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Monthly Archives: September 2020
I Loved a Woman (1933) Alfred E. Green, Kay Francis, Edward G. Robinson, Genevieve Tobin

Art student John Hayden interrupts his studies in Greece to head his father’s meat packing business on his father’s death. Read More »
First Love: Litter on the Breeze AKA Choh chin luen hau dik yi yan sai gaai (1998) Eric Kot, Calvin Choi, Takeshi Kaneshiro, Vincent Kok

Eric Kot Man Fai’s directorial debut tells two tales of first love, before and after. Read More »
The Comfort of Strangers (1990) Paul Schrader, Christopher Walken, Rupert Everett, Natasha Richardson

An English couple holiday in Venice to sort out their relationship. There is some friction and distance between them Read More »
Bundle of Joy (1956) Norman Taurog, Eddie Fisher, Debbie Reynolds, Adolphe Menjou

Kitschy musical remake of “Bachelor Mother”. Debbie Reynolds plays an over-eager clerk in a large department store Read More »
Call of the Wild (1935) William A. Wellman, Clark Gable, Loretta Young, Jack Oakie

Jack Thornton has trouble winning enough at cards for the stake he needs to get to the Alaska gold fields. Read More »
We the Poor AKA Nosotros, los pobres (1948) Ismael Rodríguez, Pedro Infante, Evita Muñoz ‘Chachita’, Carmen Montejo

Two kids take a book from a trash can. They begin to read the story of a poor neighborhood in Mexico City. Read More »
Happy Anniversary (1959) David Miller, David Niven, Mitzi Gaynor, Carl Reiner

Living in the Gramercy Park neighborhood of New York City, lawyer Chris Walters and his wife Read More »
Blackmail (1939) H.C. Potter, Edward G. Robinson, Ruth Hussey, Gene Lockhart

John Ingram of Oklahoma has a loving family, loves his work fighting oil fires, and is good at it. Read More »
Sibérie (2011) Bruno Dumont, Joana Preiss

A couple on a trip with two small cameras to make a movie. On board the Trans-Siberian, they exchange about love, desire, cinema. Read More »