In 1937 Shanghai, a soon-to-depart soldier meets a young woman under a bridge during a Japanese air raid. Read More »
Monthly Archives: October 2020
Girl’s Apartment AKA L’appartement des filles (1963) Michel Deville, Mylène Demongeot, Sylva Koscina, Renate Ewert
A charming gold smuggler tries to recruit equally charming air hostesses to transport gold bars to Bombay. Read More »
13 Most Beautiful… Songs for Andy Warhol Screen Tests (2009) Andy Warhol
Between 1964 and 1966, Andy Warhol shot nearly 500 Screen Tests Read More »
The Bedevilled AKA Sum moh (1975) Wei Lo, Reiko Ike, Chun-Hsiung Ko, James Tien
In a small town, the only son of the local influential family is found dead Read More »
Altitude 7000 Meters: Four Hours of Terror AKA Kôdo nanasen metoru: kyôfu no yojikan (1959) Tsuneo Kobayashi, Ken Takakura, Kenji Imai, Naoko Kubo
Passengers on an airliner in flight are startled to discover that a killer Read More »
The Nada Gang AKA Nada (1974) Claude Chabrol, Fabio Testi, Maurice Garrel, Lou Castel
A group of anarchist leftist called “Nada” and led by the terrorist Buenaventura Diaz Read More »
Funny Money (1983) James Kenelm Clarke, Gregg Henry, Elizabeth Daily, Gareth Hunt
In Las Vegas young Barty Nicholls inadvertently steals a fortune from the Mob Read More »
News Items AKA Faits divers (1983) Raymond Depardon
This documentary follows the daily life of a section of the police station of the fifth “arrondissement” (district) of Paris. Read More »
The White Bird Marked with Black AKA Bilyy ptakh z chornoyu oznakoyu (1971) Yuri Ilyenko, Larisa Kadochnikova, Ivan Mikolaychuk, Bogdan Stupka
Colourful ‘optimistic tragedy’ of a poor family in Ukraine, living in the Carpathian mountains Read More »
The Eve of Ivan Kupalo AKA Vechir na Ivana Kupala (1968) Yuri Ilyenko, Boris Khmelnitskiy, Larisa Kadochnikova, Yefim Fridman
Piotr is a modest farmhand living in an impoverished village in some unspecified long ago era. Read More »
Quintet (1979) Robert Altman, Paul Newman, Vittorio Gassman, Fernando Rey
In the distant future the world is in the grip of another ice age. Read More »
Mr. Saturday Night (1992) Billy Crystal, David Paymer, Julie Warner
Buddy Young was the comic’s comic, beloved by everyone. Read More »
Frantz (2016) François Ozon, Pierre Niney, Paula Beer, Ernst Stötzner
In 1919 Quedlinburg, Germany, a young woman named Anna is still mourning the death of her fiance Read More »
Street Smart (1987) Jerry Schatzberg, Christopher Reeve, Kathy Baker, Mimi Rogers
Magazine reporter Jonathan Fisher, in danger of losing his job, promises to write a factual hard-hitting story of prostitution. Read More »
The Day After (1983) Nicholas Meyer, Jason Robards, JoBeth Williams, Steve Guttenberg
The frightening story of the weeks leading up to and following a nuclear strike on the United States. Read More »