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Monthly Archives: May 2021
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 / 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 / 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 »
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 »
Carrot Top / Poil de carotte (1925) Julien Duvivier, Henry Krauss, Charlotte Barbier-Krauss, André Heuzé

François’ mother, Mme Lepic, hates him and she nicknames him “Poil de Carotte” (Carrot hair). Read More »
Three Loves / Mittsu no ai (1954) Masaki Kobayashi, Isuzu Yamada, Kô Mishima, Yûnosuke Itô

In a mountain village, Heita, a translator’s son, is a gifted boy but is shunned by the villagers. Read More »
Vaya con Dios (2002) Zoltan Spirandelli, Michael Gwisdek, Daniel Brühl, Traugott Buhre

The story begins in a fictional monastery somewhere in northern Germany, of the “Cantorianer” order. Read More »
The Empty Table / Shokutaku no nai ie (1985) Masaki Kobayashi, Tatsuya Nakadai, Mayumi Ogawa, Kie Nakai

This gripping docudrama is a fictionalized account of what could happen to a Japanese family Read More »
The Flanagan Boy / Bad Blonde (1953) Reginald Le Borg, Barbara Payton, Frederick Valk, John Slater

The film opens at a carnival with two barkers calling for onlookers to enter the tent where an audience Read More »