A montage provides a meditation on opposing extremes and the inevitability of destruction. Read More »
Monthly Archives: March 2023
The Raiders (1952) Lesley Selander, Richard Conte, Viveca Lindfors, Barbara Britton
In 1849, during the California gold rush, prospector Jan Morell and his brother Frank Read More »
A Woman’s Youth / Shabab emraa (1956) Salah Abouseif, Ahmad El-Sabawi, Tahiyyah Karyuka, Shukri Sarhan, Shadia
A young man from the country arrives in Cairo to finish his education. Read More »
Five Girls and a Rope / Wu ge nu zi he yi gen sheng zi (1990) Hung-Wei Yeh, Jing Ai, Shih Chang, Ying Chang
Five girls grow up in China during the first years of the twentieth century. Read More »
We Were One Man / Nous étions un seul homme (1979) Philippe Vallois, Serge Avedikian, Piotr Stanislas, Catherine Albin
During the final days of World War II, a simple French peasant rescues a wounded German soldier Read More »
Dark and Stormy Night (2009) Larry Blamire, Jim Beaver, Jennifer Blaire
A strange and mysterious group of strange, mysterious people gathers Read More »
Little Girl / La pivellina (2009) Tizza Covi, Rainer Frimmel, Patrizia Gerardi, Tairo Caroli, Walter Saabel
A circus woman and her husband find a two year old girl in the trailer park where they are living. Read More »
Fame and the Devil / Al diavolo la celebrità (1951) Mario Monicelli, Steno, Marcel Cerdan, Ferruccio Tagliavini, Mischa Auer
Three men consider selling their souls to Satan in order to possess a beautiful woman. Read More »
36 Hours to Kill (1936) Eugene Forde, Brian Donlevy, Gloria Stuart, Douglas Fowley
Gangster Benson is on a train with G-man Evers and newswoman Marvis. Read More »
Desire Me (1947) Jack Conway, Greer Garson, Robert Mitchum, Richard Hart
Shortly after WWII, flashbacks tell the story of Marise, her husband Paul Read More »