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Monthly Archives: September 2020
Word Is Out (1977) Nancy Adair, Andrew Brown, Pat Bond, John Burnside, Sally M. Gearhart
More than two dozen men and women of various backgrounds, ages, and races talk to the camera about being gay. Read More »
Pan Tadeusz: The Last Foray in Lithuania AKA Pan Tadeusz (1999) Andrzej Wajda, Boguslaw Linda, Daniel Olbrychski, Grazyna Szapolowska
In the early 1810s, Poles, part of Russia’s client state of Lithuania, think independence will come Read More »
Tony Manero (2008) Pablo Larraín, Alfredo Castro, Amparo Noguera, Héctor Morales
Raúl, a middle-aged, unemployed man, is obsessed by the character Tony Manero, who John Travolta plays in the film “Saturday Night Fever”. Read More »
Provincial Actors AKA Aktorzy prowincjonalni (1979) Agnieszka Holland, Halina Labonarska, Tadeusz Huk, Iwona Biernacka
In reality, the comedy-drama can be read as a commentary on the contemporary Polish scene in politics and society. Read More »
Home, Sweet Homicide (1946) Lloyd Bacon, Peggy Ann Garner, Randolph Scott, Lynn Bari
Mystery writer Marian Carstairs is hard at work trying to finish her latest novel. Read More »
Maisie Was a Lady (1941) Edwin L. Marin, Ann Sothern, Lew Ayres, Maureen O’Sullivan
Showgirl Maisie Ravier finds herself once again out of work. She meets a wealthy playboy who hires her to be his family’s new maid. Read More »
Heart of a Dog AKA Sobache serdtse (1988) Vladimir Bortko, Evgeniy Evstigneev, Vladimir Tolokonnikov, Boris Plotnikov
Old Prof. Preobrazhensky and his young colleague Dr. Bormental inserted the human’s hypophysis into a dog’s brain. Read More »
Grand Ole Opry (1940) Frank McDonald, Leon Weaver, Frank Weaver, June Weaver
Abner Weaver, a small-town mayor in the Ozarks, through the music of performers from ‘The Grand Ole Opry,” Read More »
A Coffee in Berlin AKA Oh Boy (2012) Jan Ole Gerster, Tom Schilling, Katharina Schüttler, Justus von Dohnányi
This tragicomedy is a self-ironic portrait of a young man who drops out of university Read More »
Headline Shooter (1933) Otto Brower, William Gargan, Frances Dee, Ralph Bellamy
Roguish, cynical newsreel cameraman Bill Allen usually has a dame in one hand Read More »
Women Without Names (1940) Robert Florey, Ellen Drew, Robert Paige, Judith Barrett
Construction engineer Fred MacNeil meets waitress Joyce King at a hamburger stand and she accepts his invitation to see her home. Read More »
This Man’s Navy (1945) William A. Wellman, Wallace Beery, Tom Drake, James Gleason
Ned Trumpet (Wallace Beery), the chief pilot of a Navy blimp, is given to weaving accounts of the fighting prowess of his non-existent son. Read More »
A Guy Named Joe (1943) Victor Fleming, Spencer Tracy, Irene Dunne, Van Johnson
Maj. Pete Sandidge is a very able pilot who seems to have a streak of luck as far as flying goes. Read More »
How to Murder Your Wife (1965) Richard Quine, Jack Lemmon, Virna Lisi, Terry-Thomas
Stanley Ford leads an idyllic bachelor life. He is a nationally syndicated cartoonist whose Bash Brannigan Read More »