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Daily Archives: February 23, 2018
A Constant Forge (2000) Charles Kiselyak, Seymour Cassel, Carol Kane, Jon Voight, Documentary, Biography, Romance

A long look at John Cassavetes’s films, life (1929-1989), and exploration of how people love. Read More »
Fear Me Not (2008) Kristian Levring, Ulrich Thomsen, Paprika Steen, Emma Sehested Høeg, Drama, Thriller

42-year-old Michael needs a change in his life, so when he hears about clinical trials for a new anti-depressant, he signs up to be a guinea pig – without telling his family. Read More »
The Subterraneans (1960) Ranald MacDougall, Leslie Caron, George Peppard, Janice Rule, Drama

Leo is a 28 year old writer who doesn’t have any friends because he finds normal people too shallow and so he hasn’t found love. Read More »
Les cousins (1959) Claude Chabrol, Gérard Blain, Jean-Claude Brialy, Juliette Mayniel, Drama

Charles is a young provincial coming up to Paris to study law. He shares his cousin Paul’s flat. Read More »
Punchline (1988) David Seltzer, Sally Field, Tom Hanks, John Goodman, Comedy, Drama, Romance

Steven Gold is a stand-up comedian who is flat broke and has recently dropped out of medical school. Read More »
The Double Life of Veronique (1991) Krzysztof Kieslowski, Irène Jacob, Wladyslaw Kowalski, Halina Gryglaszewska, Drama, Fantasy, Music, Mystery, Romance

Two parallel stories about two identical women; one living in Poland, the other in France. Read More »
Distant Voices, Still Lives (1988) Terence Davies, Pete Postlethwaite, Freda Dowie, Angela Walsh, Drama, Music

The second film in Terence Davies’s autobiographical series (‘Trilogy’, ‘The Long Day Closes’) is an impressionistic view of a working-class family in 1940s and 1950s Liverpool, based on Davies’s own family. Read More »