Merlin Jones, a precocious and intelligent high-school boy, experiments with hypnosis Read More »
Daily Archives: July 29, 2020
A View from the Bridge AKA Vu du pont (1962) Sidney Lumet, Raf Vallone, Maureen Stapleton, Carol Lawrence
Eddie Carbone, a Brooklyn longshoreman is unhappily married to Beatrice Read More »
The Waves of the Danube AKA Valurile Dunarii (1960) Liviu Ciulei, Lazar Vrabie, Irina Petrescu
Mihai leads members of the local resistance movement in an attack on a barge Read More »
The Naked Civil Servant (1975) Jack Gold, John Hurt, Liz Gebhardt, Patricia Hodge
The life and times of Quentin Crisp, an outrageous and flamboyant homosexual Read More »
Vendetta (1950) Mel Ferrer, Stuart Heisler, Faith Domergue, George Dolenz, Donald Buka
The daughter of a slain man pushes her brother toward vengeance in 19th-century Corsica. Read More »
Glória (1999) Manuela Viegas, Jean-Christophe Bouvet, Raquel Marques, Francisco Relvas
Ivan goes to live with his father, Vicente, the stationmaster, in a small remote village inland Portugal. Read More »
Baader (2002) Christopher Roth, Frank Giering, Laura Tonke, Vadim Glowna
Andreas Baader starts out as a small-time criminal. Read More »
The Devil’s Brother (1933) Hal Roach, Charley Rogers, Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Dennis King
At Stanlio’s urging, Ollio foists himself off as the dread singing bandit Fra Diavolo Read More »
The Very Edge (1963) Cyril Frankel, Richard Todd, Anne Heywood, Nicole Maurey
A young married woman finds herself being stalked by a sinister psychopath. Read More »
‘night, Mother (1986) Tom Moore, Sissy Spacek, Anne Bancroft, Ed Berke
What would you do if someone you loved sat down with you one night Read More »
The Flower, the Storm, and the Gang AKA Hana to arashi to gyangu (1961) Teruo Ishii, Ken Takakura, Kôji Tsuruta, Mamoru Ogawa
This is an important early Toei yakuza film, starring a young Ken Takakura as a wild Read More »