Mr. Verloc is part of a gang of foreign saboteurs operating out of London. He manages a small cinema Read More »
Daily Archives: July 8, 2020
Farewell AKA Proshchanie (1983) Elem Klimov, Stefaniya Stanyuta, Lev Durov, Aleksey Petrenko
Matyora is a small village on a beautiful island with the same name. Read More »
It’s All Happening (1963) Don Sharp, Tommy Steele, Michael Medwin, Angela Douglas
Tommy Steele stars as a talent-spotter at a recording company who determines to organize a concert featuring Read More »
Horse and Woman and Dog AKA Uma to onna to inu (1990) Hisayasu Satô, Kanako Kishi, Kazuhiro Sano, Yuri Sasaki
Three social outcasts who live near the seaside interact with each other in increasingly disturbing ways. Read More »
Two in a Taxi (1941) Robert Florey, Anita Louise, Russell Hayden, Noah Beery Jr.
Jimmy Owens (Russell Hayden) is a driver for a taxicab-fleet trying to scrape together $300.00 in order to buy a small Read More »
Mr. Topaze (1961) Peter Sellers, Nadia Gray, Herbert Lom
Mr. Topaze (‘Peter Sellers’) is an unassuming school teacher in an unassuming small French town who is honest to a fault. Read More »
The Domain: The Naniwa Story AKA Nihon Kyokaku-den: Naniwa-hen (1965) Masahiro Makino, Ken Takakura, Hideo Murata, Asao Uchida
Osaka, 1920. A sailor returns from several years at sea to see his brother Read More »
Movie Movie (1978) Stanley Donen, George C. Scott, Trish Van Devere, Red Buttons
Three movie genres of the 1930s are satirized in this spoof of the traditional double feature. Read More »
The Bamboo Incident AKA Hoa-Binh (1970) Raoul Coutard, Phi Lan, Huynh Cazenas, Le Quynh
A small Vietnamese boy grows up during the horrors and hardships of The Vietnam War era. Read More »
First Cousin Once Removed (2012) Alan Berliner, Eli Berliner, Stuart Blazer, Susan Brown
Acclaimed filmmaker Alan Berliner chronicles the deeply personal story of his mother’s first cousin–well-known poet/translator/professor Read More »
Phantom Raiders (1940) Jacques Tourneur, Walter Pidgeon, Donald Meek, Joseph Schildkraut
A mysterious rash of cargo ship sinkings in Panama leads insurers Llewellyns of London to hire vacationer Nick Carter Read More »
A Man Called Peter (1955) Henry Koster, Richard Todd, Jean Peters, Marjorie Rambeau
Based on the true story of a young Scottish lad, Peter Marshall, who dreams of only going to sea Read More »
Champagne for Caesar (1950) Richard Whorf, Ronald Colman, Celeste Holm, Vincent Price
What happens when the man who knows everything goes on a quiz show that doubles your cash prize Read More »
Critic’s Choice (1963) Don Weis, Bob Hope, Lucille Ball, Marilyn Maxwell
Parker Ballantine is the most respected and forthright of the New York theater critics. Read More »
Hour of the Star AKA A Hora da Estrela (1985) Suzana Amaral, Marcelia Cartaxo, José Dumont, Tamara Taxman
Macabea has just moved to the big city after her aunt, who raised her, died. Read More »