Special Forces commander Captain Tadamori returns to Kyoto after successfully defeating Read More »
Monthly Archives: June 2023
The Thick-Walled Room / Kabe atsuki heya (1956) Masaki Kobayashi, Kô Mishima, Torahiko Hamada, Keiko Kishi
Among the first Japanese films to deal directly with the scars of World War II Read More »
Boum sur Paris (1953) Maurice de Canonge, Édith Piaf, Jacques Pills, Mick Micheyl
In this French musical comedy, the search for a bottle of perfume containing an explosive ingredient Read More »
Slacker (1991) Richard Linklater, Rudy Basquez, Jean Caffeine
Presents a day in the life in Austin, Texas among its social outcasts and misfits Read More »
The Alcove / L’alcova (1985) Joe D’Amato, Lilli Carati, Annie Belle, Laura Gemser, Al Cliver
A faded aristocrat military officer returns from the Abyssinian war with a dusky slave girl as a prize Read More »
Prostitute / Prostitutka (1927) Oleg Frelikh, Olga Bonus, Mark Donskoy, L. Krasina
“Prostitutka” (1927) is a Bolshevist silent rarity, unusual because of its subject matter Read More »
Metropolitan (1990) Whit Stillman, Carolyn Farina, Edward Clements, Chris Eigeman
In an apartment on Manhattan a couple of friends from the New York upper-class meet almost Read More »
Men and Wolves / Uomini e lupi (1957) Giuseppe De Santis, Leopoldo Savona, Silvana Mangano, Yves Montand, Pedro Armendáriz
A draft, his wife, his son and a man who pretends to come to a miserable lobero people of Abruzzo. Read More »
Detective Hibari 4: Paper Crane Palanquin / Hibari torimonochô: orizuru kago (1960) Eiichi Kudô, Chiyonosuke Azuma, Hibari Misora, Kôtarô Satomi
The death of a samurai in a palanquin leads girl detective Oshichi Read More »
The High Frontier / Na granicy (2016) Wojciech Kasperski, Marcin Dorocinski, Andrzej Chyra, Andrzej Grabowski
A father and his two teenage sons travel to a small mountain cabin for a male-bonding adventure. Read More »