
In three separate stories, San Quentin warden Duffy must contend with a crisis at the prison. Read More »
Daily Archives: September 18, 2024
The Man Who Committed the Murder / Der Mann, der den Mord beging (1931) Curtis Bernhardt, Conrad Veidt, Trude von Molo, Heinrich George

The story is about Conrad Veidt as military attache in Turkey where he learns Read More »
The Wild Life (1984) Art Linson, Chris Penn, Ilan Mitchell-Smith, Eric Stoltz

Eighties teen romp involving Bill and his new apartment, Jim and his rebellious antics Read More »
The Declic Years / Les années déclic (1984) Raymond Depardon

This documentary is an autobiography based on director Depardon’s voice, his face and pictures Read More »
The Eyes, the Mouth / Gli occhi, la bocca (1982) Marco Bellocchio, Lou Castel, Ángela Molina, Emmanuelle Riva

Burned-out, over-the-hill actor Giovanni returns to Bologna for the funeral of his twin, Pippo Read More »
Winner Take All (1975) Paul Bogart, Shirley Jones, Laurence Luckinbill, Sam Groom

In this TV-movie, Shirley Jones plays an average American housewife who just happens to be addicted to gambling. Read More »
Owl and the Sparrow (2007) Stephane Gauger, Cat Ly, The Lu Le, Han Thi Pham

A child’s resilience and the kindness of strangers. Thuy is 10, an orphan, working in her uncle’s factory outside Saigon. Read More »
Confessions of an Opium Eater (1962) Albert Zugsmith, Vincent Price, Linda Ho, Richard Loo

Gilbert de Quincey is an early 19th-century adventurer involved with helping runaway Read More »
The Count Of The Old Town / Munkbrogreven (1935) Edvin Adolphson, Valdemar Dalquist, Julia Cæsar, Sigurd Wallén

This comedy romp takes place in and around Stockholm’s Old Town, which is inhabited by various dubious characters doing dubious things Read More »
Yatsuhaka-mura / Village of Eight Gravestones (1977) Yoshitarô Nomura, Ken’ichi Hagiwara, Mayumi Ogawa, Tsutomu Yamazaki

A Tokyo man witnesses the death by poisoning of his grandfather, Read More »