
The story involves Rose Chismore’s youth. She flashes back and remembers her coming-of-age. Read More »
Monthly Archives: December 2020
The Blue Eagle (1926) John Ford, George O’Brien, Janet Gaynor, William Russell

George and Big Jim are comrades in the Navy but rivals outside it, both fighting for the love of Rose, the local policeman’s daughter. Read More »
Lightnin’ (1925) John Ford, Jay Hunt, Madge Bellamy, Ethel Clayton

Lightnin’ Bill Jones, a man partial to the bottle, does chores and odd jobs around the Calivada Hotel Read More »
Happiness of Us Alone AKA Namonaku mazushiku utsukushiku (1961) Zenzô Matsuyama, Hideko Takamine, Keiju Kobayashi, Izumi Hara

Tragic story of a deaf-mute(Takamine) who marries another deaf-mute(Kobayashi) she at a school for the deaf. Read More »
The Age of the Earth AKA A Idade da Terra (1980) Glauber Rocha, Maurício do Valle, Jece Valadão, Antonio Pitanga

The day that Pier Paolo Pasolini was killed, Glauber Rocha decided to make this film about the life of Christ in the Third World. Read More »
The Borrower (1991) John McNaughton, Rae Dawn Chong, Don Gordon, Tom Towles

Aliens punish one of their own by sending him to earth. The alien is very violent Read More »
La Danse: The Paris Opera Ballet AKA La danse (2009) Frederick Wiseman

The Paris Opera Ballet is one of the world’s great ballet companies. The film follows the rehearsals and performances of seven ballets Read More »
Tonnerre (2013) Guillaume Brac, Vincent Macaigne, Solène Rigot, Bernard Menez

Maxime returns to live with his father in a small town in Burgundy (Tonnerre). Read More »
Burning Snow AKA Xue zai shao (1988) Patrick Tam, Simon Yam, Chuan-Chen Yeh, Chih-Cheng Hsueh

A young woman is forced to marry an older man who runs a roadhouse saloon. Read More »
Loophole (1954) Harold D. Schuster, Barry Sullivan, Charles McGraw, Dorothy Malone

A bank teller attempts to clear his name and rebuild his career after he is wrongly accused of theft. Read More »