Norman Maine, a movie star whose career is on the wane, meets showgirl Esther Blodgett Read More »
Monthly Archives: June 2023
Flashback (1969) Raffaele Andreassi, Fred Robsahm, Pilar Castel, Dada Gallotti
Heinz Prulier (Fred Robsahm) is a German soldier stationed as a sniper overlooking his own army from a tree. Read More »
To Matthieu AKA Selon Matthieu (2000) Xavier Beauvois, Benoît Magimel, Nathalie Baye, Antoine Chappey
Matthieu and Eric are two brothers who work at the same factory as their father in Normandy. Read More »
Mother AKA Mat (1990) Gleb Panfilov, Inna Churikova, Viktor Rakov, Liubomiras Laucevicius
Based on Maxim Gorky’s novel about a woman torn between her loyalties to husband and son in the years of the Revolution. Read More »
A Star is Born (1937) William A. Wellman, Jack Conway, Janet Gaynor, Fredric March, Adolphe Menjou
Esther Blodgett is another starry-eyed farm child trying to break into the films. Read More »
The Sleazy Uncle AKA Lo zio indegno (1989) Franco Brusati, Vittorio Gassman, Giancarlo Giannini, Andréa Ferréol
This wickedly funny Italian comedy centers upon a lascivious, fun-loving old uncle who hands out blood-test Read More »
Bring It Inside AKA Trago Comigo (2013) Tata Amaral, Gustavo Brandão, Georgina Castro, Maria Helena Chira
Telmo is a retired theater director that realizes he doesn’t remember the time Read More »
There Will Be No More Night AKA Il n’y aura plus de nuit (2020) Éléonore Weber, Nathalie Richard
To shoot: a gun or a movie camera. The military analogy is born with the beginning of cinema. Read More »
The Reluctant Sadist AKA Jeg – en marki (1967) Mac Ahlberg, Peer Guldbrandsen, Gabriel Axel, Hans Brenå, Jytte Breuning
A poor dandy embezzles large sums of money and buys the title Marquis De Sade Read More »
Natural Causes (1994) James Becket, Janis Paige, Ken Wisan, Joke Tachalom
An American links her mothers death in Bankok to a plot involving Vietnamese refugees. Read More »