When the textile mill closes, putting her out of work, Gracie finds herself experiencing all of the amusements of Blackpool. Read More »
Monthly Archives: July 2024
The Obsessed of Catulé AKA Vereda de Salvação (1965) Anselmo Duarte, Raul Cortez, José Parisi, Lélia Abramo
In the poor Brazil’s Northeast, rural laborers join in a messianic group led by Joaquim Read More »
When the Mountains Tremble (1983) Newton Thomas Sigel, Pamela Yates, Rigoberta Menchú, Susan Sarandon
A documentary on the war between the Guatemalan military Read More »
Six of a Kind (1934) Leo McCarey, Charles Ruggles, Mary Boland, W.C. Fields
The Whinneys share expenses for their trip to Hollywood with George and Gracie and thier Great Dane. Read More »
Betty Fisher and Other Stories (2001) Claude Miller, Sandrine Kiberlain, Nicole Garcia, Mathilde Seigner
Grieving after the death of her young son Joseph, novelist Betty Fisher enters a dark depression. Read More »
Dandelion Dead (1994) Mike Hodges, Michael Kitchen, Sarah Miles, David Thewlis
This is a dramatisation of the true story of Major Herbert Rowse Armstrong Read More »
Look Up and Laugh (1935) Basil Dean, Gracie Fields, Vivien Leigh, Douglas Wakefield
Gutsy lass Gracie rallies fellow stall-holders at Birkenhead Market to prevent its takeover and demolition by a department store chain. Read More »
One chance out of a thousand AKA Odin shans iz tysyachi (1969) Leon Kocharyan, Bagrat Oganesyan, Anatoliy Solonitsyn, Arkadiy Sviderskiy, Aleksandr Fadeyev
In 1942, a detachment of scouts led by Captain Migunko is thrown into the Crimea occupied by the Germans. Read More »
Hold Back the Night (1999) Philip Davis, Christine Tremarco, Stuart Sinclair Blyth, Sheila Hancock
A young woman joins a group of protesters trying to stop the construction of a highway Read More »
A Brother and His Younger Sister AKA Ani to sono imoto (1939) Yasujirô Shimazu, Reikichi Kawamura, Michiko Kuwano, Kuniko Miyake
A man who works late hours at a deadening job lives together with his wife and his younger sister. Read More »