Jacqueline is sixteen. Her parents are kept very busy by their mutual careers (Dad is a renowned attorney and Mum is a doctor running her own clinic). Read More »
Daily Archives: January 3, 2021
The Day the Bookies Wept (1939) Leslie Goodwins, Joe Penner, Betty Grable, Richard Lane
The taxi drivers of the Colonel Cab Company are tired of losing money at the racetrack. Read More »
Lady Be Careful (1936) Theodore Reed, Lew Ayres, Mary Carlisle, Benny Baker
A group of marines bet one of them that he can’t get a ribbon from a particular girl on a yacht. In fact they fall in love and live happily ever after. Read More »
Providence (1977) Alain Resnais, Dirk Bogarde, Ellen Burstyn, John Gielgud
Clive Langham (Sir John Gielgud) spends one tormenting night in his bed suffering from health problems and thinking up a story based on his relatives. Read More »
Stars and Bars (1988) Pat O’Connor, Daniel Day-Lewis, Harry Dean Stanton, Kent Broadhurst
A British art expert travels across America in order to purchase a rare Renoir painting Read More »
Molokai: The Story of Father Damien (1999) Paul Cox, Keanu Kapuni-Szasz, David Wenham, Jan Kleinejan
The true story of the 19th century priest who volunteered to go to the island of Molokai, to console and care for the lepers. Read More »
Games of Clouds and Rain AKA Les jeux des nuages et de la pluie (2013) Benjamin de Lajarte, Simon Yam, Heling Li, Audrey Dana
Li Qin leaves her temperamental husband and unknowingly provides a trail for a detective who has been, for months, secretly devoted to her. Read More »
The Mountain AKA Dag (2012) Alper Caglar, Caglar Ertugrul, Ufuk Bayraktar, Firat Dogruloglu
A four man team sent from headquarters to repair a comm station suddenly falls into a terrorist ambush on the peaks of a mountain. Read More »
Diaries Notes and Sketches AKA Walden (1969) Jonas Mekas, Timothy Leary, Ed Emshwiller, Franz Fuenstler
Jonas Mekas, the godfather of American “underground” cinema, shot literally miles of impromptu film on a tiny Read More »
The Trespasser (1947) George Blair, Dale Evans, Warren Douglas, Janet Martin
“Stevie’ Carson (Janet Martin (I)’), daughter of a famous newspaperman Read More »
My Apprenticeship AKA V lyudyakh (1939) Mark Donskoy, Aleksei Lyarsky, Irina Zarubina, Varvara Massalitinova
For the family really no money, Alexei began to make a living. Everything was limited to dirty chores Read More »
Jacques Rivette – The Night Watchman AKA Jacques Rivette – Le veilleur (1994) Claire Denis, Serge Daney, Jacques Rivette, Bulle Ogier
This film of interviews with the film director Jacques Rivette was produced in collaboration with Serge Daney Read More »