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Monthly Archives: January 2020
Guendalina (1957) Alberto Lattuada, Jacqueline Sassard, Raf Mattioli, Sylva Koscina

A teenage girl vacations in the Italian Riviera during the summer with her wealthy parents. Read More »
The Punishment / La punition (1962) Jean Rouch, Nadine Ballot, Jean-Claude Darnal, Modeste Landry

Nadine, an eighteen-year-old high school student in her final year, arrives late for the philosophy lesson. Read More »
Oldtimer / Stara masina (1989) Zelimir Zilnik

The aged rocker Igor works as a journalist and DJ at the “Radio Student” in Ljubljana. Read More »
The Student Prince (1997) Simon Curtis, Robson Green, Gavin Richards, Peter Lovstrom

The Queen’s youngest son is off to university, mainly because “I’m hopeless at anything else”. Read More »
Wedding Ring / Konyaku yubiwa (1950) Keisuke Kinoshita, Jûkichi Uno, Kinuyo Tanaka, Toshirô Mifune

Two of Japan’s finest actors, Kinuyo Tanaka and Toshiro Mifune, come together in this touching seaside melodrama Read More »
Midnight Intruder (1938) Arthur Lubin, Louis Hayward, Eric Linden, J.C. Nugent

Barry Gilbert and “Doc” Norton, broke and hungry, enter the unoccupied Reitter country estate. Read More »
A Shot in the Dark (1941) William C. McGann, William Lundigan, Nan Wynn, Ricardo Cortez

Phil Richards is selling his nightclub to an out-of-town buyer, and the local mob express this dissatisfaction with the arrangement. Read More »
Der Chef wünscht keine Zeugen / No Survivors, Please (1964) Hans Albin, Peter Berneis, Maria Perschy, Robert Cunningham, Uwe Friedrichsen

Aliens attempt to take over the Earth by taking over the bodies of humans Read More »
Pocketful of Miracles (1961) Frank Capra, Glenn Ford, Bette Davis, Hope Lange

Boozy, brassy Apple Annie, a beggar with a basket of apples, is as much as part of downtown New York City as old Broadway itself. Read More »