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Monthly Archives: January 2021
Tea in the Harem AKA Le thé au harem d’Archimède (1985) Mehdi Charef, Kader Boukhanef, Rémi Martin, Laure Duthilleul

In a depressing concrete Parisian suburb in the seventies two friends are keeping boredom at bay with loitering and petty crime. Read More »
The Misfits (1961) John Huston, Clark Gable, Marilyn Monroe, Montgomery Clift

Depressed divorcèe, Roslyn Tabor (Monroe), and Gay Langland (Gable), an aging ex-cowboy Read More »
Casual Relations (1974) Mark Rappaport, Sis Smith, Julio Domínguez, Melvin Austin

CASUAL RELATIONS is very rich in movie lore––the kind of explicit and loving references Read More »
Mary of Scotland (1936) John Ford, Leslie Goodwins, Katharine Hepburn, Fredric March, Florence Eldridge

Mary Stuart returns to Scotland to rule as queen, to the chagrin of Elizabeth I of England who finds her a dangerous rival. Read More »
Four Suns AKA Ctyri slunce (2012) Bohdan Sláma, Jaroslav Plesl, Anna Geislerová, Karel Roden

Fogi is enjoying his never ending puberty. But simultaneously Fogi is also trying to live up to his family duties Read More »
Girl Crazy (1932) William A. Seiter, Bert Wheeler, Robert Woolsey, Dorothy Lee

New York playboy Danny Churchill is sent to a small town in Arizona Read More »
Black Light (1999) Michael Storey, Michael Ironside, Tahnee Welch, Currie Graham

Sharon Avery is a blind woman who is having visions of murder. Read More »
The Blackbird (1926) Tod Browning, Lon Chaney, Owen Moore, Renée Adorée

Two thieves, the Blackbird and West End Bertie, fall in love with the same girl Read More »
The Burning Crucible AKA Le brasier ardent (1923) Ivan Mozzhukhin, Nathalie Lissenko, Nicolas Koline

A woman, named simply “Elle” and her husband, a wealthy industrialist, are not on the best of terms. Read More »