From a novel by noted author Setoguchi Torao, this modern-day movie stars the great Misora Hibari. Read More »
Monthly Archives: September 2023
The Youth of Maxim / Yunost Maksima (1935) Grigori Kozintsev, Leonid Trauberg, Boris Chirkov, Valentina Kibardina, Mikhail Tarkhanov
A 1935 USA trade-paper reviewer called it… “an impressive and technically outstanding Read More »
Tisoy! (1977) Ishmael Bernal, Christopher De Leon, Jay Ilagan, Charo Santos-Concio
Based on a popular comic strip by Nonoy Marcelo, Tisoy (Christopher de Leon) is a bohemian Read More »
Tales of the Uncanny / Unheimliche Geschichten (1932) Richard Oswald, Paul Wegener, Maria Koppenhöfer, Blandine Ebinger
A crazed scientist, Morder (Paul Wegener), driven even crazier by his nagging wife Read More »
Give Us This Day (1949) Edward Dmytryk, Sam Wanamaker, Lea Padovani, Kathleen Ryan
One of the few (if any at the time this film was made) films shot in England with New York City’s ‘Little Italy” as the locale. Read More »
The Wonderful Crook / Pas si méchant que ça (1975) Claude Goretta, Marlène Jobert, Gérard Depardieu, Dominique Labourier
A manufacturer of furniture sees his business go down and decides to rob banks to pay his staff. Read More »
To Die in Madrid / Mourir à Madrid (1963) Frédéric Rossif, Irene Worth, John Gielgud, Suzanne Flon
Morir en Madrid brings together several papers on the Spanish Civil War Read More »
Perversion Story / Una sull’altra (1969) Lucio Fulci, Jean Sorel, Marisa Mell, Elsa Martinelli
The wife of a doctor (Jean Sorel) is murdered. He had a mistress a long ago Read More »
Revenge of Black Eagle / La vendetta di Aquila Nera (1951) Riccardo Freda, Rossano Brazzi, Gianna Maria Canale, Vittorio Sanipoli
When a soldier returns home from the wars, he finds that a local landowner has been terrorizing his family. Read More »
The Beckett Affair / L’affare Beckett (1966) Osvaldo Civirani, Lang Jeffries, Krista Nell, Andrea Scotti
Rod Cooper, an American agent of the CIA, is sent to Paris to discover if colonel Segura Read More »