When a murder occurs on an ocean liner docked in New York, the trail leads to Coney Island and a spy ring. Read More »
Daily Archives: March 18, 2021
Ticket of No Return AKA Bildnis einer Trinkerin (1979) Ulrike Ottinger, Tabea Blumenschein, Lutze, Magdalena Montezuma
A woman given to us as a “trinkerin” is having a special tour in Berlin Read More »
Heimat Fragments: The Women AKA Heimat-Fragmente: Die Frauen (2006) Edgar Reitz, Nicola Schössler, Henry Arnold, Salome Kammer
Lulu, the daughter of musician Hermann Simon, is looking for something she feels is missing from her life. Read More »
Barbara Rubin and the Exploding NY Underground (2018) Chuck Smith, Bob Dylan, Richard Foreman, Allen Ginsberg
Barbara Rubin’s twenty-nine-minute experimental film ‘Christmas on Earth’ Read More »
The Punch Bowl AKA Die Feuerzangenbowle (1944) Helmut Weiss, Heinz Rühmann, Karin Himboldt, Hilde Sessak
Hans Pfeiffer and some of his friends are drinking “Feuerzangenbowle”. Talking about their school-time they discover that Hans Read More »
The Beat That My Heart Skipped AKA De battre mon coeur s’est arrêté (2005) Jacques Audiard, Romain Duris, Niels Arestrup, Jonathan Zaccaï, Gilles Cohen
Will Thomas still lead a life of crime and cruelty, just like his thuggish father, or will he pursue his dream of becoming a pianist? Read More »
Wide Open Faces (1938) Kurt Neumann, Joe E. Brown, Jane Wyman, Alison Skipworth
Criminal from all over the country converge on the Lakeside Inn in Willow Springs where bank robber Read More »
The Day and the Hour AKA Le jour et l’heure (1963) René Clément, Simone Signoret, Stuart Whitman, Geneviève Page
It’s the spring of 1944 and Therese is in a hurry to get back to Paris. Read More »
Distance AKA Dooratwa (1979) Buddhadev Dasgupta, Mamata Shankar, Pradip Mukherjee, Ajoy Banerjee
Mandar (Pradip Mukherjee) is an ex-revolutionary turned college lecturer. Read More »
Alvarez Kelly (1966) Edward Dmytryk, William Holden, Richard Widmark, Janice Rule
Suave former Texan cattleman Alvarez Kelly now living in Mexico Read More »