kill Me with Kisses (1968) Dino Risi, Nino Manfredi, Ugo Tognazzi, Pamela Tiffin
A romance between a young woman factory worker and a barber is stopped when her parents raise protests over her relationship with the man. Read More »
35 Shots of Rum (2008) Claire Denis, Alex Descas, Mati Diop, Nicole Dogué
The relationship between a father and daughter is complicated by the arrival of a handsome young man. Read More »
BMX Bandits (1993) Brian Trenchard-Smith, David Argue, John Ley, Nicole Kidman
Teens P.J. (Angelo D’Angelo) and Goose (James Lugton) get their thrills on BMX bikes Read More »
Georgia (1995) Ulu Grosbard, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Mare Winningham, Ted Levine
Sadie is desperately looking up to her older sister Georgia who is a famous C&W artist. Read More »
Bug (2006) William Friedkin, Ashley Judd, Michael Shannon, Harry Connick Jr.
A lonely waitress with a tragic past, Agnes rooms in a run-down motel Read More »
Crosswinds (1951) Lewis R. Foster, John Payne, Rhonda Fleming, Forrest Tucker
‘Jumbo’ Johnson hires Steve Singleton (and his boat, the “Seeker”) to search for pearls on the coast of New Guinea. Read More »
Objective, Burma! (1945) Raoul Walsh, Errol Flynn, James Brown, William Prince
A group of men parachute into Japanese-occupied Burma with a dangerous and important mission: to locate and blow up a radar station. Read More »
The Dollmaker (1984) Daniel Petrie, Jane Fonda, Levon Helm, Amanda Plummer
Jane Fonda gives an Emmy-winning performance as Gertie Nevels Read More »
Beijing Watermelon (1989) Nobuhiko Ôbayashi, Bengaru, Masako Motai, Yasufumi Hayashi
The film is based on true events. It centers around Shunzo, a popular greengrocer who lives in a city near Tokyo. Read More »
Whistle Down the Wind (1961) Bryan Forbes, Alan Bates, Bernard Lee, Norman Bird
Little Kathy discovers a man wanted for murder hiding in her family’s barn. Read More »
Record City (1977) Dennis Steinmetz, Joe Abdullah, Jeff Altman, Sylvia Anderson
Lighthearted comedy chronicling the exploits of the employees at a record store. Read More »
The River Niger (1976) Krishna Shah, Cicely Tyson, James Earl Jones, Louis Gossett Jr.
An intimate look at life in the ghetto: Johnny Williams is a house painter who moonlights as a poet Read More »
The Death of Captain Pilecki (2006) Ryszard Bugajski, Marek Probosz, Marek Kalita, Andrzej Niemirski
Captain Witold Pilecki was a Polish intelligence officer during WWII who volunteered for a Polish resistance operation Read More »
The Night of the Shooting Stars (1982) Paolo Taviani, Vittorio Taviani, Omero Antonutti, Margarita Lozano, Claudio Bigagli
The Night of San Lorenzo, the night of the shooting stars, is the night when dreams come true in Italian folklore. Read More »