This remake of West of Zanzibar (1928) made four years later tries to outdo the Lon Chaney original in morbidity. Read More »
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Mo’ Better Blues (1990) Spike Lee, Denzel Washington, Wesley Snipes
Opens with Bleek as a child learning to play the trumpet, his friends want Read More »
An Actor’s Revenge AKA Yukinojo Henge (1959) Masahiro Makino, Hashizo Okawa, Chikage Awashima, Keiko Okawa
Nakamura Yukinojo gains popularity in Edo’s kabuki scene as a handsome onnagata Read More »
Sunset Blvd. (1950) Billy Wilder, William Holden, Gloria Swanson, Erich von Stroheim
In early-1950s Hollywood, obscure screenplay-writer Joe Gillis is unable to sell his work to the studios Read More »
Free Radicals: A History of Experimental Film (2011) Pip Chodorov, Ken Jacobs, Hans Richter
What is experimental film, and why is it called that? Artists and poet working in celluloid Read More »
Synchronicity (2015) Jacob Gentry, Chad McKnight, Brianne Davis, AJ Bowen
From the creators of The Signal (Sundance 2007) comes Synchronicity, a mind-bending Read More »
There’s Nothing Out There (1991) Rolfe Kanefsky, Craig Peck, Wendy Bednarz, Mark Collver
Seven teens head up to a cabin on the lake for spring break. Mike has studied all horror films on video Read More »
The Word AKA Ordet (1943) Gustaf Molander, Victor Sjöström, Holger Löwenadler, Rune Lindström
A drama about mental disease, faith, and doubt. Read More »
The Sign of Four (2001) Rodney Gibbons, Matt Frewer, Kenneth Welsh, Sophie Lorain
Greed, betrayal and vengeance set the stage for this Sir Arthur Conan Doyle classic. Read More »
I Love to Work AKA Mi piace lavorare (Mobbing) (2004) Francesca Comencini, Nicoletta Braschi, Camille Dugay Comencini, Rosa Matteucci
A woman comes across the difficulties of modern work: to force her to resign from her job Read More »
Bloodlands (2017) Steven Kastrissios, Gëzim Rudi, Emiljano Palali, Suela Bako
A struggling family in Albania, wrestling with tradition Read More »
That Is the Dawn AKA Cela s’appelle l’aurore (1956) Luis Buñuel, Georges Marchal, Lucia Bosé, Julien Bertheau
The wife of a physician who diligently cares for the poor, grows weary of their dull South France factory town Read More »
Dream No Evil (1970) John Hayes, Edmond O’Brien, Brooke Mills, Marc Lawrence
Grace is a troubled young lady with some serious daddy issues. Read More »
Real Love AKA C’est ça l’amour (2018) Claire Burger, Bouli Lanners, Justine Lacroix, Sarah Henochsberg
Forbach, East of France, today. Mario, a man without much ambition, except for love Read More »
Party Girl (2014) Marie Amachoukeli-Barsacq, Claire Burger, Samuel Theis, Angélique Litzenburger, Joseph Bour, Mario Theis
Angélique is sixty. But she is not old. The best proof is that she is still working Read More »