
A beautiful young housewife, Nora, is trying to convince her tight-laced, bourgeois husband, Torvald, to give her some extra money for the holidays, even if he has to borrow it. Read More »
Monthly Archives: March 2018
Every Which Way But Loose (1978) James Fargo, Clint Eastwood, Sondra Locke, Geoffrey Lewis, Action, Comedy

Philo Beddoe is an easy-going trucker and a great fist-fighter. With two friends – Orville, who promotes prize-fights for him, and Clyde Read More »
Circumstantial Evidence (1945) John Francis Larkin, Michael O’Shea, Lloyd Nolan, Trudy Marshall, Crime, Drama, Film-Noir

A young lad has his fine new hatchet confiscated by a grumpy baker. The boy’s hot-headed father tries to get it back Read More »
Breakfast at Tiffanys (1961) Blake Edwards, Audrey Hepburn, George Peppard, Patricia Neal, Comedy, Drama, Romance

Holly Golightly is a flighty Manhattan party girl, who expects “money for the powder room as well as for cab fare” for her companionship. Read More »
The Lower Depths (1957) Akira Kurosawa, Toshirô Mifune, Isuzu Yamada, Kyôko Kagawa, Drama

In medieval Japan, aging Rokubei, his younger wife of four years Osugi and her uncle run a tenement complex at the bottom of a cliff Read More »
What a Woman! (1956) Alessandro Blasetti, Sophia Loren, Charles Boyer, Marcello Mastroianni, Comedy, Drama

It is a breezy, inconsequential, but likeable comedy about a photographer, Corrado, played by Mastroianni, who snaps a picture of a Rome beauty, Antonietta, played by Loren. Read More »
Rhapsody in August (1991) Akira Kurosawa, Sachiko Murase, Richard Gere, Hisashi Igawa, Drama

An elderly woman living in Nagasaki Japan takes care of her four grandchildren for their summer vacation. Read More »
Phantom of the Toilet (1995) Joji Matsuoka, Takayuki Inoue, Ai Maeda, Yuka Kono, Horror

After school children start to go missing and turn up dead, the students of the local elementary school come up with their own explanation. Read More »
Bremen Freedom (1972) Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Margit Carstensen, Wolfgang Schenck, Wolfgang Kieling, Drama

A very stylized TV version of the Fassbinder play. The set consists of a few pieces of furniture in front of a large screen on which coastal scenery is back projected. Read More »
Godspeed You! Black Emperor (1976) Mitsuo Yanagimachi, Documentary

The 1970s in Japan saw the rise of motorcycle gangs, which drew the interest of the media. Read More »