Set in 1909: A working-class girl is refused marriage by her politically committed boyfriend. Read More »
Daily Archives: July 6, 2020
Ginger Baker in Africa (1973) Tony Palmer, Ginger Baker, Fela Kuti
The former Cream drummer travels to Nigeria to build a recording studio. Read More »
Sogobi (2002) James Benning
Many films by this master of landscape cinema are cinematic studies of specific landscapes Read More »
El Valley Centro (1999) James Benning
Employing natural sound and contemplative proscenium shots, Benning skillfully composes a series of pure Read More »
What! No Beer? (1933) Edward Sedgwick, Buster Keaton, Jimmy Durante, Roscoe Ates
Although he has never met her, Elmer Butts loves Hortense secretly and from afar. Read More »
That Certain Feeling (1956) Melvin Frank, Norman Panama, Bob Hope, Eva Marie Saint, George Sanders
When Larry Larkin’s comic strip needs some freshening up Read More »
Main Street AKA Calle Mayor (1956) Juan Antonio Bardem, Betsy Blair, José Suárez, Yves Massard
A couple of friends decide to have a good time and play a trick on an unmarried woman. Read More »
Doughboys (1930) Edward Sedgwick, Buster Keaton, Sally Eilers, Cliff Edwards
Elmer, rich society loafer, falls for Mary, but she’ll have nothing to do with him until Read More »
The Object of Beauty (1991) Michael Lindsay-Hogg, John Malkovich, Andie MacDowell, Lolita Davidovich
American couple Jake and Tina are living in an expensive London hotel way beyond what they can afford. Read More »
Tokyo Drifter AKA Tôkyô nagaremono (1966) Seijun Suzuki, Tetsuya Watari, Chieko Matsubara, Tamio Kawachi
Tokyo Drifter stands with Branded to Kill as one of the best-known and most acclaimed films of Seijun Suzuki, one of Japan’s most talented maverick directors. Read More »
The Curse of the Wraydons (1946) Victor M. Gover, Bruce Seton, Henry Caine, Pearl Cameron
Based on a “famous” play , Spring-Heeled Jack or The Terror of London by Maurice Sandoz. Read More »
They’re a Weird Mob (1966) Michael Powell, Walter Chiari, Claire Dunne, Chips Rafferty
Nino Culotta is an Italian immigrant who arrived in Australia with the promise of a job as a journalist Read More »
Blood on the Land AKA To homa vaftike kokkino (1965) Vasilis Georgiadis, Nikos Kourkoulos, Mairi Hronopoulou, Giannis Voglis
Under the scorching sun of June in turn-of-the-twentieth-century Thessaly, Odysseas Chormovas–the untamed Read More »
I Am Sartana, Your Angel of Death AKA Sono Sartana, il vostro becchino (1969) Giuliano Carnimeo, Gianni Garko, Frank Wolff, Ettore Manni
Sartana is falsely accused of robbing a bank, and must find the real robbers and clear his name. Read More »
Live for Life AKA Vivre pour vivre (1967) Claude Lelouch, Yves Montand, Candice Bergen, Annie Girardot
Robert Colomb, a famous TV newscaster, is married to Catherine, but is continually unfaithful. Read More »