Police Chief Jim Fitzpatrick is fighting gangster Sam Belmonte. Read More »
Monthly Archives: February 2020
The Promised Land AKA Ziemia obiecana (1975) Andrzej Wajda, Daniel Olbrychski, Wojciech Pszoniak, Andrzej Seweryn
At the turn of the century, Lodz, Poland was a quick-paced manufacturing center for textiles Read More »
Chad Hanna (1940) Henry King, Henry Fonda, Dorothy Lamour, Linda Darnell
Country boy joins a circus in the 1840s and falls in love with Albany the star equestrian rider. Read More »
Don’t Go Near the Water (1957) Charles Walters, Glenn Ford, Gia Scala, Earl Holliman
On a small island in the South Pacific, the Navy’s P.R. department is spending WWII without getting near a ship. Read More »
Eureka (1983) Nicolas Roeg, Gene Hackman, Theresa Russell, Rutger Hauer
Arctic prospector Jack McCann, after fifteen years of solitary searching, becomes one of the world’s wealthiest men Read More »
Born to Be Loved (1959) Hugo Haas, Carol Morris, Barbara Jo Allen
A seamstress (Carol Morris) and a music teacher (Hugo Haas) play Cupid for each other, ending with a double wedding. Read More »
An Everlasting Piece (2000) Barry Levinson, Barry McEvoy, Brían F. O’Byrne, Anna Friel
Colm (Barry McEvoy) is a Catholic, and George (Brian O’Byrne) is a poetry-loving Protestant. Read More »
Sara (1997) Maciej Slesicki, Boguslaw Linda, Agnieszka Wlodarczyk, Cezary Pazura
Leon, the 40-year-old former soldier who is an alcoholic now, gets a job as a bodyguard. Read More »
Theirs Is the Glory (1946) Brian Desmond Hurst, Stanley Maxted, Thomas Scullion, Allan Wood
In 1944, British General Montgomery and his command were way north of the Allied line Read More »
A German Youth AKA Une jeunesse allemande (2015) Jean-Gabriel Périot, Harun Farocki, Philip Werner Sauber, Holger Meins
Film based on the rise of The Red Army Faction, German revolutionary terrorist group founded by Andreas Baader and Ulrike Meinhof. Read More »
Ridicule (1996) Patrice Leconte, Charles Berling, Jean Rochefort, Fanny Ardant
In the periwigged and opulent France of Louis XVI, an unwitting nobleman soon discovers that survival at court demands both a razor wit and an acid tongue. Read More »
Angel (1982) Neil Jordan, Veronica Quilligan, Stephen Rea, Alan Devlin
Saxophonist Danny witnesses the murder of his band manager and a deaf-mute girl after a gig. Read More »
Sympathy for the Devil (1968) Jean-Luc Godard, Sean Lynch, Mick Jagger, Brian Jones
Godard’s documentation of late 1960s Western counter-culture, examining the Black Panthers Read More »
Hudson Hawk (1991) Michael Lehmann, Bruce Willis, Danny Aiello, Andie MacDowell
Thief extraordinaire Hudson Hawk (Bruce Willis) has just been released from prison and all he wants is a nice cappuccino. Read More »
Stranded (1935) Frank Borzage, Kay Francis, George Brent, Patricia Ellis
Mack – George Brent, a construction foreman who is working on the Golden Gate Bridge, meets social worker Lynn Palmer – Kay Francis. Read More »