In nineteenth-century France, the romantic daughter of a country squire (Emma Rouault) marries a dull country doctor (Charles Bovary). Read More »
Daily Archives: October 9, 2020
Limelight (1952) Charles Chaplin, Claire Bloom, Nigel Bruce
Chaplin’s final American film tells the story of a fading music hall comedian’s effort to help a despondent Read More »
Visible Secret AKA You ling ren jian (2001) Ann Hui, Eason Chan, Qi Shu, Anthony Chau-Sang Wong
An unemployed hairdresser and a strange nurse, meet at a club and start a romance. Read More »
A Simple Event AKA Yek Etefagh sadeh (1974) Sohrab Shahid Saless, Hedayatollah Navid, Hibibollah Safarian, Ane Mohammad Tarikhi
The story of a ten years old Iranian schoolboy living with his mother and his father in Northern coasts of Iran. Read More »
The Lacemaker AKA La dentellière (1977) Claude Goretta, Isabelle Huppert, Yves Beneyton, Florence Giorgetti
Timid, discreet, and humble, the guileless nineteen-year-old assistant hairdresser, Pomme, lives with her doting mother and works in a Parisian beauty salon. Read More »
The Naked City (1948) Jules Dassin, Barry Fitzgerald, Howard Duff, Dorothy Hart
Amid a semi-documentary portrait of New York and its people, Jean Dexter Read More »
Alexander’s Ragtime Band (1938) Henry King, Tyrone Power, Alice Faye, Don Ameche
Roger Grant, a classical violinist, disappoints his family Read More »
Flesh and Fury (1952) Joseph Pevney, Tony Curtis, Jan Sterling, Mona Freeman
Deaf boxer Paul Callan captures the interest of gold-digging blonde Sonya Bartow Read More »
The Black Bird (1975) David Giler, George Segal, Stéphane Audran, Lionel Stander
After the death of private detective Sam Spade, his son, Sam Spade Jr. Read More »
Rio, Zona Norte (1957) Nelson Pereira dos Santos, Grande Otelo, Jece Valadão, Malu Maia
A talented songwriter of sambas is forced to face the social injustices of the city around him. Read More »
Le 6 juin à l’aube (1946) Jean Grémillon
The film starts by a visit to bucolic Normandy before the events. Read More »
Roaring Fire AKA Hoero tekken (1981) Norifumi Suzuki, Hiroyuki Sanada, Shin’ichi Chiba, Etsuko Shihomi
Joji learns a dark secret from his dying father; he learns he has a twin brother and a sister. Read More »
Salem’s Lot (1979) Tobe Hooper, David Soul, James Mason, Lance Kerwin
The successful writer Benjamin “Ben” Mears returns to his hometown Salem’s Lot, Maine Read More »
Last Light (1993) Kiefer Sutherland, Forest Whitaker, Clancy Brown
Awaiting execution, Denver Bayliss gains an unlikely friend and confidant in Fred Whitmore Read More »