The evil Prince Prospero is riding through the Catania village when he sees that the peasants are dying of Red Death plague. Read More »
Daily Archives: September 13, 2020
Straight Shooting (1917) John Ford, Harry Carey, Duke R. Lee, George Berrell
Cattleman Flint cuts off farmer Sims’ water supply. When Sims’ son Ted goes for water, one of Flint’s men kills him. Read More »
The Spooky Bunch AKA Zhuang dao zheng (1980) Ann Hui, Josephine Siao, Kenny Bee, Mang-Ha Cheng
A Cantonese opera company arrives in Cheung Chau to perform for a rich man, who wants to marry Read More »
Numéro zéro (1971) Jean Eustache, Boris Eustache, Odette Robert
A family portrait in which the director profiles his grandmother. Read More »
Teenage (2013) Matt Wolf, Jena Malone, Ben Whishaw, Julia Hummer
Teenagers did not always exist. In this living collage of rare archival material, filmed portraits Read More »
July Rhapsody AKA Nam yan sei sap (2002) Ann Hui, Jacky Cheung, Anita Mui, Kar Yan Lam
Yiu-Kwok is a high school teacher, having a perfect family. Good times don’t last long, when a student, Choy-Nam, falls in love with him. Read More »
Two Acres of Land AKA Do Bigha Zamin (1953) Bimal Roy, Balraj Sahni, Nirupa Roy, Rattan Kumar
A small Bengali landowner and his young son are in danger when their two-acre farmland Read More »
Diary of a Madman (1963) Reginald Le Borg, Vincent Price, Nancy Kovack, Chris Warfield
Simon Cordier is a well-respected magistrate who visits a condemned prisoner, Louis Girot, just before the man’s execution. Read More »
Alice AKA Alicja (1982) Jacek Bromski, Jerzy Gruza, Sophie Barjac, Jean-Pierre Cassel, Susannah York
Alice was sitting in the park one day. She sees a jogger called Rabbit. Read More »
Billions for Boris (1984) Alexander Grasshoff, Scott Tiler, Mary Tanner Bailey, Seth Green
Three New York City kids fix a broken television and discover it now receives tomorrow’s broadcast. Read More »
A Perfect Man AKA Un homme idéal (2015) Yann Gozlan, Pierre Niney, Ana Girardot, André Marcon
Mathieu, a man in his mid-twenties, dreams of making his name as an author happens to come across the forgotten manuscript of an old man who has recently died. Read More »
Reflections AKA Vec vidjeno (1987) Goran Markovic, Mustafa Nadarevic, Anica Dobra, Milorad Mandic-Manda
Piano teacher is deeply traumatised by the events of his childhood Read More »
Plato’s Academy AKA Akadimia Platonos (2009) Filippos Tsitos, Antonis Kafetzopoulos, Anastasis Kozdine, Titika Sarigouli
Stavros, a Greek shopkeeper cares for his aging mother after a stroke. Read More »