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Monthly Archives: September 2020
M. Butterfly (1993) David Cronenberg, Jeremy Irons, John Lone, Barbara Sukowa

During the Cultural Revolution in China in the mid-1960s, a French diplomat falls in love with a singer in the Beijing Opera. Read More »
Ticket to Heaven (1981) Ralph L. Thomas, Nick Mancuso, Saul Rubinek, Meg Foster

David is a young man seduced by a religious cult that uses starvation, exhaustion Read More »
Wild Geese II (1985) Peter R. Hunt, Scott Glenn, Barbara Carrera, Edward Fox

A group of mercenaries is hired to spring Rudolf Hess from Spandau Prison in Berlin. Read More »
Up at the Villa (2000) Philip Haas, Kristin Scott Thomas, Sean Penn, Anne Bancroft

Superficial people are revealed and drastically changed by circumstance or luck in this tale of death, seduction, blackmail Read More »
The Day of the Jackal (1973) Fred Zinnemann, Edward Fox, Terence Alexander, Michel Auclair

It is the early 60s in France. The remaining survivors of the aborted French Foreign Legion have made repeated attempts to kill DeGaulle. Read More »
State Police (1938) John Rawlins, John ‘Dusty’ King, William Lundigan, Constance Moore

When his son is expelled from college, Colonel Clarke, head of the State Police Read More »
No and Me AKA No et moi (2010) Zabou Breitman, Julie-Marie Parmentier, Nina Rodriguez, Antonin Chalon

Thirteen-year-old Lou Bertignac is a gifted but lonely child. At high school she is already in fifth grade Read More »
The Jury’s Secret (1938) Edward Sloman, Kent Taylor, Fay Wray, Jane Darwell

Bill Sheldon has a grudge against Midland City newspaper publisher Brandon Williams as Sheldon blames Read More »
To Whom Does the World Belong? AKAKuhle Wampe oder: Wem gehört die Welt? (1932) Slatan Dudow, Hertha Thiele, Ernst Busch, Martha Wolter

A working-class family in Berlin in 1931 where survival is difficult, with massive unemployment in the wake of the Great Depression. Read More »