
The Jacobite Rebellion of Scotland, and thirty years after the first battle, Bonnie Prince Charlie and his army make a stand at Culloden. Read More »
Monthly Archives: March 2020
Bear Island (1979) Don Sharp, Donald Sutherland, Vanessa Redgrave, Richard Widmark

A group of people converge on a barren Arctic island. They have their reasons for being there but when a series of mysterious Read More »
Love Letter AKA Koibumi (1985) Tatsumi Kumashiro, Ken’ichi Hagiwara, Mitsuko Baishô, Keiko Takahashi

A spontaneous and youthfully careless painter and teacher Sh?ichi lives an ordinary family life Read More »
Elegy AKA Agit (1972) Yilmaz Güney, Hayati Hamzaoglu, Bilal Inci

Coban and his four comrades are smugglers who live in the bleak, inaccesable mountains. Read More »
Five Men of Edo AKA Oedo go-nin Otoko (1951) Daisuke Itô, Tsumasaburô Bandô, Utaemon Ichikawa, Isuzu Yamada

During the 17th Century bands of hatamoto, samurai vassals of the Tokugawa shogunate Read More »
El habilitado (1971) Jorge Cedron, Héctor Alterio, Carlos Antón, Billy Cedrón

Five employees submerged in the basement of a store marplatense grotesquely are linked to each other Read More »
The Shop on Main Street AKA Obchod na korze (1965) Ján Kadár, Elmar Klos, Ida Kaminska, Jozef Kroner, Hana Slivková

Slovakia during WW2. Tono lives a poor life, but the authorities offer him to take over the Jewish widow Read More »
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 »