After the disastrous results of his last expedition, Carl Denham leaves New York aboard a ship to escape all the trouble. Read More »
Fantasy
Jack and the Beanstalk (1970) Barry Mahon, Mitch Poulos, Dorothy Stokes, Renato Boracherro
Retelling of the classic fairy tale, but from a decidedly 1960s point of view, complete with “groovy” dialogue. Read More »
Yaji and Kita: The Midnight Pilgrims AKA Mayonaka no Yaji-san Kita-san (2005) Kankurô Kudô, Tomoya Nagase, Shichinosuke Nakamura, Sadao Abe
A re-imagining of the classic Japanese comedy “Yaji and Kita’s Travel Journey”, this is the story of two samurai in Edo period Japan who are in love. Read More »
Rocaterrania (2009) Brett Ingram
A journey into the secret world of 76-year-old Renaldo Kuhler, a scientific illustrator who invented an imaginary country to survive his disaffected youth. Read More »
The Scoundrel (1935) Ben Hecht, Charles MacArthur, Noël Coward, Julie Haydon, Stanley Ridges
A ruthless, cynical, hated publisher is killed in a plane crash, doomed to be a “restless” spirit for being unloved. Read More »
Jellyfish Eyes AKA Mememe no kurage (2013) Takashi Murakami, Takuto Sueoka, Himeka Asami, Masataka Kubota
In Japan, the small Masashi moves from one evacuation center to a small town. Read More »
Zombies on Broadway (1945) Gordon Douglas, Wally Brown, Alan Carney, Bela Lugosi
Two inept press agents are ordered to the island of San Sebastian to get a zombie for an opening night publicity stunt of a nightclub. Read More »
Big Bang Love, Juvenile A AKA 46-okunen no koi (2006) Takashi Miike, Ryûhei Matsuda, Masanobu Andô, Shunsuke Kubozuka
An unknown future. A boy confesses to the murder of another in an all-boy juvenile detention facility. Read More »
Reborn (1981) Bigas Luna, Dennis Hopper, Michael Moriarty, Antonella Murgia
A man discovers that his girlfriend is a “stigmata” (someone whose hands and feet mysteriously bleed in the same places where Jesus Christ was crucified) Read More »
The Little Mermaid AKA Malá morská víla (1976) Karel Kachyna, Miroslava Safránková, Radovan Lukavský, Petr Svojtka
The little mermaid rescues a prince from drowning and falls in love with him. Read More »
The Stone Council AKA Le concile de pierre (2006) Guillaume Nicloux, Monica Bellucci, Catherine Deneuve, Moritz Bleibtreu
In France, the single translator Diane Siprien adopts an Asian baby named Liu-San in a foundation directed by Sybille Weber. Read More »
Portrait of Jennie (1948) William Dieterle, Jennifer Jones, Joseph Cotten, Ethel Barrymore
Eben Adams is a talented but struggling artist in Depression era New York who has never been able to find inspiration for a painting. Read More »
Ruslan and Ludmila AKA Ruslan i Lyudmila (1972) Aleksandr Ptushko, Valeri Kozinets, Natalya Petrova, Vladimir Fyodorov
Based on Russian poet Alexander Pushkin’s fairy tale poem of the same name. Read More »
Black Orpheus AKA Orfeu Negro (1959) Marcel Camus, Breno Mello, Marpessa Dawn, Lourdes de Oliveira
In the heady atmosphere of Rio’s carnival, two people meet and fall in love. Read More »
The Blue Bird (1940) Walter Lang, Shirley Temple, Spring Byington, Nigel Bruce
Mytyl and her brother Tyltyl, a woodchopper’s children, are led by the Fairy Berylune on a magical trip through the past Read More »