This is yet another ninkyô yakuza film that seems to be (unconsciously?) trying to deal Read More »
Daily Archives: April 23, 2020
Genocide AKA Konchû daisensô (1968) Kazui Nihonmatsu, Keisuke Sonoi, Yûsuke Kawazu, Emi Shindô
All the insects on Earth become wild and attack humans, causing Armageddon. Read More »
A Hard Day AKA Kkeut-kka-ji-gan-da (2014) Seong-hun Kim, Sun-kyun Lee, Jin-woong Cho, Man-sik Jeong
Detective Go Geon-soo is having a hard day Read More »
The Farm in the Small Marsh AKA Salas u Malom Ritu (1976) Branko Bauer, Slavko Stimac, Miodrag Radovanovic, Pavle Vuisic
War arrives to a small secluded village in Vojvodina. The Germans take a group of hostages through the village Read More »
At Ellen’s Age AKA Im Alter von Ellen (2010) Pia Marais, Jeanne Balibar, Stefan Stern, Georg Friedrich
A woman puts herself through some remarkable changes in this drama from director Pia Marais. Read More »
Slaughter in the Snow (1973) Kazuo Ikehiro, Hajime Araki, Kai Atô, Takamori Gen
In feudal Japan, women are vulnerable, in need of protection, and capable of deception. Read More »
The Common Man AKA Dupont Lajoie (1975) Yves Boisset, Jean Carmet, Pierre Tornade, Jean Bouise
As every summer, Georges Lajoie, his wife Ginette and grown-up son Léon go on holiday to Loulou’s campsite. Read More »
Pete, Pearl and the Pole AKA Piazza pulita (1973) Luigi Vanzi, Tony Anthony, Adolfo Celi, Lucretia Love
In 1931, when the late American Prohibition major bosses have now divided the territory to exploit, the family of one of them – killed in a clash Read More »
The Charge of the Light Brigade (1968) Tony Richardson, Trevor Howard, Vanessa Redgrave, John Gielgud
A chronicle of events that led to the British involvement in the Crimean War against Russia and which led to the siege of Sevastopol Read More »
The Subject Was Roses (1968) Ulu Grosbard, Patricia Neal, Jack Albertson, Martin Sheen
When Timmy Cleary (Sheen), comes home from soldiering, he’s greeted by the open but strained arms Read More »
The Joy of Living AKA Che gioia vivere (1961) René Clément, Alain Delon, Barbara Lass, Gino Cervi
Ulisse is a naive young man out looking for a job after being released from the army. Read More »
Susan’s Plan (1998) John Landis, Nastassja Kinski, Billy Zane, Michael Biehn
Susan wants her reprehensible ex-husband dead and, in several bungled attempts by henchmen, tries to accomplish the deed. Read More »
The Border Fence AKA Die bauliche Maßnahme (2018) Nikolaus Geyrhalter
In concentric circles starting from the border of the Brenner Pass between Austria and Italy Read More »
Sleep Furiously (2008) Gideon Koppel
Set in a small farming community in mid Wales, a place where Koppel’s parents – both refugees – found a home. Read More »
Mekong Hotel (2012) Apichatpong Weerasethakul
Shifting between fact and fiction in a hotel situated along the Mekong River, a film-maker rehearses a movie expressing the bonds between a vampiric mother and daughter. Read More »