Horse race tipster and journalist Colin Metcalfe is picked for the job of foreign correspondent in Norway when Hitler invades Poland. Read More »
Daily Archives: March 28, 2020
School for Secrets AKA Secret Flight (1946) Peter Ustinov, Ralph Richardson, Raymond Huntley, John Laurie
Wartime tale of a group of British scientists efforts to develop the first radar system. Read More »
Enbalming AKA Enbamingu (1999) Shinji Aoyama, Kôjirô Hongô, Masatoshi Matsuo, Yutaka Matsushige
Young female embalmer Miyako while performing the embalming process the head of the corpse shes restoring is stolen. Read More »
Destroy, She Said AKA Détruire dit-elle (1969) Marguerite Duras, Catherine Sellers, Michael Lonsdale, Henri Garcin
A professor, his wife, a student, and a married woman travel to a hotel on the edge of the forest for a week-long vacation. Read More »
The Lorry AKA Le camion (1977) Marguerite Duras, Gérard Depardieu
We are confronted with two images, a lorry driving through the night until dawn, a depiction of the loneliness Read More »
Vladimir and Rosa AKA Vladimir et Rosa (1971) Groupe Dziga Vertov, Jean-Luc Godard, Yves Afonso, Juliet Berto, Jean-Luc Godard
In Godard and Gorin’s free interpretation of the Chicago Eight trial, Judge Hoffman becomes Judge Himmler Read More »
The Man Who Had His Hair Cut Short AKA De man die zijn haar kort liet knippen (1966) André Delvaux, Senne Rouffaer, Beata Tyszkiewicz, Hector Camerlynck
A schoolteacher (Miereveld or “field of ants”) is entranced by one of his students (Fran). Read More »
Kino Eye AKA Kinoglaz (1924) Dziga Vertov
This documentary promoting the joys of life in a Soviet village centers around the activities of the Young Pioneers. Read More »
Man with a Movie Camera AKA Chelovek s kino-apparatom (1929) Dziga Vertov, Mikhail Kaufman
Soviet director Dziga Vertov’s experimental film grew out of his belief, shared by his editor Read More »
Blind Beast AKA Môjû (1969) Yasuzô Masumura, Eiji Funakoshi, Mako Midori, Noriko Sengoku
A blind sculpter kidnaps a beautiful young model and takes her back to his home. Read More »
Yeast (2008) Mary Bronstein, Ignacio Carballo, Greta Gerwig
A maddeningly oblivious, tyrannical and emotionally stunted young woman tries her best to negotiate two toxic friendships. Read More »
Memory for Max, Claire, Ida and Company (2005) Allan King, Claire Mandell, Sherry Mandell, Jeff Glickman
At Baycrest, an old-age home in Toronto, we follow a social worker as she talks to residents, particularly Max, Claire, Ida, and Rachel. Read More »
The Seven-Per-Cent Solution (1976) Herbert Ross, Alan Arkin, Vanessa Redgrave, Robert Duvall
Concerned about his friend’s cocaine use, Dr. Watson tricks Sherlock Holmes into travelling to Vienna Read More »
Crazy Mama (1975) Jonathan Demme, Cloris Leachman, Stuart Whitman, Ann Sothern
Jonathan Demme directs this joyous relentlessly kitschy celebration of 1950s America: opportunity, rock’n’roll, and the road. Read More »
Citizens Band (1977) Jonathan Demme, Paul Le Mat, Candy Clark, Bruce McGill
This movie interlaces the stories of several characters in a small town united by their use of CB (citizen’s band) radio. Read More »