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Monthly Archives: July 2020
Chinatown at Midnight (1949) Seymour Friedman, Hurd Hatfield, Jean Willes, Tom Powers

Clifford Ward is a thief working San Francisco’s Chinatown district, and his stolen goods are fenced through an interior-decorators shop ran by Lisa Marcel. Read More »
The Mercenaries AKA Dark of the Sun (1968) Jack Cardiff, Rod Taylor, Yvette Mimieux, Peter Carsten

British commando, Captain Curry, is hired by President Ubi of war-torn Congo, to steal $50 million in uncut diamonds Read More »
Federal Agent at Large (1950) George Blair, Dorothy Patrick, Robert Rockwell, Kent Taylor

A crime ring is smuggling gold from Mexico across the border in the US. Read More »
Baby Love (1979) Rino Di Silvestro, Paola Maiolini, Violette Lafont, Oliver Kris

Baby Love is a stepdaughter of an queen of the castle of Balsorano. Read More »
A Midsummer Night’s Dream (1935) William Dieterle, Max Reinhardt, James Cagney, Dick Powell, Ian Hunter

Theseus, Duke of Athens, is going to marry Hyppolyta, Queen of the Amazons. Read More »
Ginger Baker in Africa (1973) Tony Palmer, Ginger Baker, Fela Kuti

The former Cream drummer travels to Nigeria to build a recording studio. Read More »
Sogobi (2002) James Benning

Many films by this master of landscape cinema are cinematic studies of specific landscapes Read More »
El Valley Centro (1999) James Benning

Employing natural sound and contemplative proscenium shots, Benning skillfully composes a series of pure Read More »
What! No Beer? (1933) Edward Sedgwick, Buster Keaton, Jimmy Durante, Roscoe Ates

Although he has never met her, Elmer Butts loves Hortense secretly and from afar. Read More »