Though both star Donald O’Connor and director Arthur Lubin had said goodbye to the “Francis the Talking Mule” series Read More »
Monthly Archives: February 2020
Judo Saga AKA Sugata Sanshirô (1943) Akira Kurosawa, Denjirô Ôkôchi, Susumu Fujita, Yukiko Todoroki
Sanshiro, a strong stubborn youth, comes to the city to apprentice at a jujitsu school. Read More »
The Hard Man (1957) George Sherman, Guy Madison, Valerie French, Lorne Greene
Steve Burden is a former lawman released for bringing in too many wanted men dead. Read More »
The Terence Davies Trilogy (1983) Terence Davies, Phillip Mawdsley, Nick Stringer, Valerie Lilley
Davies’ film is divided into three segments entitled “Children”, “Madonna and Child”, and “Death and Transfiguartion”. Read More »
The Heart of Hiroshima AKA Ai to shi no kiroku (1966) Koreyoshi Kurahara, Sayuri Yoshinaga, Tetsuya Watari, Izumi Ashikawa
One morning, Kazue (Sayuri Yoshinaga) is about to knocked over by a motorbike in front of the music instrument shop Read More »
The Year My Voice Broke (1987) John Duigan, Noah Taylor, Loene Carmen, Ben Mendelsohn
In 1962, a prepubescent boy in rural Australia watches painfully as his best friend and first love Read More »
The Baron and the Kid (1984) Gary Nelson, Johnny Cash, Darren McGavin, Greg Webb
William “The Baron” Addington is a former pool pro whose lifetime of boozing has cost him his career and family. Read More »
No More Orchids (1932) Walter Lang, Carole Lombard, Lyle Talbot, Walter Connolly
At the urging of her curmudgeon old grandfather Jerome Cedric (C. Aubrey Smith) Read More »
The Love Race (1931) Lupino Lane, Pat Morton, Stanley Lupino, Jack Hobbs, Dorothy Boyd
Misunderstandings cause Lupino’s fiancee to jilt Lupino when he has the wrong suitcase full of lingerie. Read More »
The Ware Case (1938) Robert Stevenson, Clive Brook, Jane Baxter, Barry K. Barnes
In this taut drama, a wealthy financier is tried for the murder of his brother-in-law Read More »
Triumph of the Will AKA Triumph des Willens (1935) Leni Riefenstahl, Adolf Hitler, Hermann Göring, Max Amann
Triumph of the Will (Triumph des Willens) is a filmed record of the 1934 Nazi Party Convention, in Nuremberg. Read More »
The Best House in London (1969) Philip Saville, David Hemmings, Joanna Pettet, George Sanders
In this British farce, the British Home Secretary satisfies the men of London by sanctioning a government-run brothel. Read More »
Francis Goes to West Point (1952) Arthur Lubin, Donald O’Connor, Lori Nelson, Alice Kelley
Francis Goes to West Point is the third entry in Universal’s money-spinning series about a talking mule. Read More »
Zenne Dancer (2012) Caner Alper, Kerem Can, Giovanni Arvaneh, Erkan Avci
A feature film about an unusual trio: Daniel, a German photo-journalist in Istanbul without much knowledge about Turkish values. Read More »
The Shame AKA La vergüenza (2009) David Planell, Natalia Mateo, Alberto San Juan, Marta Aledo
The Shame occurs in a single morning. The morning when Pepe and Lucía, a modern Read More »