The amazingly detailed true story of “The Doolittle Raid” based on the personal account by Doolittle Raider Ted Lawson. Read More »
Daily Archives: April 27, 2021
Message from Space AKA Uchu kara no messeji (1978) Kinji Fukasaku, Vic Morrow, Shin’ichi Chiba, Philip Casnoff
In this Star Wars take-off, the peaceful planet of Jillucia has been nearly wiped out by the Gavanas Read More »
The Witch AKA Noita palaa elämään (1952) Roland af Hällström, Mirja Mane, Toivo Mäkelä, Hillevi Lagerstam
Archaeological team unearths a body of a young woman, who was told to be a witch buried Read More »
The Crowded Train AKA Manin densha (1957) Kon Ichikawa, Hiroshi Kawaguchi, Chishû Ryû, Haruko Sugimura
Tamio Moroi graduates from a prestigious university and obtains a job at the Camel Brewery in a distant town. Read More »
Homecoming AKA Heimkehr (1928) Joe May, Lars Hanson, Dita Parlo, Gustav Fröhlich
Following World War I, after a long imprisonment, two German prisoner-of-war soldiers Read More »
Ghashiram Kotwal (1976) K. Hariharan, Mani Kaul, Mohan Agashe, Rajani Chavan, Vandana Pandit
This was the first movie made by this group (see Arvind Desai Ki Ajeeb Dastaan (1978) Read More »
The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum AKA Die verlorene Ehre der Katharina Blum (1975) Volker Schlöndorff, Margarethe von Trotta, Angela Winkler, Mario Adorf, Dieter Laser
Katharina Blum is a young handsome German maid. She meets Ludwig, and they fall in love at once. Read More »
Out of the Storm (1948) R.G. Springsteen, Jimmy Lydon, Lois Collier, Marc Lawrence
A young man with financial problems works in the payroll office of a factory. Read More »
Thunder in the Leaves AKA El trueno entre las hojas (1957) Armando Bo, Isabel Sarli, Andrés Lazlo
The arrival in a bakery of the young wife of the boss, where the laborers are exploited inhumanly Read More »
Harem (1985) Arthur Joffé, Nastassja Kinski, Ben Kingsley, Dennis Goldson
A young American woman is kidnapped by an Arabian sheik and held captive in his harem. Read More »
Uncovered (1994) Jim McBride, Kate Beckinsale, John Wood, Sinéad Cusack
While restoring an old painting showing a woman and two men playing chess Read More »
The Beauty AKA Grazuole (1969) Arunas Zebriunas, Inga Mickyte, Lilija Zadeikyte, Arvidas Samukas
The cruelty of children is offered in all its unadorned ugliness in “Grazuole”. Read More »
Mr. Death: The Rise and Fall of Fred A. Leuchter, Jr. (1999) Errol Morris, Fred A. Leuchter Jr., Robert Jan Van Pelt, David Irving
Documentary about Fred Leuchter, an engineer who became an expert on execution devices Read More »
A Man Called Hero AKA Jung wa ying hong (1999) Andrew Lau, Ekin Cheng, Qi Shu, Kristy Yeung
Episodic saga from the first half of the 20th century follows Hero Hua from an ill-omened Read More »