A faded aristocrat military officer returns from the Abyssinian war with a dusky slave girl as a prize Read More »
Monthly Archives: June 2023
Prostitute AKA 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 AKA 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 AKA 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 AKA 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 »
Murder at 75 Birch (1998) Michael M. Scott, Melissa Gilbert, Gregory Harrison, Vyto Ruginis
A man in a quiet community is suspected of killing his wife, but without proof. Read More »
Chronicle of the Years of Fire AKA Ahdat sanawovach el-djamr (1975) Mohammed Lakhdar-Hamina, Yorgo Voyagis, Leila Shenna
Winner of the prestigious Palme d’Or at Cannes in 1975, Chronicle of the Years of Embers Read More »
África (1996) Alfonso Ungría, Imanol Arias, Julie Carmen, Zoe Berriatúa
Martín, a young man from the Madrid neighborhood of San Blas who is enthusiastic Read More »
Pantsu no ana (1984) Norifumi Suzuki, Momoko Kikuchi, Yôichi Yamamoto, Yumi Yano
A boy transfers into a new high school in the big city. Read More »