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Monthly Archives: August 2020
Habitual Sadness AKA Najeun moksori 2 (1997) Young-Joo Byun
Habitual Sadness (1997) was initiated at the request of the women, who asked that BYEON film the last days of a group member Read More »
Dangerous Paradise (1930) William A. Wellman, Nancy Carroll, Richard Arlen, Warner Oland
A young man named Heyst, soured on civilization, lives alone on a remote island “somewhere east of Suez”. Read More »
No One Writes to the Colonel AKA El coronel no tiene quien le escriba (1999) Arturo Ripstein, Fernando Lujan, Marisa Paredes, Salma Hayek
Every Friday, the Colonel puts on his only suit and goes to the dock to await a letter announcing the arrival of his pension. Read More »
The Psychic AKA Sette note in nero (1977) Lucio Fulci, Jennifer O’Neill, Gabriele Ferzetti, Marc Porel
A clairvoyant woman, inspired by a vision, smashes open a section of wall in her husband’s home and finds a skeleton behind it. Read More »
The Battle of Sutjeska AKA Sutjeska (1973) Stipe Delic, Richard Burton, Ljuba Tadic, Velimir ‘Bata’ Zivojinovic
The Battle of Sutjeska known as ”Fifth offensive” is the hardest, most tragic Read More »
Scrap Heaven (2005) Sang-il Lee, Ryô Kase, Joe Odagiri, Chiaki Kuriyama
A cop, a sanitation worker and a pharmacist intersect on a late bus ride that’s hijacked by a suicidal political flunky. Read More »
Resurrection AKA Yomigaeri (2002) Akihiko Shiota, Tsuyoshi Kusanagi, Yûko Takeuchi, Yuriko Ishida
In the town of Aso a boy returns to his mother after he was missing for 58 years. Read More »
The Fake (1953) Godfrey Grayson, Dennis O’Keefe, Coleen Gray, Hugh Williams
An American has to guard da Vinci’s “Madonna and Child” when it is being shown in Britain. When it arrives he suspects it is not the real painting. Read More »
Faithless AKA Trolösa (2000) Liv Ullmann, Lena Endre, Erland Josephson, Krister Henriksson
Marianne is a theatre actress married to an orchestra conductor, Markus. Read More »