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Daily Archives: December 15, 2019
Little Red Flowers (2006) Yuan Zhang, Bowen Dong, Yuanyuan Ning, Manyuan Chen

Qiang is a four-year-old little rebel, possessed of a pair of luminous eyes and a precociously indomitable will. Read More »
Story of a Bad Boy (1999) Tom Donaghy, Jeremy Hollingworth, Christian Camargo, Stephen Lang

17-year-old Pauly is a closeted high school kid who wants it all. Read More »
Norwegian Wood (2010) Tran Anh Hung, Ken’ichi Matsuyama, Rinko Kikuchi, Kiko Mizuhara

Set in the 1960’s, high school student Toru Watanabe (Kenichi Matsuyama) loses his only friend Kizuki (Kengo Kora) after he commits suicide. Read More »
Ellery Queen’s Penthouse Myster (1941) James P. Hogan, Ralph Bellamy, Margaret Lindsay, Charley Grapewin

Like the first entry in Columbia’s “Ellery Queen” series, Ellery Queen’s Penthouse Mystery depicts its amateur-criminologist hero as an oafish ignoramus. Read More »
Summerland (2010) Grímur Hákonarson, Ólafía Hrönn Jónsdóttir, Kjartan Guðjónsson, Snorri Engilbertsson

An art-house comedy about an ordinary family running the unusual business of elf tourism and spiritual sessions. Read More »
Deguello (1966) Giuseppe Vari, Giacomo Rossi Stuart, Dan Vadis, Dana Ghia

Danger City is attacked by Ramon’s bandits searching for rumored treasure. Read More »
Attack of the Normans (1962) Giuseppe Vari, Cameron Mitchell, Geneviève Grad, Ettore Manni

An evil duke kidnaps the good king and tries to make the virtuous queen his bride and the peasants take arms. Read More »
Happy People: A Year in the Taiga (2010) Werner Herzog, Dmitry Vasyukov, Nikolay Nikiforovitch Siniaev, Gennady Soloviev

In the center of the story is the life of the indigenous people of the village Bakhtia at the river Yenisei in the Siberian Taiga. Read More »
Hanussen (1988) István Szabó, Klaus Maria Brandauer, Erland Josephson, Ildikó Bánsági

A man’s story parallels Hitler’s rise. Austrian Klaus Schneider, wounded in World War I, recovers in the care of Dr. Emil Bettleheim. Read More »