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 AKA 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 AKA 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 »
Augustin, King of Kung-Fu AKA Augustin, roi du kung-fu (1999) Anne Fontaine, Jean-Chrétien Sibertin-Blanc, Maggie Cheung, Darry Cowl
Augustin Dos Santos is back. He still wants to be an actor and, this time Read More »
We Were One Man AKA 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 AKA 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 AKA 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 »