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Daily Archives: March 17, 2020
Journey to the West AKA Xi you (2014) Ming-liang Tsai, Kang-sheng Lee, Denis Lavant

In “Journey to the West,” helmer Tsai Ming-liang’s perennial protagonist, Lee Kang-sheng Read More »
Gently Was Anastasia Passing AKA Duios Anastasia trecea (1980) Alexandru Tatos, Anda Onesa, Amza Pellea, Tark Laszlo

A border town on the Danube, 1944. The town is occupied by the Germans, and there are plenty of collaborators. Read More »
Wild Canaries (2014) Lawrence Michael Levine, Sophia Takal, Alia Shawkat

In Brooklyn, engaged Noah and Barri have hit a rough spot in their relationship. Read More »
Take the Money and Run (1969) Woody Allen, Janet Margolin, Marcel Hillaire

This film is presented as a documentary on the life of an incompetent, petty criminal called Virgil Starkwell. Read More »
Moulin Rouge (1928) Ewald André Dupont, Olga Tschechowa, Eve Gray, Jean Bradin

Parysia is the rage of Paris. She has a daughter, secretly engaged to Andre Read More »
Silver Queen (1942) Lloyd Bacon, George Brent, Priscilla Lane, Bruce Cabot

A well-known and confident young woman from the Barbary Coast decides to give up her chance at love in order to succeed in card games. Read More »
Klondike Fury (1942) William K. Howard, Edmund Lowe, Lucile Fairbanks, William Henry

A neurosurgeon is thrown out of the medical profession after he performs a daring but unsuccessful surgery. Read More »
Night Watch (1973) Brian G. Hutton, Elizabeth Taylor, Laurence Harvey, Billie Whitelaw

Ellen Wheeler, a rich widow, is recovering from a nervous breakdown. Read More »
The Trojan Women (1971) Mihalis Kakogiannis, Katharine Hepburn, Vanessa Redgrave, Geneviève Bujold

Hecuba and the other women of Troy rise to find their city in ruins and their cause lost. Read More »