A mad doctor creates life while murderous prostitutes are on the prowl Read More »
Monthly Archives: September 2020
The Success AKA Il successo (1963) Mauro Morassi, Dino Risi, Vittorio Gassman, Anouk Aimée, Jean-Louis Trintignant
Giulio is a 38-year-old intellectual stuck in a meaningless white-collar job. Read More »
The Girl with the Red Hair AKA Het meisje met het rode haar (1981) Ben Verbong, Renée Soutendijk, Peter Tuinman, Loes Luca
Johanna ‘Hannie’ Schaft tells, in flash-backs, how she decides during the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands Read More »
Devotion (1946) Curtis Bernhardt, Olivia de Havilland, Ida Lupino, Paul Henreid
In Victorian England, literary siblings Emily and Charlotte Bronte vie for the affection of the Reverend Arthur Nichols. Read More »
The Pleasure Garden (1925) Alfred Hitchcock, Virginia Valli, Carmelita Geraghty, Miles Mander
Patsy Brand is a chorus girl at the Pleasure Garden music hall. Read More »
Miracle Mile (1988) Steve De Jarnatt, Anthony Edwards, Mare Winningham, John Agar
A young man meets and falls in love with a young woman at the La Brea Tar Pits in Los Angeles. Read More »
Sione’s Wedding (2006) Chris Graham, Oscar Kightley, Iaheto Ah Hi, Shimpal Lelisi
Meet best friends Michael, Albert, Stanley and Sefa; the ladies’ man, the good boy, the weird one and the party boy. Read More »
The Conversation (1974) Francis Ford Coppola, Gene Hackman, John Cazale, Allen Garfield
Harry Caul is a devout Catholic and a lover of jazz music who plays his saxophone while listening to his jazz records. Read More »
12 Angry Men (1957) Sidney Lumet, Henry Fonda, Lee J. Cobb, Martin Balsam
The defense and the prosecution have rested and the jury is filing into the jury room Read More »
Trial on the Road AKA Proverka na dorogakh (1986) Aleksey German, Rolan Bykov, Anatoliy Solonitsyn, Vladimir Zamanskiy
Film is set in the winter of 1942 during the Nazi occupation of Russia in WWII. Read More »
Dutch Girls (1985) Giles Foster, Bill Paterson, Colin Firth, Timothy Spall
An adolescent British field hockey team goes to Holland, where they find something Read More »
In This World (2002) Michael Winterbottom, Jamal Udin Torabi, Enayatullah, Imran Paracha
In February 2002 in the Shamshatoo Refugee Camp in the North West Frontier Province in Pakistan Read More »
Bird-Man Tale AKA Aku Ingin Menciummu Sekali Saja (2002) Garin Nugroho, Octavianus Rysiat Muabuay, Lulu Tobing, Minus Coneston Karoba
This film dwells on a Papuan teenage boy (Arnold, 15 years), who meets a woman Read More »
Eternal Love (1929) Ernst Lubitsch, John Barrymore, Camilla Horn, Victor Varconi
In a Swiss Village in 1806, the fiery Marcus and the local clergyman’s niece Ciglia are passionately in love. Read More »
Dreams That Money Can Buy (1947) Hans Richter, Jack Bittner, Libby Holman, Josh White
After learning how to look inside himself, a poetic bum sells people vivid dreams. Read More »