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Monthly Archives: December 2019
Cross My Heart And Hope To Die (1994) Marius Holst, Martin Dahl Garfalk, Trond Halbo, Jan Devo Kornstad

Two Norwegian boys come of age in this dark drama with comic and tragic elements. Read More »
Calcutta 71 (1971) Mrinal Sen, Madhabi Mukherjee, Gita Sen, Binota Roy

A young man, eternally 20, walks through history, through poverty, squalor and death. Read More »
Public Wedding (1937) Nick Grinde, Jane Wyman, William Hopper, Dick Purcell

The operators of a bankrupt carnival sideshow hope to restore their fallen fortunes by staging a fake ‘public wedding’ Read More »
The Glory Brigade (1953) Robert D. Webb, Victor Mature, Alexander Scourby, Lee Marvin

During the Korean War Lt. Sam Pryor volunteers his platoon to escort Greek troops to perform a reconnaissance mission behind Communist lines. Read More »
The Last Gangster (1937) Edward Ludwig, Edward G. Robinson, James Stewart, Rose Stradner

Gangster Joe Krozac is in prison for ten years. Reporter Paul North is fired by his newspaper for writing articles sympathetic to Krozac’s wife and young son. Read More »
East Palace, West Palace (1996) Yuan Zhang, Si Han, Jun Hu, Jing Ye

In China, homosexuality isn’t illegal, but homosexuals are routinely persecuted by police and arrested for “hooliganism”. Read More »
That Night’s Wife (1930) Yasujirô Ozu, Mitsuko Ichimura, Tokihiko Okada, Chishû Ryû

A desperate man with a sick daughter decides to commit a robbery in order to help her. Read More »
Manuela’s Loves (1987) Geneviève Lefebvre, Marie-Christine Barrault, Alida Valli, Guillemette Grobon

The survivor of a concentration camp finds out that her lover, a lesbian, is having an affair with a protegee. Read More »
The Fiances (1963) Ermanno Olmi, Anna Canzi, Carlo Cabrini

In the industrial North, Giovanni is a skilled factory worker offered a promotion if he’ll go to Sicily for 18 months to assist in a new department. Read More »