A country bumpkin (Dong-shik) goes to Seoul in order to bring his older brother (Young-shik)back to the country. Read More »
Monthly Archives: May 2021
The Ghost Hill AKA Shi wan jin shan (1971) Shan-Hsi Ting, Lingfeng Shangguan, Peng Tien, Hsiang Chin Han
The film opens with a duel on a beach between two master swordsman. An elderly master looks on as the two battle. Read More »
They Gave Him a Gun (1937) W.S. Van Dyke, Spencer Tracy, Gladys George, Franchot Tone
Jimmy is drafted and ends up in Fred’s troop on his way to Europe. Read More »
The Blue Lagoon (1949) Frank Launder, Jean Simmons, Donald Houston, Susan Stranks
In the Victorian period, two children are shipwrecked on a tropical island Read More »
December Bride (1990) Thaddeus O’Sullivan, Donal McCann, Saskia Reeves, Ciarán Hinds
At the beginning of the 20th century, a young servant provokes an independent Irish farm Read More »
Kamikaze Taxi AKA Kamikaze takushî (1995) Masato Harada, Kôji Yakusho, Kazuya Takahashi, Mickey Curtis
A young foot soldier in the yakuza seeks revenge when his prostitute girlfriend Read More »
Dangerous Liaisons (1988) Stephen Frears, Glenn Close, John Malkovich, Michelle Pfeiffer
In 18th century France, the Marquise de Merteuil and the Vicomte de Valmont Read More »
Wild on the Beach (1965) Maury Dexter, Frankie Randall, Sherry Jackson, Gayle Caldwell
Adam Miller and Lee Sullivan both lay claim to a beach house for student boarders. Read More »
Invitation (1952) Gottfried Reinhardt, Van Johnson, Dorothy McGuire, Ruth Roman
Always believing she had a happy marriage, a young wife’s trust in her husband is shaken when she discovers that her father had paid him to marry her. Read More »
Winter A-Go-Go (1965) Richard Benedict, James Stacy, William Wellman Jr., Beverly Adams
Teenagers work, play and dance to rock ‘n’ roll at a Lake Tahoe ski lodge. Read More »
Don’s Plum (2001) R.D. Robb, Amber Benson, Scott Bloom, Kevin Connolly
A group of Los Angeles teenagers meet every day at their local diner Read More »
The Quiet American (1958) Joseph L. Mankiewicz, Audie Murphy, Michael Redgrave, Claude Dauphin
In this adaptation of Graham Greene’s prophetic novel about U.S. foreign policy failure Read More »
Valley of Souls AKA Tantas Almas (2019) Nicolás Rincón Gille, José Arley de Jesús Carvallido Lobo
A man returns to his home in the Colombian countryside after a long fishing night Read More »
The Co(te)lette Film (2010) Mike Figgis, Sura Dohnke, Frauke Marien, Cecilia Moisio
A cinematographic adaptation of the dance performance by Ann Van den Broek. Read More »
The Quiet American (2002) Phillip Noyce, Michael Caine, Brendan Fraser, Thi Hai Yen Do
British Thomas Fowler enjoys his life in Saigon working as a reporter for the London Times Read More »