Brilliant composer and organist Johann Sebastian Bach completes the long journey from his home in Leipzig to Potsdam. Read More »
Tag Archives: Switzerland
Jack the Ripper (1976) Jesús Franco, Klaus Kinski, Josephine Chaplin, Andreas Mannkopff, Horror, Exploitation, Drama, Thriller
The inimitable Klaus Kinski (NOSFERATU THE VAMPYRE, CRAWLSPACE, FITZCARRALDO) assumes the role of the most heinous criminal of modern history – JACK THE RIPPER – in this explicitly savage Read More »
La femme de Gilles / Gilles’ Wife (2004) Frédéric Fonteyne, Emmanuelle Devos, Clovis Cornillac, Laura Smet, Drama
Gilles’ wife, Elise, who smiles when she thinks of him, cooks and scrubs and cheerfully makes love to him Read More »
La femme de Rose Hill / The Woman from Rose Hill (1989) Alain Tanner, Marie Gaydu, Jean-Philippe Écoffey, Denise Péron, Drama
Tarzan and the Great River (1967) Robert Day, Mike Henry, Jan Murray, Manuel Padilla Jr., Action, Adventure
Tarzan is summoned to Brazil by an old friend to stop an evil tribal cult from destroying native villages and enslaving the survivors. Read More »
Hyènes / Hyenas (1992) Ami Diakhate, Djibril Diop Mambéty, Mansour Diouf, Comedy, Drama
A once-prosperous Senegalese village has been falling further into poverty year by year until the village’s elders are reduced to selling town possessions to pay debts. Read More »
Inspecteur Lavardin (1986) Claude Chabrol, Jean Poiret, Jean-Claude Brialy, Bernadette Lafont, Crime, Drama, Mystery
Inspector Lavardin is induced to investigate the murder of a province’s notable who was taking himself as the moral guardian of his village. Read More »
La Naissance de l’amour / The Birth of Love (1993) Philippe Garrel, Lou Castel, Jean-Pierre Léaud, Johanna ter Steege, Drama
Middle-aged artistes provide the focus of this drama filmed in black and white. The story is set in Paris around the time of the Gulf War. Read More »
Le livre de Marie / The Book of Mary (1985) Anne-Marie Miéville, Bruno Cremer, Aurore Clément, Rebecca Hampton, Short, Drama
Marie, eleven years old, is experiencing difficult times. His parents will separate. The perception of his universe is profoundly disturbed. Read More »
Après la réconciliation / After the Reconciliation (2000) Claude Perron, Anne-Marie Miéville, Jacques Spiesser, Drama
Two women and two men meet, converse with one another and ask questions, even about the use of words, but especially about fundamental matters concerning happiness and love. Read More »
The Insulted and the Injured / Unizhennye i oskorblyonnye (1991) Andrey Eshpay, Nastassja Kinski, Nikita Mikhalkov, Anastasiya Vyazemskaya, Drama, Romance
Based on the Fyodor Dostoevsky novel about a young woman who leaves her family to live with her lover whose father dead set on keeping them apart. Read More »
Schatten der Engel / Shadow of Angels (1976) Daniel Schmid, Ingrid Caven, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Annemarie Düringer, Drama
Beautiful, detached, laconic, consumptive Lily Brest is a streetwalker with few clients. Read More »
Voodoo Passion / Der Ruf der blonden Göttin (1977) Jess Franco, Nanda Van Bergen, Ada Tauler, Karine Gambier, Crime, Drama, Erotic
Susan arrives in Haiti to live with her husband Jack, who lives with a lesbian housekeeper and Olga, a nymphomaniac platinum blonde, introduced to her as Jack’s sister. Read More »
The Search (1948) Fred Zinnemann, Montgomery Clift, Ivan Jandl, Aline MacMahon, Drama, War
A silent nine-year-old Czech boy, a survivor of Auschwitz, flees a refugee center in postwar Germany and is found by an American G.I. Read More »
Weiser (2001) Wojciech Marczewski, Marek Kondrat, Krystyna Janda, Juliane Köhler, Mystery, Drama
A man struggles to come to terms with a mystery that has haunted him throughout his adult life in this drama from Poland. Read More »