The stories of Nora during a brief period when her father falls ill and of Ismaël while involuntarily committed Read More »
Monthly Archives: January 2021
Chandler (1971) Paul Magwood, Warren Oates, Leslie Caron, Alex Dreier
A hardboiled aging private eye is hired to find and protect a missing government witness sought after by the gangsters. Read More »
The First Great Train Robbery (1978) Michael Crichton, Sean Connery, Donald Sutherland, Lesley-Anne Down
Sutherland and Connery wish to rob a moving train’s safe in Victorian England. Read More »
Sleepless AKA La anam (1957) Salah Abouseif, Faten Hamamah, Maryam Fakhruddin, Omar Sharif
‘I Never Sleep’ (also called ‘Sleepless’) is the story of Nadia Lotfi (Faten Hamama), a teenage girl Read More »
Beasts of Prey AKA Yukshik dongmul (1985) Ki-young Kim, Seong-gyeom Kim
Kim Dong-sik works at a securities firm. When his wife’s business grows and his position at home gets blurred Read More »
The Postman’s White Nights AKA Belye nochi pochtalyona Alekseya Tryapitsyna (2014) Andrey Konchalovskiy, Aleksey Tryapitsyn, Irina Ermolova, Timur Bondarenko
The film represents life in a godforsaken Russian village. The only way to reach the mainland is to cross the lake by boat Read More »
The Far Country (1954) Anthony Mann, James Stewart, Ruth Roman, Corinne Calvet
In 1896, Jeff Webster sees the start of the Klondike gold rush as a golden opportunity Read More »
Morphine AKA Morfiy (2008) Aleksey Balabanov, Leonid Bichevin, Ingeborga Dapkunaite, Andrey Panin
The year is 1917. We are in the Russian countryside. It is the middle of freezing winter. Read More »
Hitler: A Film from Germany AKA Hitler, ein Film aus Deutschland (1977) Hans-Jürgen Syberberg, Heinz Schubert, Peter Kern, Hellmut Lange
Director Hans-Jurgen Syberberg examines the rise and fall of the Third Reich Read More »
Bamako (2006) Abderrahmane Sissako, Aïssa Maïga, Tiécoura Traoré, Maimouna Hélène Diarra
Bamako. Melé is a bar singer, her husband Chaka is out of work Read More »
It Doesn’t Hurt Me AKA Mne ne bolno (2006) Aleksey Balabanov, Renata Litvinova, Aleksandr Yatsenko, Dmitriy Dyuzhev
Three young friends have all they need for a sterling life besides money. Read More »
Girls in Distress AKA Jeunes filles en détresse (1939) Georg Wilhelm Pabst, Marcelle Chantal, Jacqueline Delubac, André Luguet
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 »
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 »