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Something in the Air AKA Après mai (2012) Olivier Assayas, Clément Métayer, André Marcon, Lola Créton
In the months after the heady weeks of May ’68, a group of young Europeans Read More »
Charlie Chan at the Wax Museum (1940) Lynn Shores, Sidney Toler, Victor Sen Yung, C. Henry Gordon
A wax museum run by a demented doctor contains statues of such crime figures as Jack the Ripper and Bluebeard. Read More »
Tokyo Chorus AKA Tôkyô no kôrasu (1931) Yasujirô Ozu, Tokihiko Okada, Emiko Yagumo, Hideo Sugawara
Mr. Omura, a teacher, leads a group of male students in an outdoor drill. Read More »
Street of Shame AKA Akasen Chitai (1956) Kenji Mizoguchi, Machiko Kyô, Aiko Mimasu, Ayako Wakao
Five prostitutes work at Dreamland, in Tokyo’s Yoshiwara district. As the Diet considers a ban on prostitution, the women’s daily dramas play out. Read More »
Jean Rollin: The Stray Dreamer AKA Jean Rollin, le rêveur égaré (2011) Damien Aimé Dupont, Yvan Pierre-Kaiser, Jean Rollin, Jean-Pierre Bouyxou, Jean-Loup Philippe
A man who has spent his childhood in the middle of some of the greatest intellectuals of the twentieth century. Read More »
Charlie Chan at Treasure Island (1939) Norman Foster, Sidney Toler, Cesar Romero, Pauline Moore
A novelist friend of Charlie’s appears to have committed suicide. Read More »
Cheyenne Autumn (1964) John Ford, Richard Widmark, Carroll Baker, Karl Malden
When the government agency fails to deliver even the meager supplies due by treaty to the proud Cheyenne Read More »
The Idiot AKA L’idiot (1946) Georges Lampin, Edwige Feuillère, Lucien Coëdel, Jean Debucourt
Muichkine, a young Russian prince, returns home to St. Petersburg from a mental institution Read More »
Nancy Drew… Reporter (1939) William Clemens, Bonita Granville, John Litel, Frankie Thomas
While participating in a contest at a local newspaper in which school children are asked to submit a news story Read More »
In the Open AKA El campo (2011) Hernán Belón, Leonardo Sbaraglia, Dolores Fonzi, Juan Villegas
Elisa, a thirty-eight-year old woman, leaves for a week with her husband and young daughter on a vacation to a house in the country. Read More »
Green Tea AKA Lü cha (2003) Yuan Zhang, Wen Jiang, Wei Zhao, Lijun Fang
Well, apparently Wu Fang (Wei Zhao) is a young lady on a mission. Read More »
Enemies, A Love Story (1989) Paul Mazursky, Ron Silver, Anjelica Huston, Lena Olin
Set in 1949 New York, a Holocaust survivor who makes a living as a ghostwriter for a Jewish rabbi Read More »
Nickelodeon (1976) Peter Bogdanovich, Ryan O’Neal, Burt Reynolds, Tatum O’Neal
This homage to the childhood days of the motion pictures starts in 1910, when the young attorney Leo Harrigan by chance meets a motion picture producer. Read More »
Katzelmacher (1969) Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Hanna Schygulla, Lilith Ungerer, Rudolf Waldemar Brem
Jorgos, a migrant worker from Greece, joins a group of young people in Munich usually hanging around. Read More »