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Monthly Archives: November 2019
Dragstrip Girl (1957) Edward L. Cahn, Fay Spain, Steven Terrell, John Ashley
Girl loves hot cars and a rich dragstrip racer. Her parents don’t like either one. Read More »
Minazuki (1999) Rokuro Mochizuki, Eiji Okuda, Kazuki Kitamura, Takami Yoshimoto
Akira’s wife walks out on him, leaving him to confide in his gangster brother-in-law. Read More »
Target (1978) Guido Zurli, Luc Merenda, Gabriella Giorgelli, Kadir Inanir
This is surely one of the lamest poliziotteschi I’ve ever come across Read More »
Cosmonaut Polyakov (2007) Dana Ranga, Valeri Polyakov
An orphan child that dreams about the Cosmos, a doctor who donates blood for an experiment on interplanetary flights Read More »
Tuesday’s Guest (1950) Jacques Deval, Bernard Blier, Michel Auclair, Madeleine Robinson
Charles is a good husband; he is not handsome but he contents himself with his collection of stamps, his slippers and his crepes. Read More »
1900 (1976) Bernardo Bertolucci, Robert De Niro, Gérard Depardieu, Dominique Sanda
Set in Italy, the film follows the lives and interactions of two boys/men Read More »
The Delicate Art of the Rifle (1996) Dante Harper, Gabrielle Greigo, Shannon Gelobter, Joy Gewalt
A surrealistic comedy-drama about a school shooting as seen through the eyes of a socially awkward college student named Jay. Read More »
The Smokers (2000) Kat Slater, Dominique Swain, Busy Philipps, Keri Lynn Pratt
Looking back a few years later, Jefferson Roth tells the story of the last few weeks of her senior year at a Wisconsin boarding school Read More »
Grand Old Girl (1935) John S. Robertson, May Robson, Mary Carlisle, Fred MacMurray
Miss Bayles (May Robson) has been trying to close down a business operated by Clarence (Alan Hale). Read More »
Repo Man (1984) Alex Cox, Harry Dean Stanton, Emilio Estevez, Tracey Walter
Frustrated punk rocker Otto quits his supermarket job after slugging a co-worker, and is later dumped by his girlfriend at a party. Read More »
Nobody Will Speak of Us When We’re Dead (1995) Agustín Díaz Yanes, Victoria Abril, Pilar Bardem, Federico Luppi
Escaping gangsters trying to kill her because of being witness to a crime Read More »
The Great Flirtation (1934) Ralph Murphy, Elissa Landi, Adolphe Menjou, David Manners
An actor is jealous of his wife’s stardom. Read More »
Colonel Chabert (1994) Yves Angelo, Gérard Depardieu, Fanny Ardant, Fabrice Luchini
Colonel Chabert has been severely wounded in the French-Russian Napoleonic war Read More »
Mister Max (1937) Mario Camerini, Vittorio De Sica, Assia Noris, Rubi D’Alma
Vittorio De Sica, heir to a large sum of money and owner of a newspaper vending stall Read More »