
Alison Kirbe of London, receives a telegram from Texas, that she has inherited a livestock ranch. Read More »
Monthly Archives: January 2020
Zan / Killing (2018) Shin’ya Tsukamoto, Yû Aoi, Sôsuke Ikematsu

Set during the tumultuous mid-19th century Edo period of Japan Read More »
O Pagador de Promessas / The Promise (1962) Anselmo Duarte, Leonardo Villar, Glória Menezes, Dionísio Azevedo

Zé-do-Burro has only one worldly possession, his donkey, that he named Nicolas Read More »
Les louves / Demoniac (1957) Luis Saslavsky, François Périer

Gervais and his friend Bernard, two prisoners of war, manage to escape from the camp where they are held. Read More »
Fai in fretta ad uccidermi… ho freddo! / Kill Me Quick, I’m Cold (1967) Francesco Maselli, Monica Vitti, Jean Sorel, Roberto Bisacco

Giovanna (Monica Vitti, L’Awentura) and Franco (Jean Sorel, Belle de Jour) are lovers pretending Read More »
French Quarter (1978) Dennis Kane, Virginia Mayo, Bruce Davison, Alisha Fontaine

Chronicles the life of a young New Orleans prostitute and her co-workers. Read More »
Nobi / Fires on the Plain (2014) Shin’ya Tsukamoto, Lily Franky, Tatsuya Nakamura

A Japanese soldier endures illness, starvation and brutality in the Philippines at the tail end of WW2. Read More »
Around the World with Douglas Fairbanks (1931) Douglas Fairbanks, Victor Fleming, Duke Kahanamoku

An early example of a “vanity” production, this feature-length documentary is comprised of glorified home movies Read More »
Au royaume des cieux / The Sinners (1949) Julien Duvivier, Serge Reggiani, Jean Davy, Monique Mélinand

Story takes place in a dreadful girls’ reformatory. Read More »
The Penalty (1941) Harold S. Bucquet, Edward Arnold, Lionel Barrymore, Marsha Hunt

The son of a murderer is entangled in his father’s crimes and is sentenced to a rehabilitive farm, where he learns a new way of life. Read More »