A continuation of “Diary for My Children,” the film picks up in 1950, when Juli, the diarist, is 18 and determined to become a movie director. Read More »
Daily Archives: December 23, 2020
Mother of the River (1995) Zeinabu irene Davis, Kim Bloom, Wayne Caparas, Monique Coleman
In this poignant story set in the 1850s, a young slave girl befriends a magical woman in the woods called Mother of the River. Read More »
Yokai Monsters: Spook Warfare AKA Yôkai daisensô (1968) Yoshiyuki Kuroda, Yoshihiko Aoyama, Hideki Hanamura, Chikara Hashimoto
When a Babylonian vampire comes to old Japan, an army of Japanese demons and ghosts gather and battle him. Read More »
The Appointment (1981) Lindsey C. Vickers, Edward Woodward, Jane Merrow, Samantha Weysom
A British haunting/horror film that starts with a bang, but then settles into a slow-moving examination Read More »
Paul (1969) Diourka Medveczky, Jean-Pierre Léaud, Bernadette Lafont, Jean-Pierre Kalfon
Paul, a young middle-class person in break with his environment, meets a small vegetarians community and tramps who live outdoor… Read More »
Tom and Huck (1995) Peter Hewitt, Jonathan Taylor Thomas, Brad Renfro, Charles Rocket
Tom Sawyer is a mischievous young boy, growing up in a small US town in the mid-1800s. Read More »
Outside the Law (1930) Tod Browning, Mary Nolan, Edward G. Robinson, Owen Moore
Fingers is planning a half-million-dollar bank robbery in gang boss Cobra Collins’ territory. Read More »
Frisk (1995) Todd Verow, Michael Gunther, Craig Chester, Michael Stock
A first person narrative of the exploits of a gay serial killer in deeply disturbing Read More »
Swan Lake: The Zone AKA Lebedyne ozero. Zona (1990) Yuri Ilyenko, Viktor Solovyov, Lyudmila Efimenko, Pylyp Ilyenko
This film tells what it was like to live in the USSR with brutal reality. Read More »
Play Misty for Me (1971) Clint Eastwood, Jessica Walter, Donna Mills
Disc jockey Dave Garver (Clint Eastwood) attracts the amorous attentions of a demented fan named Evelyn Draper (Jessica Walter). Read More »
Harvest: 3,000 Years AKA Mirt Sost Shi Amit (1975) Haile Gerima, Kasu Asfaw, Gebru Kasa, Worke Kasa
In Ethiopia; there is a slow boiling of a feud between a wealthy Lord Read More »
The Night of Counting the Years AKA Al-mummia (1969) Chadi Abdel Salam, Ahmed Marei, Ahmad Hegazi, Nadia Lutfi
Universally recognized as one of the greatest Egyptian films ever made Read More »