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Monthly Archives: October 2020
The Informer (1929) Arthur Robison, Lya De Putti, Lars Hanson, Warwick Ward
Working class Irishmen Lars Hanson (as Gypo Nolan) and Carl Harbord (as Francis McPhillipp) are members of an anti-establishment “Party”, where politics is punctuated with gunfire. Read More »
Les hautes solitudes (1974) Philippe Garrel, Jean Seberg, Nico, Tina Aumont
Biographical film about Jean Seberg, losely based on Nitschz’s Anti-Christ. Read More »
The Pear Tree AKA Derakhte Golabi (1998) Dariush Mehrjui, Homayoun Ershadi, Golshifteh Farahani, Mohammad Reza Shaban-Noori
A man contemplates life and compares it to a pear tree in his yard which stops producing fruit. Read More »
Catherine the Great (1996) Marvin J. Chomsky, John Goldsmith, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Paul McGann, Ian Richardson
In this romanticized biography, a small German principality’s inexperienced princess, Catherine Read More »
Sweet Country (1987) Mihalis Kakogiannis, Jane Alexander, John Cullum, Carole Laure
Anna and Ben are settled in rural Chile in the early 1970’s. They are very isolated and their only real friends are two Chilean sisters, Eva and Monica. Read More »
Call It a Day (1937) Archie Mayo, Olivia de Havilland, Ian Hunter, Anita Louise
The first day of spring has a profound affect on the Hilton family. Read More »
The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex (1939) Michael Curtiz, Bette Davis, Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland
This period drama frames the tumultuous affair between Queen Elizabeth I and the man who would be King of England Read More »
Goodbye Emmanuelle (1977) François Leterrier, Sylvia Kristel, Umberto Orsini, Jean-Pierre Bouvier
Emmanuelle and her architect husband continue their amoral lifestyle in the Seychelles. Read More »
The Extraordinary Seaman (1969) John Frankenheimer, David Niven, Faye Dunaway, Alan Alda
Lt. Commander Finchhaven, a ghostly relic from the First World War, he had fallen down dead drunk on his first assignment Read More »
But You Were Dead AKA La lunga notte di Veronique (1966) Gianni Vernuccio, Alba Rigazzi, Sandro Pizzochero, Cristina Gaioni
After the death of his parents due to a car accident, Giovanni Bernardi, following the last wishes of his mother, goes to count Marco Anselmi Read More »
Looking for Langston (1989) Isaac Julien, Ben Ellison, Matthew Baidoo, Akim Mogaji
A black and white, fantasy-like recreation of high-society gay men during the Harlem Renaissance Read More »
Behind Blue Skies AKA Himlen är oskyldigt blå (2010) Hannes Holm, Bill Skarsgård, Peter Dalle, Josefin Ljungman
Coming of age film that takes place in the Swedish archipelago during 70s about young Martin Read More »
Madame Bovary (1991) Claude Chabrol, Isabelle Huppert, Jean-François Balmer, Christophe Malavoy
In nineteenth-century France, the romantic daughter of a country squire (Emma Rouault) marries a dull country doctor (Charles Bovary). Read More »
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 »