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Daily Archives: March 24, 2020
Brutal Tales of Chivalry 4 AKA Shôwa zankyô-den: Chizome no karajishi (1967) Masahiro Makino, Ken Takakura, Ryô Ikebe, Sumiko Fuji
Fourth film in the “Shôwa Zankyôden” series. This expression means duty, obligations, and rules obeyed by gangsters and outlaws in the pre-Shôwa era. Read More »
Surf Party (1964) Maury Dexter, Bobby Vinton, Patricia Morrow, Jackie DeShannon
A young girl travels to California with a couple of friends in order to visit her brother, whom she hasn’t seen for some time. Read More »
Death of a Salesman (1951) Laslo Benedek, Fredric March, Mildred Dunnock, Kevin McCarthy
Based on Arthur Miller’s famous play. Willy Loman is an over-the-hill salesman who faces a personal turning point Read More »
Hey, Lets Twist! (1961) Greg Garrison, Joey Dee, The Starliters, Jo Ann Campbell
The rise, fall and rise again of the Peppermint Lounge nightclub is chronicled. Read More »
Thick Skinned AKA Peaux de vaches (1989) Patricia Mazuy, Sandrine Bonnaire, Jean-François Stévenin, Jacques Spiesser
A decade after a man has been killed in an accident in an isolated part of the French countryside, a family tries to come to terms with what happened. Read More »
Lola (1981) Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Barbara Sukowa, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Mario Adorf
Ten years after the war, West Germany’s market economy is booming. Read More »
Love and Crime AKA Meiji · Taishô · Shôwa: Ryôki onna hanzai-shi (1969) Teruo Ishii, Sada Abe, Yukie Kagawa, Yoshi Katô
Discover 4 famous japanese murderers: Takahashi Oden, the last woman beheaded in Japan, Sada Abe Read More »
I, Claudius (1976) Herbert Wise, Derek Jacobi, John Hurt, Siân Phillips
This mini-series follows the history of the Roman Empire, from approximately the death of Marcellus (24/23 B.C.) Read More »
Cynthia (1947) Robert Z. Leonard, Elizabeth Taylor, George Murphy, S.Z. Sakall
Taylor plays the title character, a sickly, sheltered young lady who is never permitted the companionship of other teenagers. Read More »
Handcuffs AKA Lisice (1970) Krsto Papic, Fabijan Sovagovic, Adem Cejvan, Jagoda Kaloper
Small village in mountains of Dalmatinska Zagora is under total control of Andrija, local Party official. Read More »
The Lawless (1950) Joseph Losey, Macdonald Carey, Gail Russell, Johnny Sands
Former big city newsman Larry Wilder is tired of fighting the powers that be Read More »
Sound and Fury AKA De bruit et de fureur (1988) Jean-Claude Brisseau, Bruno Cremer, François Négret, Vincent Gasperitsch
This drama depicts the misery of neglected children in big cities. 13 years old Bruno is of a good family Read More »
Calling the Tune (1936) Reginald Denham, Thorold Dickinson, Adele Dixon, Sally Gray, Sam Livesey
Calling the Tune offers a fascinating look at the fledgeling gramophone industry as it tries to solve the problems of reliable recording and production methods. Read More »
Listen to the Roar of the Ocean AKA Kike wadatsumi no koe: Nippon senbotsu gakusei shuki (1950) Hideo Sekigawa, Hajime Izu, Yasumi Hara, Akitake Kon
Kike wadatsumi no koe: Nippon senbotsu gakusei shuki is a 1950 black and white Japanese war drama film directed by Hideo Sekigawa and based on the best-seller Listen to the Voices from the Sea. This film is strongly anti-war film. Read More »