This is one of the two exceptional documentaries about Bernhard Kimmel, who was in the headline of German newspaper’s Read More »
Monthly Archives: April 2020
The Little Mermaid AKA Malá morská víla (1976) Karel Kachyna, Miroslava Safránková, Radovan Lukavský, Petr Svojtka
The little mermaid rescues a prince from drowning and falls in love with him. Read More »
Blaze (1989) Ron Shelton, Paul Newman, Lolita Davidovich, Jerry Hardin
This movie tells the story of the latter years of Earl Long, a flamboyant governor of Louisiana. Read More »
The Turning Point AKA Der Aufenthalt (1983) Frank Beyer, Sylvester Groth, Fred Düren, Matthias Günther
This story of mistaken identity was taken from the experiences of writer Hermann Kant when he was a 19-year-old soldier in the German Wehrmacht. Read More »
We Live Again (1934) Rouben Mamoulian, Anna Sten, Fredric March, Jane Baxter
Nekhlyudov, a Russian nobleman serving on a jury, discovers that the young girl on trial, Katusha Read More »
Stolen Holiday (1937) Michael Curtiz, Kay Francis, Claude Rains, Ian Hunter
Nicole Picot is working as a model in a Paris dress salon when she is picked by Stefan Orloff Read More »
Tugboat Annie (1933) Mervyn LeRoy, Marie Dressler, Wallace Beery, Robert Young
Waterfront couple raise their son to be a sea captain. He grows up to be rather snotty and rebels against drunken Beery. Read More »
The Last American Virgin (1982) Boaz Davidson, Lawrence Monoson, Diane Franklin, Steve Antin
The friendship of a group of young friends struggling with teen sex, drugs Read More »
The Stone Council AKA Le concile de pierre (2006) Guillaume Nicloux, Monica Bellucci, Catherine Deneuve, Moritz Bleibtreu
In France, the single translator Diane Siprien adopts an Asian baby named Liu-San in a foundation directed by Sybille Weber. Read More »
Purple Haze (1982) David Burton Morris, Peter Nelson, Chuck McQuary, Bernard Baldan
The film opens in Princeton University, 1968, where Matt Caulfield and his friends are watching television. Read More »
I Love You to Death (1990) Lawrence Kasdan, Kevin Kline, Tracey Ullman, William Hurt
Joey Boca (Kevin Kline) works with Rosalie (Tracey Ullman) in their pizza parlor. Read More »
Springtime AKA Ggotpineun bomi omyeon (2004) Jang-ha Ryu, Min-sik Choi, Ho-jung Kim, Shin-yeong Jang
A struggling musician takes a job teaching music to middle school children in a rural mining town. Read More »
Half Angel (1936) Sidney Lanfield, Frances Dee, Brian Donlevy, Charles Butterworth
Allison Long is acquitted on charges of poisoning her father but then her benefactor is poisoned. Read More »
Carmen Jones (1954) Otto Preminger, Harry Belafonte, Dorothy Dandridge, Pearl Bailey
At an all-black army camp, civilian parachute maker and “hot bundle” Carmen Jones is desired by many of the men. Read More »
Boxing Helena (1993) Jennifer Lynch, Julian Sands, Sherilyn Fenn, Bill Paxton
A top surgeon is besotted with a beautiful woman who once ditched him. Read More »