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Monthly Archives: May 2020
Weighed But Found Wanting AKA Tinimbang ka ngunit kulang (1974) Lino Brocka, Lolita Rodriguez, Lilia Dizon, Eddie Garcia

The son of a wealthy man, Junior has everything he could possibly want. Read More »
The Grissom Gang (1971) Robert Aldrich, Kim Darby, Scott Wilson, Tony Musante

Set in the Depression, a gang of half-witted small-time hoods led by Slim Grissom kidnap heiress Barbara Blandish Read More »
A Mirror to Life AKA Le reflet de la vie (2007) Eliane de Latour

This film participants, whose social origins are highly diverse, are all over 85 years old. They live alone, or almost so. Read More »
Kentucky Pride (1925) John Ford, Gertrude Astor, J. Farrell MacDonald, Henry B. Walthall

The story of a Beaumont race horse, told through from the point of view of the horse via intertitles. Read More »
Cheyenne Autumn (1964) John Ford, Richard Widmark, Carroll Baker, Karl Malden

When the government agency fails to deliver even the meager supplies due by treaty to the proud Cheyenne Read More »
Star of India (1954) Arthur Lubin, Cornel Wilde, Leslie Linder, Jean Wallace

Squire Pierre St. Laurent returns from wars in India to 17th-century provincial France to find his estate confiscated by governor Narbonne Read More »
Donne e Briganti (1950) Mario Soldati, Amedeo Nazzari, Maria Mauban, Jean Chevrier

Sul letto di morte, il signor Luciani confessa al figlio Peppino che sua sorella Marietta è in realtà la figlia illegittima di Ferdinando IV di Borbone Read More »
Buster and Billie (1974) Daniel Petrie

In a rural 1940s southern town, a socially awkward high school girl is taken advantage of by the boys, because it’s the only way she knows to relate to boys. Read More »
The Saga of Gosta Berling AKA Gösta Berlings saga (1924) Mauritz Stiller, Lars Hanson, Sven Scholander, Ellen Hartman-Cederström

Gösta Berling is a young and attractive minister. Read More »