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Monthly Archives: October 2019
The Private Life of Don Juan (1934) Alexander Korda, Douglas Fairbanks, Merle Oberon, Bruce Winston
What do women want? Don Juan is aging. He’s arrived secretly in Seville after a 20 year absence. Read More »
Lucia (1968) Humberto Solás, Raquel Revuelta, Eslinda Núñez, Adela Legrá
Traces episodes in the lives of three Cuban women, each named Lucía Read More »
Young Thugs: Nostalgia (1998) Takashi Miike, Takeshi Caesar, Setsuko Karasuma, Yûki Nagata
Nostalgia is Takashi Miike’s favorite film of his considerable body of work. Read More »
Rock ‘n’ Roll High School (1979) Allan Arkush, Joe Dante, P.J. Soles, Vincent Van Patten, Clint Howard
Vince Lombardi High School keeps losing principals to nervous breakdowns because of the students’ love of rock ‘n’ roll Read More »
Phase IV (1974) Saul Bass, Nigel Davenport, Michael Murphy, Lynne Frederick
Desert ants suddenly form a collective intelligence and begin to wage war on the desert inhabitants. Read More »
Kill Me If You Can (1977) Buzz Kulik, Alan Alda, Talia Shire, John Hillerman
The story of Caryl Chessman, a convicted California rapist who spent 12 years on death row before finally being executed. Read More »
Flatfoot in Hong Kong (1975) Steno, Bud Spencer, Al Lettieri, Enzo Cannavale
Piedone (Bigfoot) Rizzo is accused of drugs trafficking. Read More »
The Cuban Love Song (1931) W.S. Van Dyke, Lawrence Tibbett, Lupe Velez, Ernest Torrence
In 1917, an American ship is about to leave San Francisco for Cuba and marines Terry, Romance and O. O. Jones Read More »
The House on 92nd Street (1945) Henry Hathaway, William Eythe, Lloyd Nolan, Signe Hasso
Preface: a stentorian narrator tells us that the USA was flooded with Nazi spies in 1939-41. Read More »