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Monthly Archives: December 2019
The Sign of the City (2007) Carlos Alberto Riccelli, Bruna Lombardi, Malvino Salvador, Juca de Oliveira
While stars and planets move through the sky of São Paulo, randomly shooting their magic, men and women ask what will become of their dreams and desires. Read More »
The Rocket Man (1954) Oscar Rudolph, Charles Coburn, Spring Byington, Anne Francis
Wacky complications ensue when a little boy comes into possession of a ray gun that compels anyone caught in its beam to tell the truth. Read More »
The Unknown Soldier (1985) Rauni Mollberg, Risto Tuorila, Pirkka-Pekka Petelius, Paavo Liski
This film is the second silver screen adaption of the Finnish war book by Väinö Linna with the same name as the film. Read More »
One Exciting Night (1944) Walter Forde, Vera Lynn, Donald Stewart, Mary Clare
In wartime London, Vera gets mistaken for the girlfriend of a famous composer and invited to sing at a charity gala Read More »
That Way with Women (1947) Frederick De Cordova, Dane Clark, Martha Vickers, Sydney Greenstreet
A bored automobile industry tycoon assumes a false identity, buys a half interest in a gas station, and plays matchmaker for his daughter. Read More »
Signs of Life (1968) Werner Herzog, Peter Brogle, Wolfgang Reichmann, Athina Zacharopoulou
A wounded German paratrooper named Stroszek is sent to the quiet island of Kos with his wife Nora Read More »
Little Red Flowers (2006) Yuan Zhang, Bowen Dong, Yuanyuan Ning, Manyuan Chen
Qiang is a four-year-old little rebel, possessed of a pair of luminous eyes and a precociously indomitable will. Read More »
Story of a Bad Boy (1999) Tom Donaghy, Jeremy Hollingworth, Christian Camargo, Stephen Lang
17-year-old Pauly is a closeted high school kid who wants it all. Read More »
Norwegian Wood (2010) Tran Anh Hung, Ken’ichi Matsuyama, Rinko Kikuchi, Kiko Mizuhara
Set in the 1960’s, high school student Toru Watanabe (Kenichi Matsuyama) loses his only friend Kizuki (Kengo Kora) after he commits suicide. Read More »
Ellery Queen’s Penthouse Myster (1941) James P. Hogan, Ralph Bellamy, Margaret Lindsay, Charley Grapewin
Like the first entry in Columbia’s “Ellery Queen” series, Ellery Queen’s Penthouse Mystery depicts its amateur-criminologist hero as an oafish ignoramus. Read More »
Neapolitan Carousel (1954) Ettore Giannini, Léonide Massine, Achille Millo, Agostino Salvietti
Music, ballet, folk dances and mime eliciting the spirit of Naples Read More »
Summerland (2010) Grímur Hákonarson, Ólafía Hrönn Jónsdóttir, Kjartan Guðjónsson, Snorri Engilbertsson
An art-house comedy about an ordinary family running the unusual business of elf tourism and spiritual sessions. Read More »
Deguello (1966) Giuseppe Vari, Giacomo Rossi Stuart, Dan Vadis, Dana Ghia
Danger City is attacked by Ramon’s bandits searching for rumored treasure. Read More »
Attack of the Normans (1962) Giuseppe Vari, Cameron Mitchell, Geneviève Grad, Ettore Manni
An evil duke kidnaps the good king and tries to make the virtuous queen his bride and the peasants take arms. Read More »