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Monthly Archives: February 2022
The Return of Martin Guerre / Le retour de Martin Guerre (1982) Daniel Vigne, Gérard Depardieu, Nathalie Baye, Maurice Barrier
During the middle of the 16th century, Martin Guerre returns to his village in southwestern France Read More »
All Soul’s Day / Zaduszki (1961) Tadeusz Konwicki, Ewa Krzyzewska, Edmund Fetting, Elzbieta Czyzewska
A pair of lovers go off to a small hotel in a little town. The memories of war, however, intrude on their idyll. Read More »
The Champagne Murders / Le scandale (1967) Claude Chabrol, Anthony Perkins, Maurice Ronet, Yvonne Furneaux
A champagne tycoon’s (Furneaux) partner (Ronet) suspects his partner’s gigolo Read More »
The Hatter’s Ghost / Les fantômes du chapelier (1982) Claude Chabrol, Michel Serrault, Charles Aznavour, Monique Chaumette
Labbé, a hatter in a French provincial town, leads the life of a respectable Read More »
October (Ten Days that Shook the World) / Oktyabr (1927) Grigoriy Aleksandrov, Sergei M. Eisenstein, Boris Livanov, Nikolay Popov, Vasili Nikandrov
In documentary style, events in Petrograd are re-enacted from the end of the monarchy in February of 1917 Read More »
Francis Gary Powers: The True Story of the U-2 Spy Incident (1976) Delbert Mann, Lee Majors, Noah Beery Jr., Nehemiah Persoff
The story of Francis Gary Powers, a U-2 pilot for the C.I.A. Read More »
Little Senegal (2000) Rachid Bouchareb, Sotigui Kouyaté, Sharon Hope, Roschdy Zem
After many years of having worked as a tour guide at the Senegalese slave museum Read More »
SubUrbia (1996) Richard Linklater, Giovanni Ribisi, Steve Zahn, Jayce Bartok
Five young losers spend their days and nights wasting their lives away Read More »
Piazza Vittorio (2017) Abel Ferrara, Willem Dafoe, Matteo Garrone
A documentary by Abel Ferrara on the most lively square in Rome, Piazza Vittorio Read More »