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Monthly Archives: August 2021
Fingersmith (2005) Aisling Walsh, Elaine Cassidy, Sally Hawkins, Imelda Staunton

Susan “Sue” Trinder is a fingersmith (British slang for thief) who lives in the slums of London Read More »
Blood Feud / Il sicario (1961) Damiano Damiani, Belinda Lee, Sylva Koscina, Sergio Fantoni

An industrial overpowered by debts decides to kill his creditor. Read More »
Betty Blue / 37°2 le matin (1986) Jean-Jacques Beineix, Jean-Hugues Anglade, Béatrice Dalle, Gérard Darmon

Zorg is a handyman working at the seaside in France, maintaining and looking after the wooden bungalows. Read More »
Going Places (1938) Ray Enright, Dick Powell, Anita Louise, Allen Jenkins

Mr. Mason is a salesman at Detridge & Frome who wants to advertise their line of riding clothes. Read More »
Finishing School (1934) George Nichols Jr., Frances Dee, Billie Burke, Ginger Rogers

Virginia Radcliff, a remarkably unspoiled but naive rich-kid, finds herself at a swank girls’ school where everything appears prim and proper Read More »
She’s Gotta Have It (1986) Spike Lee, Tracy Camilla Johns, Tommy Redmond Hicks, John Canada Terrell

The story of Nola Darling’s simultaneous sexual relationships with three different men Read More »
The Heart’s Root / A Raiz do Coração (2000) Paulo Rocha, Luís Miguel Cintra, Joana Bárcia, Isabel Ruth

A Raiz do Coração (A Root of the Heart) is a Portuguese film set in the Lisbon during the festivities Read More »
Footlight Fever (1941) Irving Reis, Alan Mowbray, Donald MacBride, Elisabeth Risdon

Alan Mowbray and Donald MacBride as fly-by-night theatrical Manufacturers Avery and Crandall. Read More »
Joseph and His Brethren / Giuseppe venduto dai fratelli (1961) Luciano Ricci, Marietto, Geoffrey Horne, Finlay Currie

A brother is cast out from his family, sold in to slavery and then returns years later as a man of power Read More »