
Before World War I in Paris, a budding artist, Pierre Leblanc, falls in love and marries Janine, a dressmaker’s assistant. Read More »
Monthly Archives: February 2020
Pepe El Toro (1953) Ismael Rodríguez, Pedro Infante

Pepe el Toro becomes a boxer and accidentally kills his best friend during a semi-final match. Read More »
The Adventures of Picasso AKA Picassos äventyr (1978) Tage Danielsson, Gösta Ekman, Hans Alfredson, Margaretha Krook

Already in his childhood, Pablo Picasso show talent for painting and is sent to the Academy of Arts in Madrid. Read More »
High Lonesome (1950) Alan Le May, John Drew Barrymore, Chill Wills, John Archer

In Texas’ Big Bend country, a young drifter is caught stealing food at the Davis ranch. Read More »
The Sheriff Won’t Shoot AKA Lo sceriffo che non spara (1965) José Luis Monter, Renato Polselli, Mickey Hargitay, Vincenzo Cascino, Aïché Nana

A sheriff is reluctant to take on a murderous gang because his brother is the gang’s head. Read More »
Blackmail Is My Life AKA Kyôkatsu koso waga jinsei (1968) Kinji Fukasaku, Hiroki Matsukata, Tomomi Satô, Shinjirô Ehara

Though he has come from a rough background on the streets, Muraki (Horoki Matsukata) quickly rises Read More »
Red Sky at Morning (1971) James Goldstone, Richard Thomas, Catherine Burns, Desi Arnaz Jr.

This is an excellent movie beginning for a young man growing up in Mobile with freedom of sailing and girls his age. Read More »
1945 (2017) Ferenc Török, Péter Rudolf, Bence Tasnádi, Tamás Szabó Kimmel

12 August 1945, 11 AM. Two mysterious strangers, dressed in black, Jews, appear at the railway station of a Hungarian village. Read More »
Eight Hundred Leagues Down the Amazon (1993) Luis Llosa, Daphne Zuniga, Tom Verica, Barry Bostwick

Outlaw Joam Garral makes a clandestine journey down the crocodile and piranha infested Amazon river to attend his daughter’s marriage. Read More »
Ladies and Gentlemen, the Fabulous Stains (1982) Lou Adler, Peter Donat, Diane Lane, Marin Kanter

Corrine Burns retreats far into plans for her band, The Fabulous Stains, after her mother’s death. Read More »