ASSA is set in Crimea during the winter in the mid eighties. A young musician (Bananan) falls for mobster’s Read More »
History
1939: Battle of Westerplatte AKA Tajemnica Westerplatte (2013) Pawel Chochlew, Michal Zebrowski, Robert Zoledziewski, Jan Englert
On the morning of September 1, 1939, the German battleship Schleswig-Holstein fired Read More »
Curiosa (2019) Lou Jeunet, Noémie Merlant, Niels Schneider, Benjamin Lavernhe
Paris 1895; Pierre is a Parisian dandy and poet on the verge of fame. Read More »
Caroline and the Rebels AKA Le fils de Caroline Cherie (1955) Jean-Devaivre, Jean-Claude Pascal, Alfred Adam, Daniel Ceccaldi
A young, innocent Brigitte Bardot plays the sister of the handsome French officer Juan D’Arandra. Read More »
Geronimo (1962) Arnold Laven, Chuck Connors, Kamala Devi, Pat Conway
An Apache warrior who defies U.S. attempts to bring the Indians under control grapples Read More »
Place AKA Topos (1985) Antouanetta Angelidi, Jany Gastaldi, Magia Lymberopoulou, Annita Santorinaiou
From the Medieval period through the Renaissance, Antoinetta Angelidi’s experimental work of allegories Read More »
King: A Filmed Record… Montgomery to Memphis (1970) Sidney Lumet, Joseph L. Mankiewicz, Paul Newman, Joanne Woodward, Ruby Dee
Follows Martin Luther King’s life and decades long civil rights activism. Read More »
Burnt by the Sun AKA Utomlennye solntsem (1994) Nikita Mikhalkov, Ingeborga Dapkunaite, Oleg Menshikov
Russia, 1936: revolutionary hero Colonel Kotov is spending an idyllic summer in his village Read More »
Constantine the Great AKA Costantino il grande (1961) Lionello De Felice, Irving Rapper, Cornel Wilde, Belinda Lee, Massimo Serato
Somewhat fictionalized dramatic account of Late Roman Emperor Constantine Read More »
Where are you going, Aida? AKA Quo vadis, Aida? (2020) Jasmila Zbanic, Jasna Djuricic, Izudin Bajrovic, Boris Ler
Bosnia, July 1995. Aida is a translator for the UN in the small town of Srebrenica. Read More »
The Purple Mask (1955) H. Bruce Humberstone, Tony Curtis, Colleen Miller, Gene Barry
France, 1803: eleven years after the Revolution, a royalist underground Read More »
We’re Going to Be Rich (1938) Monty Banks, Gracie Fields, Victor McLaglen, Brian Donlevy
A drifter Dobbie and his wife Kit leave Australia in the 1880s for South African gold fields. Read More »
Love in the Time of Twilight AKA Hua yue jia qi (1995) Hark Tsui, Nicky Wu, Charlie Yeung, Eric Kot
Like many young people of the 1920s, Kong and Yan are infected with the “happily ever after” Read More »
S21: The Khmer Rouge Killing Machine AKA S21, la machine de mort khmère rouge (2003) Rithy Panh, Khieu ‘Poev’ Ches, Yeay Cheu, Nhem En
Between 1975 and 1979, the communist inspired Khmer Rouge waged a campaign Read More »
Eagle of the Pacific AKA Taiheiyô no washi (1953) Ishirô Honda, Denjirô Ôkôchi, Hiroshi Nihon’yanagi, Masao Shimizu
Japanese Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, a brilliant tactician Read More »