AMIGO, the 17th feature film from Academy Award-nominated writer-director John Sayles Read More »
Monthly Archives: October 2021
Hero of the Red Light District / Yôtô monogatari: hana no Yoshiwara hyakunin-giri (1960) Tomu Uchida, Chiezô Kataoka, Yaeko Mizutani, Isao Kimura
A successful textile industrialist from the provinces, who is beloved by his employees for his kindness Read More »
Song lang (2018) Leon Le, Kim Chi, Isaac, Vu T. Le Thi
It’s 1980s in Saigon. Linh Phung is a star of a traveling Cai-luong Read More »
Supercop 2 / Chiu kup gai wak (1993) Stanley Tong, Michelle Yeoh, Rongguang Yu, Emil Chau
As a crime wave sweeps through Hong Kong, the police call on Jessica Yang Read More »
Memoir of War / La douleur (2017) Emmanuel Finkiel, Mélanie Thierry, Benoît Magimel, Benjamin Biolay
June 1944, France is still under the German occupation. Read More »
Temple of the Red Lotus / Jiang hu qi xia (1965) Teng-Hung Hsu, Ping Chin, Jimmy Wang Yu, Bo-Bo Fung
Jimmy Wang Yu plays a young kid who heads off to Dragon Valley to meet the childhood friend Read More »
Rampaging Dragon on the North / Hokkai no Abare-Ryu (1966) Kinji Fukasaku, Tatsuo Umemiya, Susumu Fujita, Nijiko Kiyokawa
The son of a prominent member of a fishing community returns home after a stint with the yakuza Read More »
The Color of Pomegranates / Sayat Nova (1969) Sergei Parajanov, Sofiko Chiaureli, Melkon Alekyan, Vilen Galstyan
One of cinema’s greatest masterpieces, Sergei Parajanov’s “The Color of Pomegranates,” Read More »
O Movimento das Coisas (1985) Manuela Serra
Under the Sand / Sous le sable (2000) François Ozon, Charlotte Rampling, Bruno Cremer, Jacques Nolot
Marie, a professor of English literature in a Paris university, has been happily married Read More »