Hedvig Jensen is a famous ropewalker and is known to her public as Elvira Madigan. Read More »
Monthly Archives: April 2021
Collective AKA Colectiv (2019) Alexander Nanau, Razvan Lutac, Mirela Neag, Camelia Roiu
In 2015, a fire at Bucharest’s Colectiv club leaves 27 dead and 180 injured. Read More »
Eko Eko Azarak III: Misa the Dark Angel AKA Eko eko azaraku III (1998) Katsuhito Ueno, Hinako Saeki, Ayaka Nanami, Missy Bolden
A temporal portal dumps a rotting zombie on a city street. “Misa Kuroi”, it croaks, before withering away. Read More »
The Lyons in Paris (1955) Val Guest, Ben Lyon, Bebe Daniels, Barbara Lyon
Has Ben Lyon forgotten his wedding anniversary? His wife Bebe thinks he has, and can hardly contain her fury. Read More »
Beau Geste (1926) Herbert Brenon, Ronald Colman, Neil Hamilton, Ralph Forbes
Michael “Beau” Geste leaves England in disgrace and joins the infamous French Foreign Legion. Read More »
La question (1977) Laurent Heynemann, Jacques Denis, Nicole Garcia, Jean-Pierre Sentier
In Algiers, during 1957, the army was sent to restore order. Henri Charlègue, the editor of a newspaper sympathetic to the FLN Read More »
Pride of the Marines (1945) Delmer Daves, John Garfield, Eleanor Parker, Dane Clark
Married couple Jim & Ella Merchant set up their single friend Al Schmid on a blind date with Ruth Hartley. Read More »
Complexes AKA I complessi (1965) Luigi Filippo D’Amico, Dino Risi, Nino Manfredi, Ilaria Occhini, Riccardo Garrone
In the first episode, Quirino tries to conquer Gabriella, lover of Alvaro, with the complexity of shyness. Read More »
Song of Tibet AKA Yeshe Dolma (2000) Fei Xie, Danzengzhuoga, Laqiong, Dawangdui
Stunningly shot on real locations, Song of Tibet is much as its title sounds – a wistful Read More »
Body Heat (1981) Lawrence Kasdan, William Hurt, Kathleen Turner, Richard Crenna
Ned Racine is a seedy small town lawyer in Florida. During a searing heatwave he’s picked up by married Matty Walker. Read More »
The Night (2020) Kourosh Ahari, Shahab Hosseini, Niousha Noor, George Maguire
An Iranian couple living in the US become trapped inside a hotel when insidious events force Read More »
Everyone Dies Alone AKA Jeder stirbt für sich allein (1976) Alfred Vohrer, Hildegard Knef, Carl Raddatz, Sylvia Manas
When they start losing family members and neighbors due to WWII and the Nazi government’s policies Read More »
Muhomatsu, the Rikshaw Man AKA Muhomatsu no issho (1958) Hiroshi Inagaki, Toshirô Mifune, Hideko Takamine, Hiroshi Akutagawa
In the turn of the Twentieth Century, the rickshaw driver Matsugoro “Matsu” Read More »
Eko Eko Azarak II: Birth of the Wizard AKA Eko eko azaraku II (1996) Shimako Sato, Kimika Yoshino, Wataru Shihôdô, Chieko Shiratori
Kimika Yoshino returns in this prequel to ‘Wizard of Darkness’ to play Misa Kuroi before she was famous Read More »
Querelle (1982) Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Brad Davis, Franco Nero, Jeanne Moreau
The French naval ship, Le Vengeur, based out of Marseille, has just docked in Brest for an extended stay. Read More »