Two black bounty hunters ride into a small town out West in pursuit of an outlaw. Read More »
Daily Archives: April 22, 2020
Animals with the Tollkeeper (1998) Michael Di Jiacomo, Tim Roth, Mili Avital, Rod Steiger
Michael Di Jiacomo made his directorial debut with this allegory that opens with a 12-minute black-and-white prologue about three French filmmakers Read More »
Vegas: Based on a True Story (2008) Amir Naderi, Mark Greenfield, Alexis Hart, Nancy La Scala
The film takes place away from the glittering strip of mega casinos, but the greed of Sin City is just as pervasive on the desert outskirts. Read More »
Love and Money (1981) James Toback, Ray Sharkey, Ornella Muti, Klaus Kinski
A billionaire businessman hires a man to influence a South American dictator. Read More »
Lilli Marlene (1950) Arthur Crabtree, Lisa Daniely, Hugh McDermott, Richard Murdoch
Lilli Marlene, a French girl working as a bar maid in her uncle’s café in Benghazi, Libya Read More »
City Girl (1930) F.W. Murnau, Charles Farrell, Mary Duncan, David Torrence
Lem goes to Chicago to sell the wheat his family has grown on their farm in Minnesota. Read More »
The Bear AKA L’ours (1988) Jean-Jacques Annaud, Tchéky Karyo, Bart the Bear, Youk the Bear
An orphan bear cub hooks up with an adult male as they try to dodge human hunters. Read More »
The Nouba of the Women of Mount Chenoua AKA La nouba des femmes du mont Chenoua (1979) Assia Djebbar
Returning to her native region 15 years after the end of the Algerian war Read More »
Rasputin AKA Agoniya (1981) Elem Klimov, Aleksey Petrenko, Anatoliy Romashin, Velta Line
Russia, 1916. Be it by craft or madness, Rasputin exercises power over the indecisive Nicholas Read More »
Avida (2006) Benoît Delépine, Gustave Kervern, Anselme, Fernando Arrabal, Anne Benett
The kidnapping of a plump billionaire’s dog by a deaf-mute and 2 ketamine addicts goes wrong. Read More »
Puppet People AKA Central Bazaar (1976) Stephen Dwoskin, Marc Chaimowicz, Maggie Corey, Eddie Doyle
For this remarkable experimental film, the provocative avant-garde legend Stephen Dwoskin gathered together a group of strangers Read More »
Platform AKA Zhantai (2000) Zhangke Jia, Hongwei Wang, Tao Zhao, Jing Dong Liang
Set in Fenyang, Shanxi Province, the film focuses on a group of amateur theatre troupe performers Read More »
Little Malcolm and His Struggle Against the Eunuchs (1974) Stuart Cooper, John Hurt, John McEnery, David Warner
An art student is thrown out of college. Depressed, he comes up with the Party of Dynamic Erection Read More »
Hurricane (1979) Jan Troell, Jason Robards, Mia Farrow, Max von Sydow
The desperate love affair between a young Samoan chief and an American painter, against the will of her father. Read More »
Malady of Love AKA Maladie d’amour (1987) Jacques Deray, Nastassja Kinski, Jean-Hugues Anglade, Michel Piccoli
Mad love. Two physicians, one old and one young, fall in love with the same woman, Juliette, a quixotic hairdresser. Read More »