An experimental short in which San Francisco is viewed from an elevator moving up and down 24 floors. Read More »
Monthly Archives: September 2021
Black Silk AKA Prae dum (1961) Ratana Pestonji, Ratanavadi Ratanabhand, Sarinthip Siriwan, Senee Wisaneesarn
Seni, a club owner, is under pressure by a rival, Wan, to pay an outstanding loan. Read More »
New York Undercover Cop (1993) Tôru Murakawa, Chad McQueen, Mira Sorvino
Allegedly based on a true story, this film follows the life of Toshi, a Japanese man living in America Read More »
Thanks Boss! AKA Merci patron! (2016) François Ruffin, Bernard Arnault, Marie-Hélène Bourlard
A family fired by a company owned by LVMH (Group owned by French billionaire, Bernard Arnault) Read More »
Magino Village: A Tale AKA 1000-nen kizami no hidokei (1987) Shinsuke Ogawa, Tatsumi Hijikata, Junko Miyashita, Takahiro Tamura
The movie compiles footage taken by Ogawa Production for a period of more than ten years Read More »
Backstage (2005) Emmanuelle Bercot, Emmanuelle Seigner, Isild Le Besco, Noémie Lvovsky
An adolescent groupie zeroes in on her Blondie-like idol after the singer chances to cross Read More »
A Duel Tale AKA Hatashiai (2015) Shigemichi Sugita, Mieko Harada, Tatsuya Nakadai, Nanami Sakuraba
An elderly samurai who spent his life as a heya-zumi (essentially a freeloader off his family) Read More »
Violence at Noon AKA Hakuchû no tôrima (1966) Nagisa Ôshima, Saeda Kawaguchi, Akiko Koyama, Kei Satô
Hakuchû no tôrima is the portrayal of a violent rapist as seen through the recollections of his wife and one of his victims. Read More »
The Stairway to the Distant Past AKA Harukana jidai no kaidan o (1995) Kaizô Hayashi, Masatoshi Nagase, Kiyotaka Nanbara, Haruko Wanibuchi
Mike Hama is a private investigator who has been reduced to combing the mean streets of the Yokohama waterfront on a borrowed bicycle. Read More »
Radio On (1979) Christopher Petit, David Beames, Lisa Kreuzer, Sandy Ratcliff
In 1970s Britain, a man drives from London to Bristol to investigate his brother’s death Read More »