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Monthly Archives: October 2020
The Fireball (1950) Tay Garnett, Mickey Rooney, Pat O’Brien, Beverly Tyler
Johnny runs away from Father O’Hara’s orphanage and becomes a roller skating star with the help of Mary Reeves. Read More »
A Dog’s Will AKA O Auto da Compadecida (2000) Guel Arraes, Matheus Nachtergaele, Selton Mello, Rogério Cardoso
The lively João Grilo and the sly Chicó are poor guys living in the hinterland who cheat a bunch of people in a small Northeast Brazil town. Read More »
Failan AKA Pairan (2001) Hae-sung Song, Min-sik Choi, Cecilia Cheung, Dae-Hoon Jeong
After losing both her parents, Failan (Cecilia Cheung) immigrate to Korea to seek her only remaining relatives. Read More »
Wrath (2011) Jonathan Neil Dixon, Louise Janelle Bartlett, Bianca Bradey, Jazz Cohn
Traveling south to the coast through the remote Boanyoo Ranges, a group of friends encounter a stranger. Read More »
The Count Of The Old Town AKA Munkbrogreven (1935) Edvin Adolphson, Valdemar Dalquist, Julia Cæsar, Sigurd Wallén
This comedy romp takes place in and around Stockholm’s Old Town, which is inhabited by various dubious characters doing dubious things Read More »
The Queen of Sheba Meets the Atom Man (1963) Ron Rice, Taylor Mead, Winifred Bryan, Julian Beck
The Queen of Sheba Meets the Atom Man is a film about protesting the industrial world and having fun doing it. Read More »
What Remains (2005) [+Extras] Steven Cantor, Sally Mann, Karen Bailey, Richard Jantz
A look at the creative process of celebrated photographer Sally Mann. Read More »
Sister My Sister (1994) Nancy Meckler, Julie Walters, Joely Richardson, Jodhi May
This all-woman production is set in provincial France in the early 1930s. Read More »
War at a Distance AKA Erkennen und verfolgen (2003) Harun Farocki
A look at production and destruction and the relation between them. Read More »
And when I die, I won’t stay dead (2015) Billy Woodberry, Roscoe Lee Browne, Susanne Cockrell, Ossie Davis
A journey into the life and work of beat poet and activist Bob Kaufman Read More »
Welfare (1975) Frederick Wiseman
WELFARE shows the nature and complexity of the welfare system in sequences illustrating the staggering Read More »
Kiss Me AKA Kyss mig (2011) Alexandra-Therese Keining, Ruth Vega Fernandez, Liv Mjönes, Krister Henriksson
MIA (Ruth Vega Fernandez) and FRIDA (Liv Mjönes), both in their thirties Read More »
Infection AKA Kansen (2004) Masayuki Ochiai, Michiko Hada, Mari Hoshino, Tae Kimura
In a general hospital near bankruptcy, the reduced staff is working under a severe stress. Read More »
The Lively Set (1964) Jack Arnold, James Darren, Pamela Tiffin, Doug McClure
Casey Owens (James Darren), a young mechanic, has developed a design for a turbine car engine Read More »