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Monthly Archives: June 2024
Down Came a Blackbird (1995) Jonathan Sanger, Raul Julia, Laura Dern, Vanessa Redgrave

Helen McNulty is a journalist struggling to regain control of her life Read More »
White Lies / …Comme elle respire (1998) Pierre Salvadori, Marie Trintignant, Guillaume Depardieu, Jean-François Stévenin

Jeanne is a young weirdo girl who flies to Paris, and is hired by an old lady called Madeleine as an au pair. Read More »
A Nest of Gentry / Dvoryanskoe gnezdo (1969) Andrey Konchalovskiy, Irina Kupchenko, Leonid Kulagin, Beata Tyszkiewicz

Lavretsky returns to his estate after stay in Paris. Frustrated with life Read More »
Day of Resurrection / Fukkatsu no hi (1980) Kinji Fukasaku, Masao Kusakari, Tsunehiko Watase, Isao Natsuyagi

A military-engineered virus, released during a plane crash, kills the entire human population. Read More »
George and Mildred (1980) Peter Frazer-Jones, Yootha Joyce, Brian Murphy, Stratford Johns

Mildred decides that she and George will celebrate their anniversary at a posh London hotel – whatever the cost. Read More »
Gervaise (1956) René Clément, Maria Schell, François Périer, Jany Holt

An adaptation of Émile Zola’s 1877 masterpiece L’assommoir, the film is an uncompromising depiction Read More »
At Home in Kocourkov / U nás v Kocourkove (1934) Miroslav Cikán, Jan Werich, Jindrich Plachta, Václav Trégl

At Kocourkov railway station, an escaped fraudster Ferdinand Kaplan arrives and is welcomed Read More »
The Midas Touch / Eldorádó (1988) Géza Bereményi, Károly Eperjes, Judit Pogány, Enikõ Eszenyi

The story takes place in the urban districts of Pest focusing on the marketplace Read More »
Titanic Town (1998) Roger Michell, Julie Walters, Ciarán Hinds, Nuala O’Neill

Set in Belfast, Northern Ireland in 1972, the politically naïve Bernie McPhelimy Read More »