A three-year-old orphan is adopted by a German couple shortly after World War II. Read More »
Daily Archives: October 23, 2020
The Long Ships (1963) Jack Cardiff, Richard Widmark, Sidney Poitier, Russ Tamblyn
In this elaborately mounted seafaring adventure, Rolfe (Richard Widmark) is a Viking leader with the cunning and devious mind of a pirate. Read More »
The Dress AKA Klänningen (1964) Vilgot Sjöman, Gunn Wållgren, Gunnar Björnstrand, Tina Hedström
Edit is pleased that her mother agrees to let her buy a dress she loves, but which in fact is made for an adult woman. Read More »
Like Cattle Towards Glow (2015) Dennis Cooper, Zac Farley, Nicolas Hau, Gabriel Norman, E.D. Yang
Like Cattle Towards Glow is film consisting of five independent, thematically and emotionally interconnected scenes. Read More »
A Wonderful Night in Split AKA Ta divna Splitska noc (2004) Arsen A. Ostojic, Dino Dvornik, Mladen Vulic, Coolio
During last two hours of the year, the three stories are happening in the dark and deserted streets of coastal town of Split Read More »
Sagina Mahato (1971) Tapan Sinha, Dilip Kumar, Saira Banu, Anil Chatterjee
Sagina Mahato, a factory laborer,an aggressive, honest and lovable character who was the first to fight against Read More »
Year of The Dragon (1985) Michael Cimino, Mickey Rourke, John Lone, Ariane
Best known for his 1978 film The Deer Hunter or perhaps the less-successful Heaven’s Gate Read More »
The Tunnel (1935) Maurice Elvey, Richard Dix, Leslie Banks, Madge Evans
Engineers Richard McAllan and Frederick Robinson manage to get financial backing for a gigantic project to build a tunnel from England to America. Read More »
The Underground Orchestra AKA Het ondergrondse orkest (1998) Heddy Honigmann
THE UNDERGROUND ORCHESTRA is a glorious documentary profile of musicians who play on the sidewalks of Paris and in the Metro. Read More »
Patty AKA Gang Rape (1962) Leo A. Handel, Merry Anders, J. Edward McKinley, Dani Lynn
Sweet young lass Patty Smith moves from her native Kansas to Los Angeles, California. Read More »
Island of Lost Men (1939) Kurt Neumann, Anna May Wong, J. Carrol Naish, Eric Blore
An altered remake of 1933’s “White Woman,” finds cabaret-singer Kim Ling, daughter of a Chinese general Read More »
First a Girl (1935) Victor Saville, Jessie Matthews, Sonnie Hale, Anna Lee
Elizabeth, a delivery girl, dreams of being a music-hall singer but she is refused at the first casting she takes part in. Read More »
At the First Breath of Wind AKA Al Primo Soffio di Vento (2002) Franco Piavoli, Primo Gaburri, Mariella Fabbris, Ida Carnevali
Tells the tale of an August day in the Lombardy countrysides. A family, idle and preoccupied, sits around a table after a summer lunch. Read More »
The Hunters AKA Jägarna (1996) Kjell Sundvall, Rolf Lassgård, Lennart Jähkel, Jarmo Mäkinen
A policeman from Stockholm comes up to Norrland in Sweden to join his brother, now that their parents are dead. Read More »