1889. German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche witnessed the whipping of a horse while traveling in Turin, Italy. Read More »
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Voyage in Time (1983) Tonino Guerra, Andrei Tarkovsky
Like the Russian poet of ‘Nostalghia’, who, accompanied by his Italian guide and translator Read More »
Dead of Night (1945) Alberto Cavalcanti, Charles Crichton, Mervyn Johns, Michael Redgrave, Roland Culver
Architect Walter Craig, seeking the possibility of some work at a country farmhouse, soon finds himself once again stuck in his recurring nightmare. Read More »
Blue Collar (1978) Paul Schrader, Richard Pryor, Harvey Keitel, Yaphet Kotto
Three workers, Zeke (Richard Pryor), Jerry (Harvey Keitel), and Smokey (Yaphet Kotto), are working at a car plant and drinking their beers together. Read More »
A-Haunting We Will Go (1942) Alfred L. Werker, Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Dante
The boys are recruited by a gang of thugs to get a coffin containing one of their far from dead colleagues to Dayton to try and get at an inheritance. Read More »
Oasis (2002) Chang-dong Lee, Kyung-gu Sol, So-Ri Moon, Nae-sang Ahn
Jong-du, a young man just out of prison for manslaughter, is a social misfit: fidgety, snuffling, laughing inappropriately, without a super ego. Read More »
Delusions of Grandeur (1971) Gérard Oury, Louis de Funès, Yves Montand, Alice Sapritch
Don Salluste, a petty tyrant in his own home and minister of the King of Spain, falls from grace. Read More »
Black Rose Ascension (1975) Tatsumi Kumashiro, Shin Kishida, Naomi Tani, Meika Seri
Shin Kishida stars as Juzo, a self-important pinku eiga director plainly modeled on Nagisa Oshima. Read More »
An Inspector Calls (1954) Guy Hamilton, Alastair Sim, Arthur Young, Olga Lindo
Based on a famous stage play and set in the year 1912, an upper crust English family dinner is interrupted by a police inspector Read More »
Green Fish (1997) Chang-dong Lee, Seong-kun Mun, Seong-kyu Han, Suk-kyu Han
Returning home and finding his town drastically changed, a former soldier falls in with gangsters. Read More »
The Manila Rope (1976) Veli-Matti Saikkonen, Erkki Pajala, Vesa Mäkelä, Esko Hukkanen
Manillaköysi is a cult status holding TV-movie adaptation of the satirical war novel by Veijo Meri. Read More »
Sarah prefers to run (2013) Chloé Robichaud, Sophie Desmarais, Jean-Sébastien Courchesne, Geneviève Boivin-Roussy
The film is about the pursuit of a goal and tackles the anxieties of a young athlete who lives only for the race. Read More »
Anyone Can Win (1963) Henri Verneuil, Jean Gabin, Alain Delon, Claude Cerval
Charles (Jean Gabin), a sixtyish career criminal fresh out of jail, rejects his wife’s plan for a quiet life of bourgeois respectability. Read More »
Brother Sun, Sister Moon (1972) Franco Zeffirelli, Graham Faulkner, Judi Bowker, Leigh Lawson
This is a dramatization of events in the life of St. Francis of Assisi from before his conversion experience through his audience with the pope, including his friendship with St. Clare. Read More »
Chasing Amy (1997) Kevin Smith, Ben Affleck, Joey Lauren Adams, Ethan Suplee
Chasing Amy is the third installment in the “New Jersey Trilogy” from award-winning writer-director Kevin Smith (Clerks, Mallrats, Dogma). Read More »