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Monthly Archives: October 2020
Mad at the Moon (1992) Martin Donovan, Lori Ashton, Hart Bochner, Pat Atkins

A young woman on the frontier marries a meek farmer who has an annoying habit of going through a rather drastic change every full moon. Read More »
Oh, for a Man! (1930) Hamilton MacFadden, Jeanette MacDonald, Reginald Denny, Marjorie White

Carlotta Manson is a young and beautiful opera star who wants some spice in her personal life. She threatens to forsake opera for a wild, romantic fling. Read More »
Short Sharp Shock AKA Kurz und schmerzlos (1998) Fatih Akin, Mehmet Kurtulus, Aleksandar Jovanovic, Adam Bousdoukos

Hamburg, Germany. The small crime scene. Three friends: Gabriel from Turkey and just out of prison Read More »
The Informer (1929) Arthur Robison, Lya De Putti, Lars Hanson, Warwick Ward

Working class Irishmen Lars Hanson (as Gypo Nolan) and Carl Harbord (as Francis McPhillipp) are members of an anti-establishment “Party”, where politics is punctuated with gunfire. Read More »
Les hautes solitudes (1974) Philippe Garrel, Jean Seberg, Nico, Tina Aumont

Biographical film about Jean Seberg, losely based on Nitschz’s Anti-Christ. Read More »
The Pear Tree AKA Derakhte Golabi (1998) Dariush Mehrjui, Homayoun Ershadi, Golshifteh Farahani, Mohammad Reza Shaban-Noori

A man contemplates life and compares it to a pear tree in his yard which stops producing fruit. Read More »
Catherine the Great (1996) Marvin J. Chomsky, John Goldsmith, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Paul McGann, Ian Richardson

In this romanticized biography, a small German principality’s inexperienced princess, Catherine Read More »
Sweet Country (1987) Mihalis Kakogiannis, Jane Alexander, John Cullum, Carole Laure

Anna and Ben are settled in rural Chile in the early 1970’s. They are very isolated and their only real friends are two Chilean sisters, Eva and Monica. Read More »
Call It a Day (1937) Archie Mayo, Olivia de Havilland, Ian Hunter, Anita Louise

The first day of spring has a profound affect on the Hilton family. Read More »