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Monthly Archives: December 2018
Jan Saudek – Trapped By His Passions No Hope For Rescue (2007) Adolf Zika, Jan Saudek, Sára Saudková

Jan Saudek, Czechoslovakia’s most famous living photographer, is the subject of this often-shocking kaleidoscopic biopic by friend and colleague Adolf Zika. Read More »
The Inland Sea (1991) Lucille Carra

In Lucille Carra’s all too short, invigorating new film, “The Inland Sea,” as in the Donald Richie travel memoir on which it is based Read More »
Water Flower (2005) Yusuke Kinoshita, Azusa Hibino, Asuka Kurosawa, Tomi Nakaho

A portrait of the relationship between Minako, a girl in junior high deserted by her mother when she was young Read More »
City Streets (1931) Rouben Mamoulian, Gary Cooper, Sylvia Sidney, Paul Lukas

Nan, a racketeer’s daughter, is in love with The Kid, a shooting gallery showman. Read More »
Welcome, Mr. Marshall! (1953) Luis García Berlanga, Lolita Sevilla, Manolo Morán, José Isbert

The little village of Villar del Río is awaiting the song performance of Carmen Vargas, ‘The Great Andalusian Star’. Read More »
White Material (2009) Claire Denis, Isabelle Huppert, Christopher Lambert, Isaach De Bankolé

Denis revisits Africa, this time exploring a place rife with civil and racial conflict. Read More »
Carefree (1938) Mark Sandrich, Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Ralph Bellamy

Dr. Tony Flagg’s friend, Steven, has problems in the relationship with his fiancee, Amanda, so he persuades her to visit Dr. Flagg. Read More »
Hell (1994) Claude Chabrol, Emmanuelle Béart, François Cluzet, Nathalie Cardone

Paul, an irritable and stressed-out hotel manager, begins to gradually develop paranoid delusions about his wife’s infidelity. Read More »
Hollywood Party (1934) Richard Boleslawski, Allan Dwan, Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Jimmy Durante

Jimmy Durante is jungle star Schnarzan the Conqueror, but the public is tiring of his fake lions. Read More »