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Monthly Archives: May 2021
The Italian (1915) Reginald Barker, George Beban, Clara Williams, J. Frank Burke
An immigrant leaves his sweetheart in Italy to find a better life across the sea in the grimy slums of New York. Read More »
The Extra Girl (1923) F. Richard Jones, Mabel Normand, Ralph Graves, George Nichols
Sue Graham is a small town girl who wants to be a motion picture star. Read More »
The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone (1961) José Quintero, Vivien Leigh, Warren Beatty, Coral Browne
Critics and the public say Karen Stone is too old — as she approaches 50 Read More »
The Enchanted Cottage (1924) John S. Robertson, Richard Barthelmess, May McAvoy, Ida Waterman
A crippled World War I veteran retracts to a small cottage in the countryside Read More »
Didn’t You Hear… (1970) Skip Sherwood, Dennis Christopher, Cheryl Waters, Gary Busey
Kevin is wandering through the confused haze that most college students pass through Read More »
Asakusa Kid (2002) Makoto Shinozaki, Suidôbashi Hakase, Sujitarô Tamabukuro, Saburô Ishikura
A night sleeping on the streets persuades the young Takeshi (Suidobashi Hakase) to swap his leather jacket Read More »
Traviata ’53 (1953) Vittorio Cottafavi, Barbara Laage, Armando Francioli, Eduardo De Filippo
Updated version of the Camille melodrama: An engineer has a romance with the mistress Read More »
Marty (1955) Delbert Mann, Ernest Borgnine, Betsy Blair, Esther Minciotti
Stuck as the last of six children at home with an overbearing Italian mother Read More »
Young Ahmed AKA Le jeune Ahmed (2019) Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Luc Dardenne, Idir Ben Addi, Olivier Bonnaud, Myriem Akheddiou
A Belgian teenager hatches a plot to kill his teacher after embracing an extremist interpretation of the Quran. Read More »
The Fugitive Kind (1960) Sidney Lumet, Marlon Brando, Joanne Woodward, Anna Magnani
Having fled New Orleans to avoid arrest, the undeniably alluring Valentine “Snakeskin” Xavier (Val) Read More »
Moscow Does Not Believe in Tears AKA Moskva slezam ne verit (1980) Vladimir Menshov, Vera Alentova, Aleksey Batalov, Irina Muravyova
This is a life story of three girlfriends from youth to autumn ages. Read More »
Offside AKA Dar Alanda Kisa Paslasmalar (2000) Serdar Akar, Savas Dinçel, Erkan Can, Müjde Ar
Thirtysomething Suat still lives with his parents and works at his father’s store Read More »
Tangiers (1982) Michael E. Briant, Ronny Cox, Billie Whitelaw, Glynis Barber
A former CIA agent is forced by crooked agents of the government to pose as a notorious smuggler. Read More »
Magee and the Lady (1978) Gene Levitt, Tony Lo Bianco, Sally Kellerman, Annie Semler
Magee is deep in debt and is told that he’ll lose his freighter to Bartlet Stirling, wealthy owner of a big company. Read More »