As a crime wave sweeps through Hong Kong, the police call on Jessica Yang Read More »
Monthly Archives: October 2021
Memoir of War AKA 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 AKA 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 AKA 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 AKA 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 AKA 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 »
The Neighbours AKA Naboerne (1966) Bent Christensen, Ebbe Rode, Hanne Borchsenius, John Price
Taking place on a small villa road: The two neighbors Gormsen and Sandelund Read More »
Barcarole (1935) Gerhard Lamprecht, Lída Baarová, Willy Birgel, Gustav Fröhlich
Loosely taken from Tales of Hoffman: in decadent 1911 Venice Read More »
When Gangland Strikes (1956) R.G. Springsteen, Raymond Greenleaf, Marjie Millar, John Hudson
A big-time gang leader’s trial is moved to a small town. Read More »