Nine personalities from various walks of life are hauled into some post-war Utopia, but just how many are prepared to live inside? Read More »
Monthly Archives: September 2021
Pink String and Sealing Wax (1945) Robert Hamer, Mervyn Johns, Mary Merrall, Gordon Jackson
In Victorian Brighton a scheming pub landlady befriends an innocent chemist’s assistant Read More »
A Free Woman AKA Strohfeuer (1972) Volker Schlöndorff, Maria Brunner, Wolfgang Bächler, Ute Ellin
A divorced woman in her thirties fights a losing battle in Munich to attain belated self-fulfillment. Read More »
We Need to Talk About Kevin (2011) Lynne Ramsay, Tilda Swinton, John C. Reilly, Ezra Miller
Eva Khatchadourian is trying to piece together her life following the “incident”. Read More »
Bunco Squad (1950) Herbert I. Leeds, Robert Sterling, Joan Dixon, Ricardo Cortez
Told in semi-documentary style, this film deals with a little-known section Read More »
The Fed One AKA Hranjenik (1970) Vatroslav Mimica, Fabijan Sovagovic, Nikola-Kole Angelovski, Giuseppe Addobbati
Group of concentration camp prisoners is being constantly tortured by their Kappo. Read More »
The Beggar’s Opera (1953) Peter Brook, Laurence Olivier, Hugh Griffith, George Rose
Authentic rendering of John Gay’s 18th century musical, filmed in Technicolor Read More »
Blackout (1985) Douglas Hickox, Keith Carradine, Kathleen Quinlan, Richard Widmark
A police officer suspects that a local husband and father who has recently undergone facial surgery Read More »
The Mirror Crack’d (1980) Guy Hamilton, Angela Lansbury, Tony Curtis, Rock Hudson
The year is 1953. The small English village of St. Mary Mead, home to Miss Jane Marple Read More »
Inferno of Torture AKA Tokugawa irezumi-shi: Seme jigoku (1969) Teruo Ishii, Teruo Yoshida, Masumi Tachibana, Asao Koike
High demand for tattooed geisha generates an entire industry for their “production”. Read More »