Ya’ara prepares an outdoor picnic for the birthday of her father Leon. Read More »
Monthly Archives: July 2021
Black River / Kuroi kawa (1957) Masaki Kobayashi, Fumio Watanabe, Tatsuya Nakadai, Ineko Arima
Perhaps Kobayashi’s most sordid film, Black River is an exposé of the rampant corruption on Read More »
Sheila Levine Is Dead and Living in New York (1975) Sidney J. Furie, Jeannie Berlin, Roy Scheider, Rebecca Dianna Smith
Sheila Levine is a Jewish-American princess and a native of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. Read More »
Chelsea Walls (2001) Ethan Hawke, Paz de la Huerta, Vincent D’Onofrio, Bianca Hunter
In New York’s storied Chelsea Hotel, a novelist, a dancer, a painter, a poet, an aged jazz singer Read More »
Just Like a Woman (1967) Robert Fuest, Wendy Craig, Francis Matthews, John Wood
A stressed television producer and his unhappy lounge singer wife are growing tired of each other. Read More »
Romy – Portrait of a Face / Romy – Portrait eines Gesichts (1965) Hans-Jürgen Syberberg, Romy Schneider, Jean Chapot
An intimate profile of the actress Romy Schneider, shot in the medieval Austrian town of Kitzbühel. Read More »
Birthright (1939) Oscar Micheaux, Carman Newsome, Ethel Moses, Alec Lovejoy
The restoration project added new sequences to Micheaux’s 1939 remake of his silent film Birthright. Read More »
Lovers Like Us / Le sauvage (1975) Jean-Paul Rappeneau, Yves Montand, Catherine Deneuve, Luigi Vannucchi
Caracas, Venezuela. Just after her engagement to Vittorio, Nelly runs away. Read More »
Amen. (2002) Costa-Gavras, Ulrich Tukur, Mathieu Kassovitz, Ulrich Mühe
In World War II, the sanitation engineer and family man Kurt Gerstein Read More »
Intimate Stranger (1991) Alan Berliner, Joseph Cassuto
A documentary about the director’s maternal grandfather. Read More »