“Crosses Across the Wilderness” begins as a Spaghetti Western style revenge story. Read More »
Monthly Archives: November 2021
The Devil Queen AKA A Rainha Diaba (1974) Antonio Carlos da Fontoura, Milton Gonçalves, Odete Lara, Stepan Nercessian
In Lapa, Rio de Janeiro, the homosexual drug dealer lord Rainha Diaba (Milton Gonçalves) Read More »
The Headless Woman AKA La mujer sin cabeza (2008) Lucrecia Martel, María Onetto, Claudia Cantero, César Bordón
This film is centered around Vero, an Argentinean bourgeois woman Read More »
U-Boat, Course West! AKA U-Boote westwärts! (1941) Günther Rittau, Herbert Wilk, Heinz Engelmann, Joachim Brennecke
This Nazi propaganda film follows the exploits of a German submarine as it prowls the North Atlantic. Read More »
Gallant Journey (1946) William A. Wellman, Glenn Ford, Janet Blair, Charles Ruggles
Director William A. Wellman adds another to his long line of salutes-to-aviation Read More »
Tokyo Family AKA Tôkyô kazoku (2013) Yôji Yamada, Isao Hashizume, Kazuko Yoshiyuki, Masahiko Nishimura
An old married couple Shukichi Hirayama and Tomiko live on a small island in the Inland Sea. Read More »
My Sons AKA Musuko (1991) Yôji Yamada, Rentarô Mikuni, Masatoshi Nagase, Emi Wakui
Tetsuo is a young man living in Tokyo, who falls in love with a deaf-mute factory girl. Read More »
A Chance to Die AKA Xiang si chen xianzai (2000) Yi-wen Chen, Miki Mizuno, Li-Wei Chang, Leon Dai
Burned by the desire to avenge her dead boyfriend Read More »
Head Down, Feet Up AKA Testa in giù, gambe in aria (1972) Ugo Novello, Corrado Pani, Marina Malfatti, Maria Pia Conte
A serial killer who specialises in killing teachers is on the loose and Andrea Read More »
Gambler AKA Bakuchi uchi (1967) Shigehiro Ozawa, Kôji Tsuruta, Kyôsuke Machida, Tomisaburô Wakayama
Tsuruta is a respected tattoo artist working with comrades Machida and Yamashiro. Read More »