
The film is a sort of presentation of Franco Fortini’s book ‘I Cani del Sinai’. Read More »
Monthly Archives: July 2019
Unashamed (1932) Harry Beaumont, Helen Twelvetrees, Robert Young, Lewis Stone

Dick will do anything to protect his sister Jean as would her father. Read More »
You’ll Find Out (1940) David Butler, Kay Kyser, Peter Lorre, Boris Karloff

Kay Kyser and his orchestra are hired to entertain at the birthday party of a young heiress at a creepy old mansion Read More »
Monsieur Beaucaire (1946) George Marshall, Bob Hope, Joan Caulfield, Patric Knowles

Beaucaire is a barber for the Royal French court who becomes a real “royal pain” for the king. Read More »
Cotton Mary (1999) Ismail Merchant, Greta Scacchi, Madhur Jaffrey, James Wilby

1954, the Malabar Coast. British and Anglo-Indian identities blur when an English-woman with a neglectful husband births a sickly baby. Read More »
Zouzou (1934) Marc Allégret, Josephine Baker, Jean Gabin, Pierre Larquey

As children, Zouzou and Jean are paired in a traveling circus as twins: she’s dark, he’s light. Read More »
The 300 Spartans (1962) Rudolph Maté, Richard Egan, Ralph Richardson, Diane Baker

Essentially true story of how Spartan king Leonidas led an extremely small army of Greek Soldiers Read More »
The Prince of Homburg (1997) Marco Bellocchio, Andrea Di Stefano, Barbora Bobulova, Toni Bertorelli

The Prince of Homburg, disobeys orders and leads a cavalry charge in battle against the Swedes, which leads to victory. Read More »
Family (2001) Takashi Miike, Ken’ichi Endô, Kôjirô Hongô, Naoko Inoue

When the mobster Iwaida Nishikawi is executed by the hit man Takeshi, his family chases the killer. Read More »
Man of Marble (1977) Andrzej Wajda, Krystyna Janda, Jerzy Radziwilowicz, Tadeusz Lomnicki

In 1976, a young woman in Krakow is making her diploma film, looking behind the scenes at the life of a 1950s bricklayer Read More »