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Tag Archives: USA
Sunset Edge (2015) Daniel Peddle, William Dickerson, Andy Foltz, Liliane Gillenwater
Two narratives clash violently in this meditative portrayal of disaffected youth set in a graveyard Read More »
The Lemon Sisters (1989) Joyce Chopra, Diane Keaton, Carol Kane, Kathryn Grody
Three life-long friends work the bars in 1980’s Atlantic City performing the songs Read More »
Midnight Mystery (1930) George B. Seitz, Betty Compson, Lowell Sherman, Raymond Hatton
Several able silent-screen veterans converge in RKO Radio’s Midnight Mystery. Read More »
Rich Kids (1979) Robert M. Young, Trini Alvarado, Jeremy Levy, Kathryn Walker
Two ultra-precocious Upper West Side twelve-year-olds, Franny and Jamie, are best friends. Read More »
The Carrier (1988) Nathan J. White, Gregory Fortescue, Stevie Lee, Steve Dixon
The main character is stricken with a horrible disease, but it doesn’t affect him. Read More »
The Florentine Dagger (1935) Robert Florey, Donald Woods, Margaret Lindsay, C. Aubrey Smith
Juan Cesare, a descendant of the Borgia’s of Vienna, thinks he may have a murder streak in him acquired from his long-dead relatives Read More »
Niagara, Niagara (1997) Bob Gosse, Robin Tunney, Henry Thomas, Michael Parks
“Niagra, Niagra” begins quietly in a drugstore in Poughkeepsie, where Marcie, the film’s disarming heroine, likes to shoplift. Read More »
Touched (1983) John Flynn, Robert Hays, Kathleen Beller, Ned Beatty
Two inmates of a mental institution, a man named Daniel and a woman named Jennifer Read More »
Charlie Chan in Shanghai (1935) James Tinling, Warner Oland, Irene Hervey, Jon Hall
On his return to China, Charlie is honored at a Shanghai banquet for his many accomplishments. Read More »
The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (1921) Rex Ingram, Rudolph Valentino, Alice Terry, Pomeroy Cannon
Julio Madariaga is the Argentine patriarch of a wealthy family. He has two daughters, the elder wed to a Frenchman and the other to a German. Read More »
Spooner (1989) George Miller, Diane Adair, Conrad Bachmann, Gary Bairos
An escaped forger (Robert Urich) poses as a high-school wrestling coach. Read More »
Wild Man Blues (1997) Barbara Kopple, Woody Allen, Letty Aronson, Soon-Yi Previn
Academy Award-winner Barbara Kopple directs this documentary portrait of Academy Award and Golden Globe-winner Woody Allen Read More »
The Little Traitor AKA Ha’Boged Hakatan (2007) Lynn Roth, Ido Port, Alfred Molina, Gilya Stern
Based on the novel “Panther in the Basement” by the world-renowned author, Amos Oz, the movie takes place in Palestine in 1947 Read More »
Reform Girl (1933) Sam Newfield, Noel Francis, Richard ‘Skeets’ Gallagher, Hale Hamilton
A young girl just out of prison and desperate for money finds herself involved Read More »