Louis, a prison cook, is about to be paroled, upsetting fellow inmate Brenner Read More »
Daily Archives: September 18, 2024
The Man Who Committed the Murder AKA 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 AKA 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 AKA 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 AKA 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 AKA 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 »
Kage no kuruma AKA The Shadow Within (1970) Yoshitarô Nomura, Shima Iwashita, Gô Katô, Mayumi Ogawa
When a married man begins an affair with a woman from his past, he comes to suspect her young son intends to murder him. Read More »